I think we are missing a few big "paradigms" in our understanding/model.
First is that Obama and Clinton HATE each other. /Blood-Feud-Clintons-vs-Obamas/dp/1491542209 amazon book link, kun didn't like the url …… while I have no idea how much of that is fairly presented as the truth - what I can say is that whereas the Clintons embody more classic imperialism as a policy standpoint - Obama embraces a position as a sort of One World Mao as his own. The two positions fundamentally conflict as the Clintons are subordinate to Obama's envisioned world… And the Clintons see themselves of royalty who are masters over at least the territories they hold.
So, while they will cooperate when their interests align - or when they can't survive on their own - they are not working for the same goals. Which leads me to wonder if Clinton was going bigger than Obama and his administration realized.
Consider that the FBI took out liability insurance not because they thought Trump would win - but that Hillary would - and once she did, everyone involved in Obama's spy campaign could be prosecuted at will at any time in the future should the Clintons want to apply leverage, and they could squelch media coverage of such trials and changes within the "deep state."
Hillary was setting us up for war with Russia and to have numbers on large portions of DC. I think her plot is even more sinister than most realize. Consider that Carter Page, Paul Manafort, and Papa D were all on Trump's campaign after Hillary implied advancing Trump as a pied piper. Not to say they are all dirty - but that resources would have been moved into place to get them on Trump's campaign so they could be utilized, later (although Manafort has some skeletons in his closet).
These resources don't just crop up by accident - they had been planning for months before Hillary's emails were ever a subject.
Which begs the question of if the leak by Hillary was deliberate. Then she could try and frame it as a Russian plot, they had resources in place to argue it was a russian plot.
If she had the election rigged - why would she be worried about popularity? It was a play to galvanize the party and DC/military for war with Russia.
She presented it to Obama on the thin premise that Trump was a russian asset more as a tool to get her foot in the door than as a need to spy on Trump's campaign.
That's my take on it. None of what happened makes sense unless we factor in that Hillary was moving into a war with Russia leveraging old CIA assets and actually playing as adversary to Obama's administration to a large degree.