FISA wiretaps are, apparently, so routine that Comcast, for one, has a standard fee for them. If you think the cost of cable TV is too high, consider what your tax dollars are buying at $1000 to install the tap and $750 per month to maintain it. These fees do not, apparently, include actually listening in on conversations--presumably, that is left to government operatives.
What's especially interesting about this is that the administration is still stonewalling about the number of wiretaps that it has ordered; Comcast's fee schedule is a small window into the information that remains hidden.
Raw Story got Comcast's Handbook for Law Enforcement from Secrecy News.
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