Kash Patel

Did they use that to surveil you?

They used, as far as I know, remember, we're still in the process of suing them.

I don't know that they used the FISA against me, but they used all the other grand jury and federal investigatory subpoenas to surveil me.

Right, that's a great question.

So the mechanics of it, the government doesn't own.

the private sector.

They don't own Apple.

They don't own Google.

They don't own Verizon.

They don't own Sprint, right?

So they got to get cooperation from these agencies and from these, excuse me, private companies.

Look, it's just like if you were, we call it a T3, a Title III warrant.

It's a wiretap.

If you were in the mafia and you were a federal prosecutor hunting down the mob,

You would go to a federal judge and say, I need to tap this guy's phone line.

But that guy's phone line is owned by Verizon or Bell Pacific or whatever, right?

So once you get the warrant, then you go to the company and the company complies with a federal court order to give you the information.

And then what the government does most of the time is they go to the company and say, you're not allowed to tell the target of the investigation that you're giving us this information.

Hence the Google thing with me.

Google was ordered not to tell them about me.