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"The Right Of The People": The Nsa, The Fisa Amendments Act Of 2008, And Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Of Americans Overseas, Jonathan D. Forgang
"The Right Of The People": The Nsa, The Fisa Amendments Act Of 2008, And Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Of Americans Overseas, Jonathan D. Forgang
Fordham Law Review
In October 2008, two former National Security Agency communications analysts told reporters that the NSA used satellite technology to monitor the phone conversations of Americans living in the Middle East. This revelation highlighted an unresolved area of surveillance law—the privacy rights of U.S. citizens against their own government when they are outside the borders of the United States. Though the FISA Amendments Act of 2008 has created a procedure for the judicial review of this type of surveillance, this review is only a general oversight and judges on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court are not required to individually review every …