Rather than being a complete Richard Head and telling other FReepers not to bother, I've decided to explain what the "two hop" rule is in this instance.
The 702 system, which was never designed to spy on Americans, but rather to safeguard U.S. national security, had become a powerful spying tool in the hands of the government.
Problems with the FISA system received nationwide attention in February after a declassified House intelligence committee memo revealed that the FBI and the Department of Justice had obtained a FISA warrant on Trump campaign volunteer Carter Page, using information paid for by the Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee (DNC).
The initial warrant, and its three subsequent renewals could have been used to spy on anyone who was in contact with Page, including members of the Trump campaign. The NSA is allowed to analyze communications “two hops” from its original target. Anyone in direct communication with Page is one hop away, and anyone in communication with those talking to Page is two hops away.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/fisa-abuse-widespread-under-obama-administration-2_2465325.html
The FBI discontinued the private entity’s access to raw FISA data in April 2016, the same month in which the Clinton campaign and the DNC used law firm Perkins Coie to retain Fusion GPS to produce the so-called Trump dossier.
The dossier would eventually lead to the FBI obtaining the FISA warrant on Carter Page in October 2016.
******* As soon as these shits were told to stay off the NSA database they started going for FISA warrants (using phony Trump dossier) to continue their spying on the Trump campaign.
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*******In April of 2016, NSA head Mike Rogers noticed the unusually high # of Sec. 702 queries to unmask the names of US citizens being made by the FBI. He investigated & discovered, much to his horror, it was coming from a FBI subcontractor & unmasked names = Trump campaign team.
https://twitter.com/drawandstrike/status/951660483798601728