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The FBI Could Have Interviewed George Papadopoulos, But Opted To Spy On Him InsteadChuck RossThe Daily Caller May. 21, 2018 |
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 The month of August 2016 is emerging as especially crucial to the FBI’s counterintelligence investigation of the Trump campaign. The investigation, code-named “Crossfire Hurricane,” was opened on July 31, 2016 based on a claim from an Australian diplomat that Trump campaign adviser George Papadopoulos made comments more than two months earlier about Hillary Clinton’s emails and Russians. At some point over the ensuing month, the FBI seemingly decided to activate an FBI informant to make contact with Papadopoulos, who had joined the Trump team in March 2016. Stefan Halper, a Cambridge professor with longstanding CIA and MI6 ties, made contact with Papadopoulos on Sept. 2, 2016. They met in London later that month. The decision to choose tactics resembling a John le Carré novel was made in lieu of a more direct alternative: contacting Papadopoulos to ask him what he knew about the Clinton emails. Read More 
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