Any and all electronic communications are recorded and monitored.
Have been for decades.
So never, ever, send an email that you are not willing to have read on the evening news.
Good advice and I follow that, but we are not talking about the evening news. It seems we need to be concerned about the New American Stasi. We have every right to correspond with our representatives and even call for the shuttering of the stasi. In fact, this incident provides yet another reason to shutter the FBI. If we lose freedom of speech and the ability to petition government then we will enter a dark age.