Just got another thought on “5:5”. Ratio arithmetic is difficult at first. You must train your brain to think “parts of a whole”. From ratio you can advance to fractions (yeah, I know, 3rd grade stuff). So...
Prior to the inauguration of Donaldus Maximus, who were the _5_ highest ranking officials that should not have known about the surveillance but actually did?
Do the White Hats have the ability to bring down all 5 parts of “the whole” (5:5, a ratio)?
We can start with Obama and Clinton...who else? McCain might be on that list. Schiff?
But, I thought 5:5 was not local.
I thought 5:5 were the 5 eyes of 5 nations who could, by proxy, spy on US citizens, pass that info to a US president, basically reroute all the nefarious activity away from White House to a British spy and Russian connections, whereas, it is supposedly against the law for the Executive Branch (JD & FBI) to spy, surveil, and wire tap a transition of our own and broadly unmask US citizens?
Run on sentence, but does this make sense?
I don't know how to separate "should not have known." I think you could come up with all sorts of ways to arrive and rationalize a count of exactly 5. Probably 50 knew. See Farkas open mouth and insert foot. See Samantha Powers doing the wholesale unmasking from the UN! What's up with that?