<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">FYI good news: Rep Pocan has found a sponsor for his bill - <div class="gmail_default" style="display:inline"></div> 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. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div><div><div dir="ltr">Carla Howell<div>Political Director<br>National Libertarian Party<br></div><div><a href="tel:202-333-0008%20x%20222" value="+12023330008" target="_blank">202-333-0008 x 222</a></div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Molt, Alicia</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Alicia.Molt@mail.house.gov" target="_blank">Alicia.Molt@mail.house.gov</a>></span><br>Date: Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 3:45 PM<br>Subject: Surveillance State Repeal Act<br>To: "Molt, Alicia" <<a href="mailto:Alicia.Molt@mail.house.gov" target="_blank">Alicia.Molt@mail.house.gov</a>><br>Cc: "Nguyen, Alex" <<a href="mailto:Alex.Nguyen@mail.house.gov" target="_blank">Alex.Nguyen@mail.house.gov</a>>, "Cranston, Seana" <<a href="mailto:Seana.Cranston@mail.house.gov" target="_blank">Seana.Cranston@mail.house.gov</a>>, "Kolovson, David" <<a href="mailto:David.Kolovson@mail.house.gov" target="_blank">David.Kolovson@mail.house.gov</a>><br><br><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Supporters of</p><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small;display:inline"></div> the Surveillance State Repeal Act-<u></u><u></u><p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thank you for all your hard work in getting the word out regarding this bill. A few quick points.
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<p><u></u><span>1.<span style="font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:'Times New Roman'">
</span></span><u></u><b>I am excited to announce we will be introducing the Surveillance State Repeal Act with Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY)!</b><u></u><u></u></p>
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</span></span><u></u>Our briefing on this topic will be held on Tuesday, March 24<sup>th</sup> from 1-2pm in Cannon 304. ALL are welcome. Feel free to spread the word.
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</span></span><u></u>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.
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</span></span><u></u>We are doing a formal bill roll out/press/etc on <b><u>Tuesday March 24<sup>th</sup></u></b> to coincide with the briefing. The briefing info is below.
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<h1 align="center" style="text-align:center">Repealing the Surveillance State Briefing<u></u><u></u></h1>
<h2>From: The Honorable Mark Pocan<br>
Sent By: <a href="mailto:Alicia.Molt@mail.house.gov?subject=RE:%20Repealing%20the%20Surveillance%20State%20Briefing" target="_blank">
Alicia.Molt@mail.house.gov</a><br>
Date: 3/12/2015<u></u><u></u></h2>
<p align="center" style="text-align:center"><strong><u><span style="font-size:20pt;color:red">Briefing: Repealing the Surveillance State</span></u></strong><span style="font-size:20pt"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p align="center" style="text-align:center"><strong><span style="font-size:20pt">Tuesday, March 24th</span></strong><span style="font-size:20pt"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p align="center" style="text-align:center"><strong><span style="font-size:20pt">1pm-2pm</span></strong><span style="font-size:20pt"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p align="center" style="text-align:center"><strong><span style="font-size:20pt">Cannon House Office Building 304</span></strong><span style="font-size:20pt"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p><strong><span style="font-size:14pt">Panelists:</span></strong><span style="font-size:14pt"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p><strong><u><span style="font-size:14pt">Patrick Eddington</span></u></strong><u><span style="font-size:14pt">-</span></u><span style="font-size:14pt"> Former Senior Policy Advisor to Rep. Rush Holt and Policy Analyst in Homeland Security and Civil
Liberties at CATO<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p><strong><u><span style="font-size:14pt">Zack Malitz</span></u></strong><strong><span style="font-size:14pt"> –</span></strong><span style="font-size:14pt">Campaign Manager at CREDO Mobile<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p><strong><u><span style="font-size:14pt">Shahid Buttar-</span></u></strong><span style="font-size:14pt"> Executive Director of the Bill of Rights Defense Committee<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p><strong><u><span style="font-size:14pt">Julie Borowski-</span></u></strong><strong><span style="font-size:14pt">
</span></strong><span style="font-size:14pt">Policy Analyst at FreedomWorks<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:14pt">Dear Colleague,<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:14pt">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
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<p><span style="font-size:14pt">I hope you will be able to join me for a briefing to learn more about the bill and the status of NSA reforms.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:14pt">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.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p style="margin-left:2in;text-indent:0.5in"><span style="font-size:14pt">Sincerely,<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p style="margin-left:0.5in;text-indent:0.5in"><span style="font-size:14pt">Mark Pocan Thomas Massie<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p style="margin-left:0.5in;text-indent:0.5in"><span style="font-size:14pt">Member of Congress Member of Congress<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p align="center" style="text-align:center"><strong><span style="font-size:14pt">The Surveillance State Repeal Act</span></strong><span style="font-size:14pt"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><u><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">Organizational Support (national):</span></u></b><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">
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. <u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><u><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">Organizational Support (regional):</span></u></b><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"> 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)</span><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"> </span><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:14pt">The Surveillance State Repeal Act would:<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<u></u><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><span>1.<span style="font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:'Times New Roman'">
</span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">Repeal the PATRIOT Act (which contains the telephone metadata harvesting provision)<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<u></u><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><span>2.<span style="font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:'Times New Roman'">
</span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">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.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<u></u><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><span>3.<span style="font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:'Times New Roman'">
</span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">Makes retaliation against federal national security whistleblowers illegal and provides for the termination of individuals who engage in such retaliation.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<u></u><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><span>4.<span style="font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:'Times New Roman'">
</span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">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).<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<u></u><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><span>5.<span style="font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:'Times New Roman'">
</span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">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.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<u></u><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><span>6.<span style="font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:'Times New Roman'">
</span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">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.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<u></u><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><span>7.<span style="font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:'Times New Roman'">
</span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">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.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<u></u><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><span>8.<span style="font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:'Times New Roman'">
</span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">Increase the terms of judges on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) from seven to ten years and allows their reappointment.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<u></u><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><span>9.<span style="font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:'Times New Roman'">
</span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">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.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<u></u><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><span>10.<span style="font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:'Times New Roman'">
</span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">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.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<u></u><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><span>11.<span style="font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:'Times New Roman'">
</span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"> Explicitly ban the use of Executive Order 12333 as a way of collecting bulk data<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Alicia Molt <u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Senior Legislative Assistant<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Congressman Mark Pocan<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">313 Cannon HOB<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Tel: <a href="tel:%28202%29%20225-2906" value="+12022252906" target="_blank">(202) 225-2906</a> <u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="mailto:rosalyn.kumar@mail.house.gov" target="_blank"><span style="color:windowtext">alicia.molt@mail.house.gov</span></a><u></u><u></u></p>
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