An expert describes Title I of the Foreign intelligence Surveillance Act compared to Section 702, including the key distinctions as Congress considers whether and how to reauthorize the government's surveillance authorities.
By Martin Bosworth I warned you last month that although Chris Dodd and a grassroots push from the blogosphere succeeded in stopping the reauthorization of laws that grant the government vast new spying powers (and immunity from prosecution for telecoms that abet and provide them), this bill would be back, and the fight would come…
No phrase has done more to confuse the public and distort informed debate over foreign surveillance than "warrantless wiretapping." The accusation that the federal government is listening in on Americans' domestic telephone conversations without any legal authority or any judicial oversight has been an article of faith among those who oppose modernization of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA).