Ever wonder how things get redacted?
The NSA is set up to basically gather every electronic
message - whether it’s a phone call, a
text message, email or a broadcast. And
it does that with every party clearly identified.
So if General Flynn calls Kislyak his call is intercepted and
recorded and at this point both parties are known. So somebody sitting at a keyboard in an NSA
installation knows the entire content of the phone call.
But it’s a more complicated than that.
There are literally thousands of individual with the proper security
clearance within the Federal government – and it’s contractors – who have the actual
ability to log on to the system that contains the information and read the communication
in its raw form.
To an amazingly large
extent, the thing that keeps America’s spies honest is the honor system.
But if procedures are followed, at some point, Flynn’s name
is redacted, and he’s identified at American 1.
If that message gets sent to the top layers of the Federal government Flynn
is still identified at American 1 until there’s a request to have his name
unmasked.
All anyone really needs to do is to task those guys who do
the redacting to let them know when the target for your spying makes a call or
sends a message. If you have people
who are less than honorable but have the proper security clearance those top
Federal officials can be told what messages to unmask.
The potential for abuse is breathtaking. Everything that
political enemies said to each other, except in private in-person conversations
or in snail mail letters, could have been spied upon.
And that’s how all the Flynn phone calls that were unmasked before
he made the call to Kislyak. It want’s the
phone call, he was a target from the beginning.
He needed to be fired and ObamaGate was part of the conspiracy to get
him out of the way.
And you thought that spying on American citizens without a warrant
was illegal? It may be illegal, but it
isn’t hard … at all.
