what about extraordinary rendition? We could dress Yoo and Rumsfeld and the rest of the gang in orange jump suits and ship them off to Syria or Iran, and be done with it.
We will never be able to protect our values and defend our civilization by allowing our leaders to betray our values and behave like barbarians. Many people have come to this country to escape regimes that torture and have no regard for basic human rights. Torture is not the American way.
People don't care Andy. The average user has nothing to hide and understand their GMail is probably already being disseminated. Just look at the contextual ads on the side of your GMail account page. Yeah we all know it is automated but how often does it get a manual relevancy test? I use Gmail as do a few of my friends but none of us use it for bank or credit card purposes. I use it because I like the conversational feature.