[Wm Bach]

FISA was passed by Congress and signed into law by President Jimmy Carter in 1978 and followed congressional investigations into the covert domestic surveillance activities of the FBI during the Vietnam era.

When Hillary is president, the RNC, Cato Institute, FOX, FreeRepublic, etc. will be considered domestic threats and dealt with in the usual Clinton fashion.

[AndyJackson]

"You need to change the laws and regulations to help them do their job," said Romerstein

Maybe - but the fact remains that the agencies did a lousy job of using the information and authorities they had, and there is plenty of evidence that in the wrong hands these agencies will abuse to the max every power given.

Given our experience of the previous 8 years, without some of these laws, things could have been a whole lot worse.

[Grut]

So, prior to the '70s, the FBI and CIA were howling successes?

[BikerNYC]

It barred the physical searches of members of groups designated threats to national security if there was no probable cause to suspect a crime had been committed.

Warrants? Probable cause? Basic Fourth Amendment law. Where in the Constitution is it written that only part of the government has to comply with its provisions?