Wikileaks is an important internet initiative - a repository of leaked documents from all over the world, information that various governments and corporations don't want people to see. Among other things, you can find the official Camp Delta Standard Operating Procedures there.

Unforunately, a federal judge in California (who obviously failed his constitutional law class) has issued an injunction against Wikileaks's US domain name host, making it harder to find the site. Instead of typing wikileaks.org in your address bar, you have to type http://88.80.13.160.

But you can help! if you have a blog or a website, put the following text somewhere in one or more of your pages, and search engines will make it easier for people to find Wikileaks:

<a href="http://88.80.13.160">Wikileaks</a>
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As you are probably aware, for several months now Bush has been pressing Congress to "revise" the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. Two of the revisions he has demanded are legalization of the illegal warrantless wiretapping he was caught doing, and immunity for the phone companies that cooperated. Obviously such a change would be contrary to every principle this country was founded on. Outrageously, a majority in the Senate - including many "Democrats" - have already voted to enact this Orwellian legislation. Only a filibuster by Senator Dodd of Connecticut has kept the law from passing the Senate.

There is still a sliver of hope in the House. It is, of course, ridiculous that this bill even got out of a committee. But such are the times we live in. I urge all Americans reading this blog to contact their representatives in the House and Senate and tell them to vote against any bill that legalizes warrantless wiretapping or offers immunity to phone companies for breaking the law. If you don't know how to contact your representatives, follow the ACLU link below.

From the ACLU:

The Senate should not fool itself; by supporting final passage of the intelligence committee’s domestic spying bill, Congress would be granting the administration virtually unchecked powers to monitor the calls and emails of ordinary Americans on American soil without a warrant for the next six years.

This week, while Senate Republicans blocked votes on amendments to revisions of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) as a delay tactic, the president threatened to veto the bill unless it includes a multi-million dollar present for the telecom companies who facilitated warrantless wiretapping in the United States. The administration has repeatedly claimed that American lives will be at risk if the Intelligence Committee’s bill is not adopted, yet the President has now said he is willing take that alleged risk if the bill does not include retroactive immunity for the phone companies.

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From last week on Slashdot:

The law says telecom providers can't wiretap your phone calls or net traffic, but as long as their taps are legal or they acted in good faith they're already immune from prosecution and lawsuits. That said, your telecom providers are still trying to get Congress to immunize them for cooperating with NSA wiretaps (presumably because the taps were both illegal and done in bad faith). Retroactive immunity wouldn't just mean they get away with it, it would crush our ability as citizens to find out what happened using the power of the courts. Last month, Sen. Chris Dodd temporarily stopped the bill, but within days -- probably on Monday -- it's going to be reintroduced, and it's not at all clear it will be stopped again. He'll need strong allies, because he's fighting not just the Bush administration and GOP Senators, but his own party's Sen. Harry Reid and "AT&T's personal Senator" Jay Rockefeller. So Dodd needs more Senators backing him up, preferably joining a full-blown filibuster on the Senate floor. If you ever want accountability for whatever companies illegally forwarded your data to the NSA, you basically have today and tomorrow to say something.

Telecom Immunity -- We're Down to the Wire(tap)