Congress Quote by 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

The 'FISA Amendments Act' would gut the oversight system established by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978, which subjected domestic spying to review…

— Ari Melber

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

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

Our Constitution in many situations rightly demands a warrant or order before we take investigative steps. And the FISC provides that vital, independent oversight.

— Christopher A. Wray

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

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

— Robert Mueller

Congress must go further to protect the right to privacy, to end the NSA's dragnet surveillance of ordinary Americans, to make the intelligence community…

— Elizabeth Warren

To get a FISA warrant to spy on a suspected spy, the feds go before a super-secret court located in a sealed room in…

— Benjamin Wittes

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

From the Fourth Amendment to post-Watergate reforms to the national outcry when Bush's warrantless surveillance was revealed in 2005, the United States has a…

— Ari Melber