[Lnc-business] Fwd: Surveillance State Repeal Act

Tue Mar 17 18:31:38 EDT 2015

FYI good news: Rep Pocan has found a sponsor for his bill -

 the Surveillance State Repeal Act - for which we are listed as a
supporter. We'll issue a press release when we get a bill number.

Carla Howell
Political Director
National Libertarian Party
202-333-0008 x 222

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Molt, Alicia <Alicia.Molt at mail.house.gov>
Date: Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 3:45 PM
Subject: Surveillance State Repeal Act
To: "Molt, Alicia" <Alicia.Molt at mail.house.gov>
Cc: "Nguyen, Alex" <Alex.Nguyen at mail.house.gov>, "Cranston, Seana" <
Seana.Cranston at mail.house.gov>, "Kolovson, David" <
David.Kolovson at mail.house.gov>

 Supporters of

the Surveillance State Repeal Act-

Thank you for all your hard work in getting the word out regarding this
bill. A few quick points.

1.       *I am excited to announce we will be introducing the Surveillance
State Repeal Act with Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY)!*

2.       Our briefing on this topic will be held on Tuesday, March 24th
from 1-2pm in Cannon 304. ALL are welcome. Feel free to spread the word.

3.       We are “dropping” the bill this Thursday which is when we will get
a bill number. I will send you that bill number as soon as I have it! This
is when we would encourage you to reach out to your members to contact
their representatives about this bill. If you need any materials from me,
please don’t hesitate to ask, happy to do whatever I can do make this as
smooth of a process as possible.

4.       We are doing a formal bill roll out/press/etc on *Tuesday March
24th* to coincide with the briefing.   The briefing info is below.

Repealing the Surveillance State Briefing From: The Honorable Mark Pocan
Sent By: Alicia.Molt at mail.house.gov
<Alicia.Molt at mail.house.gov?subject=RE:%20Repealing%20the%20Surveillance%20State%20Briefing>
Date: 3/12/2015

*Briefing: Repealing the Surveillance State*

*Tuesday, March 24th*

*1pm-2pm*

*Cannon House Office Building 304*

*Panelists:*

*Patrick Eddington**-* Former Senior Policy Advisor to Rep. Rush Holt and
Policy Analyst in Homeland Security and Civil Liberties at CATO

*Zack Malitz** –*Campaign Manager at CREDO Mobile

*Shahid Buttar-* Executive Director of the Bill of Rights Defense Committee

*Julie Borowski-* Policy Analyst at FreedomWorks

Dear Colleague,

Over the next few weeks, Rep. Massie (R-KY) and I will be reintroducing the
Surveillance State Repeal Act. This bill offers a complete repeal of the
PATRIOT Act and the FISA Amendments Act while overhauling the NSA’s
domestic surveillance program. I will circulate relevant information about
this bill in the coming days but wanted to flag the date for this briefing

I hope you will be able to join me for a briefing to learn more about the
bill and the status of NSA reforms.

Below is some information about the bill and a list of organizations
supporting the legislation. I look forward to sharing more information with
you about this legislation in the coming days.

Sincerely,

Mark Pocan                                                Thomas Massie

Member of Congress                         Member of Congress

*The Surveillance State Repeal Act*

*Organizational Support (national):*  FreedomWorks, CREDO, Campaign For
Liberty, Friends Committee on National Legislation, Bill of Rights Defense
Committee, Demand Progress, Coalition for Peace Action, Defending Dissent
Foundation, Restore the Fourth, National Libertarian Party, Media Alliance,
Rights Working Group, We Are OneAmerica, Government Accountability Project,
Code Pink, X-Lab, U.S. Labor Against the War, National Lawyers Guild.

*Organizational Support (regional):* Montgomery County Civil Rights
Coalition (MD), OMNI Center for Peace, Justice and Ecology (AR), Bay Area
Civil Liberties Coalition (CA), Stop NYPD Spying (NY), Neighborhood UU
Church of Pasadena (CA), Friends of the Constitution (WA), Dallas Peace
Center (TX), Chicago Committee to Defend the Bill of Rights (IL), Cleveland
Immigrant Support Network (OH)

The Surveillance State Repeal Act would:

1.     Repeal the PATRIOT Act (which contains the telephone metadata
harvesting provision)

2.     Repeal the FISA Amendments Act (which contains the email harvesting
provision), with the exception of the provisions regarding FISA court
reporting and WMD intelligence collection.

3.     Makes retaliation against federal national security whistleblowers
illegal and provides for the termination of individuals who engage in such
retaliation.

4.     Ensure that any FISA collection against a US Person takes place only
pursuant to a valid warrant based on probable cause (which was the original
FISA standard from 1978 to 2001).

5.     Retain the ability for government surveillance capabilities to be
targeted against a specific natural person, regardless of the type of
communications method(s) or device(s) being used by the subject of the
surveillance.

6.     Retain provisions in current law dealing with the acquisition of
intelligence information involving weapons of mass destruction from
entities not composed primarily of U.S. Persons.

7.     Prohibit the government from mandating that electronic device or
software manufacturers build in so-called “back doors” to allow the
government to bypass encryption or other privacy technology built into said
hardware and/or software.

8.     Increase the terms of judges on the Foreign Intelligence
Surveillance Court (FISC) from seven to ten years and allows their
reappointment.

9.     Mandate that the FISC utilize technologically competent Special
Masters (technical and legal experts) to help determine the veracity of
government claims about privacy, minimization and collection capabilities
employed by the US government in FISA applications.

10.                        Mandate that the Government Accountability
Office (GAO) regularly monitor such domestic surveillance programs for
compliance with the law, including responding to Member requests for
investigations and whistleblower complaints of wrongdoing.

11.                         Explicitly ban the use of Executive Order 12333
as a way of collecting bulk data

Alicia Molt

Senior Legislative Assistant

Congressman Mark Pocan

313 Cannon HOB

Tel: (202) 225-2906

alicia.molt at mail.house.gov <rosalyn.kumar at mail.house.gov>

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