Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act Issues: Public Advocacy & Standing to Sue

Recent revelations about the size and scope of government foreign surveillance efforts have prompted some to criticise the level of scrutiny that the courts – established under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 (FISA) – currently provide with respect to the governments applications to engage in such surveillance. This book focuses on introducing a public advocate into the FISA’s courts; foreign surveillance and the future of standing to sue post-clapper; and the decision of the supreme court of the United States in the case of Clapper v. Amnesty International et al.