From the 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.

Wow. Sounds like a collossal waste of time and money. I guess those pesky standards of probable cause aren't so useless after all. How much manpower and resources should our intelligence community waste on pointless wiretaps that lack enough justification to even rise to the standards demanded by FISA? What legitimate threats to national security will be lost amongst the "noise" of all the useless crap that the NSA has been chasing down under the administration's current (illegal) policy?