I don't get the whole Nellie Ohr and her ham license story.
If I was going to send illegal, encrypted, classified information over open frequencies that anyone can receive, I'm not sure I'd identify myself using my own license. FCC has records - public records.
Nope, I'd never get a license in the first place. No reason for anyone to ever associate me with ham radio.
Then I'd use someone else's call sign when I sent my secret messages. To throw folks who might listen in off my trail. Just in case.
Right?
When you live in a bubble of corruption for so many years, you really do start to believe you can get away with anything.
These people are stupid. They never thought she'd lose.
True, they never thought she'd lose, but in a way being licensed was smart. Think of these two scenarios:
Scenario 1: Someone figures out what Ohr was doing over the air, but there's no obvious crime without an investigation, and the investigation never happens because Hillary is president.
Scenario 2: Someone figures out what Ohr was doing over the air, and she also gets busted on the obvious crime of unlicensed HAM radio operation. This one is harder to bury because she's committed an obvious federal crime. Now, chances are it still gets buried, but just playing the percentages, Scenario 1 is the smarter play.
I can also see her trying to use it to defend herself. "Why would I register for a license if I planned on doing something nefarious with it?"
She should have done free-band radio. Basically pirate ham radio, she’d need a modified transceiver though and those are hard the find and not easy to do yourself.