foreign intelligence surveillance court

Noun foreign intelligence surveillance court has 1 sense

• foreign intelligence surveillance court(n = noun.group) f.i.s.c. - a secret federal court created in 1978 by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act; responsible for authorizing wiretaps and other forms of electronic surveillance and for authorizing searches of suspected spies and terrorists by the Department of Justice or United States intelligence agencies;
is a part of federal judiciary
is a kind of court, judicature, tribunal