With Success Like This...

Big Time Cheney, December 20, 2005, CNN:

[The warrantless spying program has] saved thousands of lives....It is, I'm convinced, one of the reasons we haven't been attacked in the past four years,"

February 5, 2006, Washington Post

Intelligence officers who eavesdropped on thousands of Americans in overseas calls under authority from President Bush have dismissed nearly all of them as potential suspects after hearing nothing pertinent to a terrorist threat, according to accounts from current and former government officials and private-sector sources with knowledge of the technologies in use...

...Fewer than 10 U.S. citizens or residents a year, according to an authoritative account, have aroused enough suspicion during warrantless eavesdropping to justify interception of their domestic calls, as well. That step still requires a warrant from a federal judge, for which the government must supply evidence of probable cause.