Based on the dossier, the FBI told the FISA court it believed that Carter Page, who had been identified by the Trump campaign as an adviser, was coordinating with the Russian government in an ...

The decision by James E. Boasberg, chief judge of the secretive court created under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), comes as Congress faces a March 15 deadline on whether to ...

FISA was enacted in 1978 to curb the rampant illegal political spying exposed during the Nixon administration. ... an FBI agent may have illegally surveilled your email.

The Justice Department watchdog referred FBI agent Stephen Somma for disciplinary review after an investigation into alleged Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act abuses.Somma, a ...

To get a FISA wiretap the FBI must show probable cause to believe the target of the surveillance is a foreign agent or suspected terrorist.

The unredacted Russia-probe FISA application suggests that the FBI may have been looking to make a criminal case all along. ... The rogue agent could then seek a FISA warrant to surveil the suspect.

The statute that created FISA Courts bars targeted electronic surveillance in the United States unless there is evidence that a foreign power or agent of a foreign power is involved.

The former FBI agent who played a major role early on in the Russia investigation has spoken out in defense of his former ... Peter Strzok says mistakes in FISA applications were due to ...

The second FISA application, also known as the first FISA warrant renewal, was also signed off on by a redacted supervisory special agent and submitted to the FISA Court by a redacted DOJ attorney.

FISA courts meet in secret -- sometimes in the middle of the night. — -- President Trump sparked a firestorm this morning when he suggested that his predecessor, Barack Obama, had ordered ...

FISA Court Appears To Be Rubber Stamp For Government Requests The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court has been under fire since one ... German is a former FBI agent, and now the ACLU's senior ...