The biggest scandal of Crossfire Hurricane isn't that FBI opened the investigation in the first place. It's that they kept the thing open after receiving contradictory evidence, and also didn't do anything to rebut false allegations about collusion that were peddled in media.

FBI knew that the Steel Dossier had major problems when it was published in January 2017. Steele's source was the target of an FBI probe, there was evidence of possible disinformation. But *none* of that was officially disclosed until nearly 3 years later.

Even worse: Many of the bogus allegations were leaked to the media by the FBI and DOJ, who then used the stories produced from their own illegal leaks to justify further illegal investigative efforts.