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A redditor's email correspondence with his senator about FISA Amendments

                   
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24-Jun-2008
        
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submitted 12 hours ago by ThisIsDave 63 points 12 hours ago[-] Please feel free to use any piece of this correspondence in communicating with your own Senators. Hopefully, we can still beat this thing. Senator McCaskill, I am writing to urge you to vote against the warrantless wiretapping law that just passed the House when it comes up for a vote in the Senate (H.R. 6304, THE FISA AMENDMENTS ACT OF 2008). This law is not necessary for protecting our country. As you are well aware, FISA already allows the government to tap any person's calls for 72 hours so long as it can retroactively prove to the highly permissive FISA court that there was probable cause. In 2002, the Bush administration even admitted that there was no need to weaken FISA, that doing so would likely be unconstitutional, and that it could even make us less... [read full story]                    

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