The modern U.S. intelligence agencies were created and chartered with one purpose at the time and that was to match the efforts of the Soviet KGB. The conditioning was to see a Russian behind every problem. Once the Soviet Union fell apart, the American spy agencies had the same one answer to every problem.
I grew up in the 50’s, and the threat of Russia was pounded into our heads regularly. Air raid drills were a regular affair. At 7 or 8 years old, I was a very impressionable child, and each time we were herded into the school hallways to sit, I listened for the sound of the planes that were coming to attack us. Now the threat is from our own intelligence agencies.
I understand that sentiment completely, but...I don't think that is at ALL what happened in this situation. That would assume our intelligence agencies were operating as they should have and made erroneous assumptions.
That is not the case. This was a deliberate frame-up by the upper echelons of the intelligence agencies, FBI, State, and DOJ.
They WANT people to think they were concerned about Russia. But that isn't what took place.