Interesting thesis. Plausible, knowing the cloak-and-dagger nature of DC.
Any halfwit 2nd year law student knows that you don't read a stautory provision out of the context of the rest of the statute unless you are a judge, appellate panel or prosecutor in the DC Circuit out to get Trump and his supporters.
I don't have any evidence against my thesis that ACB is squish, but she is not a half-wit.