Item #1 is factually correct. Item #2 was discussed by Dan Bongino this evening. Is he a DOJ shill?
Bottom line, it is illegal for one reason you have missed. Ask any cop what a “pretext” stop is. The cop looks at your car and wants to search your trunk for dope. He has no legitimate reasonable suspicion, so he stops you for going 56 miles an hour in a 55 zone.
It is known as a “pretext” and if a judge figures out you were intent all along to search for dope, he may toss the case. The reason is that your entire “investigation” was a farce and a lie. Fruit of the poison tree and all.
This was not a legitimate national security investigation, part of an honest effort with an honest goal. It was a coup attempt and an illegal effort to use “national security” to suppress political opponents.
It is the worst kind of civil rights abuse imaginable besides machine gunning people at the side of a ditch.