and they knew it would be under super-intense microscope. Same with judge and hooever else in FBI/DOJ knew and/or signed off.

Lots of people knew ahead of time. Plenty of chances to scream bloody murder and/or quit if they thought it was bogus. None of us here know, and time will show whether it was all just petty speculation and a fishing expedition. But man, a lot of career professionals, including some hoo are unquestionably diehard Republicans, knew about it before (and certainly are watching it now with knowledge of what was in the application for a search warrant), and I haven't heard a single one dispute that it was a legit search warrant. For something this high profile, and with a President hoo will undoubtedly reward high profile supporters hoo stick their neck out for him, the silence is deafening.

But maybe all these pros were incredibly reckless, partisan (even against their own party), and willing to risk disbarment and worse as part of a grand bipartisan deep state attempt to dethrone the President. Guess we'll find out soon enough, though.