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The '''United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court''' (or '''FISC''') is a [[United States federal courts|U.S. federal court]] authorized under {{UnitedStatesCode|50|1803}} and established by the [[Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act]] of [[1978]] (known as FISA for short). Its jurisdiction is to oversee requests for surveillance warrants by federal police agencies (primarily the [[Federal Bureau of Investigation|F.B.I.]]) against suspected foreign [[secret agent|intelligence agents]] inside the United States.

'''TL Novelas''' (also called '''Telenovelas''' in Spain) is a [[Spanish language|Spanish]]-language cable/satellite channel. It broadcasts only Mexican ''[[telenovela]]s'' (soap operas) produced by [[Televisa]], which owns the channel. Six different ''telenovelas'' are broadcasted each day, repeated four times each, from Monday to Friday. All episodes are repeated again on Saturday and Sunday.

Each application for one of these surveillance warrant (called a FISA warrant) is made before an individual judge of the court. Like a [[grand jury]], FISC is not an [[Adversary system|adversarial court]]: the federal government is the only party to its proceedings. However, the court may allow third parties to submit briefs as ''[[amicus curiae|amici curiae]]''. If an application is denied by one judge of the FISC, the federal government is not allowed to make the same application to a different judge of the FISC. Instead, denials must be appealed to the [[United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court of Review]]. Such appeals are rare: the first appeal from the FISC to the Court of Review was made in [[2002]], 24 years after the founding of the FISC.

TL Novelas is available in American and European versions.

Because of the sensitive nature of its business, the FISC is a "secret court": its hearings are closed to the public, and, while records of the proceedings are kept, those records are also not available to the public. (Copies of those records with [[classified]] information redacted out can and have been made public.) Due to the classified nature of its proceedings, only government attorneys are usually permitted to appear before the FISC.

==America==

The American version signal is available in [[México]] and [[Latin America]] [http://www.televisanetworks.tv/cobertura_c.asp?iID=4&bg=n&cn=].

When the court was founded, it was composed of seven [[United States district court|federal district]] judges appointed by the [[Chief Justice of the United States]], each serving a seven year term, with one judge being appointed each year. In [[2001]], the [[USA PATRIOT Act]] expanded the court to eleven judges, and required that at least three of the judges of the court be from within twenty miles of the [[District of Columbia]]. No judge may be appointed to this court more than once, and no judge may be appointed to both the Court of Review and the FISC.

==Europe==

The European version signal is available in most western Europe and also in [[Australia]] and [[New Zealand]] [http://www.televisanetworks.tv/cobertura_c.asp?iID=13&bg=n&cn=].

[[Category:Judicial Branch of the United States Government]]

In [[Spain]], Telenovelas is available on the [[Digital Plus|Digital +]] satellite platform.

[[Category:Article III tribunals]]

==External links==

*[http://www.televisanetworks.tv/tlnovelas.asp?bg=n&iID=4 Televisa Networks TL Novelas page] In Spanish.