John,
Edward Snowden revealed the CIA's and NSA's warrantless surveillance of the private emails, text messages, and phone numbers of nearly everyone on the planet.1
The journalists who covered his revelations won the Pulitzer Prize.2 Congress patted themselves on the back for passing legislation to allegedly deal with the abuses he revealed.
But in thanks for his historic act of patriotism, Snowden has been forced to live in exile. And now the Justice Department is suing him in an effort to seize the revenue from his new memoir, Permanent Record.
Fight for the Future refuses to let Edward Snowden fight these battles alone. Will you donate to help demand Attorney General William Barr drop his lawsuit?
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Let's be clear: The reason the CIA and NSA are still so desperate to shut down Edward Snowden is because they are still violating our constitutional rights with the same type of warrantless digital surveillance Snowden uncovered back in 2013.
The NSA and CIA continue to violate the constitutional rights of American citizens under PRISM, the surveillance program that Snowden uncovered.
Under Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, billions of emails, Facebook messages, and Google chats are vacuumed up and stored in massive databases that the government can use to investigate U.S. citizens.3
Surveillance targets don't have to be terrorists or criminals or even suspected of wrongdoing. There is no meaningful oversight, and almost no one is ever notified that they have been spied on.
The government claims that they are suing Snowden because his memoir, Permanent Record, threatens national security. But governments have always tried to ban books and control the flow of information to prevent people from holding them accountable. The truth is that the government just doesn't want Americans to know that their Fourth Amendment rights are routinely violated on a massive scale.4
We have never stopped fighting to stop spying under Section 702, and we won't stop defending Edward Snowden.
Will you donate to help demand Attorney General William Barr drop his attempt to seize Edward Snowden's income from the sales of his memoir?
For a surveillance-free future,
Evan at Fight for the Future
Footnotes:
1. Mashable: https://mashable.com/2014/06/05/edward-snowden-revelations/
2. The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/media/2014/apr/14/guardian-washington-post-pulitzer-nsa-revelations
3. Electronic Frontier Foundation: https://www.eff.org/702-spying
4. The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/sep/17/edward-snowden-memoir-us-government-lawsuit
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