FISA was enacted to establish procedures for the physical and electronic surveillance and collection of “foreign intelligence information” between “foreign powers” and “agents of foreign powers” suspected of espionage or terrorism. The Act created the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) to oversee requests for surveillance warrants by federal law enforcement and intelligence agencies. This Act may be cited as the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978. It has been repeatedly amended since the September 11, 2001, attacks on the United States.
FISA was initially enacted as United States Public Law 95-511 on October 25, 1978; compiled at 92 Stat. 1783. It was subsequently amended by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 Amendments of 2008, aka the FISA Amendments of 2008, Public Law 110-261, July 10, 2008, 122 Stat. 2436; It is codified at 50 USC 1801 – 1885.
Title 50 – United States Code – War and National Defense
Chapter 36 – Foreign Intelligence Surveillance
Subchapters I through VII
50 U.S.C §§1801 – 1885c
SUBCHAPTER I—ELECTRONIC SURVEILLANCE
SUBCHAPTER II—PHYSICAL SEARCHES
SUBCHAPTER III—PEN REGISTERS AND TRAP AND TRACE DEVICES FOR FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE PURPOSES
SUBCHAPTER IV—ACCESS TO CERTAIN BUSINESS RECORDS FOR FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE PURPOSES
SUBCHAPTER V—OVERSIGHT
SUBCHAPTER VI—ADDITIONAL PROCEDURES REGARDING CERTAIN PERSONS OUTSIDE THE UNITED STATES
SUBCHAPTER VII—PROTECTION OF PERSONS ASSISTING THE GOVERNMENT
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