Or, did the CIA have British and Australian intel do their dirty work? They certainly seem to have been in on the Catrer Page entrapment attempt.
That smirking ass Carter Page was also CIA. He was not a dupe. The CIA provided him to the FBI for their FISA warrant needs. Had Hillary’s plan succeeded, he would have faded away. As it was, he joined the Trump campaign and that let them spy on every single campaign associate with the two hop rule.
Mueller and Weissmann spoke to him one afternoon and exonerated him. Everyone else gets the rectal exam back to third grade, but Mueller clears him over a cup of coffee. He testifies to Congress and conceals his CIA status. He helpfully explains that he made sure the campaign was aware every time he interacted
with Russians.
Ask any doper what it means when the cops raid a house and everyone gets arrested except for one guy.
That's the "one weird trick" these out of control spy agencies use to skirt the law against spying on their own citizens. The CIA spies on Brits or Australians that those governments which to spy on and conversely those countries spy agencies return the favor for the U.S.
In that case the CIA would still be responsible for getting the British and Australians to do their dirty work.