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Congress: Let Section 215 Die
Congress hastily passed the Patriot Act after 9/11 with virtually nodebate, giving the government unprecedented powers to spy on innocent
people.
The Patriot Act authorized some of the most abusive and invasive surveillance programs our country has known.
Thankfully, an automatic expiration date was built in to some
provisions of the law, to force Congress to have to periodically
reconsider them, and prevent them from becoming permanent.
Three provisions of the Patriot Act are set to expire on June 1. That
includes Section 215, under which the NSA collects records all of our
phone calls every day, giving the government a detailed picture of our
lives and relationships.
This program is unconstitutional and ineffective, yet Senate Majority
Leader Mitch McConnell just proposed reauthorizing it, and extending it
for another five years.
For the government to have such easy access to so much information
about your private life is an abuse of power, plain and simple, and has
nothing to do with national security.
Tell Congress you want your privacy back now. Urge your representatives to let Section 215 of the Patriot Act finally die.
