They don't. Just like a police officer doesn't need you to tell him how fast you were going (hint: he knows). It just works sometimes, which is a lot easier than going through the normal process, and worth a shot.

The NSA officer didn't hang up the phone and think "How dare he refuse to cooperate, it's the law!". Instead she thought "darn, that didn't work" and then called the next phone number on her list...

Isnt this a general behavior of typical stereotype american? Most of them believes America as theland of the law and anything else is savagery.

If the superpowers weren't countries but were instead the search engines of today then we could probably agree upon who would be Google and who would be Bing and so on. Do Google's users generally care about Bing, what Bing does, or what Bing thinks? (To stretch the metaphor almost to the point of breaking.) Most of Google's users don't think of Bing as a savage search engine but they do consider it irrelevant.

^non-american citizens are people, how can you compare them with irrelevant search results?

People outside have their own dreams, aspirations. Maybe their dreams are bigger than just building a photo sharing app.

I didn't make that comparison. I compared citizens to a search engine's loyal users.

>(you can't even speak english correctly)

Son, if you're going to play that card you need to proof-read before you hit that 'reply' button.

Um...er.....I do hate to say it, but you've kinda proved the point of the post you called useless.

Ironic that your post is equally useless, but much longer. So, even more than "utterly useless". Which suggests that, yes, you do need to move on with your life.

Now, I have to sit and think about how useless this reply might be. See what you have started?

I never meant, Americans are horrible people. I actually meant it to be the answer of why NSA (or someone from NSA) would believe US law holds true in NL.

I am sorry if the stereotypical american meant all of those, but I had in my mind picture of a naive NSA employee who didnt think twice before making the call to an international company.

Actually, a lot of Europeans think they aren't European and in fact anyone outside their own country is a savage.

Stereotypes have their uses, but let's be careful throwing them around at people.

They don't and this story is likely bogus, smart marketing on the part of the lead character in the story who managed to get the name of his company out front on a hot button issue.

Because they're the NSA and likely assume that everyone will comply.