12. There existed after 9-11 a group at NSA led by Bill Binney & Thomas Drake, who had successfully created a system that could track espionage & terror without violating Americans’ rights. The program was forcibly shut down by NSA Director Michael Hayden.

The Program Hayden substituted failed at its key task & was violating civil rights en masse.

The Thin Thread team went to congress. NSA & FBI arrested them & put them on trial & threatened congressmen & staffers.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/checkpoint-washington/post/prosecution-of-ex-nsa-official-thomas-drake-was-ill-considered-former-agency-spokesman-acknowledges/2012/03/12/gIQAXE6L7R_blog.html

13. And a more complete timeline of how Gen Michael Hayden abused his authority & power at NSA & turned it into the greatest tool of domestic control ever imagined.

https://www.eff.org/nsa-spying

14. General Hayden (he hates to be called mike) had a lot to say about the subject.

https://www.npr.org/2013/06/09/190081216/ex-nsa-head-hayden-data-surveillance-balances-security-privacy

15. But he has *NEVER* adequately addressed how far beyond the bounds of law it went, and how he had to use the FBI to silence anyone who spoke out about it.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2013/06/05/nsas-verizon-spying-order-specifically-targeted-americans-not-foreigners/#5ab9d1c638fe

16. Now fast forward to today, and all we know about #spygate #obamagate #FISAabuse #702queryabuse #unmasking #leaking & frame ups like was done to General Flynn.

Think about why the Republican head of the Senate oversight committee that was spied on by a Democrat President & his CIA director might kowtow & give defacto control to the ranking Democrat who was a part of #spygate -

Think about people like Lindsey Graham who never do anything but talk about doing things: why might Graham be reticent to follow through? Could these people be controlled via blackmail? Spying on Americans is a powerful tool.

Think about how Chief Justice Roberts reversed his no vote 1/2 hr before the vote on whether obamacare was legal.

Think about John Carlin, obama’s DOJ NATSEC Division head certifying all the FISA warrants and apps from 2015 & 2016 while they were lying to FISC to spy on Carter Page & the entire trump team.

Think about who’s names are on those FISA applications- Comey, McCabe, Rosenstein, Yates.

People with a documented history of abusing their power.

17. The hard fact is, its been used to control Presidents since after Reagan, by unscrupulous power hungry deep state players who are lawless & think they are too powerful to be held accountable.

Let’s take a deeper look at the architect of the US Surveillance State. ⬇️

18. Mike Hayden, former NSA & later CIA Director, in open revolt at the abuses of #spygate being made public to Americans.

19. Heres mike retweeting a veiled threat to the President of the United Stated by a Dirty & Corrupt former CIA officer who is a John Brennan Protege.

20. This is self explanatory. Everyone here knows exactly who & what John Brennan is. From signing travel visas for the 9-11 hijackers to come to America to spygate, Brennan is a known. This tweet shows you exactly who/what Michael Hayden is, & where his loyalties lie.

21. FISA isn’t about *protecting Americans*.

FISA is about CONTROLLING AMERICANS.

🚨 This thread is a must read!! 👀

https://twitter.com/JohnWHuber/status/1261447227127599106

1. I want to make a follow up point about FISA, and how it is too powerful to trust our government with.

Its forgotten by many now, but during the Bush administration while Hayden was NSA director, there was a controversial spying program that was killed out of privacy concerns.

2. The Program was run by NSA out of the Director’s office. It was approved by AG John Ashcroft and was set to be re-approved- if the Bush admin could pressure ashcroft lying in a hospital bed to sign it.

Ashcroft had nearly died of ruptured gallbladder & underwent emergency surgery & was barely out of the operating room when Bush White House Officials attempted to get his signature to re-authoritize the program.

3. A famous showdown in that hospital bed ensued- white house officials versus none other than FBI director Mueller & Deputy Attorney General James Comey who auccessfully prevented the AG from reauthorizing the program.

https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-mueller-comey-ashcroft-domestic-surveillance-20170517-story.html

4. As we all know the program was later replaced with a much more shadowy much larger program.

5. Isnt it interesting that people like Comey will prevent spying to hinder some political enemies, but will abuse those same tools without limit to use them on his own political enemies?

https://m.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/aug/19/former-us-atty-spygate-obama-committed-greatest-fe/

6. This thread highlights another example of how tools like FISA are abused for political reasons & to maintain CONTROL.

https://twitter.com/rexxurection/status/1261451860747022336

Former US Attorney in California & Virginia you say?