well it was more complex then that -but yes you are correct.the scariest thing is they justified it using the steele dossier. This means you can pay someone to manufacture your own evidence then use that to wiretap the opposition.
the steele dossier got bounced around and abused by Clapper and Brennan under the guise that Trump needed to know...know what? fake news?..
all this is SO complicated. I should write it down, we haven't talked much about it since the Syrian strikes-
my old mind tends to forget