foreign-to-foreign

But this lasted for only a few months before Republicans began leaking word of a top-secret FISA court decision that had supposedly reinterpreted FISA, imposing a blanket obligation to obtain a judicial warrant for the interception of foreign-to-foreign communications that crossed U.S. switches.

The Year’s Least Surprising Headline 2009

That is, it would appear that they can still be sweeping up, in bulk, all traffic passing through the U.S. known to be foreign-to-foreign, regardless of who the parties to the communications are.

Innocents Abroad 2008

In fairness, Continetti wrote his editorial before this news came out, but informed people, including former top national security lawyers at Justice, have been saying all along that the FISA court could not possibly have imposed a blanket warrant requirement on foreign-to-foreign intercepts.

Substandard 2008

We now have confirmation from the top national security lawyer at Justice that, as experts on FISA have been saying all along, foreign-to-foreign wire and radio conversations have never been and are not now subject to FISA.

Substandard 2008

In fact, Congress took McConnell largely at his word when the DNI asserted, quite implausibly, that the FISA court had somehow manufactured a blanket warrant requirement for foreign-to-foreign communications passing through U.S. switches.

Rogering the Constitution 2008

I was always dubious that the FISA court could have really imposed some kind of blanket warrant requirement on foreign-to-foreign intercepts, and said so, but I also should have seen just where the likely problem was.

An Anatomy of Electronic Surveillance 2008

But FISA has never raised a barrier to that kind of surveillance as pertains to foreign-to-foreign interceptions.

Rogering the Constitution 2008

Because FISA did not and does not apply to "foreign-to-foreign" communications, we can only speculate why it was necessary to obtain a FISA warrant for electronic surveillance in Iraq.

Story Of Anti-FISA Group On Obama's Web Site Goes National 2009

Also in August 2007, House Minority Leader John Boehner stated that the FISC had issued a ruling prohibiting intelligence agents from intercepting foreign-to-foreign calls passing through the United States.

Obama Responds To FISA Group On His Web Site 2009

At a meeting on March 3, 2008, and in response to a question from David Kris (a former Federal prosecutor), Assistant Attorney General for National Security Kenneth Wainstein said that FISA as it existed before (and as it exists after) the effective life of the Protect America Act of 2007 did not (and does not) apply to foreign-to-foreign communications that are routed through a location in the United States.

Obama Responds To FISA Group On His Web Site 2009