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by ec429 5258 days ago
Moreover, it's a foreign post office and much of the mail is foreign - since when does the FBI have jurisdiction over the entire world?
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Surely if the servers are located in the US you cannot argue that it is really a foreign post office.
If some airmail stages through a US airport, does the US have the right to rifle through the mailbags on the plane?
Not that I think this analogy holds, but I believe they would have the right, unless there is an international treaty that forbids them from doing so. That's what sovereignty is about. It is a privilege to use a US airport for this purpose, not a right.