Foreign intelligence surveillance act / Marcus Korjus, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Korjus, Markus, editor.

Series:

Intelligence and counterintelligence studies series.

Intelligence and Counterintelligence Studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978.

Intelligence service--Law and legislation--United States.

National security--Law and legislation--United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (77 pages).

Place of Publication:

New York, [New York] : Novinka, 2013.

Summary:

The current legislative and oversight activity with respect to electronic surveillance under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) has drawn national attention to several overarching issues. This book outlines three such issues and touches upon some of the perspectives reflected in the ongoing debate. These issues include the inherent and often dynamic tension between national security and civil liberties, particularly rights of privacy and free speech; the need for the intelligence community to be able to efficiently and effectively collect foreign intelligence information from the communications of foreign persons located outside the United States in a changing, fast-paced, and technologically sophisticated international environment or from United States persons abroad, and the differing approaches suggested to meet this need; and limitations of liability for those electronic communication service providers who furnish aid to the federal government in its foreign intelligence collection. Two constitutional provisions are implicated in this debate - the Fourth and Fifth Amendments.

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-62808-236-4