The government persuaded the secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court that such a dragnet was legal under a section of the Patriot Act authorizing the acquisition of records reasonably believed to be "relevant to an authorized investigation" of espionage or terrorism.
Tuesday's vote was on a bill authorizing the acquisition of Revolutionary War and War of 1812 battlefields under a federal program to preserve historical sites.
Congress authorized the acquisition of twelve frigates, and made other appropriations to increase military readiness.
The colony authorized the acquisition of certain Narragansett lands in 1672.
The beginnings of today's protected areas were established in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries: Pennsylvania's state legislature authorized the acquisition of abandoned clear-cut land in 1897, creating the state forest system.
Pennsylvania's state legislature authorized the acquisition of abandoned and clear-cut land for Pennsylvania State Game Lands in 1919, and the Pennsylvania Game Commission (PGC) acquired property along Plunketts Creek for State Game Lands Number 134 between 1937 and 1945.
The second provision, called section 105B (a) (2), states that before either the attorney general or director of national intelligence authorizes the acquisition of foreign intelligence information under the authority of the PAA, he must ensure that the eavesdropping does not constitute electronic surveillance -- which is to say, once again, electronic surveillance as the term is defined by FISA.
Signals authorize the movement of trains.
Let Nintendo authorize the purchase.
Although the highway will run right through the 22,083-acre area authorized for acquisition by the Fish and Wildlife Service, none of the land it will take will be publicly owned.
According to the document, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC, which in this post is referred to as the FISA court) authorized the NSA to "engage in the bulk acquisition of specified categories of metadata about Internet communications".
