Officials were told that George Papadopoulos, a young energy consultant chosen to advise Trump on foreign policy, had bragged to an Australian diplomat that he had been told Russia had dirt on Clinton in the form of thousands of emails. Papadopoulos’s boasts had come in May 2016, before the public even knew that the Democratic National Committee had been hacked. In late July, the FBI opened “Crossfire Hurricane,” a formal counter-intelligence investigation of Russia’s efforts that was focused in part on Papadopoulos. In October, as WikiLeaks published more stolen Democratic emails, a federal
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