foreign intelligence surveillance act

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foreign intelligence surveillance act - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act
      n 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 [syn: Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act
           , FISA]