FISA was enacted in 1978 to curb the rampant illegal political spying exposed during the Nixon administration. After the 9/11 attacks, the George W. Bush administration decided the president was ...

The FISA court is a tribunal established in 1978 that decides whether to approve wiretaps, data collection and government requests to monitor suspected terrorists and spies.

What is FISA Section 702? Section 702 of FISA allows intelligence officials to oversee communications of foreigners outside the U.S. without a warrant. It’s an amendment added to FISA in 2008.

Roughly 40 minutes after it lapsed, the Senate voted to pass a renewal of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), which serves as a critical tool used by the government to ...

The House voted 228-193 against advancing the rule to renew Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) before it expires on April 19.

Section 702’s opponents heavily pushed for a warrant requirement, claiming it was necessary for American’s privacy rights. The law’s supporters, though, pointed to other reforms made to FISA ...

Read a fact sheet on the FISA amendments, from the office of Sen. Kit Bond, the ranking Republican on the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. The FISA Amendments Act of 2008 provides ...

Section 702, the surveillance authority that will lapse if Congress fails to renew it, is a different animal from the one used in the Russia probe. To let expire or nullify foreign surveillance ...

The provision of Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) is set to expire in December, prompting authorities to eagerly promote the need for Section 702 of… ...

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In the wee hours of April 10, former President Donald Trump went onto his social media network, TruthSocial, and exclaimed, “KILL FISA, IT WAS ILLEGALLY USED AGAINST ME, AND MANY OTHERS. THEY ...

Some Republicans have their own motivations for wanting to revisit other authorities the FBI has under FISA dating back to the bureau’s sloppy work investigating links between Trump’s 2016 ...