FISA

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
FISA
    n 1: 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}, {FISA}]