No no no no. There are three things going on. 1) The fact Flynn was unmasked has flipped GOPers out abt 702, which is marginally related.
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2) No one understands how back door searches work. As soon as they honed in on Kislyak, FBI would pull EVERYTHING on him, check metadata.
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2b) They get to content right away: that is NOT unmasking.
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3) As soon as they develop AN INTEREST (not criminal suspicion) in a US Person, then FBI then uses their ID to search collections,
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3b) That, also, is not unmasking, contrary to what everyone and their mother claims.
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4) Now repeat this process w/EO 12333 data, & FBI is doing back door searches on Trump people using US-collected, 702-collected, 12333 data
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Point is, you would very quickly go fr "I wonder why RU didn't balk abt sanctions" to "let's see who Flynn & Kushner have been talking with"
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And none of that would involve a FISA order targeted at either Flynn or Kushner.
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In every hearing this year there has been talk abt how this will affect 702 reauth. There surely IS 702 data involving RUs, but tangential
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Right: the 702 stuff has been mixed in almost by accident. It's in the mix not because of much substantial relevance but bc of reauth
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There surely IS RU 702 data that has been reviewed by FBI. But it's irrelevant to the Kislyak intercepts.
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