That said, it is beyond delightful to see how the advocates, indeed, the very practitioners, of diminishing the hurdles to surveillance now dangle at the business end of their petards.

The agent now colloquially known as "Shirtless FBI man" set this little bedroom farce in motion via conduct not very far removed from the sort of self-serving abuse that gets a highway patrolman fired when he uses his data base access to pursue a cute girl by running her license plate after he notices her on the road.

Here, freelancing in the hopes of getting a little nookie from Jill Kelley, Mr Shirtless set in motion a tumbling domino chain that has bitten the ass of a war criminal and his enablers.

Couldn't happen to a better class of hypocrite.

Also couldn't happen without the wholesale eradication of privacy safeguards which used to require probable cause of the commission of a crime (notably absent in the childish emails from Broadwell to Kelly) before an intrusion into private communication could occur.

Under the "new regime", no judge's scrutiny is required to pry into emails more then 6 months old--merely a prosecutor's subpoena.

Even if some judge did cut a warrent on the strength of Mr. Shirtless's totally out-of-line inquiries, it was only possible in the world of post-9/11 hysteria.

Welcome to the Thunderdome, General. Two women enter, one woman leaves..