Senate Approves Warrantless Phone Tapping for Next Five Years

Senate Approves Warrantless Phone Tapping for Next Five Years
"The FISA Amendments Act continues to be controversial; key portions of it were challenged in a case before the U.S. Supreme Court this term.
In brief, the law allows the government to get secret FISA court orders-orders that do not require probable cause like regular warrants-for any emails or phone calls going to and from overseas.
The communications only have to deal with "foreign intelligence information," a broad term that can mean virtually anything.
And one secret FISA order can be issued against groups or categories of people-potentially affecting hundreds of thousands of Americans at once."