The Electronic Frontier Foundation is calling upon everyone to contact their Senators now to stop the move for telecom immunity this Monday.
You can go to the EFF website and send an automated message to your Senators, or write/call on your own.
The EFF notice explains in part:
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.
Now, after months of pressure from the Bush Administration, the full Senate is poised to grant retroactive immunity to these companies, which would effectively ensure that the full extent of their complicty will never be known.
The critical make-or-break vote is being held Monday-- contact your Senator immediately and urge them to oppose telecom immunity!
Meanwhile, today's New York Times has a long article saying that the Bush administration's push for immunity now is fueled by "wider spying" coupled with increasing nervousness among the phone companies about lawsuits:
As a result, skittish companies and their lawyers have been demanding stricter safeguards before they provide access to the government and, in some cases, are refusing outright to cooperate, officials said.
No doubt this theme will be amplified by the administration into an "emergency" right before Congressional recess, designed to stampede votes for immunity. Don't let it happen!