So it's an investigation based on no evidence that we're allowed to see as yet, apart from "opinion, queries, rumour and hearsay", and we just have to trust the unelected officials of the US intelligence services?
Dunno about you, but where investigating whether the sitting US President and/or his people colluded with Russia to get him elected is concerned, I'd rather put my trust in those "unelected officials of the US intelligence services" than the uncredible, well-known serial liars who benefited from that possible collusion. And 17 US intelligence agencies--note: that's all of them--have affirmed that Russia hacked the election, so let's not be so hasty to say, "Well, I've seen nothing; let's look away!"
So far as Clapper, note his comments:
"Not to my knowledge," Clapper said, based on the information he had before his time in the position ended.
Hardly the open-and-shut case some might want to see, is it? Most of the bombs that have been dropped have been dropped since January 20, so Clapper wouldn't have been apprised any more than would you or I. And as for Morell, here's a little tidbit from that same NBC piece:
Morell said... that he continues to believe that the Russian campaign of hacking, leaking and fake news, which the CIA says was designed to hurt Clinton and help Trump, was a hugely consequential action to which the U.S. has not sufficiently responded.
Putin, he said, has suffered no consequence for his unprecedented interference in the U.S. election.
"This has never happened before in American history on this scale, never not even close. And Putin did not pay any price for this — nothing, zero."
So neither man you quoted is suggesting--as are you, as is Trump, as are most Republicans--that we just move along.
...[T]he CIA has already said there's nothing to investigate.
No, they have not. Morell said so, but then again, Morell wasn't the acting director of the CIA when the Russian campaign to influence the election occurred. In fact, he hasn't been the AD since March of 2013.
From the outside it certainly looks as if there is just smoke feeding your outrage, and it's coming from one side of the US political circus in a deliberate attempt to sabotage and unseat a democratically elected president, which is why this also looks like just another US regime change operation ... except this time it's operating on the US domestic audience against its own government!
Look, you and others are free to spin all this any way you wish. You're free to ridicule and dismiss and discount, and to cry that we should move on because, gosh darnit, Trump is POTUS. That's your right, I suppose. And if some were in charge, they'd signal that our once-democratic electoral processes are no more, and that hostile foreign intervention into our elections--and, likely, collusion--is just the way things will be from now on. But I'm not okay with that, nor will I ever be. At any rate, it's been just two weeks since Comey stated that Trump was under investigation. Two weeks. It's far too early to throw in the towel, my friend. Patriotism and love of country demands the truth be known, and if getting to that truth takes time, you'll just have to live with it.
Democracy be damned!!
Hey, I think you just coined the slogan for Trump's 2020 reelection campaign!