[Meet the New Boss]

NYT: Weeks before Mr. Papadopoulos met with Ms. Turk and Mr. Halper, the F.B.I. had opened its investigation into the Russia effort — based largely on information that Mr. Papadopoulos had relayed to an Australian diplomat about a Russian offer to help the Trump campaign by releasing thousands of hacked Democratic emails.

The F.B.I. received the information from the Australian government on July 26, 2016, the special counsel’s report said, and the bureau code-named its investigation Crossfire Hurricane.

Note weasel word "largely." As others have observed, the code name "Crossfire Hurricane" is probably something Lisa and Peter came up with from the Whoopi Goldberg movie Jumpin Jack Flash about a British secret agent outwitting the KGB (i.e., Christopher Steele).

Mr. Halper continued to work with the F.B.I. and later met with Mr. Page repeatedly in the Washington area. The two had coincidentally run into each other in July as well at Cambridge, according to people familiar with the episode.

Oh, just a coincidence! Well my!

I'm guessing the FBI and CIA will ultimately claim Page's invitation to Cambridge and Halper's encounter with Page there were a British op they knew nothing of.

But they are going to have put a firewall around Mifsud.

Or maybe the body of a depressed and suicidal Mifsud will be found in Fort Marcy Park.

[Kid Shelleen]

Note weasel word "largely".

Good catch. How about these weasel words "Russia effort"? Are they going to phase out collusion?

[Alberta's Child]

I have been operating all along with the assumption that Carter Page probably wasn't a victim of the FBI/CIA, but a complicit operative.