Really there’s a Rambo, Jeffery working in Government? Jeff, Jeffy didn’t you learn anything from John?
OK now that I got that out of my system, was Watkins the only reporter who covered the IC that he spied on? Where and when did he have a chance to grill her?
He’s obviously being hung out to dry. I seriously doubt Agent Rambo had the ability to get the information he needed to harass her on his own.
My immediate thought: the Watergate burglars. What was Mr. Rambo up to? How did it relate to his supposed job? At whose behest was he doing this?
Start pulling on that thread, and see what unravels.
He didn’t.
This article has a pretty good summary of what he had access to.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/customs-and-border-protection-examining-agents-questioning-of-national-security-reporter/2018/06/12/05dac696-6e74-11e8-afd5-778aca903bbe_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.eef1dc97b0d3
This doesn’t mention the full story of how he was busted. He contacted her anonymously through email and set up a meeting at a DC restaurant, pretending to be a possible source. Instead he basically threatened to blackmail her for dirt on her sources - she didn’t bite. When they left she doubled back and talked to the bartender and got his name off the credit card bill. Lol.
Thing is, there’s no way some random border agent in California would have known anything about Watkins and her affair. There’s no way the theory that he freelanced this on his own holds together at all, because even if he had illegally looked up the info, he wouldn’t have known to do so.
Apparently this guy wants a career in Trump’s not yet announced secret police.
Or got one.
This has to be worth a movie script: Rambo, Jeffrey Rambo.
I agree that the “lone gung-ho investigator” theory is implausible.
However, it’s worth remembering that misuse of access privileges is one of the risks of building big law enforcement/ medical databases. It basically enables stalking - of exes, of celebrities, of people your conspiracy theory web site says are up to no good, you name it.
My understanding was that he had the ablilty. I have very serious doubts he had the IQ. Idiot pays for illegal blackmail meeting with Credit Card. Maybe another idiot reimbursed him. Follow the money. And the Stupid.
In this maladministration following the money would be the easiest route, there’s just too much stupid spread over too many agencies to go that path.
“…or if Rambo was acting alone.”
There a movie script in there somewhere.