So one must pay attention to our legislaturers. It is the political leadership that pass the laws our police are tasked to enforce. One should direct their critisim toward the party responsible to force the desired result.

I wish I knew more about exactly how our intelligence services are implementing these phone taps. I hope we all recognize that the rules for war are different than the rules of law enforcement. Now that we have the Democratic Party in charge of the oversight committees we learn more. My FBI acquaintence says that there are about 316,000,000,000 (thats billion) phone calls per day inside the USA. Less than 300 are tapped without FISA approval and all of these are between known islamic extremists. Do I believe him, Yes, do I think he knows the whole truth? No. Am I afraid of this intrusion? A little, because some of our law enforcement people are bad people.

Excellent point golfer hal. Law enforcement, unfortunately, attracts people who want to have power over other people.
Also I'm glad you point out the large number of phone calls versus the number of people available to listen in.
It is like those who say that we could have scrambled fighters to shoot down the planes on 9/11. By the time the planes had veered enough off course to be noticed there was just a few minutes (if not seconds) left. The fighters wouldn't have been able to get there in time, realistically. However, if somebody had been watching those particular flights like a hawk and the Air Force had jets ready to go it would have been possible. Just like it's possible that Bush may be listening to me talk to my mother on the phone.
It's just highly unlikely.

The only problem with this is that the two classes of people *most likely* to scoff at laws are 1) those who routinely break them AND 2) those who make and enforce them.
Don't believe it? Look up the police records of a random selection of Congress, and then ask yourself if you'd want someone like that as a neighbor. Pay attention on the streets for a week or two and notice who has no respect for traffic safety and traffic laws. Better than 50/50 odds the worst offenders are driving police cars. That's not just in my current home of Dallas, TX either. That's any city in the country.
The bottom line is that when those who demand we follow a given set of rules refuse to abide by the same rules themselves, they are not leaders, they are not police. They're just another gang.

Domestic spying, for whatever rationale given, is just another expression of the elitist mentality, the belief of our "leaders" in their own priviledge. "Priviledge" is a modernization of a Latin phrase meaning "private law", and that's just exactly what it is. One set of rules for us, and another, quite different, set of rules for them. The movers and shakers of this or any other country will never give up their priviledges except by force, and will not give up their belief in their *right* to be priviledged this side of the grave.