<div dir="ltr"><span class="" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:medium">News that the NSA has </span><a href="http://codepink.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=sqLMN1lwysOzqd9w4dAVi2sdsl00U3wg" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)"><span style="color:rgb(255,0,153)"><span style="font-size:medium">the whole planet under surveillance</span></span></a><span style="font-size:medium">, snooping in our phone calls, email and online activity set off constitutional alarms. But here's another shock: the huge amount of tax money flowing through the Pentagon budget to the NSA and its private contractors!<br>
<br>We spy billions of dollars last year being paid to corporations like Edward Snowden's former employer Booz Allen Hamilton. Booz got a whopping 99% of </span><a href="http://codepink.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=LS92W25jlXG6LIhUVeG63zRq1Oui86kq" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)"><span style="color:rgb(255,0,153)"><span style="font-size:medium">its revenue</span></span></a><span style="color:rgb(255,0,153)"><span style="font-size:medium"> </span></span><span style="font-size:medium">from the federal government in fiscal 2013, supplying a powerful profit motive to trample on our 4th amendment right to be free from search and seizure without due process. Massive spending on “security and surveillance” since 9/11 has drained the Treasury while failing to prevent tragedies like the Boston marathon bombing. Help us tell Booz that spying on all Americans is unconstitutional and unacceptable by <a href="http://codepink.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=%2B6KwltUrRpBpDyP1TICdNWsdsl00U3wg" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)"><span style="color:rgb(255,0,153)">emailing the CEO and other employees of Booz Allen Hamilton</span></a>. <br>
<br>How else could the $5.7 billion Booz got from U.S. taxpayers last year have been better spent? Read CODEPINK co-founder Medea Benjamin's great article on <a href="http://codepink.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=XFZrAjH7qnOK2bph2oNmpWsdsl00U3wg" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)"><span style="color:rgb(255,0,153)">10 ways to reduce the terror threat against Americans</span></a>.<br>
<br>Push back against using U.S. tax dollars to fund the erosion of our privacy! <a href="http://codepink.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=OgafbTMl7csiei%2BGNGkeBmsdsl00U3wg" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)"><span style="color:rgb(255,0,153)">Send the CEO and other employees of Booz Allen a strong message</span></a>. <br>
<br>We pledge to continue spying budget secrets, and shining the light on spying contractors like Booz Allen.<br><br>Truthfully yours,</span><span style="font-size:medium"><br>Alli, Amanda, Heidi, Kelleen, Janet, Jodie, Lisa, Medea, Nancy K, Nancy M, Natalie, Noor, Roqayah, Sergei, and Tighe</span></span><br>
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