>What the intelligence community fears is the American public knowing there is a process of using bulk metadata gathering of electronic communication for operations against politicians, political interest groups, and any entity deemed adverse to the interests of the leftist administration. What they fear is more information about the HAMMER system coming out, since it went far beyond using bulk metadata to spy on people. Few people realize the extent of the use of that system and how dependent the DS was on it before it was co-opted by Trump and gang. The HAMMER will reveal everything that was going on. Every crime, every person involved. We don't hear much about it because the DS wants people to forget about it but also because Trump and gang don't want to highlight how resourceful it has been and how much they know because of it. Trump is still playing things out.