If I were a phone executive I would have to refuse any request for a wire tap, phone records or any customer information without a signed warrant. I don't care if a bus full of orphans an kittens are being held hostage by Osama bin Laden, the cops will have to bring a warrant which I will run by legal council before giving them anything. How do you like the world you've created, Dems.
PS, was McDermott ever convicted and jailed for illegally distributing an illegal recording of Newt Gingrich's phone call in Florida? No? I didn't think so.