Rosetta Stone

This is an enormously long read for most.

It is, however, of fundamental importance for understanding where we are, and how we got here.

So slip on your bunny slippers, grab a hot coco and READ.

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2022/02/12/the-surveillance-and-political-spying-operations-highlighted-by-john-durham-are-the-tip-of-the-iceberg/#more-227462

If you've not read my Feb 1 post, here is the crux of it -

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 Below was an explanation provided to me, by one involved in the transition, of why unconstitutional violation of privacy was justified as necessary, and why we now live in a prison planet of electronic surveillance.   This exchange was in 2013, well before the revelations of how team Trump was placed under unconstitutional, politically motivated, surveillance by Obama's deep state agencies.

 "XXXX (my name), WRT the Verizon issue (not Prism), it is a signal processing problem. Think of terrorist telephonic communications as infinitesimal but very important signals that are nearly certainly buried in a particular mountain of noise (all other telephonic communications). The mission is to find them. To find the signals you need to know as much as possible about the characteristics of BOTH the signals AND the noise in order to understand what distinguishes the one from the other. The more you know about the characteristics of the signals, the better you are able to develop tuned filters to search for them in the noise. The more you know about the characteristics of the noise the better you will be able to suppress it (the noise) to enhance the contrast of the signals and facilitate the search. BOTH of these activities requires access to the full bandwidth. If you can't access the haystack, you can't find the needle. Does this access open the door for possible abuse? Yup, and adequate preventative measures need to be in place to prevent abuse from happening. Are they? I don't know, and there will in any case be differences of opinion on what constitutes "adequate measures." However, unless one is willing to assert that we simply should not be looking for needles in the haystack unless we already know where they are, I don't think what has been going on is an irrational approach to a very difficult problem."

 Such an opinion is wrong.  

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May God help us and the republic.