Hey, We’ve warned about this scenario before and now there’s proof. The CIA was just caught red-handed spying on staff of the Senate Intelligence Committee who were investigating the CIAs secret and highly controversial torture program. This confirms some of our worst fears. It’s the ultimate abuse of power that calls our entire democracy into question. How screwed are we when the government has the power to intimidate or derail investigations into their own crimes? Click here to get the full story. We added some info to our new blog. As part of an ongoing effort to become less reliant on email to mobilize, we’ve started a Tumblr where we’ll be posting all of our calls to action, videos, graphics, news updates, and more. There are a ton of things happening right now to be aware of. Check out these top stories: BREAKING: CIA spied on Senate Intelligence Committee members who were investigating agency’s torture program. Major update in the case of Barrett Brown, journalist arrested for linking THIS is why you should care about surveillance even if you have “nothing to hide.” ICYMI: Obama nominates top SOPA lobbyist negotiate the TPP Here’s one concrete way to support activists fighting censorship in Turkey Congressman calls to ban U.S. dollar, for the best reason ever How the people can still win on net neutrality Click here to see our latest update with all of that and more. A bunch of the FFTF team will be headed to SXSW this weekend in Austin, TX. Will you be there? Catch us at one of these events! Sat, March 8: SXSW Panel:Telling the NSA to Back Off! Sun, March 9:Take Back the Internet Party! More on all of this soon. Thanks team! -Evan at FFTF P.S. Have you signed our petition to keep the government out of your email? We’re delivering it to Congress very soon and we need everyone’s signature. Click here to take action. ------------------- Want more awesome more often? *Like us on Facebook *Follow us on Twitter fight4future.tumblr/?t=dXNlcmlkPTUyMzAwNTI5LGVtYWlsaWQ9NTcwMQ==
Posted on: Sat, 08 Mar 2014 10:31:50 +0000