The Law Governing America’s Most Important, and Intrusive, Foreign Intelligence Collection Program
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About
This Course
Electronic surveillance represents the most important foreign intelligence collection tool available to the U.S. government. Correspondingly, the ability to surveil constitutes one of those activities most susceptible to abuse by a government against its citizens. In the U.S., the government’s use of electronic surveillance is highly regulated and can be conducted for only two purposes. It permits surveillance and other intrusive activities in the United States, both with and in limited circumstances, without a court order. This course will teach you everything you didn’t know about FISA and its origins, as well as what lies ahead for FISA in the aftermath of the Inspector General’s report.
About the Presenters
George W. Croner, Esq.
Foreign Policy Research Institute
Practice Area: Government Law
From 1984 through 1988, while holding the highest security clearance authorized by the U.S. government (TS/SCI), Mr. Croner served in the Operations Division of the Office of General Counsel at the National Security Agency (NSA) which had legal oversight responsibility for NSA’s signals intelligence (SIGINT) operations, including compliance with the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA). During this same period, Mr. Croner also was NSA’s principal litigation counsel and, in that capacity, represented NSA’s interests in a variety of litigation matters implicating the security interests of NSA’s SIGINT operations including: Westmoreland v. CBS (the defamation lawsuit brought by General William Westmoreland that ...
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