The Fisa Amendments Act and Electronic Surveillance

iReporter: Can you please explain the arguments behind the fi memens act and why that was put into place in the first place? Ya and a, if david chris had been here, he would have done this better than i. That's right. But they're analogous. You know, it's very easy to come up with, mean, a western union, for example, or, i don't know, city bank, or whatever. I'm not going to go into the technical details of what the definitions were, but they're fairly complicated. The targeting procedures are essentially intended to insure that we're only targeting non us. Those are the only persons who can be targeted