The latest brouhaha over the aged e-mail controversy (does the right of privacy improve with age, or deteriorate?), featuring IRS vs. ACLU, doesn’t provoke in me the righteous indignation most often encountered in the professionally righteously indignant. I never expected my e-mails were private, any more than any other electronic interchange.

The 1997 example of then-House Speaker Gingrich should ever be before us.

I was asked to comment by a certain Director at a major accounting firm. So I will remind her of her grandmother’s remark: “Every communication needs a salutation: Dear So-and-so and ladies and gentlemen of the jury.”