[dirtboy]

First, it is doubtful that telephone users in general have any expectation of privacy regarding the numbers they dial,

Except for the fact that Verizon has a privacy policy, and it states that calling information will be provided to government upon presentation of a subpeona. And there was no subpeona here.

Gawd, you call this a defense?

[sinkspur]

I'm done with this. It is clear that you are more concerned with the probable cause provision (which applies to the warrant and not to the reasonableness clause) than with the reasonableness provision.

The American public has it right, with nearly 2/3 seeing no problem with collecting a bunch of phone numbers so that some subset of them might yield a pattern involving terrorist activity.

And the Supreme Court does not support your understanding. So on with your tilting at windmills.