Mr. Watson, come here...

Regular reader is aware that oft times, 2016 and 2020 and 2024 mostly, I've made mention of NSA. Having spent about a decade in DC, and before that Beacon Hill, I became a politics junkie. And still a bit later, about a year as a Jack Anderson peon while he was still relevant; even met up with some spooks in Bethesda whilst working on a story. Suffice to say, spies were everywhere. And they still are.

The point being: NSA machines hoover up every last bit of telecomms across the planet. Their remit is to not spy on USofA citizens. At least directly while such citizens are on USofA soil. But there exist two exceptions to that protection. First, if a tap is on some foreigner in some foreign place, and said foreigner is chatting with a USofA citizen in that foreign place (or any other, for that matter), then what the USofA citizen has to say is fair game. Second, and more important, it is still legal to slurp up what the USofA citizen says even on USofA soil if the foreign party is outside the USofA.

Which brings us to Les Affaire Huang. You've likely heard a bit about it already. But this is some new admissions about how it all worked.

Mr. Huang's relationship with the woman, who goes by Alice Huang, became a U.S. government concern after surveillance revealed that she was feeding information directly to Beijing.

If it's the case that Ms. Huang was off-shore at some times then

In the course of the surveillance, they found that she was in communication with a U.S. citizen who was identified as Mr. Huang.

Gotcha, Jensen.

And, naturally, gotcha Ayatollah 17% Don^©. The only issue is when will NSA/Vlad/Trump get Snowdened? The sooner the better. Treason is, after all, just treason. I don't think it can be argued that such behavior is, in the words of The Gang of Six^©, "official acts". If they say so, the USofA is no longer a free democracy.