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A new bill, the RESTORE Act (H.R. 3773), was introduced this week in an attempt to fix the disastrous Protect America Act that was rushed through Congress in August, rubber-stamping the administration's warrantless wiretapping program.

But the bill caves in to Bush's fear-mongering in a major way: it does NOT require the government to get an individual warrant before wiretapping Americans' phone calls and e-mails.

Instead, it allows for program or basket "warrants," which aren't really warrants at all. They're the modern-day equivalent of allowing government agents to sit in our living rooms, recording our personal conversations. Only they're more frightening, because the government now has the capacity to monitor us remotely and without our knowledge, and to save the information in a secret database forever.

There are many Democratic Judiciary committee members from Southern California. Please call yours right now with a simple message straight from the Constitution: "No Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."

Adam Schiff (29th) 202-225-4176
Brad Sherman (27th) 202-225-5911
Howard Berman (28th) 202-225-4695
Linda Sanchez (39th) 202-225-6676
Maxine Waters (35th) 202-225-2201


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