Abstract
The caller was determined later to have been Ronald W. Pelton, a former employee of the National Security Agency, and the subject was serious: espionage against the United States. This and other conversations that constituted critical evidence in the espionage prosecution of Pelton** were acquired through electronic surveillance by the FBI under the authority of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978. In light of the Act's tenth anniversary, this commentary discusses the legal and political foundations for that statute, its contents, and the consequences of its implementation. The commentary concludes by discussing the results of the Act's subjugation to judicial scrutiny since its
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