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Noun: FISA
  1. 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
    - Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act

Type of: legislative act, statute

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