FISA

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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  FISA
       n : 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}]