I hope the NSA didn't decide to arrest anyone because of that, but i wouldn't be surprised.
I'm doing studies pretty much whenever i'm drawing (after all, time spent doing something else is time i could use getting better) so i don't make a lot of fan-art. But now that you mention it, i have started thumbnails for a series of character illustrations i was thinking of while reading Andrew Loomis's "Creative Illustration", so i'll probably post that whenever i finish it plus a few Shinji/Asuka/Rei/etc. faces used as study/reference. My art isn't anything noticeable though so it's really nothing to look forward to.