| President Bush authorized the National Security Agency to find out about ordinary Americans' phone calls and e-mails without obtaining a warrant from a court. He did this by directing the NSA to contact telecommunications companies and ask them to turn over detailed customer phone records. NSA employees have said the agency’s goal is “to create a database of every call ever made” within the nation's borders.
Shockingly, many companies repeatedly provided this information to the government, without insisting on the legally required warrant and without notifying their customers.
So far, leaders in the House of Representatives have resisted scare tactics and continued fighting to protect the civil liberties of Americans. The House is the last line of defense in protecting the ability of ordinary Americans to vindicate their rights in a court of law. Put a stop to this administration’s dangerous campaign to prevent the courts from upholding the rights of ordinary Americans. We cannot allow our government to substitute Orwellian secrecy for the transparency of the rule of law.
Help the House stand up to pressure from the White House and protect your right to talk on the phone or send an email without the government listening in. | 
