Comments by "Harry Mills" (@harrymills2770) on "Graham seeks answers from Rosenstein on Russia investigation" video.
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YIN YANG: Yes. I think it took about a New-York minute for agencies to start abusing unprecedented NSA surveillance capabilities. In a frenzy to sabotage Trump, the Obama admin explicitly opened the walls between agencies and it was a free-for-all leak festival.
We have guys - starting with Mueller - who are past masters at parallel construction, boot-strapping their way with illegally obtained intel, and back-filling how they got there, by bullying individuals into guilty pleas or bankruptcy. Miller's an advocate for parallel construction. It's how he leverages fruit of the poison tree into a fake semblance of factual, legally-obtained evidence.
We see cracks in the whole leverage-and-backfill strategy, when a big company with plenty of its OWN lawyers stepped up to represent one of the Russian troll-farmers. Faced with the prospect of discovery, Mueller's stalling, suggesting an empty - or illicit - hand.
I think a combination of becoming complacent within the good-old-boy network and sheer incompetence PLUS using these weaponized agencies against somebody big enough and cocky enough to fight back is what it took to expose this behavior, which we know stretches back to J. Edgar Hoover (and beyond), but in the current era, their surveillance capabilities are orders of magnitude more powerful, and the stakes are higher.
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