claim: "it is against the law for the nsa to record or monitor americans’ phone calls without getting a specific fisa warrant to do so."
author: lynn westmoreland
evidence_1: dec 16, 2005 ... the agency, they said, still seeks warrants to monitor entirely domestic ... the  country without court approval was a major shift in american .... under the  agency's longstanding rules, the n.s.a. can target for interception phone calls or  ... to obtain a warrant from the foreign intelligence surveillance court is ...
evidence_2: the united states foreign intelligence surveillance court is a u.s. federal court  established and authorized under the foreign intelligence surveillance act of  1978 (fisa) to oversee requests for surveillance warrants against ... this does  not include the number of warrants that were modified by the fisa court.
evidence_3: president bush's claim that he is not bound by that law is simply astounding. ...  fisa is the law under which the nsa should have operated. ... surveillance court  oversee that surveillance to make sure that americans who have no ties to ... ( see letter from the aclu to attorney general gonzales calling for a special  counsel).
evidence_4: prism is a code name for a program under which the united states national  security agency ... the nsa can use these prism requests to target  communications that were encrypted ... (fisa court, or fisc) pursuant to the  foreign intelligence surveillance act (fisa). ..... i think we have done both in this  particular case.
evidence_5: aug 9, 2013 ... senator ron wyden told the guardian that the law provides the nsa with a ... " warrantless searches for the phone calls or emails of law-abiding americans". ...  act (faa), which gives the nsa authority to target without warrant the ... allow the  nsa to deliberately search for the records of particular americans.