It’s a very interesting article. Basically he says that it wasn’t the Australian ambassador who tipped the US to Papa but rather the Brits. We have this deal with the Brits where they spy on our citizens and give the info to us and we return the favor. That way neither of us is violating our own laws. Or so that’s the theory.
Triple hearsay evidence uttered publicly by a drunken unpaid campaign adviser does not usually cause the FBI to open a counterintelligence operation against an opposition candidate.
And it links back somehow to Fusion GPS and Glenn Simpson. Simpson claimed in his Senate testimony that Feinstein released a few weeks ago that there was an FBI informant in the Trump campaign. But when asked further about it when the statement was made public, Simpson immediately walked it back, stating that the Papa-Aussie incident was what he had meant. Which clearly makes no sense. Unless someone had told Simpson that Papa was an FBI informant, which he clearly wasn't, since the FBI didn't get around to questioning Papa until December 2016, well after the election. Nor was the FBI monitoring Papa like they were Carter Page, and which you think would have been a priority if the FBI really thought that Papa was a significant figure.
So who told Simpson that the FBI had an informant in the Trump campaign?
I have a guess: Papa was on the Fusion payroll and Papa told Simpson that he was an FBI informant, because Papa was a serial liar and fabulist and wanted to keep earning that Fusion/Clinton money. London is an expensive city, after all.