I have to admit that despite the fact that I read Glenn Greenwald’s blog and have followed his numerous posts on FISA, until recently I haven’t fully understand the law or how it recently changed. I think the complexity of the issue is one of the reasons there isn’t more outrage about or opposition to the revised FISA law.
So I took the time to do some careful reading, diagramming as I went. I thought these might be useful to others.
What you’ll see below are two diagrams comparing Old and New FISA.
