Thread by @TheLastRefuge2

Listen up, this is a big deal. theconservativetreehouse.com/2018/05/03/imp…

2. Trump campaign official Michael Caputo just revealed on TV that Robert Mueller has the emails, phone records, communications and *text messages* of everyone who worked on the campaign.

3. This is a big effen reveal that no-one is noticing.

4. Specifically that Mueller has the intercepted "text messages" of everyone involved in the campaign. THAT is the big clue. That is not easy to get. It requires a VERY specific legal authority.

5. Think and read carefully. This discovery explains *why* Rod Rosenstein extended the FISA Title-1 surveillance warrant used against Carter Page (and the campaign) in July 2017. scribd.com/document/37547…

6. This explains why the originating authorization to Robert Mueller was kept secret. This explains why Rod Rosenstein never granted public review of the Special Counsel origination document. scribd.com/document/37547…

7. This explains why Mueller's crew redacted the content when he filed an "attachment" response in the Paul Manafort case. scribd.com/document/37547…

8. Robert Mueller, and the sneaky Special Counsel team, used the FISA Title-1 surveillance warrant as the entry point in their 2017 investigation.

9. Without exploitation of the previously granted FISA Title-1 Surveillance warrant, the Special Counsel would have needed to go to a federal judge for a search warrant.

10. READ SLOWLY - ABSORB the RAMIFICATIONS.

11. The 2017-2018 Special Counsel investigation is a "criminal" investigation.
The 2016 FBI investigation was a "counterintelligence" investigation.

12. Without use of the FISA Title-1 warrant, Robert Mueller's corrupt team of political activists would have been forced to go to federal court under Title 3 and request all of those search warrants on individuals/suspects/targets.

13. In order to get those search warrants, Mueller's team would have needed to show probable cause why the warrants were necessary. This is the ordinary process within going to any federal judge for such matters (ie. Title 3 search warrants) under DOJ authority.

14. However, by using the existing FISA Court Title-1 surveillance warrant, extended by Rod Rosenstein (July 2017), Mueller didn't need to get additional warrant authority. He only needed to DOJ to transfer the already existing investigation to him.

15. Which is exactly what happened.

16. August, September and October 2016, the horribly corrupt TEAM Mueller, could monitor, scrape, collect and retrieve every single communication within the Trump administration legally using the pre-existing Title-1 warrant authority.

17. That FISA Title-1 surveillance authority is FAR more intrusive than any other type of warrant granted to an investigative authority. It is designed to capture terrorists; and allows *active* and *passive* surveillance, and can be applied retroactively in perpetuity.

18. The FISA Title-1 grants full surveillance authority *E.V.E.R.Y.T.H.I.N.G*, physical, electronic, the works, on every person, entity, organization, group or individual within two hops of the target, Carter Page.

19. So that also means that Robert Mueller's team was also legally able to monitor everyone within congress who had contact with Page over those five months:
May-June '2017 (Special Counsel starts)
July-October 2017 (SC using FISA extension).

20. By the time the FISA Title-1 Warrant expired (October 2017); Mueller likely had MASSIVE surveillance captures. Phone records, transcripts, recordings, metadata, emails, text messages, skype chats, everything conducted by the Trump Administration.

21. And remember, FISA Title-1 warrants apply retroactively. For opposition research it would be the Holy Grail of search warrants.

22. That's why Michael Caputo is describing the content as "Mueller has everything". WATCH:

23. After the FISA warrant expired, October 2017,..... Starting November 2017 Robert Mueller would have needed to go to a federal court judge for any more search warrants under ordinary Title 3 issues and standards.

24. Now do you see how big a deal that is?

25. Now do the reports of Michael Cohen previously being under *phone monitoring* (surveillance) today take on a new perspective?

26. If it wasn't so corrupt, and deployed by such a corrupt group, the strategy to use the Title-1 warrant would have to be considered pretty darned smart.

27. /END

28. PS

Addendum to support all above:

1(a) Rosenstein telling Mueller to finish up the pre-existing FBI Counterintelligence work.

1(b) Rosenstein public release originating instructions for Special Counsel Authorization.

1(c) Private communication to Mueller expanding Special Counsel authorization.

scribd.com/document/37547…