This from the ACLU regarding the deal on FISA before the House:
Late Friday night, the ACLU caught wind of a dangerous backroom deal brewing. The "deal" would rush a House vote that would push through a dangerous sellout on government spying powers, possibly in the next few days.
Of course, nobody wants to be spied on, but we're talking about accountability. It's been too easy, too comfortable in the Bush Administration for government to employ American companies to do its dirty work and thus avoid oversight. Somebody has to pay to slow this down from an avalanche of police-state policies to at least a more manageable faucet. It's time to send a message to congress at the link (very long) in the body.
Make no mistake: any "compromise" that is acceptable to Senator Rockefeller and the President will undoubtedly let lawbreakers off the hook and seriously put at risk -- or even end -- lawsuits that may be the only way to get to the bottom of crimes that were committed by phone companies and Bush administration officials.
This link will get you to an easy way to send a message.
Of course, more than the ACLU is interested in this issue. Most Americans are afraid of being spied on, if only for the sinister police-state feel of the whole operation. It's always a bad sign when "security" becomes more important than freedom. That happened back in the Soviet Union, in Mao's China, and in the military dictatorships of South America. America is heading down that path, and every bit of protoplasm in this country ought to reach out and convince Congress that this is a "wave" that will backfire on them if they don't act now.