Another issue of note with case. From the article in the OP:
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"An active duty Coast Guard member stationed at Coast Guard Headquarters in Washington, D.C., was arrested last week on illegal weapons and drug charges as a result of an ongoing investigation led by Coast Guard Investigation Services, in cooperation with the FBI and the Dept. of Justice," Coast Guard spokesman Lt. Cmdr. Scott McBride said in a statement. "Because this is an open investigation, the Coast Guard has no further details at this time."
You can bet your ass that they've used what's called parallel construction to get evidence on this guy.
As per an article that explains it:
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DEA teaches agents to recreate evidence chains to hide methods
Trainers justify parallel construction on national security and PR grounds: “Americans don’t like it”
Written by Shawn Musgrave
Edited by Michael Morisy
Drug Enforcement Administration training documents released to MuckRock user C.J. Ciaramella show how the agency constructs two chains of evidence to hide surveillance programs from defense teams, prosecutors, and a public wary of domestic intelligence practices.
In training materials, the department even encourages a willful ignorance by field agents to minimize the risk of making intelligence practices public.
The DEA practices mirror a common dilemma among domestic law enforcement agencies: Analysts have access to unprecedented streams of classified information that might prove useful to investigators, but entering classified evidence in court risks disclosing those sensitive surveillance methods to the world, which could either end up halting the program due to public outcry or undermining their usefulness through greater awareness.
The simplest way to explain how this works is, for example, the DEA uses hacks to comb through a suspect's phone after (maybe) getting a secret warrant. They find out that the suspect has just picked up a large quantity of product but they don't want to have to enter the phone stuff into evidence because that will tip other dealers off not to use their phones anymore.
So they call the local yokels in the Sherriff's department and say "swing by 123 Smith St and see if you notice anything suspicious". The local yokels claim to smell marijuana, get a warrant on the spot and raid the house. They get the distributor and the drugs without the DEA having to tip their hand on the secret phone tap warrants.
Where this is going now, as I suspect is the case in this instance, the CIA or one of the other deeps state intelligence agencies is given an order by their handlers to find a patriotic nationalist that can be turned into a villain for psyop purposes. It's not hard. They already have a long list of potential targets rated on a laundry list of qualifiers so all they have to do at this point is type in keywords to get a shortlist. They pull a dozen candidates then drag their digital life out to make sure they have evidence of a conspiracy. They pick the three best candidates then dump a 5 man team on each to trawl through their life an find several minor infractions that can be used as grounds for an initial arrest and search of the premises. From there all they need to do is contact a sympathetic ladder climber in the appropriate department and organise a local investigation beginning with something as trivial as "suspicious behavior".
From the Fox article. Remember we're talking about one of the most highly driven individuals in the public service who was so organised he had a spreadsheet of targets:
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...arrested last week on weapons and drug charges...
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...as a result of an ongoing investigation led by Coast Guard Investigation Services, in cooperation with the FBI and the Dept. of Justice,"...
What's worse is that a lot of guys in different countries think they're safer when it's often the opposite. These three letter agencies are actually less constricted in abusing the rights of foreign nationals than they are their own. So that same handler in the CIA can brazenly and without hesitation call your local police department, for example, and offer to give Detective Plod information that will lead to a big drug bust on the proviso that he also wanders by your house one day, "hears the sounds of a struggle" and kicks the door in to find "it was just the TV", but lo and behold you're violating state and federal laws by using energy in-efficient lightbulbs. One search warrant later and they will find
something, and if there's nothing to find then you can be sure the CIA will be happy to dump something in an obscure location in your windows files that will be good enough to put you away for a few years at least.
This way of doing business is already a reality but most people don't want to wake up to it until it's at their doorstep.
Do your best to keep your shit 100% legal or 100% off grid.