Section 702

There has been a lot of talk about these 702 database queries, so I did some digging.  What exactly are these things, and how can they have been abused?

It looks like the law is carefully written, so how specifically has this database been abused?  It is alleged by some that this has definitely been abused.  I have seen this in several places, yet I do not understand what is meant by this abuse, and how did it occur?

There is a lot of fog out there.  By the time it gets sorted out, it won't matter anymore.

There has been nearly two years of this garbage, and yet there is no evidence of wrongdoing.  This is what I look at.  You can play around with the law all you want, but until you come up with something real, it is all smoke and mirrors.

Nobody, including Trump, has challenged the authority to hire Mueller in the first place.  Always the premises.  The premise here is that Trump violated the law.  If you cannot name the law, or place a date, a time, and a specific act, then it is all academic.  Certainly not worth the taxpayer's dime, nor the voter's time.  That is why Trump should fire Mueller, but he does not do that.

It is beginning to appear to be nothing but political theater.

Update later today @ 5:30 pm:

Of course I have been reading the Conservative Treehouse, and considerable discussion has taken place there.  But, the reason I am puzzled is because of how this access was ever allowed in the first place.  It is not clear to me how this all began.  I am positive now that this didn't begin just because Trump got the GOP nomination in 2016.  Stuff has been going on for a long time.

In particular, I am puzzled that US persons became embroiled in this, since 702 data is on foreign persons.

Here is another attempt at explaining this, which I am reading now.  It is very lengthy and complicated, which may explain part of the puzzlement.  Ah, here it is.  There is a section of 702 regulations about US persons.  It is called "about queries".   It is "item 17" of 702 regs.

There appears to have been a willful violation of the regulations.  This is for political purposes.

It is still rather fuzzy to me how all this could happen, but it does appear to be the case that the law was being subverted.

further update @ 6:10 pm:

To summarize, the allegation is that the "about queries" helped to put together the Steele Dossier.  The Steele Dossier was needed in order to obtain the FISA wiretapping authority on Carter Page.

What a joke.  Carter Page is a nobody.  Pappa Dop is a nobody.

Rosenstein signed off this bullcrap? People are still trying to call him a good guy.