[Judith Anne]

2. Bush is abusing his wiretap powers in a way that Reagan, Bush Senior, and Clinton never did

Abusing? And you know this, how?

[Whilome]

I don't "know" it, I'm just inferring it. The FISA court is suddenly rejecting and modifying wiretap requests for the first time in its existence. I'm just trying to figure out why. There's either something wrong with Bush's wiretap requests, or something wrong with the FISA court itself. Can you suggest a third possibility?