> Third, the legal safeguards that restrict surveillance against U.S. persons
  > without a warrant do not apply to foreign persons overseas. This is not
  > unique to America; few, if any, spy agencies around the world constrain their
  > activities beyond their own borders. And the whole point of intelligence is to
  > obtain information that is not publicly available. But America’s capabilities
  > are unique. And the power of new technologies means that there are fewer and
  > fewer technical constraints on what we can do. That places a special
  > obligation on us to ask tough questions about what we should do.

Thanks. We, foreign consumers of american services and products, will sure remember this one.