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Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act: Media

FISA: The law that tries to balance national security and civil liberties

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Working on reform
Pres. Jimmy Carter and Sen. Frank Church meeting in the White House in 1977. In 1978...
Jimmy Carter Library/National Archives, Washington, D.C. (ARC Identifier: 175897)
Whistleblower
Former NSA contractor Edward Snowden shown during a 2013 interview in which he explains...
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