UPDATE: News Is Coming Fast And Furious Today
The big news, of course, is the release of new Strzok/Lisa Page texts, and especially one dated Septermber 2, 2016, in which Lisa Page says Comey will be briefing Obama, adding "potus wants to know everything we're doing."
According to Fox News "this text raises questions about Obama’s personal involvement in the Clinton email investigation." However, I'm a bit skeptical. Of course, "everything" means "everything," so if the FBI did something on the Clinton email investigation then Obama would want to know that. But that investigation had supposedly been disposed of, with Hillary exonerated, back on July 5, 2016--two months before the text, and close two months before Comey's decision to take a New Look at that "matter."
So, in context, my guess is that Rep. Louis Gohmert is correct in saying that this means "the President [Obama] wants to know what they [the FBI] are doing to try to stop Trump.” "Stop" might be a bit, but only a bit, strong. Perhaps "undermine" would be a better description of the FBI's role.
All in all, this is Very Big. I think it's been more or less assumed all along, but to have it confirmed in black and white ...
ADDENDUM: While not strictly related to the above, this blog linked below makes an excellent point. Everyone is talking FISA these days, but another investigative instrument in the national security field is the National Security Letter (NSL). NSLs are the National Security version of subpoenas. If you're wondering what takes Congressional committees so long to investigate these matters and why reports in unedited form can be so voluminous, this is one reason. Thorough investigators will want to know about all NSLs that were issued around any given investigation:
By Joe Herring
UPDATE: In an article dated yesterday, February 8, 2016, How The Media Buried Two Huge FBI Stories Yesterday , Mollie Hemingway dwells at length on the news we examined above--including the "potus wants to know everything we're doing" text. In doing so she cites a WSJ article dated February 7, 2016, which I had ignored because of the absurd "understatement" of the title: Text From 2016 Shows Obama’s Interest in FBI Employees’ Work . The article is detailed and confirms that "associates" of Obama confirm that he was not at that point interested in updates on Clinton's emails but rather on "Russia." Which is to say, Trump.