I’ve written warrants for this.
When you ask for the pen-register, at least when I did it, you’re asking for historical data and the locations that the calls and texts were made from and received.
The warrants are given to the cellphone service provider.
Unfortunately, the DEA has worn out the process by which law enforcement can get the information quickly. Because they would go up on a drug dealers phone, get all the calls in/out and then start charging everyone and anyone with conspiracy in the hopes that someone would rollover. Can you imagine the bully, Mueller, doing something like that? I’m sure that’s hard to believe.[heavy sarcasm].
Just imagine, Mueller and his henchman have all that data. They do some research on the calls with ordinary databases like, LexisNexis-Accurint-Clear-TLo, to identify the people who communicated with Cohen. A criminal history search here or there, a call into the IRS, or the SEC(not college football) and they identify someone that has something to lose. A knock on the door and an investigator asks, “did you have any contact with Cohen on D-Day, at H-Hour and talk for 23 minutes? Where were you that day?” That person says, NO, and says they were at their mothers house. Feds determine that the guy was at the track, betting on horses. They just violated 18USC1001, Lying to a Federal Investigator. Two days later, when they’re walking to their front door to their home, two US Marshals approach and take them into custody for said violation. They are then taken to an interview where they can give Mueller something on Cohen or they go to federal prison.
They don’t need to listen in on calls. They’ll get to Cohen this way. Remember, in so many perjury cases, it was never proven that someone lied, the Fed’s just produced someone that said the defendant lied. The Fed’s rely on intimidation and the ability to bankrupt you into submission. And this is clearly what Mueller is trying to do now. Probably why Rosenstein picked him, knowing there was nothing.
If I was an associate of Cohen’s, in any way shape or form, I’d remember that the 5th Amendment is your friend, keep your mouth shut and ask for a lawyer.
I don’t talk to anyone. I was once a person who believed that you have nothing to worry about if you’re innocent, but they treat victims the same as criminals. It’s obscene what passes for justice in this “free” country.
I’m not a Libertarian, but also I’m no law-and-order conservative anymore. Too many “Conservatives” are too happy building the scaffolds for their own progeny. I say starve the beast at every chance.
What’s happening to Trump occurs every minute across the country, but the little people’s stories rarely make headlines. I didn’t start out supporting Trump, but I now love him and pray for him daily.