Moreover, it cannot be glossed over that, at the very time it appears the Obama Justice Department was seeking to surveil Trump and/or his associates on the pretext that they were Russian agents,
LOL!! It's so absurd, it's mind-boggling. Mike Flynn was Director, National Intelligence for Barack Obama for 6 years who had been named National Security Advisor for Trump who was setting up meetings with Putin through the Russian Ambassdor to the United States!! Jeff Sessions is a US Senator from ... ALABAMA, a red state! And the red in red state means Republican, NOT RUSSIAN. Sessions met with the Russian Ambassador in Sessions office on official business, Sessions spoke briefly with the same ambassador following a speech Sessions gave at a Heritage Foundation event with over 100 Ambassadors who were sent there by the Obama Administration's State Department. Paul Manafort did campaign work for a candidate running for President of Ukraine, NOT RUSSIA. Carter Page gave a speech in Moscow to students and academics about economic and trade policies, NOT overthrowing the American Government.

"pretext of being Russian agents"

Unbelievable.