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The summation:

In sum, many within the FBI, the CIA, the DOJ, the NSC, and the State Department may have been involved in the greatest scandal in American electoral history, by directing agents, informants, and employees to help one campaign to harm another — and then, even after the election, to work to undermine a sitting president.

And the question: Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? Moreover, how do we even get to the point where the American people will trust not only that this will never happen again, but that anything even can be done about it? Because at the moment it appears that the level of corruption is so great that the corrupt appear to have realized that nothing need be done about it, that they can merely sabotage and wait out the Trump administration and then get back to business as usual.

And by "the corrupt" I specifically include the media organizations who have profited handsomely from the leakage and subsequent publication of sensitive information entrusted to those "guardians". Corrupt enough people and there's no one left to stop it. So to the original point of "how do these agencies regain the trust of the citizens?" the answer to that is "They don't have to, they know they don't have to, they revel in that power, and the American people were the last to know."

Thank you for referencing that article lowbuck. Please note that the following critique is directed at the article and not at you.

"The Police Were Not Policed"

FR: Never Accept the Premise of Your Opponent’s Argument

As usual, the fingers are being pointed at the wrong people imo.

Patriots are reminded that Congress has always had the constitutional authority to impeach and remove bad-apple federal officials from office.

H O W E V E R …

All roads of corruption in the federal government lead to Congress.

In other words, we’re still stuck with a corrupt, post-17th Amendment ratification Congress left over from the lawless Obama Administration.

More specifically, regardless of election year dog-and-pony show questioning of anti-Trump bureaucrats, the likewise anti-Trump Congress will predictably actually not lift a finger to deal with these bureaucrats.

After all, these corrupt bureaucrats are doing Congress’s dirty work for it with respecting to trying to get rid of Pres. Trump imo.

The remedy …

Patriots need to exercise their voting power to police Congress by getting rid of career lawmakers in the 2018 elections, replacing these lawmakers with state sovereignty-respecting patriot lawmakers who will support Trump’s vision for MAGA.

"Patriots need to exercise their voting power to police Congress by getting rid of career lawmakers in the 2018 elections, replacing these lawmakers with state sovereignty-respecting patriot lawmakers who will support Trump’s vision for MAGA."

The representatives of "We, the People," must recognize that:

The oath of office required for representatives of "the People" was intended to be sacred and binding, because that oath is a vow before the "Sovereign" of the Universe, and its violation carries penalities both human and Divine. President George Washington described it in this manner:
"Where is the security for property, for reputation, for life, if the sense of religious obligation desert the oaths?"
For an amazing history lesson and sermon by the Rev. Benjamin W. Arnett, readers might want to visit the Library of Congress and read the entire text of his Centennial Thanksgiving Sermon, paying special note to the excerpts below which discuss and describe the nature of the oath:
From the Library of Congress: African American Perspectives: Pamphlets from the Daniel A.P.Murray Collection, 1818-1907
Centennial Thanksgiving sermon,: delivered by Rev. B.W. Arnett, B.D., at St. Paul A.M.E. Church, Urbana, Ohio

CENTENNIAL THANKSGIVING SERMON

Excerpt from P. 31, in which he is discussing the Declaration of Independence:
"We, therefore, the representatives of the United States of America in General Congress assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the World for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the name, and by the authority of the good people of these colonies, solemnly publish and declare: That these United Colonies are and of right ought to be Free and Independent States; that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is, and ought to be, totally dissolved; and that, as Free and Independent States, they have full power to levy war, conclude peace, contract alliances, establish commerce, and to do all other things which Independent States may of right do. And for the support of this declaration, and in a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor." - JOHN HANCOCK.
Arnett continues:
"And the names of the whole Congress followed. You see that there is Divinity in this immortal document. Can we find in the "Articles of Confederation" anything to support the position that the founders of this government intended that it should be a nation for God, and that his religion should have a place in this land. It says: "Whereas it hath pleased the Great Governor of the World to incline the hearts of the legislatures we respectively represent in Congress, to approve of and to authorize us to ratify the said Articles of Confederation and perpetual union." Thus we find this assembly thanking the Governor of the world for inclining the hearts of men. Who can move the hearts of men but God? But we find them in reverence bowing to the Governor of men.
"We now call your attention to the Constitution of the Nation and let us examine that instrument in the light of the men who formed it, and we will see that this was intended to be a Nation founded in Righteousness and Justice. What does the instrument say on this subject:
"We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquillity, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America."
"Article VI says: "The Senators and Representatives before mentioned, and members of the several State Legislatures, and all executive and judicial officers, both of the United States and of the several States, shall be bound by Oath or Affirmation, to support this Constitution; but no religious Test shall be required as a Qualification to any office or public trust under the United States."
On Page 37, Rev. Arnett described the nature of "oaths and affirmations" as follows:
"Oaths and affirmations are appeals to God, by him who makes them, that what he has said, or what he shall say, is the truth. It is the most solemn form under which one can assert or pronounce anything, and its violation is a crime of the darkest hue; one which God has declared he will punish; one that is made infamous and punishable by fine and imprisonment, by the laws of the land. Thus Christian obligation is required of every officer of the general Government, who fills any position of trust, honor or emolument. Many reports are required in the form and shape of affidavits."