[CrossWired]

How does this work if the car was never in the US in the first place, and you are being ordered to turn over a car that was procured, leased, operated and contracted in Mexico entirely, nothing to do with the US, other than the fact that you live here and were ordered by a Judge to go get the car and bring it back?

Isn't this closer to what has actually happened? The account holder indicated he was from Ireland when he signed up with Microsoft, thus the account was created and maintained in Ireland to reduce latency, thus the Fed should invoke the mutual assistance treaty with Ireland to get the data properly.

The example of using the Government agents to do the bidding being bad and FORCING me to do the bidding is proper is completely wrong. If I am being forced to do something by the government, am I not acting as its agent at that point? If the government is denied a warrant for a building, it can't convince the janitor to steal the docs at the end of the night, thats just a run around the checks and balances of the law.