Secret Service made 'legally bad' decision to surveil Comey: court docs

Systemic Error Podcast · Aug 18, 2026 · 3m

The Government’s Panic Was the StoryThe Target Was Not the PostThe source article wants to linger on James Comey’s Instagram and the weirdness of “86-47.” That is the distraction. The real political fact is that federal power was reportedly used to track a former FBI director by cellphone and build a criminal case around a social media post, while his defense says law enforcement did not believe anyone was in immediate danger.This is not a neutral public-safety story. It is a story about who gets to turn ambiguity into suspicion, and who gets to decide when surveillance is “exigency” and when…