I disagree.
Those papers reported contact with officials in the Obama administration. They reported the continuing leaks multiple times. The leaks were substantiated.
Therefore, that accurate info got to the leaker via some data collection method. In other words, Trump’s team was spied upon, the data was released to journalists, and it was used to hurt Trump.
So far there's no credible source for any of that stuff... "unnamed" officials is meaningless.
These same sources claim Trump worked with the Russians to "hack the election", and that he's a Nazi collaborator who burns kittens at the stake.
We don't have any names of anyone credible who could potentially be hauled in to testify under oath... but I sure hope Trump has some and that we will eventually hear from them.
I agree that there's smoke... but remember that these "officials" were leaking this stuff to the media to try and trash Trump... they could have simply made it up in the 1st place.