- Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act as a noun:
- 1
Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act
noun
1 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act
An act passed by Congress in 1978 to establish procedures for requesting judicial authorization for foreign intelligence surveillance and to create the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court; intended to increase United States counterintelligence; separate from ordinary law enforcement surveillance.
synonym: FISA.
Dutch: FISA
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