Was FBI trading information with author of dirty dossier?

Daily Caller:
An FBI agent shared the name of former Trump campaign adviser George Papadopoulos with Trump dossier author Christopher Steele during a meeting in early October 2016.

That new bit of information was revealed in a column published Wednesday by Washington Post columnist David Ignatius.

Ignatius reports that Steele, a former MI6 agent, met with an old FBI contact in Rome around Oct. 1, 2016 to share findings from his investigation into Donald Trump’s and the Trump campaign’s associations with the Russian government.

“At this meeting, the FBI official asked Steele if he had ever heard of Papadopoulos,” reports Ignatius, who cited an official familiar with the meeting as his source.

According to Ignatius, Steele had not heard of Papadopoulos, a little-known energy consultant who joined the Trump campaign as a volunteer adviser in March 2016. He pleaded guilty in October to lying to the FBI about his contacts with Russian nationals while working on the campaign.

Ignatius’ report reveals for the first time that an FBI agent shared information about the bureau’s investigation with Steele, who operates a private research firm in London.
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What this should have told the FBI is that his Russian "sources" also knew nothing about a guy who got drunk and bragged about cooperation from Russia.  I don't think the FBI was clever enough to recognize that both Papadopoulos and Steele were both peddling a lie.  I suspect Papadopoulos was trying to puff himself up as knowing more than he did, and Steel may have been doing the same thing.  The two had different political objectives but they were both pedaling BS.

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