Last week, a group called Defense of Democracies let rip with a national ad campaign aimed at pressuring House Democrats (and targeting 15 in particular) to buckle and support the Senate’s surveillance bill, which contains retroactive immunity for the telecoms. The ads ended by encouraging viewers to contact their representative and urge them to convince the House leadership to bring the Senate bill to a vote — because “the law that lets intelligence agencies intercept Al Qaeda communications” has expired, “crippling” surveillance.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=178084