Hmmm… I'm not sure about Brennan and Clapper. Comey, maybe, but there are other things about Comey that indicate he isn't a bad guy altogether (he's a boob, for sure).
It may be that Zero really did pardon himself and Cankles, and left several underlings off the list and they now realize what he did. He fucked 'em all except the one(s) that have all the goods (HRC, Huma, etc.).
Theories, of course, but worth positing. Discussion helps.
That would have been the playbook option if Kavanaugh didn't step up and get a defamation lawyer and agree to immediately testify in a hearing, under oath, with his accuser present.
He called their bluff.
They are fucked.
They don't, but that doesn't mean they didn't try. Criminals make stupid mistakes out of desperation.
Could be. Like I said, positing theories is a good thing. That's the whole point here. We're never going to be TOLD everything, there will always be details we need to work out.