Getting Hillary’s campaign involved also could have been a form of insurance. If she had been elected, she would have been too compromised to ever allow information about illegal surveillance to become public. (In fact, she most likely would have been compromised for lots of different reasons.)
This entire story is starting to have the earmarks a very sophisticated intelligence operation, with information being laundered through multiple sources. Who in the US government is most skilled at this kind of work? It is there that I would start looking for the originators of the scheme.
Bill Priestap's wife is the CEO of Nordello & Company, a sort of multi national private intelligence gathering company. I think we may be hearing about that couple in the future.
I am guessing this had BO’s stamp of approval from the get go. He had control of the government for 8 years. He and his handlers didn’t want to see the gains made during his Manchurian presidency be dismantled. I suspect this is all about the ME. Look at the recent changes in Saudi Arabia and the new regime being friendly with Israel. Hillary wrestled control of the DNC so BO and company didn’t have any other choice than to back her. My $.02