The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) can be used to monitor U.S. persons who engage in unlawful "collection or transmission of information that is not generally available to the public" even if they are not acting on behalf of a foreign power.
That is the upshot of an August 14 ruling (pdf) disclosed last week in the case of two former officials of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC)
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By the Court's logic, it does not take an big imaginative leap to envision the application of FISA surveillance to members of the press or others who deliberately solicit classified or controlled information or who report on classified programs in willful defiance of official directives to the contrary.
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