Sorry. That is more Urban Mythology dressed up as "Fact" by the Patriot Act hysterics. Completely untrue.
What about my post was untrue?
Let me elaborate..
It is most certainly a felony to disclose classified information. The contents of an application to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, and any order granded from the court are both classified. Therefore, even if we somehow knew how the order was being carried out, we would not know if it was being done according to the order, since we wouldn't know what the order was in the first place.
So... Taken together with the fact that no one under FISA surveillance is ever notified they were wiretapped/searched/pen-registered/etc. unless they're being charged with a crime as a result, how exactly would we know whether the PATRIOT ACT has or has not resulted in increased abuses of FISA orders?