FISA: My Letter to the Editor

See post below for an easy way for you to weigh in.

We now know the Bush administration's efforts to immunize telecom companies from prosecution for their cooperation in warrantless electronic spying on Americans has almost nothing to do with anti-terrorism.
Instead, it's all about preventing lawsuits from going forward that would reveal the extent of the administration's own culpability in illegal activity.
We know this from the court papers filed in the appeal of the insider trading conviction of the former CEO of Qwest, the only company that declined to cooperate.
The documents show Qwest was asked to cooperate in February 2001, long before Sept. 11.
The company balked, lost lucrative federal contracts and faced retaliatory prosecution.
Now that the Senate and House are in negotiations over further surveillance legislation, it is up to citizens to tell their representatives to hold firm against this crucial Fourth Amendment issue.
From yesterday's outstanding story in the Wall Street Journal:
"According to current and former intelligence officials, the (NSA) spy agency now monitors huge volumes of records of domestic emails and Internet searches as well as bank transfers, credit-card transactions, travel and telephone records."
Of course, you did nothing wrong. What's a little loss of privacy in a free country with an infinitely trustworthy government?