I think the conclusion to draw here is that there is no line between LE investigating terrorism and law enforcement investigating everything else. It is not pos

I think the conclusion to draw here is that there is no line between LE investigating terrorism and law enforcement investigating everything else. It is not possible to give LE/IC powers that they may use against terrorism and espionage and only that. The patriot act was billed as a set of effective counter-terrorism tools and yet now years later is almost never used for terrorism, primarily used to fight the unpopular and more controversial drug war. FISA and NSA wiretaps are supposedly about espionage and terrorism and yet LE is managing to find a way to use it for everything -- whether it's lying to judges in the form of parallel construction or (even earnestly) stumbling upon major crimes in the course of their investigations. I agree with you that while this particular investigation does not so much worry me (so long as the pornography charges are real and not planted/fabricated), the expansion of the scope of these 'terrorism/espionage' investigations so that investigators conveniently happen to stumble upon crimes is a very worrying prospect. Powers are powers, and if you put them in the hands of the people with the job 'get as many convictions as possible with the powers you have', well, they'll end up being used, even if they have a label that says 'for terrorism only! Promise!'