[montomike]

All I can see is that they are monitoring a lot of spam.

[La Lydia]

I pity the poor schmuck who has to monitor my emails: genealogy factoids, family and friends gossip (mostly about who is getting married, who is reproducing and whose babies are starting to walk), religious inspirational content, jokes, Neiman Marcus sale offers, successful Ebay bids, Marco Rubio campaign news, City of Alexandria environmental warnings, more gossip. It must drive my spy mad with boredom.

Seriously, I have to think that this is targeted surveillance of people they know are up to no good. They simply don't have enough people/staff to monitor everyone, and any kind of automated monitoring would still have to be reviewed by a human in order for them to learn anything interesting.

[BenLurkin]

“Spam” might be a good way to hide coded messages.