May 6, 2015

Dear Members of Congress,

The undersigned civil liberties advocates, organizations, and surveillance experts urge you to oppose
the USA FREEDOM Act and instead to push for the expiration of Section 215 of the USA PATRIOT
Act on June 1st.

In the two years since Edward Snowden began disclosing proof of mass, warrantless surveillance of
Americans and the rest of the world, surveillance proponents have had ample opportunity to provide
proof of its efficacy, legality, and its necessity. They have failed to do so on every front. Instead, they
have systematically misled both the public and Congress.

Under incredible public pressure, the White House and surveillance agencies have telegraphed
acquiescence to minimal reforms in exchange for extension of Section 215 via legislation that would
also eviscerate numerous court challenges to lawless surveillance and provide for legal immunization
and compensation of companies that provide the government with customers private information, even
where that company knows it is unlawful.

The sacrifices made by the USA FREEDOM Act of 2015 are unacceptable. The modest changes within
this bill, in turn, fail to reform mass surveillance, of Americans and others, conducted under Section
702 of the FISA Amendments Act of 2008 and Executive Order 12333. Given intelligence agencies
eagerness to subvert any attempts by Congress to rein in massive surveillance programs by changing
the legal authorities under which they operate, the modest, proposed changes are no reform at all.

Section 215 was designed to sunset, and it is well past time that it did so. A vote for USA FREEDOM
Act does too little to reform surveillance, and it does so at too great an expense. A vote against it, and
against any law that reauthorizes Section 215, is the best step toward ending mass surveillance of
Americans. We urge you to pursue such a path in defense of American civil liberties.

Sincerely,

Mark Klein

Thomas Drake

Diane Roark

William Binney

J. Kirk Wiebe

Edward Loomis

CREDO Mobile

Campaign for Liberty

Demand Progress

Republican Liberty Caucus

Progressive Change Campaign

Committee

American-Arab Anti-
Discrimination Committee
(ADC)

Democracy for America

Sunlight Foundation

X-Lab

Restore The Fourth

Fight for the Future

RootsAction.org

National Coalition to Protect

Civil Freedoms

Defending Dissent Foundation

Constitutional Alliance

ForestEthics

Bill of Rights Defense

Committee

CourageCampaign.org

Media Alliance

Rainforest Action Network

Arab American Institute

Center for Sustainable

Economy

CourageCampaign.org

Popular Resistance

Greater Cleveland Immigrant

Support Network

Blue America PAC

OneAmerica

Chicago-Cinquera Sister Cities

OMNI Center for Peace, Justice School of the Americas Watch

& Ecology
(SOA Watch)

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