After tipping their hands too much over prosecuting and removing Joe Nacchio, the Qwest CEO who refused the NSA, I think that any company that does as much business with the federal government as Amazon or any telecom, gets pre-vetted.

This avoids any difficulties later.

On the list of the things I doubt nowadays, an Amazon or Amazon subsidiary CEO going to jail is way up at the top.

They’ll get a national security letter for sure, but no one’s going to jail.

Yes let's talk about all the billionaire CEOs that get sent to prison.

Anyway, the entire structure and premise of this business is that they cannot do that. A court cannot put a CEO in jail just because partner businesses do not follow his orders. Do you think it is maybe remotely possible, that Amazons lawyers and architects understand this a little bit better than you do?

I'm thinking they checked it out, they checked it out a couple of times.

There are some details in this comment from the other day: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46641592