NOUN
- an act passed by Congress in 1978 to establish procedures for requesting judicial authorization for foreign intelligence surveillance and to create the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court; intended to increase United States counterintelligence; separate from ordinary law enforcement surveillance
How To Use Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act In A Sentence
- The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 (50 U.S.C. 1801 et seq.) is amended by inserting after section 105 the following: The Volokh Conspiracy » What Al-Haramain Says, And What It Doesn’t Say
- Did not attend the July 2008 vote to update the 1978 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, or FISA.
- Did not attend the July 2008 vote to update the 1978 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, or FISA.
- Specter's proposal would bring the four-year-old NSA program under the authority of the court created by the 1978 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. The federal government would have to obtain permission from a secret court to continue a controversial form of surveillance, which the National Security Agency now conducts without warrants. Balkinization