‘Crossfire Typhoon’: George Papadopoulos denials about DNC hack were not relayed to FISA court

Repeated denials by George Papadopoulos about the Trump campaign being involved in the hacking of the Democratic National Committee were never relayed to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court despite being recorded by an FBI source.

Papadopoulos, a former Trump campaign foreign policy adviser, was swept up in the FBI’s Russia-related Crossfire Hurricane counterintelligence investigation. Unbeknownst to him, in the months leading up to and following the 2016 election, he repeatedly spoke with confidential human sources tasked by the FBI to question certain members of Trump’s campaign and to hand over their recorded conversations to the bureau.