Court Quote by Ari Melber

In 1978, Congress passed the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act after hearings exposed the F.B.I.'s egregious practice of illegally spying on civil rights leaders, black…

— Asha Rangappa

While Congress saw some need to loosen the standard in the initial days of a war, it wanted the president to comply with FISA…

— Jonathan Turley

The reason the FISA standard is constitutional is that the government is supposed to use FISA surveillance not for criminal investigations but for counterintelligence…

— Benjamin Wittes

FISA is one of the most important investigative tools we've got in preventing our adversaries from harming our country.

— Christopher A. Wray

FISA targets those who are 'agents of a foreign power.'

— Rick Wilson

The Supreme Court must strike down the government's illegal spying program as a violation of our Fourth Amendment right to privacy.

— Rand Paul

I believe that the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act must be reformed. We must improve the American public's confidence in, and perception of, our national…

— Dutch Ruppersberger

So there is a foreign intelligence purpose for every one of our FISA warrants.

— Robert Mueller

I acted on my belief that the NSA's mass surveillance programs would not withstand a constitutional challenge, and that the American public deserved a…

— Edward Snowden

It's a huge deal when you have got people of the Department of Justice and FBI making fundamental misrepresentations to the FISA court.

— Matt Gaetz

The FBI relies on FISA every day in national security investigations to prevent terrorists and foreign intelligence services from harming the United States.

— Christopher A. Wray

FISA is a powerful tool - and we've got to be sure we're using it properly, at every step in the process. But we…

— Christopher A. Wray