According to Wired.com, the FBI's software for recording telephone surveillance of suspected spies and terrorists intercepted 27,728,675 "sessions". "Twenty-seven million is a staggering number given that the FBI only got 2,176 FISA court orders in 2006 from a secret spy court using the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. According to the math that means each court order resulted in 12,742 'sessions,' all in regards to phone, not internet, surveillance." This does not give comfort considering Attorney General Mukasey's recent public comments. The New York Times reports that during a speech to a panel of the American Bar Association, Mukasey "suggested that lawmakers who opposed legislation before Congress to broaden eavesdropping powers — and to offer legal protection for telephone utilities that cooperate — were undermining the ability to deal with terrorist threats." And in a USA Today opinion piece he fired back at their editorial board arguing for telecommunications immunity. Considering the short time frame Congress will have in January to fully debate reforms to FISA and considering it will be primary season, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) sought a one month extension of the current Protect America Act. However, CQ ($$) reported that a top Republican Senator and the White House both rejected the proposal. "Faced with such opposition, the proposal appeared to be heading nowhere late Tuesday evening. That means Democrats would have just seven legislative days when they return from the holiday break to enact anything before the temporary law (PL 110-55) expires Feb. 1."