Oh I agree. But the Russian thing was working for so many decades that the Clintonistas thought it would not deserve a second look. Look at how easy it worked in the FISA courts. The old enemy is not worth a new look. That’s why the Clintonistas deep state chose Russian bogey men.
Good point.
This trampling of our rights by violating the personal rights of everyone illegally surveilled, and those of us having our electoral choice in peril of being illegally removed, is that it happened largely at the upper levels of the involved agencies.
I forget which branch it was, might have been any one of the three, when the time came to run it through the normal chain of intelligence review, it was rubber stamped and the entire chain was bypassed.
There were people who were supposed to sign off. And one of the people at the top (may have been DOJ/FBI/CIA) specifically instructed the underling via available documentation to pass it up the chain directly to them.
They didn’t want anyone at lower levels seeing what was going on, because most likely someone would have said something to the effect of “Uhh...this is, er...bogus. Do you really want to consider this?”
They wanted as few eyes as possible on it.
And in the event someone was aware of it, perhaps they were counting on the innate and ingrained Russian Bogeyman to tamp down any suspicion that there may have been anything untoward going on.