one is ollie oglethorpe and the other is bobby joe oglethorpe. they are bad guys, they are bank robbers, they rob people, they rob banks. let's say that they decide to come to washington and they plot and scheme to rob the congressional credit union over in the longworth building. they go inside. they rob the place, take the loot, and they make away their escape and get away. and they hide somewhere in washington, d.c. that's all we know. they're not captured. but we know probably that the two individuals are somewhere in washington. so if law enforcement decided, okay, we're going to go get ollie oglethorpe and bobby joe oglethorpe, we know they're in washington, they would go to a judge. they would say to the judge, we know they're in washington. we know they're in zip code 20003. but that's really all we know. we would like a warrant to go into all of the places in zip code 20003 and find bobby joe oglethorpe and his brother ollie and most importantly get the loot. there is not a judge that would sign the warrant to allow law enforcement to go

lets go back to ollie oglethorpe and his brother bobby joe oglethorpe. in their e-mail train of criminal activity, if you wait six months, the government can seize without warrant all of their e-mails. not just between each other and their criminal enterprise but whoever they were sending e-mails to or communicating with back and forth. that third party, innocent party, lets assume, certainly doesn't know about that. my personal opinion, that's a violation of the fourth amendment right to be secure in your persons and your papers and your effects under the fourth amendment to the constitution. so what, it basically applies to the changes in all the legislation applies to the fourth amendment standard to e-mails. there's a lot of reasons why that should happen. first, it puts people on notice as to what the rules are going to be. not wait for the supreme court or other courts to make maybe different opinions down the road whether it's lawful or unlawful now. among notice, congress has the responsibility to do so. also we have a disadvantage -- i say we. a

the other is bobby joe oglethorpe. they are bad guys, bank robbers. let's say they decide to come to washington, and they plot and scheme to rob the congressional credit union over in the longworth building. they go inside, they rob the place, they take the loot, and they make away their escape and get away. and they hide somewhere in washington, d.c. that's all we know. they're not captured. but we know probably that the two individuals are somewhere in washington. so if law enforcement decided, okay, we're going to go get ollie oglethorpe and bobby joe oglethorpe. we know they're in washington. they would go to a judge, they would say we know they're in washington, we know they're in zip co20003. but that's all we know. we would like a warrant to go into all of the places in zip code 20003 and find bobby joe oglethorpe and his brother ollie, and most importantly get the loot. there is not a judge that would sign the warrant to allow law enforcement to go into every building and residence. we all know that's absurd. there is no way that would occur,

let's go back to ollie ogle thorpe and his brother, bobby joe oglethorpe. in their e-mail train of criminal activity, if you wait six months, the government can seize without warrant all of their e-mails. not just between each other and their criminal enterprise, but to whoever they were sending e-mails to or communicating with back and forth. and that third party, innocent party let's assume, certainly doesn't know about that. my personal opinion, that's a violation of the fourth amendment right to be secure in your persons and your papers and your effects under the fourth amendment to the constitution. so what does ecpa do? it basically applies the fourth finish the changes in all the legislation, applies the fourth amendment standard to e-mails. there's a lot of reasons why that should happen. first, it puts people on notice as to what the rules are going to be. not wait for the supreme court or other courts to make maybe different opinions down the road as to whether it's lawful or unlawful now. put 'em on notice, congress has that responsibility to do