Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court
Noun
Meaning
a secret federal court created in 1978 by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act; responsible for authorizing wiretaps and other forms of electronic surveillance and for authorizing searches of suspected spies and terrorists by the Department of Justice or United States intelligence agencies
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In the Justice Department's assessment, neither error merits invalidation of the warrant authorizations granted by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court.
The secretive Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court rules again that the National Security Agency could keep collecting every American’s telephone records every day.