Note also that the rejection rate changed abruptly in 2003. From 2001-2002, Bush only got 6 modifications/rejections. Still higher than the previous 2, but reasonable. Then, sometime in 2003, the rejections came fast and furious. Why? I'm thinking politics might have a little bit to do with it. And I'm betting Robertson was in the thick of it and that the "modifications" were just an attempt by the rest of the panel to keep Robertson from going postal.
Robinson was the biggest rube that ever walked through a courthouse door.
That is an interesting point to bring up. Which is the cart and which is the horse?
Didn't the President start skipping the court for this surveillance before 2003? If so the conclusion of this article is completely false. I think a better conclusion would be that the judges on the court got upset because they weren't always being consulted. They started messing with some of the applications for warrants as a result.
Again, I would encourage people to read the article. The article contains one fact, the number of modified and denied applications. The conclusions reached by the article are completely based upon the conjecture of an unlisted source, who hates the NSA and compares Bush to Nixon.