KNBC covers Courage Campaign efforts to hold Feinstein accountable.

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Rick does a good job of explaining the Courage Campaign projects. This was only one of them.

From an email today:

Dear Friend,

You've got Senator Dianne Feinstein's attention.

When Senator Feinstein failed all of us by casting pivotal Judiciary Committee votes to confirm Attorney General Michael Mukasey and Judge Leslie Southwick -- in effect, condoning their deplorable stances on torture, racism and homophobia -- we asked what you thought the Courage Campaign should do in response.

Over a thousand of your brilliant ideas poured into the Courage Campaign web site with one common theme: Accountability.

When Mal Burnstein, Co-Chair of the Progressive Caucus of the California Democratic Party, authored a courageous censure resolution to hold Senator Feinstein accountable at the Executive Board meeting the following weekend, we asked if you would support it.

In less than a week, 35,212 concerned citizens like you signed on in support of censuring the Senator. MoveOn joined you. Progressive Democrats of America joined you. Over 40 Democratic Clubs and progressive organizations in California joined you.

http://www.couragecampaign.org/page/m/67682a8741d4ae06/QpNwUM/

Here is more coming up about the telecom immunity, and Rick's campaign is top of it.

Next week, a Senate Intelligence Committee bill re-authorizing the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) will likely come to the Senate floor. This Intelligence Committee bill includes retroactive amnesty for telecom companies guilty of wiretapping Americans *without* a warrant.

As our friends at CREDO Action (from Working Assets) explain:

"Why amnesty? (President) Bush wants retroactive amnesty for the telecom companies to thwart civil liberties lawsuits that threaten to expose his own violations of the original FISA law. If these lawsuits aren't allowed to go forward, we may never know the extent of the Bush administration's illegal efforts to spy on American citizens without the required warrants."

Senator Chris Dodd, Senator Russ Feingold and several other Senators have recently said they will filibuster any legislation that contains retroactive telecom immunity. However, to date, Senator Feinstein has failed to indicate that she will support such a courageous stand in defense of our Constitution.