That G-mail draft thing was about trying to get around the NSA and giving someone else access to your account to read your mail draft without officially sending the email. Google resisted allowing USA legal system access to any of it's data held on servers outside the USA.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/09/feds-google-stops-challenging-most-us-warrants-for-data-on-overseas-servers/