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Can't they use the Patriot Act to do that? The Patriot Act was used to catch terrorists, and yet the vast majority of cases in which they used it are drug cases

Can't they use the Patriot Act to do that? The Patriot Act was used to catch terrorists, and yet the vast majority of cases in which they used it are drug cases. Ever since 9/11, this whole culture of not following the Constitution, or trying to exploit the loopholes in the laws, has formed. There's no spirit of the law anymore. Now authorities try to find the smallest possible potential loophole to do whatever they want to do. Just look at the GPS tracking issue, which normally you'd think should be illegal. But it took a 9-0 Supreme Court decision to make that clear for the authorities. At this rate, the Supreme Court will be overwhelmed with the number of overreaches by law enforcement that they'll have to decide on.

Steko 15y ago
He's assuming all these emails are on an internal network. If that were the case it's likely the government gained access from a MU employee they leaned on (there are redacted MU conspirators from the indictment who are apparently not presently being charged meaning they may have been cooperating). What's more likely it seems is that these emails were sent internationally and the government (armed with a warrant hopefully) used their backdoors to access them. The arrests were apparently timed to conincide with many of the international employees being in NZ for KDC's birthday.