in which Gop rep. Heather Wilson is rather snide about what bushco is doing:
But Representative Heather A. Wilson, Republican of New Mexico, who serves on the Intelligence committee, disputed that, and some Congressional aides said staff members were briefed Friday without lawmakers present.
Ms. Wilson, who has scrutinized the program for the last year, said she believed the new approach relied on a blanket, “programmatic” approval of the president’s surveillance program, rather than approval of individual warrants.
Administration officials “have convinced a single judge in a secret session, in a nonadversarial session, to issue a court order to cover the president’s terrorism surveillance program,” Ms. Wilson said in a telephone interview. She said Congress needed to investigate further to determine how the program is run.from
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/18/washington/18intel.html?ei=5099&en=f2815a5ebcb686f7&ex=1169701200&adxnnl=1&partner=TOPIXNEWS&pagewanted=all&adxnnlx=1169328724-HJzlstN1WqseE/ApCnBoQQ