DePaul Guy bragging about hooking the Trump campaign up with Putin started the whole FBI investigation into all the Soviet Agents working for Trump. Whenever Trump opens his mouth on the subject of the Soviets it only supports that something is still going on there.
And plenty went to jail, and were going to go to jail until Soviet Agent Trump pardoned them, as a result
Alexander Downer has said that all he told the Australian government was that Papadopoulos said that the Russians 'might' release damaging information on Clinton, and that there was no mention of collusion.
On this, the FBI didn't open a threat assessment, a preliminary investigation or obtain a FISA warrant on Papadopoulos. They went to a full investigation.
Durham showed split screens of the dossier and the Carter Page FISA application, which showed the same phrases.
The FBI knew pre 2016 election that Steele couldn't corroborate his dossier, even with an offer of $1 million U.S. taxpayer dollars, and they knew in Jan 2017 that Danchenko's information was worthless.
They still went forward with the FISA and 3 renewals on Carter Page, including using a lie by an FBI lawyer regarding Page's previous status as a Confidential Human Source.
Imagine if the FBI, in Oct 2020, had offered $1 million to anyone who could corroborate Hunter's laptop. The laptop that the FBI knew at the time was legit.