News Analysis The FBI was listening to at least one phone call of former Trump campaign aide George Papadopoulos, according to a recently released text message of Peter Strzok, former head of FBI counterintelligence operations. The text raises the question of what authority the FBI had to conduct such surveillance, particularly because, based on the text, the call with Fox News executive took place on Jan. 11, 2017, two weeks before Papadopoulos’s voluntary FBI interview during which he later admitted he lied. The lying was the only crime he was charged with in the sprawling investigation into supposed collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia, which failed to substantiate any such collusion occurred. The FBI declined to comment. Papadopoulos confirmed the call with Fox’s vice president took place, but couldn’t pinpoint the date. “I don’t know if the call was then,” he told The Epoch Times via Twitter direct message. …