Tell Congress to Stop Illegal NSA and FBI Surveillance!
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The revelations about the National Security Agency's surveillance apparatus, if true, represent a stunning abuse of our basic rights. We demand the U.S. Congress reveal the full extent of the NSA's spying programs. We write to express our concern about recent reports published in the Guardian and the Washington Post, and acknowledged by the Obama Administration, which reveal secret spying by the National Security Agency (NSA) on phone records and Internet activity of people in the United States.
Bradley Manning faces the death penalty or life in prison, accused of exposing the truth about America’s wars in the Middle East, and exposing government corruption and lies around the world. As an army intelligence analyst stationed in Eastern Baghdad in 2010, Bradley objected to the US Army’s complicity in the torture of innocent Iraqis. He was rebuffed by his commanding officers and ultimately imprisoned for allegedly leaking evidence of US war crimes to Wikileaks. The cables that Bradley is accused of leaking have been a catalyst for pro-democracy movements in the Arab world, have exposed the unjust detainment of innocent people at Guantanamo Bay, shown us the true human cost of our wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and changed journalism forever.