Public in general is indifferent or worse, supportive, when it is being literally grabbed by their balls and photographed literally without their clothes - if only this is done under the guise of more security. And you want to talk about couple of emails? Forget about the public in general.

However this still does not justify mixing up signal with noise. If you want to talk about NSA surveillance - fine. But then don't start with Petreus who has nothing to do with it.