| | In September Papadopoulos was lured back to London by [[Stefan Halper]] with a promise of $3000 and airfare to write a paper. Halper and Downer have connections to the shadowy UK security firm of Hakluyt (Halper wrote two books with the Hakluyt representative in the US and Downer sat on its advisory board).<ref>https://themarketswork.com/2018/05/09/dearlove-connections-uk-intel-firm-hakluyt-alexander-downer-stefan-halper-papadopoulos/ </ref> Halper, who publicly endorsed Hillary Clinton, asked Papadopoulos about the emails Hillary Clinton stole from the State Department and National Archives and Records Administration.<ref>https://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2016/05/25/inspector-general-emails-n2168766?amp=true</ref> | | In September Papadopoulos was lured back to London by [[Stefan Halper]] with a promise of $3000 and airfare to write a paper. Halper and Downer have connections to the shadowy UK security firm of Hakluyt (Halper wrote two books with the Hakluyt representative in the US and Downer sat on its advisory board).<ref>https://themarketswork.com/2018/05/09/dearlove-connections-uk-intel-firm-hakluyt-alexander-downer-stefan-halper-papadopoulos/ </ref> Halper, who publicly endorsed Hillary Clinton, asked Papadopoulos about the emails Hillary Clinton stole from the State Department and National Archives and Records Administration.<ref>https://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2016/05/25/inspector-general-emails-n2168766?amp=true</ref> |
| − | During Papadopoulos' encounter with Downer in the London pub, Papadopoulos told Downer about the meetings with Mifsud and friends. Downer reported what Papadopoulos said to US State Department back channels, who told John Brennan, who told [[Comey]], [[McCabe]] and [[Strzok]], who then opened a counterintelligence investigation based on the unverified, unvetted information to violate the civil right and Constitutional rights of members of the Trump campaign, and interfere in the 2016 presidential election. | + | During Papadopoulos' encounter with Downer in the London pub, Papadopoulos told Downer about the meetings with Mifsud and friends. Downer reported what Papadopoulos said to [[US State Department]] back channels, who told John Brennan, who told [[Comey]], [[McCabe]] and [[Strzok]], who then opened a counterintelligence investigation based on the unverified, unvetted information to violate the civil right and Constitutional rights of members of the Trump campaign, and interfere in the 2016 presidential election. |