An Act to amend the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 to provide additional procedures for authorizing certain acquisitions of foreign intelligence information and for other purposes.
Acronyms (colloquial)
PAA
Enacted by
the 110th United States Congress
Effective
August 5, 2007
Citations
Public law
110-55
Statutes at Large
121 Stat. 552
Codification
Acts amended
Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act
Titles amended
50 U.S.C.: War and National Defense
U.S.C. sections amended
50 U.S.C. ch. 36 § 1801 et seq.
Legislative history
Introduced in the Senate as S. 1927 by Mitch McConnell (R–KY) on August 1, 2007
Committee consideration by Senate Judiciary
Passed the Senate on August 3, 2007 (60–28 Roll call vote 309, via Senate.gov)
Passed the House on August 4, 2007 (227–183 Roll call vote 836, via Clerk.House.gov)
Signed into law by President George W. Bush on August 5, 2007
Major amendments
FISA Amendments Act of 2008
National Security Agency surveillance
Map of global NSA data collection as of 2007[update], with countries subject to the most data collection shown in red
Programs
Pre-1978
ECHELON
MINARET
SHAMROCK
PROMIS
Since 1978
Upstream collection
BLARNEY
FAIRVIEW
Main Core
ThinThread
Genoa
Since 1990
RAMPART-A
Since 1998
Tailored Access Operations
Since 2001
OAKSTAR
STORMBREW
Trailblazer
Turbulence
Genoa II
Total Information Awareness
President's Surveillance Program
Terrorist Surveillance Program
Since 2007
PRISM
Dropmire
Stateroom
Bullrun
MYSTIC
Databases, tools etc.
PINWALE
MARINA
Main Core
MAINWAY
TRAFFICTHIEF
DISHFIRE
XKeyscore
ICREACH
BOUNDLESSINFORMANT
GCHQ collaboration
MUSCULAR
Tempora
Legislation
Safe Streets Act
Privacy Act of 1974
FISA
ECPA
Patriot Act
Homeland Security Act
Protect America Act of 2007
FISA Amendments Act of 2008
Institutions
FISC
Senate Intelligence Committee
National Security Council
Lawsuits
ACLU v. NSA
Hepting v. AT&T
Jewel v. NSA
Clapper v. Amnesty
Klayman v. Obama
ACLU v. Clapper
Wikimedia v. NSA
US v. Moalin
Whistleblowers
William Binney
Thomas Drake
Mark Klein
Thomas Tamm
Russ Tice
Edward Snowden
Publication
2005 warrantless surveillance scandal
Global surveillance disclosures (2013–present)
Related
Cablegate
Surveillance of reporters
Mail tracking
UN diplomatic spying
Insider Threat Program
Mass surveillance in the United States
Mass surveillance in the United Kingdom
Concepts
SIGINT
Metadata
Collaboration
United States
CSS
CYBERCOM
DOJ
FBI
CIA
DHS
IAO
Five Eyes
CSEC
GCHQ
ASD
GCSB
Other
DGSE
BND
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The Protect America Act of 2007 (PAA), (Pub. L.Tooltip Public Law (United States) 110–55 (text) (PDF), 121 Stat. 552, enacted by S. 1927), is a controversial amendment to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) that was signed into law by U.S. President George W. Bush on August 5, 2007.[1] It removed the warrant requirement for government surveillance of foreign intelligence targets "reasonably believed" to be outside the United States.[2] The FISA Amendments Act of 2008 reauthorized many provisions of the Protect America Act in Title VII of FISA.[3]
^Juan P., Valdivieso. "Protect America Act of 2007". Harv. J. On Legis.
^Statement for the Record to the House Judiciary Committee by Director John Michael McConnell Archived September 27, 2007, at the Wayback Machine September 18, 2007
^White House signing ceremony for FISA Amendments Act of 2008.
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