“Only a moron would even consider pursuing this course of action.”
One could argue you would have to be a moron to get involved in illegally wiretapping a presidential candidate who, if they won, would immediately find out you had been illegally wiretapping them.
That's true. The moron was strong all the way up the chain of command in that administration. That's what you get when you elect a jug-eared Kenyan exchange student as president, I guess.