Look Here, Not There: FISA is Red Herring, Hammer is the Goal Here's a theory for you. Everyone believes Durham is focused on FISA court abuses by low level, or lower level, employees. Page, Papa D, etc. have been used as cover or a Red Herring and everyone is upset that nothing is happening. Barr just revised the FISA court process making it two tiered. He (as well as Congress who renewed FISA authorizations last year) has been clear that FISA is here to stay. ****Background FISA has always been known as a joke--as a rubber stamp court and most people who care about such things feel it should be abolished. A secret court in the U.S.? FISA came about in 1978 which in itself is curious timing--at the same time the Church Committee is theoretically going after the CIA and defanging it, the CIA solidifies their power by creating the FISA court--one of the premises being that super secret classified info can't be presented to a normal court--because of National Security--which is BS because most of us never learn anything about the grand juries that are convened daily in our country. So, I, along with others, have experienced disappointment at this seeming failure to deal with the FISA court. However, if Dennis Montgomery is to be believed (and Dave Janda and the reporters who broke the story based on Montgomery's info), then the Hammer is the real story and quite possibly the real focus of the investigation.  Clapper and Brennan have both perjured themselves before Congress--there was a lot of stink (and classic deflection from Brennan) over Durham's 8-hour interview of Brennan. If Montgomery is correct,, then the Hammer is the real crime--and Trump and Barr know this--but they are using the red herring storyline to misdirect the media and the criminals.  I know that on the one hand a lot of people have no hope about investigations while on the other people are wildly optimistic. But the clever move, the real chess move would be to deflect the real focus of the investigation. Think mirrors. Barr says Biden and Obama are not the subject of the investigation--because Clapper and Brennan are the subject of the investigation. Also, Snowden recently tweeted that he never thought he'd see the day where the courts would rule the NSA activities illegal which is disingenuous at best--certainly he can't be so naive as to think that the NSA will change, regardless of what the courts rule https://twitter.com/Snowden/status/1301251393832050688 And then there is Trump equivocating about Snowden--good guy, bad guy? Might there be an agreement? DON'T FORGET, SNOWDEN CREATED THE BRIDGE. The bridge created the means for upstream collections to be distributed to private companies and for intelligence to be weaponized and surely that is the real story..