Why August 8 Is Important?

On that day in 1974, Richard Nixon was forced to resign from office for his lawbreaking and surveillance abuses.
Tomorrow the Senate will rubber stamp an update of Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act that indemnifies from civil lawsuits the telecommunications companies — AT&T, Bell South, Verizon — that cooperated with the Bush administration's equally illegal wiretapping that went from at least right after 9/11 through much of 2007.
Without these lawsuits, and the discovery process they bring, it is doubtful we will ever know the extent to which the government spied on Americans without warrants.
What can we do about it?
A new coalition of diverse groups, left and right-leaning libertarians, will target members of Congress for election defeat to show them and their colleagues that there are consequences to the failure to uphold our Constitutional protections under the 4th Amendment.
The group Strange Bedfellows has already raised more than $300,000 toward this effort and has set Aug. 8, 2008 as the date of their "money bomb" effort, being run by the same people who were so successful raising money over the internet for the Ron Paul campaign.
I urge all contrariennes to pledge toward the money bomb campaign.
Glenn Greenwald, a constitutional lawyer and blogger at Salon.com, has numerous informative posts on this topic. Here's today's.