*** FILE *** Director of National Intelligence Mike McConnell speaks after his ceremonial swearing-in ceremony at Bolling Air Force Base in Washington Tuesday, Feb. 20, 2007. McConnell pulled the curtain back on previously classified details of government surveillance and a secretive court that oversees the operations conducted on U.S. soil. His comments _ made in an interview with the El Paso (Texas) Times last week and posted as a transcript on the newspaper's Web site Wednesday Aug. 22, 2007 _ raised eyebrows for their frank discussion of previously classified eavesdropping work conducted under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, known as FISA. Among the disclosures: (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)