*Why is anyone surprised? Only the Amish have any privacy at all in this country. - Dan
From: "Zaid Jilani, BoldProgressives.org" <info@boldprogressives.org>
Date: Jun 7, 2013 4:36 PM
Subject: UPDATE: Your Internet is being spied on
To: "Daniel Stafford" <aquarianm@gmail.com>
Cc:
Daniel,
UPDATE: In less than 24 hours, nearly 20,000 people signed our petition demanding Congress investigate the outrageous government surveillance of American citizens.
The story is all over the media. MSNBC reports that the Progressive Change Campaign Committee is "marshaling an organized response."
Thanks -- Zaid Jilani
MSNBC REPORT:
Just hours after the Guardian newspaper reported on a secret court order that allows the government access to Verizon company phone records, progressive groups are marshaling an organized response. The Progressive Change Campaign Committee (PCCC) posted an online petition demanding a congressional investigation of the domestic surveillance program operated by the National Security Agency (NSA).
"We launched this petition really in the middle of the night, and overnight we had over 10,000 people sign on," said PCCC campaigner Zaid Jilani. "We're seeing a lot of people across the political spectrum stand up and say this is unacceptable."
PCCC is now reaching out to sympathetic members of Congress. Jilani said the group had already established contact with the office of Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., who on Thursday morning denounced the type of domestic surveillance implied by the court order as "an outrageous breach of Americans' privacy."
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