Terrorists

A bill (S. 113) has been included as an amendment to the Intelligence Authorization Act for 2005. The provision amends existing law to extend government surveillance of terrorist activity to include terrorists working alone without affiliation to any group or foreign state. Under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 (FISA), the intelligence community can only conduct surveillance of terrorists who are "agents of a foreign power." Under FISA, these terrorists, who are not U.S. citizens, are defined as individuals who engage in international terrorism on behalf of a group or foreign state. The amendment allows the government to extend FISA to cover so-called lone-wolf terrorists.