Hi,
A bipartisan group of Senators on the Senate Intelligence Committee
approved measures to protect Americans from government wiretaps and
broader spying powers. BUT some Republican senators are trying to stop
these reforms from making it into a must-pass piece of legislation.^1
Congress has already allowed America’s indiscriminate mass surveillance to
expand this year. The Senate cannot fail to pass these new proposed
safeguards aimed at protecting the privacy of millions of Americans.
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against government surveillance!
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Earlier this year, Congress passed surveillance legislation that vastly
increases the number of Americans whose communications networks can be
wiretapped.^2 Even more disturbing, the law currently lets agencies
secretly force millions of Americans to spy on others. The bipartisan
reforms that some GOP senators are trying to stop would seriously rein in
the worst kinds of this warrantless government spying.
Even before Congress expanded mass surveillance earlier this year, Section
702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) was being abused
by the government to spy on Americans by collecting and searching through
international communications without a warrant. If Congress fails to pass
the bipartisan privacy reforms currently included in this year’s
Intelligence Authorization Act, the out-of-control surveillance state run
by the CIA, NSA, and FBI will be terrifyingly prone to abuse and continue
on with very few checks from our elected officials.
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wiretapping!
Thanks for taking action,
Joey and the team at Demand Progress
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Sources:
1. Wired, “US Senators Secretly Work to Block Safeguards Against
Surveillance Abuse,” [ [link removed] ]July 15, 2024.
2. Ibid.
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