why didn t you charge him with a crime? i can t get into internal deliberations with regard to who would or would not be you charged a lot of other people for making false statements. let s remember this, in 2016 the f.b.i. did something they probably haven t done before. they spied on two american citizens associated with a presidential campaign. george papadopoulos and carter page. carter page they went to the fisa court. they used the now famous dossier as part of the reason they were able to spy on page for better part of a year. with mr. papadopoulos they didn t go to the courts they used human sources. all kinds from the moment papadopoulos joins the trump campaign you have all these people around the world starting to swirl around him. names like halper, downer, thompson, meeting in rome and london. all kinds of places. the f.b.i. even sent a lady