Horrors: Fewer Than 100 Americans Surveilled Under FISA Act

This gross abuse of power cannot go unchecked. What's this country coming to under the brutal, fascistic reign of the war criminal Bush when nearly one in 3 million Americans have their phones tapped?

Where is the ACLU when we need them?

Oh, they're busy defending child molesters. Never mind.

WASHINGTON - No Americans' telephones have been tapped without a court order since at least February, the top U.S. intelligence official told Congress yesterday.

National Intelligence Director Mike McConnell testified before the House Judiciary Committee at a hearing on the law governing federal surveillance of phone calls and e-mails.

In a newspaper interview last month, McConnell said the government had tapped fewer than 100 Americans' phones and e-mails under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, which requires warrants from a secret intelligence court.

McConnell is seeking additional changes to the law, which Congress hastily modified just before going on vacation in August, based in part on the intelligence chief's warnings of a dire gap in U.S. intelligence