Crossfire Hurricane

Interesting - the never Trumpers at the FBI knew that this information was going to surface so they leaked it to the New York Times trying to put the best possible spin on it.

Code Name Crossfire Hurricane: The Secret Origins of the Trump Investigation
Within hours of opening an investigation into the Trump campaign’s ties to Russia in the summer of 2016, the F.B.I. dispatched a pair of agents to London on a mission so secretive that all but a handful of officials were kept in the dark.

Their assignment, which has not been previously reported, was to meet the Australian ambassador, who had evidence that one of Donald J. Trump’s advisers knew in advance about Russian election meddling. After tense deliberations between Washington and Canberra, top Australian officials broke with diplomatic protocol and allowed the ambassador, Alexander Downer, to sit for an F.B.I. interview to describe his meeting with the campaign adviser, George Papadopoulos.

The agents summarized their highly unusual interview and sent word to Washington on Aug. 2, 2016, two days after the investigation was opened. Their report helped provide the foundation for a case that, a year ago Thursday, became the special counsel investigation. But at the time, a small group of F.B.I. officials knew it by its code name: Crossfire Hurricane.

The spin is so thick that they must have used a trowel to lay it on. The upshot is that the FBI had nothing of consequence to go on. Australian ambassador Alexander Downer's meeting with the campaign adviser, George Papadopoulos is described as follows:

Lastly, there was Mr. Papadopoulos, the young and inexperienced campaign aide whose wine-fueled conversation with the Australian ambassador set off the investigation.

So George was inexperienced, somewhat drunk and said something inapropriate and the FBI built this whole secret investigation on it? This is big, very very big.