Emails obtained by the Guardian reveal a behind-the-scenes network of county election officials throughout Georgia coordinating on policy and messaging to both call the results of November’s election into question before a single vote is cast, and push rules and procedures favored by the election denial movement.

The emails were obtained by the watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (Crew) as a result of a public records request sent to David Hancock, an election denier and member of the Gwinnett county board of elections. Crew shared the emails with the Guardian.

Crazy how our enormously expensive and exhaustively lauded domestic intelligence network missed this, but six volunteer watchdog reporters in trench coats picked it up.

Beginning to think the National Security Agency and the Federal Bureau of Investigations aren’t quite worth their multi-billion dollar budget lines.