Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA)

A series of recommendations could position amici to make forceful civil liberties and privacy arguments, effecting change from within the FISA court system.

In the next 24 hours, the House Judiciary Committee has a unique opportunity to seriously reform FISA surveillance powers.

What will the Justice Department do in response to what it's learned about the FBI’s flawed application to wiretap Carter Page?

Critics of FISA on both the left and the right are seizing on the DOJ inspector general's report as an opportunity to significantly alter FISA.

Full video of public conversation featuring Liza Goitein, Andrew McCabe, Julian Sanchez, Adam Serwer (moderator), and Andrew Weissmann.

[Just Security is publishing a series on concrete proposals for FISA reform. This series is in conjunction with a public event that we are organizing with the Reiss Center on…

Andrew Weissmann, former FBI General Counsel and a lead prosecutor in Robert S. Mueller’s Special Counsel’s Office, writes about the Inspector General's report and proposes…

The first in our series on proposals for FISA reform, published in conjunction with a public event on Jan. 16 with Liza Goitein, Andrew McCabe, Julian Sanchez, and Andrew Weissmann…

"The Inspector General's report fails to turn up anything resembling a Deep State cabal within the FBI plotting against the president, or deliberate abuse of surveillance authorities…

Last week's FISA Court opinions provide even more evidence that the current system fails to adequately protect Americans’ privacy.

Part II discusses the the FBI’s improper queries of Section 702 communications—as well as the FISA Court’s unsatisfactory solution for bringing the FBI into compliance with…

This is now the fourth major FISA Court opinion on Section 702 in 10 years documenting substantial non-compliance with the rules meant to protect Americans’ privacy.