How many times did W use FISA BEFORE 9/11?

According to May 20, 2002 Bush Watch:

http://www.bushwatch.net/bush.htm#feature

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Ari Fleischer says the 'dots couldn't be connected' until after passage of the USA-Patriot Act; this is complete nonsense, of course, the FBI agents in the field were prevented from connecting the dots before 9/11 because Ashcroft and the Administration had shut down the granting of FISA warrants (Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act). Whereas, the record of the Clinton administration and Janet Reno was that no FISA requests were refused, under Ashcroft and the Bush administration FBI field agents were unable, after repeated requests, to obtain a FISA warrant against Zacarias Moussaoui even after French Intelligence had named him as having Al Qaeda connections. Among other useful things, Moussaoui's computer held the phone number of Mohamed Atta's roommate.

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Of the 900+ FISA warrants issued in 2001, the majority were probably issued post 9/11 but the administration is keeping this figure quiet:

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2001/oct2001/civ-o06.shtml

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Many of the requests for surveillance by the FBI, the CIA and the National Security Agency of suspected terrorists and spies are being processed by a secret court created in 1978 under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA). The FISA court is a seven-member body appointed by the US Supreme Court, which meets every other week for two days in a soundproof conference room at the Justice Department. The Court approves secret intelligence-gathering warrants at the request of these law enforcement agencies, and uses a lower criterion for approval than the "probable cause" standard applied in other criminal matters. The target of the requested warrant is not represented at the court's hearings. It has not been made public how many secret warrants the FISA court has issued since September 11.

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We do know that post-9/11 921 people were "rounded up" ( http://www.uchastings.edu/boswell_01/Text/CRACKDOWN.htm ) which indicates highly increased activity at Justice and that the majority of FISA warrants were issued in 2001 after 9/11. (Does anyone know how many? I have heard that Ashcroft did not approve a single request, which does not seem credible and I have been unable to find any active links to this effect.)