[NormsRevenge]

FISA is not a rubber stamp, they have refused some request, albeit not many from what I have heard.

[LanaTurnerOverdrive]

FISA is not a rubber stamp, they have refused some request, albeit not many from what I have heard.

The numbers I have heard are (roughly) 20,000 applications approved, 5 denied, three of which were approved on appeal. I'll try to find a link for you. I'm quite sure that if the administration could show FISA that "we just want to listen to terrorists phonecalls" it would not be a problem.