Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act
fo·reig·nin·telligencesurveillanceact
noun
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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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