What does FISA stand for?

Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (US government)

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Samples in periodicals archive:

Harris earlier asked for full disclosure of evidence obtained under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), arguing that the court should suppress such evidence.

US suspect's father pleads not guilty in terror case

Yoo insisted that the president's wiretapping program had only to comply with Fourth Amendment protections against search and seizure — but the report said Yoo ignored the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, which had previously overseen federal national security surveillance.

Bush admin official defends warrantless wiretaps

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

In voting for the bill to amend the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act and its absolution of illegal spying on ordinary Americans, Obama not only failed to achieve any political advantage, he also showed that he has a weak character.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

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

Never mind that the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act needed only minor fixes to close some technology gaps and functioned perfectly well until the Bush administration flicked the law aside like a troublesome house fly.

A failure to balance

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 the same time, it maintains the provisions of the August amendment that modernized the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act by allowing agents to investigate foreign suspects through taps in the United States.

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