Yeah, but no governemt is lucky with having people operate entirely freely. It makes corruption difficult, and every government has corruption to some degree
there are still a lot of destroyed documents being stored around the world (say, from the StaSi for example).
I would love to see this applied on them. It migjt shed some light on things supposedly lost to history.
But the USA will bend the rules anyway, wether it lies within their jurisdiction or not.
Thing is, if it does not lie within theiir jurisdiction, the international fallout might be of more significance.
Yet with ICANN staying state-side, i doubt it will make any difference anyways.