President Trump has called it “Spygate,” but it’s looking more like “Get Smart” or the classic Mad magazine cartoon, “Spy vs. Spy.” According to The New York Times, the FBI in 2016 actually sent a buxom blonde to pump Trump-campaign nobody George Papadopoulos for information about collusion.

It would be hilarious if the investigation hadn’t continued on (in various forms) for over two years, plaguing the president with damning “news” coverage that now turns out to be fundamentally false.

Just how feckless and reckless was the Crossfire Hurricane investigation? (The name alone is amatuerish.) Did the FBI and Justice Department cross the line after falling for Russian disinformation or the machinations of smear merchants Fusion GPS?

Attorney General William Barr’s determination to get to the bottom of it all has prompted a fury.

Democrats and the usual media suspects exploded last month when Barr noted that he’s looking at whether the FBI’s “spying” on the Trump campaign in 2016 was “adequately predicated” — that is, was it a wild and improper fishing expedition?

Spying? There was no such thing, the likes of MSNBC’s Chuck Todd and CNN’s Jeffrey Toobin insisted after Barr spoke. In fact, it was already on the record that the bureau had told Cambridge prof Stefan Halper to try to get Papadopoulos to talk. Bottle-blonde “Azra Turk” is a second “spy.”

Halper and the blonde got nothing, because there was nothing to get. Same for the FBI’s surveillance of another Team Trump nobody, Carter Page.

And that’s another issue Barr must resolve: Why wiretap Page without ever even trying to just ask him about its fears?

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