@coldjoint,
Quote coldjoint:
You keep confusing the fact that the investigation started when the FBI heard about what Papandopoulos was up to with some notion that the FBI investigation started when they interviewed Papandopoulos.
The FBI decided to investigate the claims given to us by our ally Australia in late July that months previous, Papadopoulos was bragging in a London bar to an Australian diplomat about how the Trump campaign was going to use Emails stolen by Russia. The FBI investigated, which took months, and finally brought a case against Papandopoulos in January where he turned evidence and gave lots of info about the contacts between Trump and Russians.
Sounds like good work to me.
Oh, and thanks for the link which describes Papandopoulos' Russian connections. It doesn't help Trump's case, it only hurts it, so why you included it at all I don't know. But thanks anyway.