The ACLU has filed three motions in the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) asking it to release secret opinions authorizing the surveillance of Americans. The public has a right to see the ...

In recent weeks, there have been a flurry of motions exchanged in two courts over what kinds of “telephony metadata” records the government should be keeping, or deleting. It’s a pretty confusing ...

Two years ago, the acronyms FISC or FISA would require a majority to frantically hit the Google search. But thanks to Edward Snowden and his leaked information regarding the NSA, the general public is ...

For decades, a special court—the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, or “FISC”—has issued secret legal opinions authorizing the U.S. government to conduct sweeping programs of electronic ...

CAMP ARIFJAN, Kuwait — Financial management technicians deployed here with the 266th Finance Support Center are employing cutting-edge counterterrorism techniques to provide commanders new avenues ...

The FISC was established by Congress in 1978 when Congress passed the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. The court is comprised of 11 district court judges who sit in Washington and are designated ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Background: The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC), a specialized court created by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), oversees the federal government’s foreign surveillance ...

The ACLU and other groups asked the Supreme Court on Monday to consider whether a special court that reviews government requests for electronic surveillance for foreign intelligence purposes must ...