FISA Amendments Act Basics
Here are the fundamentals of what you need to know about the FISA Amendments Act:
1. The law retroactively legalizes a massive electronic operation to spy on the personal communications of millions of Americans - within the United States
2. The law allows physical searches of Americans' homes and places of work without a search warrant or any other proof that anyone being spied upon is suspected of any crime at all
3. The law allows the same kind of unaccountable spying online and by telephone
4. Under the FISA Amendments Act, the only person with the ability to stop the spying is the same person who actually orders the spying to take place: The Attorney General of the United States.
That's just the basics, of course. To learn more, look below:
Groups Against the FISA Amendments Act
Organizations and grassroots resources opposing the FISA Amendments Act
- American Civil Liberties Union
- The American Civil Liberties Union is organizing opposition to the FISA Amendment Act and its attacks against the Constitution
- Repeal FISA
- A group blog against the FISA Amendments Act
- Electronic Frontier Foundation
- The Electronic Freedom Foundation focuses on issues of liberty as they relate to electronic media
- Irregular Times
- Irregular Times has the most information on political activism against the FISA Amendments Act of any site online - here's their resource page against the FISA Amendments Act
- Protect America. Act!
- Protect America Act is the name of the predecessor to the FISA Amendments Act, and it has now become a rallying cry for progressive activism against government abuse.
FISA Amendments Act News From Congress
That's My Congress reports on the FISA Amendements Act
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Resistance to the FISA Amendments Act
News of resistance from Irregular TImes
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