Presidential pardon in one hand, Presidential Medal of Freedom in the other, and then appoint him to oversee bringing the NSA back into line with the letter and spirit of the law.

Exactly. They call it a no-fly list but people who are on it also get stopped from boarding ships.

To a bureaucrat, problems don't exist until someone points them out. To someone with that mindset, since problems didn't exist until someone pointed them out, whoever pointed out the problem created it. Brilliant people usually DON'T create problems...but they're great at pointing them out. In a bureaucracy, there's no difference at all.

Not necessarily. If antimatter falls up, it would imply a repulsion effect between normal mass and antimatter mass. If we are a matter bubble we wouldn't be floating in antimatter, we'd likely be repelling it with a gap between it and us.

Your snail mail box is also someone else's equipment. Other people besides you have access to it. Does this mean you have no expectation of privacy for letters sent to you by the U.S. Postal Service? Of course not. The same applies to an electronic mailbox.