Wiretapped out

Some of the FBI's wiretaps have been getting disconnected. The problem? No, it's not protests from civil libertarians or lawsuits from the ACLU. It's the FBI's failure to pay its phone bills.

This undermines the phone companies' arguments that they were just looking out for the good of the country when they allowed the NSA's warrantless wiretapping, doesn't it? It seems their patriotism is conditional, after all — not on getting a warrant, but on getting paid.