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HUNTSVILLE, AL (WAFF) -

Two national First Amendment rights groups are calling for a Congressional investigation into possible National Security Agency involvement in Huntsville City Schools.

Last week, the district alerted the public about the SAFE program, or Students Against Fear. They launched SAFE at the beginning of the calendar year. District leaders said they've punished nearly two dozen students since the program's inception. That includes one student Superintendent Dr. Casey Wardynski said the government contacted them about.

An NSA spokesperson told us they are not the government agency that called the district.

Both the Electronic Frontier Foundation out of San Francisco, and the Student Press Law Center out of Washington, D.C. are following this developing story.

The involvement of the NSA, or the reported involvement of the NSA, is what makes this a national story, said Frank LoMonte, executive director of the SPLC.

Both groups said they want Congress to help get to the bottom of who contacted Huntsville City Schools. LoMonte said if any part of this story is true, it's a big deal because it brings in possible government domestic spying questions.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation is calling for a congressional committee to step in. They want something similar to the Church Commission that looked into government intelligence gathering in the 1970's. In a statement, the group said:

Whether the NSA is behind the school district's program or not, this episode illustrates how far the public's perception has come regarding privacy and mass surveillance. We've longed called for a new "Church Commission" to investigate all aspects of domestic surveillance by the NSA and other intelligence agencies. Such an investigation could get to the bottom of the Huntsville controversy. Opacity fuels distrust.

Congressman Mo Brooks is downplaying Congress getting involved.

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Published: Sunday, September 28, 2014 at 3:15 a.m. Last Modified: Friday, September 26, 2014 at 3:53 p.m.

By recently voicing full-hearted approval of a bill eviscerating the First Amendment guarantee of free speech, 54 Senate Democrats showed themselves to be among the most extreme, irresponsible, self-serving and historically ignorant establishment politicians of this era.

If they should actually get their way and they conceivably could short of voter outrage we could someday see a once strapping American spirit hopelessly hobbled when imperiousness comes its way.

It will never happen, say many who apparently haven't noticed what I've noticed in my lifetime, namely that almost every significant, broad political or cultural change was once something that would never happen.

No, it will not happen soon, and there are major hurdles, such as the need for supermajorities in Congress prior to ratification by states. But 54 Democrats getting behind a failed resolution in a party-line vote is hardly a timid start, and the amendment has much more going for it: fear of billionaire, special-interest fat cats, a public seemingly susceptible to cries of crisis and victimhood, and great numbers of pundits and academics who share these worries.

Some of us would insist in return that government should stay out of the way of our discourse. We would maintain that democracy entails the assumption that citizens themselves are the ones charged with evaluating what they hear, and we would add there's always an answer when politicians sell their souls: Throw the rascals out.

Of course, such reasoning carries something on the order of no weight at all with members of Congress forever crafting campaign finance laws supposedly aimed at ending the corruption of special interests buying political favors.

Such things are hard to test, but some say the laws have accomplished no such end. What they have done instead, some will tell you, is suppress nonprofit corporations concerned strictly with issues while assisting hugely advantaged incumbents by limiting funds campaign challengers can come up with.

The First Amendment is not foggy on any of this. It bluntly says Congress shall pass no law abridging free speech. These campaign laws clearly did, and in 2010 the Supreme Court looked at a case in which a group was being denied the right to criticize Hillary Clinton.

The organization had made a Clinton movie, wanted to advertise it on TV and pay to have it shown close to an election. Campaign law said no. The Supreme Court, figuring out this was no different in kind from banning a book, continued a prohibition against corporations contributing to candidates, but also ruled that they could speak out by other means.

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Mayor of New York City on the First Amendment
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