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[Savannahmann]

10. But they aren't excluding Americans talking with Americans

Just because the email bounces out of the country doesn't mean it is going to a foreigner. You could be talking to a friend in another town in the same state, but due to data snafu's and server load the message could be routed out of the country and back in. Also, the person you are talking to could well be an American living and working overseas.

The problem here is not the justification, it is the action. But for the sake of argument, let's say I am talking to a foreigner. Let's say I am talking to an old friend I met years ago working a job, who was born in and has returned to Aruba. If I was in Aruba talking with this person, the authorities would not be justified to listen to the conversation. If we were both sitting in a café in New York, same thing.

Geographic location is the lamest of excuses. But it is interesting to watch the progression of arguments. They go from it's not happening, which we were told it wasn't more than once, to it's justified and legal, to it's old news in record time.

Keep defending, because the sum or all these stories is going to see public disgust with Washington reach new levels, and here is the bad part. The first party that comes out and makes restoration of Civil Rights their platform, wins. Now we Democrats seem bound and determined to chase this crap down the hole, while Rand Paul seems to understand the truth of this. Do you realize if he campaigns that he will stop it that he will be elected in 2016? So then what? Will we become the obstructionist party by defending the indefensible? Or will we finally see the light when it is far too late to do us any good?