aggiehawg said:
Thanks for posting that. Sounds more plausible that the FBI wanted to know if the Russians already had Hillary's emails which could subject her to blackmail by them when she was POTUS.
As I posted before, Maria Butina was a walking FISA virus. Anyone she contacted could then be a plausible and ostensibly legal subject for unmasking and then subject to 702 FISA inquiries. Byrne was being directed to aim her at certain people in the Trump campaign, so they could then be under surveillance.
That would also be useful to ascertain which individuals might be more susceptible to a push-pull operation that could result in a Title I FISA with unlimited monitoring and the two hop procedure ensnaring many many more people close to Trump and even Trump himself, from the cabal's POV, if they got lucky.
Perhaps I am late to the party, but does everyone else get the gravity of the two phrases I bolded in Hawg's text?
Granted, "
Byrne was being directed to aim her..." is an horrific, weaponized result of the process, but the predicate of that action is even more astounding...the operators in our former premier, sophisticated and trusted investigative arm of the Fed warped and twisted the rules, processes and boundaries of the law to achieve an end. Truly, the "Ends justified the means.
Think of an individual, human like us (benefit of the doubt here), who could benefit from "investigating" anyone, using the two-hop as an incremental step - the first phrase bolded above. Get a FISA warrant, and then two-hop.
Depending on the subject's sphere of influence, this could include dozens, even hundreds, of people. The investigators could conceivably acquire more FISA warrants from that linking. This is a terrible abuse of power, because investigators can slowly, but inexorably, draw many more people into the investigation sphere. But it takes time, and resources.
This is what I thought of the process abuse; that operatives took a deliberative process, bent the rules and used it to weaponize the law to achieve some political end. It had become a reflection of the individual Fed Director level management embedded in all parts of our government; each element cooperating with the others. Without retribution, it is left to "interpretation" of the law, and these operators will invariably interpret to their own benefit, not all of society.
Now consider this warped process and twisted rules and laws, augmented by a known and cooperative individual (call her "Robotron", for those who played that videogame) who already has a FISA warrant issued for 702 inquiries against her. The deliberative process has been
mutated, not just changed, into a weapon to take down anybody; dependent only on the integrity and morals of the individual in charge, or who can influence that individual in charge OR, even more terrifying, has been entrusted with access to information, data or the control of this individual. Two-hop, then choose a new target...rinse and repeat.
This is the legal and manipulated process version of "Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon", a parlor game for sure, but potentially played out in a Court of Law, with criminal consequences for the target.
Think of it this way...someone who worked with Policywonk in DC, has taken a dislike to him, and points "Robotron" at him..."Ooohhh, another contact!", which then is used to link Policywonk to Hawg, or Blindey, or anyone on this forum...
How many of us may, repeat MAY, have skeletons in our closets, that could be used to gain legal retribution against any of us, just to satisfy some revenge motive against Policywonk?
Am I going to far? Because, when actions of the Federal level of Law Enforcement are driven by any person in that sphere of influence, who is bereft of moral integrity, and who is corrupted by access to these process controls, makes us one step away from disintegrating our Nation of Laws...
