by Ari Shapiro

Updating the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act is one of Congress’s top priorities in 2008. FISA, as the law is known, generally tells the president that he must have a court order to spy on Americans in the United States. The law has not restricted the president’s ability to wiretap Americans traveling abroad. Some Congressional Democrats want to change that.

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