I understand what the article is saying but just throwing out a thought based on things I have seen reported in the past.
The emails between Paul Ryan and Mike Pence are about them trying to get Trump out of the race so Ryan could step in. This makes Pence himself Shady as fuck.
There were reports before about how they may have had spies infiltrate the Trump Campaign but they didn't know how many may have.
After Trump won the Democrats have been hell bent on getting Trump out of office by impeachment or even assassination. This would put Pence in as President and if he was one of their own the deep state is back in control.
I remember also reading about when Regan was forced to choose a Deep State VP being told that if he did not he would not make it to the election. He was given a couple names and choose Bush. His staff was shocked to hear he choose him after saying there was no way he would choose bush as a VP. This gave the deep state leverage and when he tried to push back he was shot and never tried again. Would make since if this was the game plan with Trump.
With Pence having access there would have been nothing stopping him from giving information to his wife and his wife passing information on to others. Just because a person has recused them self does not mean they no longer talk to any of the people on the case. It just means that they are not officially part of the investigation.
That is my thought process behind it. I will have to look into it more but not outside the realm of possibility.