shance
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Mon Dec-19-05 06:51 PM
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What is the specific difference in role and power between FISA and NSA? |
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Edited on Mon Dec-19-05 06:56 PM by 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?
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Mon Dec-19-05 06:53 PM
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1. I think that the organization with the longer acronym gets better funding |
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That's how the administration likes to streamline things for Bush. It makes it easy for him to understand it.
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Mon Dec-19-05 06:58 PM
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2. The way my president explained it today |
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NASA was doing the spying for us!!!?????
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Mon Dec-19-05 06:58 PM
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president coo coo bananas(thanks Homer Simpson)
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shance
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Mon Dec-19-05 07:11 PM
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Thank you SFJ.
I feel more informed now.
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Mon Dec-19-05 07:11 PM
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Edited on Mon Dec-19-05 07:12 PM by Marie26
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. :)
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Mon Dec-19-05 07:16 PM
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7. Thanks Marie. It's a little confusing. |
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You raised good points in your post regarding Satellite usage.
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Mon Dec-19-05 07:12 PM
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6. the difference between apples and a bowling ball is pretty much same |
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