Apparently Walker made a secret arrangement to provide Shimmy with confidential trap-and-trace information, as well as confidential information from the FBI files on me. Shimmy could intercept my communications without a warrant, under the pretense that he was not assisting the government but rather working only for the Internet service providers. (The Feds would never charge me with hacking Shimomura; I believe this was because they couldn’t afford to expose their gross misconduct, which appeared to violate Federal wiretapping statutes.)