OK, so it's illegal.

At least it doesn't work.

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.

Barton Gellman, Dafna Linzer and Carol Leonnig give Bushco™'s domestic spying program the journalistic third degree, the kind of stuff that keeps us coming back despite so many disappointments with the national media.

Hey, there's almost four hours to kick-off. Read the whole thing.