Word: fisa
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...original version of this story, Joe Klein wrote that the House Democratic version of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) would require a court approval of individual foreign surveillance targets. The bill does not explicitly say that. Republicans believe it can be interpreted that way, but Democrats...
...BUSH'S BILL would allow--but not require--the President to seek approval for the National Security Agency's (NSA's) no-warrant electronic-surveillance program from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) court. Bush has said he would seek the court's approval for the program, which he says targets only suspected terrorists calling or e-mailing to or from the U.S. Current law requires the government to get the FISA court's permission for each device--rather than each suspect--to be wiretapped; Bush claims his wartime powers override that law. His bill would send all legal challenges...
...himself to reassert some limited congressional and judicial oversight of the President's wartime powers. In talks with the Justice Department, the White House and the NSA , his staff pushed to have the program's constitutionality reviewed by the same secretive court, established by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) Congress passed in the 1970s, that is charged with approving warrants for domestic wiretapping - the same court, in fact, that the Administration had bypassed when it conducted eavesdropping without obtaining warrants...
...resulting bill would still give Bush much of the authority to pursue his eavesdropping program - something most Senators still support. Under the deal, Bush conditionally agreed that he would apply for authority to the secret FISA court which. However the specific agreement to have the program reviewed by the court, Specter and Gonzales said, is not actually written into the bill, and is valid only if the bill makes it through the House and Senate unaltered. The deal also requires in writing twice-yearly reports to the congressional intelligence committees on "any electronic surveillance programs in effect." And it would...
There are many avenues the government may take legally, if the NSA comes across a call pattern that warrants further investigation within the U.S. If the NSA wants to wiretap domestic calls, the 1978 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) requires it or the FBI to seek a special court warrant. The FISA court received 10,617 such applications from 1995 to 2004 and approved all but four of them. And under the Patriot Act, if the FBI certifies that it has grounds, it may also collect more information, such as the customer's name, address and billing information. Last year...