What does Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act mean?
• FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE SURVEILLANCE ACT (noun) The noun FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE SURVEILLANCE ACT has 1 sense: 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 Familiarity information: FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE SURVEILLANCE ACT used as a noun is very rare.
