FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE SURVEILLANCE ACT

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

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

Synonyms:

FISA; Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act

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Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act" is a kind of...):

legislative act; statute (an act passed by a legislative body)

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