Fight for Government Accountability Over Warrantless Wiretapping

Early last week, EFF asked for your help fighting the Obama
Administration’s cover-up of the Bush Administration’s warrantless
wiretapping program. In the week since we sent that appeal, we’ve seen further confirmation that the warrantless wiretapping situation is just as bad as we feared.

Help EFF fight to protect your civil liberties now:

http://secure.eff.org/wiretapping

On Wednesday evening, an article in the New York Times revealed
astounding abuses of NSA surveillance powers. According to the Times,

“The National Security Agency intercepted private e-mail messages and phone calls of Americans in recent months on a scale that went beyond the broad legal limits established by Congress last year,” resulting in a “significant and systemic” “overcollection” of domestic communications of Americans.

These revelations are just the latest confirmation that the NSA’s
surveillance dragnet is sweeping in the domestic phone calls and
emails of ordinary Americans in violation of the law. It is
imperative that there be strict oversight to ensure that the
government does not abuse its unprecedented access to the domestic networks that carry all of our most private communications. Increasingly, the courts — and in particular, EFF’s lawsuits against the NSA and the telecoms that cooperate with it — appear to be our only hope for government accountability and transparency when it comes
to warrantless wiretapping.

Please support EFF in our efforts to hold the government accountable for illegal surveillance against innocent Americans:

http://secure.eff.org/wiretapping

Sincerely,
Electronic Frontier Foundation

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