Believe it when I see it.
So this may be too obvious to bother adding it to the thread, but can we safely assume that the Russian collusion story was developed as a reason for all this surveillance since it must have been obvious at some point (to Obama and his associates) that they were detected and all this would come out. They hope that the Russian interference story will provide a plausible excuse, and have been pushing it non-stop ever since about December 2016 which is probably when they knew they had been detected.