Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun foreign_intelligence_surveillance_act

1 sense of foreign intelligence surveillance act

Sense 1
Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, FISA -- (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)
       => legislative act, statute -- (an act passed by a legislative body)