The U.S. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, which has not publicly disclosed a ny of its rulings in nearly two decades, rejected some of the Ashcroft guidelines in May as "not reasonably designed" to safeguard the privacy of Americans.

http://salon.com/politics/wire/2002/08/22/ashcroft/index.html -- "It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once." -Hume