Similar words: fish, fisher, fist, fishy, fishery, fiscal, fish out, fish for. Meaning: n. 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.
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1. Supports FISA and immunity for the telecommunications corporations.
2. The Senate voted Wednesday on the bill updating FISA -- which had a provision to shield telecommunications companies that had cooperated in the surveillance.
3. So, in 1978, Congress passed the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), which took the controversial step of creating a secret federal court for issuing wiretap warrants.
4. They also remind Clapper that the FISA Amendments Act is set to expire at the end of the year.
5. Voted for the FISA Amendments Act of 2007 in February 2008.
6. In crafting the latest revision of the 1978 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), House and Senate lawmakers gave President Bush much of what he sought during months of tough negotiations.
7. In particular, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) is vital to the community's mission against terrorism.
8. The bill, formally known as the FISA Amendments Act, effectively shields telephone companies from lawsuits for participating in a government eavesdropping program.
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9. Pelosi says the president already has all the authority he needs under the original FISA law.
10. The intelligence community could not intercept these communications as freely as they could radio traffic, and the FISA rules began to chafe.
11. The advantage of the low intensity training system recommended by FISA is to positively affect the skill development.
12. Did not attend the July 2008 vote to update the 1978 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, or FISA.
13. One month earlier the senator had enthusiastically voted for the FISA Amendments Act, which allows the U.S. government to do pretty much the same thing.
14. Did not attend the February 2008 vote on the FISA Amendments Act of 2007.
15. Voted for legislation overhauling the 1978 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, or FISA, in July 2008.
16. In crafting the latest revision of the 1978 Foreign Intelligentce Surveillance Act or FISA House and Senator lawmakers gave President Bush much of what he thought during months of tough negotiations.
17. In the end the situation was defused when Prost appeared in front of FISA and satisfied Mosley that he'd been misquoted.