The absurdity of Montgomery’s career is that by the time certain elements inside the intelligence community teamed up with the Mockingbird Media in 2009 to paint Montgomery as a fraud who sold “hoax” technology to the CIA and the U.S. military, Montgomery was already back working as a government contractor for Brennan and Clapper.

Obama was in office and “THE HAMMER” was already underway.

Under FBI Director Robert Mueller’s direction, the FBI in 2006 had raided Montgomery’s Nevada home and storage units. According to U.S. Magistrate Judge Valerie Cooke, Mueller’s FBI used illegally-obtained search warrants to raid Montgomery’s premises.

Painting Montgomery as a hoax in 2009 was nothing short of an insurance policy. Should Montgomery decided to talk, the intelligence community’s allies in the Mockingbird Media had already painted Montgomery as a fraud and put his veracity in question.

If Mueller’s use of illegally-obtained search warrants to go after Montgomery sounds reminiscent of the Obama administration’s illegal acquisition of FISA warrants in order to build the hoax FBI Trump Russian collusion case, that’s because it is.

The Mockingbird Media attacks on Montgomery began well after Director of National Intelligence John Negroponte had invoked the State Secrets Privilege (SSP) against Montgomery, which left Montgomery without the right to speak out on his own behalf. The SSP is essentially a government gag order and is typically invoked in order to protect state secrets, including national security secrets.

Montgomery remains under the SSP to this day, leaving him unable to defend himself and his reputation. And those who would continue to have at it knowing that Montgomery is muzzled.

The Mockingbird Media attacks against Montgomery began in 2009, not long after President Obama assumed office.

Also beginning in 2009, establishment media outlets such as Playboy magazine and Wired magazine, followed by the New York Times, attempted to paint Montgomery as a fraud.

“They (the intelligence agencies) leaked false information about me in 2009 and 2011 to the press to discredit me in case their domestic surveillance programs ever became public,” Montgomery stated. “Somebody leaked my name to (New York Times reporter James Risen) saying that my work for the government didn’t work and so forth, which is ridiculous. My work saved lives…”

The last thing the Obama administration wanted was a bonafide American hero blowing the whistle on their illegal and unconstitutional domestic surveillance and blackmail activities.

Although John Brennan was involved with “THE HAMMER” in the early days of the project when it was still being used for foreign surveillance in Reno, Nevada, Brennan and James Clapper fully commandeered “THE HAMMER” in February 2009, relocating the system to Fort Washington, Maryland, just a hop, skip and a jump from the White House.

Brennan and Clapper fully weaponized “THE HAMMER” for illegal surveillance against Americans.

According to whistleblower Montgomery, Brennan and Clapper utilized “THE HAMMER” for “blackmail” and “leverage.” That is correct — blackmail and leverage — in the United States of America.