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17 Oct 2014, 12:21 pm by rainey Reitman
Issued by President Ronald Reagan in 1981 to authorize foreign intelligence investigations, 12333 is not a statute and has never been subject to meaningful oversight from Congress or any court. [read post]
14 Nov 2013, 4:14 pm by Kurt Opsahl and Rainey Reitman
It brings new levels of transparency to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act Court (FISA court), introduces a special advocate to champion civil liberties in the FISA court, and appears to create new statutory limits on mass surveillance by the National Security Agency (NSA). [read post]
29 Jan 2020, 5:22 pm by India McKinney
The bill comes at a moment of renewed scrutiny of the government’s use of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA). [read post]
7 Jun 2013, 9:53 am by Ritika Singh
  Under this secret court order, millions of innocent Americans have been subject to government surveillance. [read post]
20 Jun 2014, 1:27 pm by Nadia Kayyali
Additionally, as the coalition’s letter makes clear, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court must also be more transparent. [read post]
12 Nov 2020, 1:38 pm by rainey Reitman
Cindy Cohn:Our topic today is the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, which is also called the FISC or the FISA Court. [read post]
19 May 2023, 9:39 am by Matthew Guariglia
  The Release of FISC Rulings (Finally) The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court was created by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act in 1978 and was intended to serve as judicial supervision of domestic surveillance done by the U.S. government against foreign agents. [read post]
3 Nov 2013, 7:08 am by Raffaela Wakeman
Edward Snowden’s disclosures and subsequent government declassifications have prompted a wave of proposals to retool the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (“FISA”). [read post]
18 Dec 2013, 1:15 pm by Ritika Singh
Under section 215 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), the government now stores bulk telephony metadata, understood as information that includes the telephone numbers that both originate and receive calls, time of call, and date of call. [read post]
25 Dec 2015, 12:08 pm by Shahid Buttar
Meanwhile, Congress finally took action to address some intelligence abuses, passing the USA FREEDOM Act this spring. [read post]
15 Aug 2013, 7:48 am by Rahul Bhagnari, ACLU
With the recent narrow defeat of the Amash Amendment to defund the bulk phone records' collection program, and more disclosures coming, Congress is more engaged on the issue of the government's suspicionless collection and surveillance of Americans' communications than it ever has been over the last decade. [read post]
26 Jun 2018, 10:30 am by Marty Lederman
  (In this respect the best early take, emphasizing the possible implications of Carpenter for "bulk" foreign intelligence surveillance collections, is this piece by David Kris.)Those aspects of the decision are certainly momentous, but they don't begin to tell the whole story. [read post]