The thing is, if Comey, Clapper, etc. had just accepted the fact that they had a new boss, and no longer took orders from Obama, then they would not all potentially be going to jail.
They could have easily kept it quiet that they were spying on Trump during the campaign, - or even TOLD HIM... but they tried to use ‘Russia collusion’ to actually unseat him.
power corrupts absolute power absolutely corrupts