“The Deep State has turned its own crimes during and after the 2016 election into nothing less than a coup d’etat against American democracy.”
David Stockman 
If you were a Martian visitor just disembarked from of one of Elon Musk’s rocket ships and were therefore uninfected by earth-based fake news, the culprits in Washington’s witch-hunt de jure would be damn obvious.
They include John Brennan, Jim Comey, Sally Yates, Peter Strzok and a passel of deep state operatives — all of whom badly abused their offices. After Brennan had concocted the whole Russian election meddling meme to sully the Donald’s shocking election win, the latter three holdovers — functioning as a political fifth column in the new Administration — set a perjury trap designed to snare Mike Flynn as a first step in relitigating and reversing the voters’ verdict.
The smoking gun on their guilt is so flamingly obvious that the ability of the Trump-hating media to ignore it is itself a wonder to behold.
After all, anyone fresh off Elon’s rocket ship would learn upon even cursory investigation of the matter that the National Security Agency (NSA) intercepts electronically every single communication of the Russian Ambassador with any person on US soil — whether by email, text or phone call.
So the clear-minded visitor’s simple question would be: What do the transcripts say?
In fact, a Martian visitor would also quickly understand that the entire world — friend, rival, and enemy, alike — already knows of the NSA’s giant digital spying operation, owing to Snowden’s leaks, and that therefore there are no “sources and methods” on the SIGINT (signals intelligence) front to protect.
Accordingly, the disinterested Martian would undoubtedly insist: Declassify the NSA intercepts and publish them on Facebook (and, for old-timers, on the front page of the New York Times) so that the truth would be known to all.
full story at http://russia-insider.com/en/stockman-why-deep-state-war-trump/ri21873