Make a Phone Call Today: Help Stop a Bad Surveillance Bill
It’s just as we feared: The House just rushed through a reauthorization and expansion of Section 702. We were devastated to see the failure of an amendment — on a tied 212–212 vote — that would have required the government to get a warrant before searching the communications of people in the United States.
Now the Senate advanced the same bad bill past a key procedural hurdle, and could vote to officially pass it before the weekend.
Congress appears to be capitulating to intelligence and law enforcement agencies like the FBI and the NSA — the same agencies with documented histories of abusing Section 702 authority to surveil protesters, immigrants, political candidates, and even journalists.
So this is it. We need you to call NOW or it might be too late to stop a reauthorization of domestic spy powers without key reforms.