"Tips and leads" huh. So basically I am imagining a secretive "IC" office somewhere that sends an intern with whatever illegally collected intelligence they ha

"Tips and leads" huh. So basically I am imagining a secretive "IC" office somewhere that sends an intern with whatever illegally collected intelligence they have to another unmarked room. The intern then passes the document across a table to some guy the Feds have some leverage on. He scans the documents, seeing carefully delineated highlighted sections and bullet points. He takes some papers out of the file, devoid of all identifying details, and places it into his bag. He walks out of the building and delivers this via sealed deposition to whatever domestic law enforcement authorities are relevant. Plausible deniability, done. This is just ridiculous.