This is intentionally misleading by the corrupt Mueller/DOJ/FBI.
The FBI could have spoken with him in Italy anytime they wanted with simply a request to the Italian authorities. As I recall Mifsud is close to the Italian intelligence service and was laying low in Italy for a while at the recommendation of the intel chief there. The FBI had no problem interviewing Steele in the UK, and an FBI agent stationed in Rome flew to the UK to do this.
Mifsud is the clearest key to unraveling the coup attempt. He seems obviously to be a western intelligence asset.
But I suspect he is not a direct CIA asset. Probably a direct asset of MI6 and may have been known to GCHQ former head Hannigan who unexpectedly stepped down when Trump was inaugurated.
The British and other euro intel agencies are strongly anti-Brexit, pro-EU, pro-open borders, pro-refugee, pro-socialist and anti-self government for the legacy nation-states of Europe.
Expect a huge cover-up trying to get the info out of Britain as to what the relationship between British government agencies and Mifsud was. But Halper probably has information on this relationship, as likely Brennan as well.
That is the information Papadopoulos needs. Note that in the legal papers Mueller is always careful to write that Papadopoulos believed Mifsud to be something in the nature of a Russian agent, but Mueller never on behalf of the US government himself makes that assertion.
Papadopoulos should demand the deposition of Halper, Brennan and anyone else who might have information on the relationship with Mifsud. If they perjure themselves, as is likely, then it's on to find a whistleblower or find records within the US intel community on this to put these corrupt enemies of the US Constitution in prison.
I found the fact that Mifsud met with Papadopoulos on March 14th interesting from this aspect:
1. From the article, Papadopoulos found out he was going to be a campaign advisor in early March. The first meeting with Mifsud occured on March 14th one week before Trump announced his foreign affairs campaign advisors on March 21st. How did Mifsud know the Papadopoulos was on the campaign or even existed for that matter?
2. In the FISA recertification filing there was a finding that the FBI abused the NSA minimization procedures by allowing private contractors to collect raw intelligence from “about queries” from the NSA database. The FBI ended this access on April 18th, 2016.
3. On April 19th, Glenn Simpson’s wife visited the Whitehouse. Immediately thereafter, the DNC hired Fusion GPS to engage in opposition research against the Trump campaign
So my supposition is that these private contractors that were collecting raw intelligence product was passing that info to the intelligence/FBI/Obama White House political staff and perhaps the Hillary campaign. And I also bet that Fusion GPS and Glenn Simpson provided those contractors.
If this is correct then the FBI began spying on the Trump campaign and perhaps the other campaigns much earlier than what the FBI claims that it started on July 31st.
It was all a set up.
I found the fact that Mifsud met with Papadopoulos on March 14th interesting from this aspect:
1. From the article, Papadopoulos found out he was going to be a campaign advisor in early March. The first meeting with Mifsud occured on March 14th one week before Trump announced his foreign affairs campaign advisors on March 21st. How did Mifsud know the Papadopoulos was on the campaign or even existed for that matter?
2. In the FISA recertification filing there was a finding that the FBI abused the NSA minimization procedures by allowing private contractors to collect raw intelligence from “about queries” from the NSA database. The FBI ended this access on April 18th, 2016.
3. On April 19th, Glenn Simpson’s wife visited the Whitehouse. Immediately thereafter, the DNC hired Fusion GPS to engage in opposition research against the Trump campaign
So my supposition is that these private contractors that were collecting raw intelligence product was passing that info to the intelligence/FBI/Obama White House political staff and perhaps the Hillary campaign. And I also bet that Fusion GPS and Glenn Simpson provided those contractors.
If this is correct then the FBI began spying on the Trump campaign and perhaps the other campaigns much earlier than what the FBI claims that it started on July 31st.
It was all a set up.
Give me some more information on Mifsud, he has escaped my consciousness at the moment.