The result is that stored e-mails are now more secure from government eavesdropping, since the government now has to get a warrant to read the stored e-mails of someone they're investigating.

The file involves a plan for a high-tech surveillance system that will keep an eye on the streets, bringing "the end of violence" (and, yes, calling to mind some recent government eavesdropping).

At a National Lawyers Guild convention, Ms. Stewart, in describing the threat that government eavesdropping poses to the attorney-client privilege, said, "The question you should be asking is not what was I doing in that room, but what was the government doing in that room?"

That prompted speculation that the algorithm had been deliberately weakened to allow for government eavesdropping.

"It was a difficult time" at the National Security Agency when James Risen of The New York Times revealed government eavesdropping, without a warrant, on global telephone calls between Americans and people overseas suspected of involvement in terrorism.

Alan 'meets' a car-jacked man in Caracas and an Iranian evading government eavesdropping.

"Now, I - look, I understand people's concerns about government eavesdropping," Mr. Bush said.

The Detroit case was filed in January on behalf of journalists, scholars, lawyers and nonprofit organizations who argued that the possibility of government eavesdropping interfered with their work.

Not what you do but what you think will be the new criterion for government eavesdropping if this bill is passed.