The Fourth Amendment prohibits unwarranted surveillance of electronic data; Secret warrants are appropriate on a case-by-case basis, but no secret court order can create a general surveillance regime; Rampant government secrecy, even with internal checks and balances, defeats the principle of government by the people, so oversight conducted in secret is grossly inadequate; Publicizing the scope of surveillance programs may make criminals more difficult to catch, and we accept that risk. We therefore request that the President-- Suspend the PRISM program and collection of Verizon metadata; and Declassify the procedures and legal basis for these surveillance programs, so that the American people may review them and exercise our fundamental right to self-government.
Posted on: Tue, 25 Jun 2013 18:56:29 +0000
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