Bush signs Protect America Act, temporarily expanding NSA surveillance after FISC rejects Stellar Wind collection

After the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court issued rulings in 2006–2007 finding that bulk collection of international communications without individualized warrants violated FISA, President Bush signed the Protect America Act on August 5, 2007. The law temporarily authorized the NSA to collect foreign intelligence from communications passing through U.S. telecommunications infrastructure — without individual FISC warrants — for six months. It expired in February 2008 and was replaced by the permanent FISA Amendments Act that added Section 702.