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FISA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
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
Synonyms:
FISA; Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("FISA" is a kind of...):
legislative act; statute (an act passed by a legislative body)
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