In short. it looked like NO legal protocols were observed.
Frankly, I don’t know how anyone can be surprised. Abuse of power is ugly!
“The U.S. government now poses the greatest threat to our freedoms. More than terrorism, more than domestic extremism, more than gun violence and organized crime, even more than the perceived threat posed by any single politician, the U.S. government remains a greater menace to the life, liberty and property of its citizens than any of the so-called dangers from which the government claims to protect us.”
John W. Whitehead,
The ONLY THING Government ever protects is ITSELF.........................
There fixed Whitehead’s last paragraph.