The Constitution Project was one of the first organizations to condemn the National Security Agency’s warrantless domestic wiretapping program when that program was first disclosed to the public in December 2005. Under this program, the NSA conducted electronic surveillance of Americans in the United States without first obtaining the warrants required under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.
The warrantless domestic wiretapping program violated FISA, and Congress should have resisted pressure to amend FISA to legalize overbroad wiretapping authority. We must preserve the judicial review provided by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court.
