https://theohiostar.com/2020/05/18/exclusive-the-treasury-department-spied-on-flynn-manafort-and-the-trump-family-says-whistleblower/
>>May 18, 2020
No checks and balances.
Surveil through FISA.
Surveil through National Security Letters.
Surveil illegally through retroactive FISA.
Surveil illegally through fishing expeditions (whether through black hat employees or contractors).
>>“Another thing they would do is take targeted names from a certain database – I cannot name, but you can guess – and they were going over to an unclassified database and they were running those names in the unclassified database,” she said.
This ruse was to get around using classified resources to surveil Americans, she said. Once the Treasury personnel had enough information about someone they were targeting from the black box, they would go to the white box for faster and more informed search.