It appears an additional warrant was issued allowing the FBI to install "Pen Registers"

It doesn’t take 12 hours to find a box of paper in a locked room you already know where it is.

They bugged the place. Clearly

Explains why they wanted the video system turned off.

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If a low-level magistrate signed such an order against an ex-POTUS, he should be removed from his position immediately.

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Its not like there is a "high level" magistrate judge

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If a low-level magistrate signed such an order against an ex-POTUS, he should be removed from his position immediately.

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Jonathan Turley was surprised a magistrate took this on, other than Turley knows why this magistrate did it but Turley never gets into that fray, He said a section 3 judge should have been approached by the FBI, or the Magistrate should have called one in to handle the requests.

True pen registers are used to identify the number dialed (but not the content of) in an outgoing phone call.

Now the term is a bit of a catch all, but an electronic pen register on a computer should record the to, cc, bcc, and from addresses in an email, but not the subject line, body, or any attachments.

My guess is though that in reality, federal pen register software captures everything.

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And these frickers still have the audacity to draw allusions between Nixon and Trump…

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Obama did exactly what Nixon tried to do with the breakin, spy on his political enemy.

Biden is doing it in the open. And "journalists" are clapping like seals.

It's a disgusting decent into corruption.

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"Pen Registers" are wiretaps, perhaps limited to numbers called, and numbers of calls received, but wiretaps nonetheless.

If a low-level magistrate signed such an order against an ex-POTUS, he should be removed from his position immediately.

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Crooks quickly became familiar with the law of minimization and would frequently spend the first five minutes of each conversation discussing the weather or some other innocent subject, only to discuss business after police had minimized. Police are now allowed to spot-monitor calls after minimizing. After the call is minimized, they may briefly check in to determine if the call has become pertinent. They may repeat this process on a regular basis during the call’s duration, and police are allowed more latitude at the beginning of a wiretap. After conversation patterns are established, police are expected to be more efficient in their minimization practices.

Each monitored phone call or portion thereof must, under the statute, be recorded.10 Additionally, the recordings must be preserved, and a copy will ultimately be filed with the court at the termination of the wiretap. Keep in mind that the recordings will not just produce evidence that the State may use in court. The recordings will also show the monitoring officer’s minimization practices, providing fodder for possible suppression of the wiretap.

Pen registers and trap and trace devices
A pen register or trap and trace device, unlike a wiretap, does not require a finding of probable cause.11 The application must simply state under oath that the installation and use of the device will likely produce information material to an ongoing investigation. The application must further identify the telephone subscriber and the relevant phone number and carrier. The application may be reviewed by a district court judge in the jurisdiction of the requesting agency, the location of the device, telephone subscriber, or communications carrier.

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If a low-level magistrate signed such an order against an ex-POTUS, he should be removed from his position immediately.

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The fact that the DoJ had to shop this to such a low level position should clearly show how underhanded this all was.

Has Hank arrived yet to scold us all for being outraged by this obviously gross abuse of power?

Has he come to tell us that this is standard operating procedure, and an essential investigative step taken even in the most banal and routine federal probes?