I’ll believe all this is really a bombshell when an indictment is handed down.
Too many bombshells, too many nothingburgers. Ho-hum.
The point of that would be to drive home that the legal process cannot fix what's broken here. I think the law is not going to do the job, because the law is deferential to the government, and overthrow of order from the inside is not a crime.
When the law fails, the people have two other remedies. The first is political, elect new leaders, ones who are at least slightly more faithful to the constitution. When politics fails, the remedy is revolution - I advocate massive civil disobedience right now, but the people's appetite for that isn't there.
What the coup is, basically, is use of the law to stifle the political process. The government has decided to use the law so that the people lose their political power. This is a dangerous path, but the people didn't choose this path, the government did.
If the law gives the people a few scalps, the same rot will persist, and the government will continue to abuse its power. Something much more serious that "we (the government) fixed this" has to happen.
It won't. We'll get a few token scalps and the usual lies couched as promises, this will never happen again. FISA was made so snooping would never happen again, and it's a complete and total SHAM.
But if the government comes out and says "it's not really very broken" and "sorry, but no crimes were committed here," the people will propery and finally lose faith, at which point the heat is dialed up on "them vs. us." It's a shame that the government is the enemy of its people, but there it is.