50 U.S.C. § 1881a: FISA Section 702

Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, codified at 50 U.S.C. § 1881a, was added to FISA by the FISA Amendments Act of 2008 (P.L. 110-261), signed into law by President George W. Bush on July 10, 2008. Section 702 authorizes the targeting of non-US persons reasonably believed to be located outside the United States to acquire foreign intelligence information; the Director of National Intelligence and the Attorney General jointly certify each annual collection authority. Communications incidentally acquired about US persons may be queried using US-person identifiers, a practice that has been the focus of successive reform debates. (Entity seeded via the claims-first sourcing pipeline; only independently verified facts are reflected here.)