[TechNewb]

@dllthomas

"Of course they were; that's how the NSA found out."

Right. Yet to our knowledge the NSA does not have delete privileges to the data centers, meaning that copies of his notes most likely still survive on either local or cloud based storage.

[woah]

Yet to our knowledge, the NSA doesn't have read access... until they did a few weeks ago.

[jlgaddis]

Depends on whether his e-mail was hosted by Google or not. ;)