Maybe if you dipshits read the report for yourselves, instead of just blindly parroting your hack propaganda outlets, you would have seen this:
Additionally, given the low threshold for
predication in the AG Guidelines and the DIOG, we
concluded that the FFG information, provided by a
government the United States Intelligence Community
(USIC) deems trustworthy, and describing a first-hand
account from an FFG employee of a conversation with
Papadopoulos, was sufficient to predicate the
investigation . This information provided the FBI with an
articulable factual basis that,
if true,
reasonably
indicated activity constituting either a federal crime or a
threat to national security, or both, may have occurred
or may be occurring. For similar reasons, as we detail
in Chapter Three,
we concluded that the quantum of
information articulated by the FBI to open the individual
investigations on Papadopoulos, Page, Flynn, and
Manafort in August 2016 was sufficient to satisfy the
low threshold established by the Department and the
FBI.
READ: DOJ Inspector General's Report On The Russia Investigation