Bush is listening to YOU!!

Some legal scholars have said the program is an illegal and unwarranted intrusion on Americans' privacy, but the Bush administration defends it as a necessary tool in the battle against the al Qaeda terrorist network.

The Foreign Intelligence Security Act requires that the government obtain a court order from a secret FISA court to tap the phones of American citizens inside the country.

President Bush has argued that the congressional resolution that authorized military action after the September 11, 2001, attacks, along with his authority as commander in chief of the military, gives him the power to initiate wiretaps without a court order. --CNN Report June 7, 2006