In May 2019 Alexander Downer gave a Sky News Australia interview that several U.S. outlets recapped the same week. The Daily Caller (9 May 2019) reported that he provided a memo of the May 10, 2016 meeting to the FBI more than two months later and quoted him: there was “no suggestion from Papadopoulos nor in the record of the meeting that we sent back to Canberra” of collusion between Donald Trump or the campaign and the Russians. He said they reported that Papadopoulos thought Russians might release information damaging to Clinton’s campaign. That is Downer’s account as published. It is not the Australian cable itself.
Fox News (Brooke Singman, 10 May 2019) recapped the same interview: he defended the report and pushed back on claims he tried to trap Papadopoulos. The Washington Examiner (11 May 2019) quoted him rejecting the idea that the FBI was watching the Trump team in the way critics described: the FBI is “not a spy agency,” and “why would the FBI be spying on any campaign?” Epoch Times ran the set-up denial. Those are his words as reported. They are not a Horowitz finding and not a Durham finding.
He called himself, in the Examiner recap, a “warrior for the Western alliance.” That is self-description. It is not an official U.S. title.