#FISA
6 entries tagged FISA.
People (2)
- Ashley Gorski Ashley Gorski is a senior staff attorney in the ACLU's National Security Project who has led the organization's Fourth Amendment litigation against Section 702 backdoor searches, including joining the defense in United States v. Russell.
- Brandon Russell Brandon Russell is the Florida neo-Nazi who founded Atomwaffen Division in 2015, whose post-prison arc from August 2021 through his February 2023 arrest demonstrates the structural failure of supervised release to address ideologically committed violent extremists.
Events (2)
- 2023 Baltimore Power Grid Conspiracy In February 2023, AWD founder Brandon Russell and Sarah Beth Clendaniel were arrested for conspiring to simultaneously destroy five Baltimore Gas and Electric substations, resulting in 20-year and 18-year federal sentences respectively and exposing documented failures of post-conviction supervision and FBI intelligence integration.
- United States v. Hasbajrami United States v. Hasbajrami is the federal prosecution that produced the first judicial rulings requiring a warrant for Section 702 backdoor searches of Americans' communications, with the Second Circuit's 2019 decision and the district court's 2025 ruling establishing the leading Fourth Amendment framework for FISA database querying.
Concepts (2)
- FISA Section 702 Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act authorizes warrantless collection of foreigners' communications from U.S. service providers, with documented application to Americans' communications through 'backdoor searches' that courts have found to require Fourth Amendment scrutiny, including in at least one domestic extremism prosecution.
- Reforming Intelligence and Securing America Act The Reforming Intelligence and Securing America Act (RISAA), enacted April 20, 2024, reauthorized FISA Section 702 through April 20, 2026, codified modest procedural reforms to FBI querying practices, and defeated a bipartisan warrant amendment by a 212-212 tied House vote.