What does FI stand for?

Foreign Intelligence

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Military and Government

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Samples in periodicals archive:

The UK's foreign and interior ministers defended Britain's security services on Sunday after a report by legislators expressed concern about Britain's co-operation with foreign intelligence agencies.

UK 'cannot rule out' torture risk

Congress required the review of the warrantless wiretapping program by five inspectors general last year when it revised the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.

Surveillance went beyond warrantless wiretapping

The wiretaps went ahead without the permission of a special court set up to watch over government wiretapping operations inside the United States, as provided for under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) of 1978.

US judge rejects lawsuits in wiretapping cases

The long fight on Capitol Hill centered on one main question: whether to shield from civil lawsuits any telecommunications companies that helped the government eavesdrop on American phone and computer lines without the permission or knowledge of a secret court created by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.

United States: US passes telecom immunity, eavesdropping rules

The update to the 30-year-old Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act is an attempt to balance privacy rights with the government's responsibility to protect the country against attack, taking into account changes in telecommunications technologies.

House passes bill to shield telecoms in wiretapping

She found that the electronic surveillance and physical searches provisions under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), as amended by the Patriot Act, violated the Fourth Amendment's guarantee against unreasonable search and seizure.

Two Provisions Of The "USA Patriot Act" Declared Unconstitutional

Although the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act allowed monitoring of international phone calls by individuals suspected to be terrorists, a secret surveillance program established after the Sept.

Why not FISA? Surveillance must be subject to oversight

At that point, a veto would kick off a vicious fight between the Congress and the White House, with both facing the high stakes of forcing back progress--if nothing's ultimately passed, the law reverts to the old, antiquated Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, a law that most agreed required at least a narrow update.

Government spying: Democrats try to implement oversight of the White ...