I’m still marveling over this section of the Post article:

NSA analysts masked, or “minimized,” more than 65,000 such references to protect Americans’ privacy, but The Post found nearly 900 additional e-mail addresses, unmasked in the files, that could be strongly linked to U.S. citizens or U.S.residents.

Could be?

So three people credited in the byline on the piece, after a four month investigation, can’t positively verify that a single unminimized email address belongs to an American.