Thread by @KingMakerFT

This latest piece by J.E. Dyer (@OptimisticCon ) raises something nobody has yet put together. Dyer takes Durham’s latest filing and reads it side by side with what Devin Nunes told us he saw in the spring of 2017 when he reviewed classified documents describing the irregular

capture of electronic communications by US citizens and their unmasking. Nunes claimed this evidence of spying or surveillance was mind blowing. It fit with what later came out in the FISA court’s opinion describing abuses of 702 by FBI contractors. Dyer makes the case that the

massive DNS data gathering undertaken by Neustar and other govt contractors could have been used to engage in “surveillance melding” (his term), whereby DNS hits associated with certain Trump associates could be used to “cue” 702 database queries, so as to avoid using banned

query terms. Here’s how it could work. FISA precludes use of search terms in queries that focus on US persons sending or receiving electronic communications. So a query that included the name Felix Sater or Steve Bannon, for example, couldn’t be used. But what if the person doing

the query was privy to detailed DNS lookup data - from Sater’s or Bannon’s server? There’s a ready workaround to the prohibition against querying US persons- at least using a query term that isn’t on its face prohibited. Just use some details in the DNS day, such as time and date

and then design a query directed at certain Russian actors sending or receiving comms on that date and time. If that happened (Dyer has no evidence it did, except for Nunes’ description of what he saw), this possible use of DNS data to “cue” 702 queries targeting US persons

would indeed be spying-by the Obama administration, not Hillary. And it would be unlawful. Here’s the article: …eoptimisticconservative.wordpress.com/2022/02/16/and…

Today’s article by Paul Sperry could shed some light on this theory: realclearinvestigations.com/2022/02/17/che…

Towards the end, Sperry writes about the relationship between Rodney Joffe and one of his companies, Packet Forensics, to the FBI. Sperry writes that Joffe is close to both Obama and Comey, thousands of emails between his company and the FBI have turned up, and Joffe has served

as an FBI confidential informant. All of that raises the question of whether Joffe, through various govt contracts for collection of DNS data, fed the FBI DNS lookup data targeted towards specific Americans, which the FBI could then use in FISA 702 queries of the NSA database.

And then there’s today’s article by Rachel Bovard about the CIA maintaining data on American from bulk collection of data, procured and maintained “outside the statutory framework.” thefederalist.com/2022/02/17/the…

Similar unlawful data collection by the CIA was exposed by Edward Snowden, but it’s aparrently still going on. Go back and re-read Dyer’s article where he describes how Joffe and the Ga Tech researchers exploited their ability to target individual Americans in the collection of

DNS data specific to persons on a long list of Trump associates. Sperry also discusses that feature of Joffe’s research. So what all three excellent articles describe is a data collection system by our govt. - and in particular the WH, the FBI, and the CIA - using outside

contractors run by a shady operator, Joffe, that skirts around statutory limitations on spying on Americans. Congress needs to wake up. In the meantime we have the press, most of which is worthless, but as these three articles show, there’s still hope for transparency.