The odd thing about what you say CatBus, is that it was Obama who changed the Intelligence rules, to allow “better and quicker” communication between numerous Global Intelligence agencies. It was put in to effect before he left office. Obama started tweaking these Intelligence rules as far back as 2011.

Early on, before the election, there were quiet rumblings about our Intelligence community, that didn’t get a lot of press. There seemed to be a narrative that some of our own Intelligence folks knew about Clinton’s “private” server and the pay for play, and that they may have hacked the DNC server to release or “leak” the info to try and get it out there. Since it has been shown that our Intelligence community does have tools to make it look as if others were doing they hacking, it would make a great smoke screen. A digital version of “wag the dog”, if you will. Make it look authentic, make it look like Russia.

IF, the “Russian Narative” investigation were already going on before Trump was sworn in it is probable that the “hacked info” evidence somehow made it to them. Trumps own people may not have even been aware of it and that may have set off or gave “cause” to their “surveillance” of some Trump Campaign team members because they already knew that specific information had been purposely leaked to the Russians because they recognized their own work. It may have then been given to the Democrats to take the advantage away from those that wanted Clinton fried.

President Obama was in support of better ties with Russia but maybe his intentions, our Governments intentions, were duplicitous to a specific agenda.