Under the proposed agreements described by Mr. Wiegmann,
foreign investigators would be able to serve a warrant
directly on a U.S. firm to see a suspect’s stored emails
or intercept their messages in real time, as long as the
surveillance didn’t involve U.S. citizens or residents.
Such deals would also give U.S. investigators reciprocal
authority to search data in other countries.
Why does this seem like they're trying to 'legitimize' something that's probably been done in secret for years?
