Any email that you send from your work place computer is the property of your employer.

[drventure]

13. That's true, however privacy laws and regulations still apply.

And no one has any problem with the government obtaining those records as long as they have a warrant that conforms to the laws of the land.

However, if there is a law that undermines, or circumvents one of our basic liberties, for example the 4th and 1st amendments, than many people are going to take issue with those illegal practices.

Clearly, that is what has everyone up in arms with the recent revelations from the latest whistle-blower.

As long as the notion of privacy is not dead, and it is still enumerated in our bill of rights, there will be push-back on this issue, and rightly so.