I don’t think ANY of these claimed affairs were real. I think they were cover for their communication channels. To put it another way, when people who work in entirely different branches of the federal government get close to each and conspire without any reason to even know the other exists, there really is only two possibilities: (1) They actually are having an affair, or (2) They were carrying out orders from above, but do not want to disclose that, for obvious reasons.
And they would willingly subject their spouses to these texts being released?