What is the specific difference in role and power between FISA and NSA?

[shance]

I realize one is an intelligence organization and another is legislation, but the two are being interplayed.

How are the two connected, or not connected?

[Ezlivin]

1. I think that the organization with the longer acronym gets better funding

That's how the administration likes to streamline things for Bush. It makes it easy for him to understand it.

[SoFlaJet]

2. The way my president explained it today

NASA was doing the spying for us!!!?????

[SoFlaJet]

3. I mean

president coo coo bananas(thanks Homer Simpson)

[shance]

5. LOL!*

Thank you SFJ.

I feel more informed now.

;)

[Marie26]

4. FISA & NSA

FISA is the law that governs how the government can conduct intelligence on foreign spies within the US. According to this law, wiretaps are a search like any other, so the gov. needs a search warrant before "eavesdropping" on conversations in the US. The NSA is an intelligence agency, like the CIA, except it relies more on breaking codes & high-technology rather than human spies. I think the NSA & CIA are supposed to stay mostly outside the US, while the FBI investigates spies/terrorists in the US. But if any agency wants to wiretap an alleged spy/terrorist, they first have to go to a secret FISA federal court in order to get the warrant. That's all I know. :)

[shance]

7. Thanks Marie. It's a little confusing.

You raised good points in your post regarding Satellite usage.

[harpo]

6. the difference between apples and a bowling ball is pretty much same