Is that going to lead to another set of legal problems in terms of government wiretapping?
Eric Lichtblau: Absolutely. VoIP and other new technology have made it more difficult for the government to determine where a target is physically located when communications are being intercepted, and that creates a whole set of new legal challenges. In the past, where someone was physically located helped determine what rights they were afforded when it came to possible surveillance; a foreign tourist visiting New York City, for instance, was extended certain rights just by virtue of the fact that they were on U.S. soil. Now, as Congress is debating changes in surveillance law, the administration is trying to move away from that concept, in part because the technology has made it tougher to know where a message or phone call starts or ends. The government is still grappling with that. So is this about confusion between the domain of the FBI, which enforces laws domestically, and the NSA, which focuses on foreign surveillance? The lines are incredibly blurred. The NSA was once a forei
