CREDO E-MAIL: Tell the Senate: Protect us, not AT&T = telcom impunity

impunity, exemption or freedom from punishment, harm, or loss

Tell the Senate: Protect us, not AT&T

Broad New Wiretapping Powers for President Bush?
This may be our last chance to stop warrantless wiretapping and retroactive immunity. Please take action today.

http://act.credomobile.com/campaign/fisa2008/

This one is worth a call too?

Please call Senator Smith at (202) 224-3753 and Senator Wyden at (202) 224-5244 to tell them: protect us, not AT&T. (If you're a CREDO customer, these calls are free as part of the free speech program. Not a customer? Click here for more info.)

Yesterday we wrote you and asked you to contact the three Senators currently running for President so they could return to Washington and defend our rights to privacy and the rule of law in the debate over wiretapping.

We've just learned that Senate leaders are now rushing to pass bad legislation -- legislation that gives retroactive immunity to telecom companies that helped the Bush Administration break the law and spy illegally on Americans. Will you contact your senators today and urge them to stop this legislation immediately?

Tell your senators to uphold their oath of office: no retroactive immunity and no warrantless wiretapping.

CREDO members have already sent over 68,000 emails to Senators Clinton, McCain, and Obama this week, asking them to say no to retroactive immunity and any laws that make it easier for the government to invade your privacy.

But now the fight is moving to the Senate floor. Bush and his allies have made it crystal clear that they will allow legislation designed to allow surveillance of terrorists to die unless that bill protects AT&T and Verizon. We need every senator possible to stand up against the Bush Administration and the telecom companies. Remind them once again to do their jobs, before they cravenly throw the rule of law out the window just because they're afraid of what their opponent's next attack ad will say.

This may be our last chance to stop warrantless wiretapping and retroactive immunity. Please take action today.

The big telecom companies are giving hundreds of thousands of dollars to Senate reelection campaign coffers. They want their get-out-of-jail-free card in the form of retroactive immunity. President Bush has indicated that he will refuse to sign a FISA law that does not include amnesty for AT&T and Verizon, making it clear that he cares more about protecting his cronies from prosecution than securing Americans against the threat of terrorism.

Click here to send a message to your senators today.

Now is the time for us to make our voices heard in the halls of the Senate. Please take a few minutes to contact your senators today.

Thank you for working to halt the big telecom companies' assault on our Constitution.

Michael Kieschnick, President and Co-Founder
CREDO Mobile / Working Assets

Giving blanket immunity for unknown crimes is like giving free rein of your home to a known thief. You're not sure what he's going to steal but you know it will be the most valuable possession you have.

I reminded him that he is up for reelection and I will be writing letters throughout Ky about that, his insulting the troops, and using his position to get a veteran and single mother fired from her job.

http://www.senate.gov/

In the upper right corner of the web page there is a box with drop down state names, hit yours and both of your Senator's names and contact information appears on the screen.

Please call, its the next best thing you can do to being there in person.