Telecom immunity: where does your Rep stand?
Posted by bobodod on 22 March, 2008
Where does your representative stand?For more than five years, AT&T and other telephone companies broke the law and violated their customers’ privacy rights by sending billions of private domestic internet and telephone communications and records to the National Security Agency.
The Bush administration has been lobbying Congress to let the phone companies off the hook. But recently, the House of Representatives stood strong and passed a bill that would hold them accountable.
Enter your zipcode at StopTheSpying.org to find out how your House representative voted on the recent bill denying the telecom industry immunity for their criminal involvement in spying on the American people.
See also:
- EFF: The Case Against Retroactive Amnesty for Telecoms
- Wikipedia: NSA warrantless surveillance controversy
- American Civil Liberties Union: FISA
- Wikipedia: Legal challenges to NSA warrantless searches in the United States
