Your Calls and Emails Needed NOW to Reform FBI Domestic Surveillance

The FBI and intelligence community on Friday secured a one-year certification to extend FISA Section 702. They did this in the full knowledge that the House was preparing to vote on the reauthorization of this surveillance authority.
 
But the struggle to end warrantless surveillance is far from over.
 
The House is still set to vote on Section 702 reauthorization – and that vote happens within hours. This is the moment when your voice can make a difference by urging your House Member to vote to impose warrant requirements for government surveillance of Americans’ data and communications.
 
Section 702 is an authority enacted by Congress to enable the surveillance of foreign targets on foreign soil but is now routinely used as a domestic surveillance program. Section 702 has been misused to spy on Members of Congress, a state judge, local political parties, journalists and 19,000 donors to a Congressional campaign. Little surprise, then, that recent polling by YouGov shows that 76 percent of Americans support a warrant requirement before the government can dip into Section 702’s global trawl of data to conduct backdoor searches on Americans.
 
“To use a secret court to unilaterally extend a mass spying program that has been so flagrantly abused by the government betrays the public’s trust and circumvents the proper role of Congress in this process,” said Kia Hamadanchy, ACLU senior policy counsel. Or as Rep. Warren Davidson reminds us, “Freedom surrendered is rarely reclaimed.”
 
Now is the time for you to forcefully defend the Constitution. Urge your House Member to stand fast today by voting for fundamental reforms to Section 702.
 
Please tell your House Member:
 
“Stop the FBI and other government agencies from spying on innocent Americans. Please vote to reform FISA’s Section 702 searches of Americans by adding a warrant requirement.”

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