Is the Government Reading Your Email?

The incident that forced a CIA director to resign is being cited as evidence that technology and laws passed since September 11 are turning the US into a "surveillance state." Why don't constitutional protections apply to e-mail? What's the role of Google, Facebook and the Cloud? Also, a possible cease-fire in the works in Israel-Gaza conflict, and trying to save Twinkies and 18,000 jobs.

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