In 33 years, the FISA court has rejected just 11 of 34,000 requests, the author writes. By Sen. Richard Blumenthal. 07/14/2013 11:15 PM EDT. Link Copied.

The FISA court opinion reveals the FBI wrongfully cast a far broader net. Roughly 2,000 protesters supporting President Donald Trump (including an unknown number of undercover agents and ...

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.

There are, furthermore, several intriguing things about the timing of the FISA warrant — not least, the fact that it was sought shortly after the bureau started receiving Steele’s reports ...

Rosemary M. Collyer, then the presiding judge on FISA court, ordered the F.B.I. to propose fixes to its process by Jan. 10 to ensure the problems would not recur.

The aspect of the FISA compromise that's gotten the most attention is its grant of retroactive immunity to the telephone companies that cooperated with the NSA's post-9/11 domestic spying program.

If we really wanted to reform FISA, we would be wise get the courts out of foreign-intelligence collection and find a better way of overseeing the activities of the intelligence agencies ...

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 ...

The FISA Amendments Act gives the government nearly unfettered access to Americans’ international communications. Government surveillance that sweeps up the communications of U.S. citizens and ...