The 1978 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act makes Americans more vulnerable to terrorist attack, particularly as it is currently interpreted.(The Week)(Brief article)

The 1978 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act makes Americans more vulnerable to terrorist attack, particularly as it is currently interpreted. Several months ago, the FISA court ruled that the executive must seek judicial approval to monitor communications of foreigners outside the U.S. if these communications pass through digital networks inside the U.S. Now, Congress never intended to hobble our surveillance of terrorists this much: In 1978, digital communications did not exist, and lawmakers could not have imagined that a Peshawar-to-Kabul phone call might pass through American networks, thereby becoming subject to the FISA court's jurisdiction. The Democratic Congress refuses to pass more than a ...