Brennan looks like the main culprit for sure, I could see how the head of the CIA might consider himself the most powerful man in the world, capable of pulling off anything. CIA is use to performing counter-intelligence and espionage acts on foreign countries, not a surprise that with a corrupt individual leading the CIA for this to happen. JFK warned what these arms of our government might become. We do not want Russia meddling in our affairs, yet the CIA does it to Russia and other countries and how can we be shocked when the CIA turns on its own government under the guise of being a "patriot" to take Trump down. Putin manipulated Brennan for our government to behave like Russia's does when it comes to it's own people.
The balancing act is how to prevent legit intelligence activities and techniques from being disclosed, and for the CIA and FBI operating under such a cloak of secrecy that they hide behind an encompassing "confidentiality agreement" that allows them to do what they want and possibly hurting our democratic principles and it only coming to light when there is an obvious bad outcome for all that public to see that demands scrutiny. The CIA, FBI, and our military hides way to much from the American public all under this umbrella of safe guarding methods and sources. At a minimum, the decision making of our top officials and how those decisions were made should be fully disclosed. We all thought WMD's existed in Iraq, if you can not get that right then I say our so called methods and techniques are nothing special and that the CIA, FBI, and our military is not near as good as we think. Only thing that would get exposed is how bad our methods and techniques are, and perhaps the appearance of being great at intelligence some believe is a deterrent, but in the long game it undermines our long-term security and will risk more American lives.
Our MSM was suppose to help keep transparency, and in this instance MSM was co-conspirators, it was state TV, people like Brennan and Comey were employed by MSM and MSM became part of the counter-intelligence attack. This is no different than what happens in Russia, our checks and balances are gone. Half of the US public no longer wants the truth, half wants propaganda and the truth be damned all in the name of our government gaining yet more control over how we live, lessening our freedoms, and having a justice system not based on our laws and its strict applications, it gets applied based on if you are state friendly or not. Great deal of power in the hands of a select few.
Trump loses and the grand illusion continues and gets more deeply rooted. Those claiming Trump is a traitor and is the horrible President? He is trying to take our government and media back to a time when it tried to serve our entire population, those who are against this is primarily the MSM and a few elected officials that now want complete control in how we live and what we believe, even if what we believe is a total fabricated lie created by MSM and a population that is indoctrinated (not educated) thru our educational system to believe in things that are in some instances can be proven false scientifically.
