Bush's Eavedropping Order After Sept. 11 Led F.B.I. to Dead Ends

NY Times article.

Excerpt:
The law enforcement and counterterrorism officials said the program had uncovered no active Qaeda networks inside the United States planning attacks. "There were no imminent plots - not inside the United States," the former F.B.I. official said.

"It affected the F.B.I. in the sense that they had to devote so many resources to tracking every single one of these leads, and, in my experience, they were all dry leads," the former senior prosecutor said.

Yet Bush claims it is working. Is it working for him personally because he because it allows him to blackmail politicians into going his way or else they would be prosecuted?