[poink]

It's not only reasonable the US government should be archiving communications between officials, it should be compulsory. We've already had problems with this re: agents of government agencies like CBP and big bankers using E2EE messaging apps to skirt regulatory requirements.

That said, whether this makes the situation better or worse depends on who can actually see these archives. "Smarsh" is a US-based company, but they acquired TeleMessage, which was (is?) based in Israel.

[dmix]

Some of the top US government IT contractors are British, Canadian, and Italian owned companies. Running servers in the US for a government contract isn’t a big deal at a technical level.