Instead, the FBI did something it had never done before, breaking perhaps one of the biggest rules of all: It launched a counterintelligence investigation into a domestic political campaign. The public has never fully appreciated how dishonest this was. The FBI didn’t have a crime to investigate. Page had broken no laws in going to Moscow; people do it all the time. Papadopoulos had broken no laws in talking to a work colleague who had Russian associates. The FBI didn’t even have evidence to suggest a crime.
