I think we are going to see that intelligence collection resources and capabilities that were intended to combat terrorism were used to target political enemies. A grotesque abuse of power that must be punished.
Brennan, Clapper and Comey will have a lot of explaining to do. They are about to experience some serious karma.
Targeting political opponents is exactly what happened.
There weren’t enough terrorists on US soil to justify the enormous JTTF budgets.
The mission became one of monitoring US citizens and US nationals AND THEIR INTERACTION WITH FOREIGN AGENTS. If there weren’t enough foreign agents interacting with US persons of interest, then foreign agents would be ‘inserted’.
Review the Papadopoulos story. It’s all right there.
A lot of explaining to do
The explanation is simple. They did as they were told to do.