Join our team to fix FISA

I began this initiative with Senator Patrick Leahy.  I hope you can join us.

As the chairmen of the U.S. House and Senate Judiciary
Committees tasked with modernizing the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance
Act (FISA),

we are working hard in Congress to pass a FISA bill that
protects our national security, preserves our civil liberties, and denies
the Senate's retroactive immunity to phone companies that participated in
the Bush-Cheney Administration warrantless surveillance program.

Now we're at a critical juncture.
The House and Senate have passed different versions of the new FISA
legislation, and we are meeting to resolve those differences.  The president
and his Republican allies are using this opportunity to pressure our
colleagues to give in and grant retroactive immunity.  President Bush has been irresponsibly making false claims that we are more vulnerable to terrorism until a new bill is passed.

That's why we need your help, right now, to push back
against the White House while the final FISA bill is being negotiated. Will you write a
letter-to-the-editor of your local newspaper to speak out and build
grassroots support for fixing FISA the right way? Help us respond to
White House scare tactics, preserve our civil liberties, and reject the
Senate's telecom immunity. 

Click here to send a FISA letter-to-the-editor to your hometown paper now [1].

We're pushing back against right-wing pressure. So now the
Bush-Cheney Administration is ratcheting up their scare tactics and
suggesting that congressional Democrats' efforts to get the FISA bill
right this time will invite another terrorist attack. They are trying to
scare Congress and the American people into accepting a FISA bill that
includes the Senate-passed retroactive telecom immunity and erodes our
privacy rights.

They've even launched a controversial television ad evoking
ticking time-bomb imagery straight out of primetime's 24 to shock the
American people into supporting another flawed FISA law. We've seen these
tactics before, but we can't let them get away with it this time. 
We are pushing for a better FISA bill in Congress, but a few loud voices
in Washington are more determined than ever to ram through another flawed
piece of legislation. 

Help build grassroots support across America and fight back against the right-wing fear machine: Visit FixFISA now. [1]

Your letter-to-the-editor will ensure that friends and
neighbors in your own community see past the Bush-Cheney Administration's
fear-mongering. And when your Members of Congress turn to the editorial
page in their hometown newspaper, they'll know where you stand on siding
with those who conducted illegal warrantless surveillance.

We have teamed up to push for a final FISA bill that
protects our national security, preserves our civil liberties, and
refuses the Senate-passed retroactive immunity for telecom companies. But
we need your support to get this bill passed.

Thank you for taking the time to write a letter-to-the-editor of your local newspaper [1] and for working with us to get FISA right this time.