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the Agency to squeeze the watch lists together as tightly as possible. P462-465: Its power to eavesdrop, the NSA had always insisted, came under no earthly laws but rather emanated from some celestial "inherent presidential authority" reposed in the chief executive by the Constitution. Senator Edward M. Kennedy tried year after year to pass legislation to require the NSA to submit to judicial review. Finally, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act [FISA] was signed into law by president Carter on October 25, 1978. The key to the legislation could only have been dreamed up by Franz Kafka: the establishment of a supersecret federal court. The legislation established a complex authorization procedure and added a strict "minimization" requirement to prohibit the use and distribution of communications involving Americans inadvertently picked up during the intercept operations. These requirements constitute the most important parts of the FISA law, and were included to prevent the watch-listing of American citizens, which took place during the 1960s and 1970s. The Supreme Court Chief Justice picks which federal judges serve in the Star Chamber. P466-467: The FISA court judge rules that black-ba |
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