A bit late for a reply, but for the record: That's a double straw man. I always do a mental double-take when that happens because now suddenly I feel like I have to defend a position that's twice removed from my own.
I did not say "LEO doesn't care about the law", I said I have no confidence that LEO and domestic intelligence agencies will care whether the documents they scan for are against the law.
It doesn't take much imagination that they can easily justify watching for protest-plans.ppt because of terrrism, both towards themselves and against outside supervision, if there is any. Of course they're not going to charge you for protest-plans.ppt, but it sure is a useful document to have and might even come in handy as character evidence.
Furthermore, even if I had said they don't care about the law preventing them from monitoring communication in this way[0] it's unreasonable to assume that I also think they don't care about any law at all and hence "the government is going to do whatever it wants".
[0] in fact, if LEO is monitoring all mail in this manner, I would hope that they are breaking the law (domestic intelligence can probably do whatever the hell they want); but again, that was not what I had in mind
I did not say "LEO doesn't care about the law", I said I have no confidence that LEO and domestic intelligence agencies will care whether the documents they scan for are against the law.
It doesn't take much imagination that they can easily justify watching for protest-plans.ppt because of terrrism, both towards themselves and against outside supervision, if there is any. Of course they're not going to charge you for protest-plans.ppt, but it sure is a useful document to have and might even come in handy as character evidence.
Furthermore, even if I had said they don't care about the law preventing them from monitoring communication in this way[0] it's unreasonable to assume that I also think they don't care about any law at all and hence "the government is going to do whatever it wants".
[0] in fact, if LEO is monitoring all mail in this manner, I would hope that they are breaking the law (domestic intelligence can probably do whatever the hell they want); but again, that was not what I had in mind