And that’s just their official reason. They have no explanation for why they had agents traveling around and setting up meetings for Papadopoulos months before that even happened.
They also cannot explain why they waited months after Downer’s communication to actually open the case, why Downer would become alarmed by an event that hadn’t taken place yet (Wikipedia publicity) to justify sending the communication, why any of them would be worried about anyone talking about items that were contemporaneously widely reported in the news media, or how any Papadopoulos comments might connect to activities by Carter Page (supposedly the actual Russian contact) when the two had never spoken.
And that’s just their official reason. They have no explanation for why they had agents traveling around and setting up meetings for Papadopoulos months before that even happened.
They also cannot explain why they waited months after Downer’s communication to actually open the case, why Downer would become alarmed by an event that hadn’t taken place yet (Wikipedia publicity) to justify sending the communication, why any of them would be worried about anyone talking about items that were contemporaneously widely reported in the news media, or how any Papadopoulos comments might connect to activities by Carter Page (supposedly the actual Russian contact) when the two had never spoken.