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Also fits with Judge Contreas in DC being recused from the Flynn case. Note it's said that he recused himself but the original press release from the Court said he was being recused and, as so, given what's come to light about these matters, Contreas being on the FISC, too, he should have recused before things got going.

If/as there were hundreds / thousand(s) of people that Obama folks were having unmasked and, as the FISC reported, the NSA found a whopping 85% of "about" queries in 2015-2016 were not legal, then it's possible that among those targeted were Judges and the Courts. This historically may involve not just political targeting but blackmail or other obstructions of justice as well, in which case the role of Chuang becomes further interesting, too, and, again, all under the watchful eye of DOJ IG.

Except, it wasn't under the watchful eye of the IG. At least, it seems likely it wasn't.

The 0bama administration so thoroughly abused the IG statute, that Horowitz for years pushed for a new, stronger law. He finally got 0bama to sign one, in the lame duck session after Trump was elected [12/21/16].

That timing is interesting, and suspicious. One wonders if 0bama would have signed the tougher law had his gal won...

Up until that time, DOJ and a number of other cabinet offices used some ambiguity in the old law to claim that the IG could not investigate them. This is one of the reasons there was no one except Congress complaining about Fast and Furious.

Now, here is where it gets interesting.

Sally Yates, the Deputy AG who was later fired by Donald Trump, issued a DOJ finding that even the new IG law could not be applied to the Department of Justice National Security Division, and by extension to the FBI Counter Intelligence which falls under their direction.

Those parts of the DOJ are precisely the ones containing ALL of the bad actors associated with the Steele Dossier. The question is, during the time that the IG was running his investigation, was Yates finding still in force, or did Sessions get someone to issue a new finding, which would have allowed Horowitz to investigate the worst parts of the DOJ/FBI?

I don't believe the answer to this question is currently known.