The Last Refuge
. . . "Knowing the scale of intelligence weaponization for political purposes that we are now aware of; and accepting a nefarious intention on behalf of federal actors looking for unique ways to skirt laws, rules and regulations on domestic surveillance; the morphing of the “sister” agencies to exploit intelligence gathering makes sense.
"One approach of this nefarious intent would be “reverse targeting”, which is similar to the Flynn-Kislyak call issues. Target a foreign person’s communication as an end-around to avoid the necessary warrant for the American on the other end of the contact. In practice this would look like this:
The FBI (counterintelligence division) knows an American contacted a foreign person. The FBI wants to know what the contact was about, but doesn’t have evidence to cut through the legal privacy protections. So the FBI asks their ‘sister’ the CIA, to extract the foreign person’s information from the NSA intercepts (FBI gives specific date and time). The CIA then extracts the result and the NCTC is used as the hub where the resulting intelligence information is stored, then shared.
"Obviously we have no idea whether today’s realignment of NCTC priorities has any bearing on the system structure used to carry out prior corrupt intelligence exploits; but it’s possible this issue is a part of the underlying change." . . .
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