Online Activism’s Role in Stalling the FISA Warrentless Surveillance Bill
Glenn Greenwald has a fascinating piece in Salon today detailing the work that bloggers and other online organizers did both in public and behind the scenes to derail, at least temporarily, the the reauthorization bill for the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. Senator Chris Dodd placed a hold on the bill, which would in part provide legal immunity to telecommunications companies that cooperated with government electronic eavesdropping that civil libertarians contend is a violation of citizens’ basic rights. For the moment, it’s been pulled from the Senate floor. According to Greenwald, once the initial deal was announced that seemed to guarantee the bill’s passage, a hardcore cadre of activists began working at blitzkrieg speed to derail it:
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