WHY IS THE DOJ DOWNPLAYING REPORTS OF PROOF  LINKING OBAMA AND CLINTON TO RUSSIAN CORRUPTION
  Following the release of the identity of the  FBI informant, Justice Department officials
  in recent days said that informant William  Campbell�s prior work won�t shed much
  light on the U.S. government�s controversial  decision in 2010 to approve Russia�s purchase
  of the Uranium One mining company and its  substantial U.S. assets.
  However, The Hill�s John Solomon has reviewed  1000s of new memos from an FBI informant that
  clearly show illegal activity surrounding  a Russian plot to corner the American uranium
  market, ranging from corruption inside a U.S.  nuclear transport company to Obama administration
  approvals that let Moscow buy and sell more  atomic fuels.
  FBI informant Campbell, acting as a consultant  trying to help Rosatom overcome political
  opposition to the Uranium One deal, gathered  evidence for six years, and, according to
  the more than 5,000 pages of documents from  the counterintelligence investigation, there
  are a number of evidenciary links betweeen  corrupt Russians, President Obama, and Hillary
  Clinton�
  The Hill�s John Solomon details that Campbell  documented for his FBI handlers the first
  illegal activity by Russians nuclear industry  officials in fall 2009, nearly a entire year
  before the Russian state-owned Rosatom nuclear  firm won Obama administration approval for
  the Uranium One deal.
  �The attached article is of interest as  I believe it highlights the ongoing resolve
  in Russia to gradually and systematically  acquire and control global energy resources,�
  Rod Fisk, an American contractor colleage  working for the Russians, wrote in a June
  24, 2010 email to Campbell.
  Part of the goal was to make Americans more  reliant on Russian uranium before a program
  that converted former Soviet warheads into  U.S. nuclear fuel expired in 2013, according
  to documents and interviews.
  Russia�s ambitions including building a  uranium enrichment facility on U.S. soil,
  the documents show.
  The FBI task force supervising Campbell since  2008 watched as the Obama administration made
  more than a half dozen decisions favorable  to the Russian�s plan, which ranged from
  approving the sale of Uranium One to removing  Rosatom from export restrictions and making
  it easier for Moscow to win billions in new  commercial uranium sales contracts.
  The favorable decisions occurred during a  time when President Obama and Secretary of
  State Hillary Clinton were pursuing a public  �reset� to improve Moscow relations, a
  plan that fell apart after Russia invaded  Ukraine.
  Multiple congressional committees recently  got permission from the Justice Department
  to interview Campbell after The Hill reported  last month the existence of his informant
  work.
  Lawmakers want to know what the FBI did with  the evidence Campbell gathered in real time
  and whether it warned President Obama and  top leaders before they made the Russian-favorable
  decisions, like the Uranium One deal.
  Since Campbell�s identity emerged in recent  days, there have been several statements by
  Justice officials, both on the record and  anonymously, casting doubt on the timing and
  value of his work, and specifically his knowledge  about Uranium One.
  However, as The Hill�s John Solomon crucially  details, the more than 5,000 pages of documents
  reviewed by The Hill directly conflict with  some of the Justice officials� accounts.
  For instance, both Attorney General Jeff Sessions  in testimony last week and Deputy Attorney
  General Rod Rosenstein in a letter to the  Senate last month tried to suggest there was
  no connection between Uranium One and the  nuclear bribery case.
  Their argument was that the criminal charges  weren�t filed until 2014, while the Committee
  of Foreign Investment in the United States  (CFIUS) approval of the Uranium One sale occurred
  in October 2010.
  �The way I understand that matter is that  the case in which Mr. Mikerin was convicted
  was not connected to the CFIUS problem that  occurred two to three years before,� Sessions
  testified to the House Judiciary Committee  last week, echoing Rosenstein�s letter from
  a few weeks earlier.
  But investigative records show FBI counterintelligence  recorded the first illicit payments in the
  bribery/kickback scheme in November 2009,  a year before the CFIUS approval.
  �There is zero doubt we had evidence of  criminal activity before the CFIUS approval,
  and that Justice knew about it through NSD  [the natural security division],� said a
  source with direct knowledge of the investigation.
  This clear conflict has angered a number of  Republican congress members (not so many Democrats)�
  �Attorney General Sessions seemed to say  that the bribery, racketeering and money laundering
  offenses involving Tenex�s Vadim Mikerin  occurred after the approval of the Uranium
  One deal by the Obama administration.
  But we know that the FBI�s confidential  informant was actively compiling incriminating
  evidence as far back as 2009,� Rep. Ron  DeSantis, (R-Fla.) told The Hill.
  �It is hard to fathom how such a transaction  could have been approved without the existence
  of the underlying corruption being disclosed.
  I hope AG Sessions gets briefed about the  CI and gives the Uranium One case the scrutiny
  it deserves,� added DeSantis, whose House  Oversight and Government Reform subcommittees
  is one of the investigating panels.
  Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck  Grassley (R-Iowa) sent a similar rebuke last
  week to Rosenstein, saying the deputy attorney  general�s first response to the committee
  �largely missed the point� of the congressional  investigations.
  �The essential question is whether the Obama  Justice Department provided notice of the
  criminal activity of certain officials before  the CFIUS approval of the Uranium One deal
  and other government decisions that enabled  the Russians to trade nuclear materials in
  the U.S,� Grassley scolded.
  The Hill documents numerous attempts at misinformation  and �fake news� attempting to downplay
  or obfuscate documented evidence from Campbell  of the timing of events.
  Most critically, The Hill points out that  Campbell�s debriefing files also show he
  regularly mentioned to FBI agents in 2010  a Washington entity with close ties to Bill
  and Hillary Clinton that was being paid millions  to help expand Tenex�s business in the United
  States.
  The entity began increasing its financial  support to a Clinton charitable project after
  it was hired by the Russians, according to  the documents.
  Campbell engaged in conversations with his  Russian colleagues about the efforts of the
  Washington entity and others to gain influence  with the Clintons and the Obama administration.
  He also listened as visiting Russians used  racially tinged insults to boast about how
  easy they found it to win uranium business  under Obama, according to a source familiar
  with Campbell�s planned testimony to Congress.
  And�  In recent days, news media including The Washington
  Post and Fox News anchor Shepard Smith have  inaccurately reported another element of the
  story: that Uranium One never exported its  American uranium because the Obama administration
  did not allow it.
  However, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission  authorized Uranium One to export through a
  third party tons of uranium to Canada for  enrichment processing, and some of that product
  ended up in Europe, NRC documents state.
  A Uranium One executive acknowledged to The  Hill that 25 percent of the uranium it shipped
  to Canada under the third-party export license  ended up with either European or Asian customers
  through what it known in the nuclear business  as �book transfers.�
  It is clear by their desperation, that someone  is trying to hide something as in leaked stories
  late last week, Justice officials anonymously  questioned Campbell�s credibility pointing
  to episodes of drinking and reckless driving.
  However, The Hill�s sources familiar with  the full body of Campbell�s work said they
  expect he can provide significant new information  to Congress.
  �Will he be able to prove that we knew Russia  was engaged in criminal conduct before Uranium
  One was approved, you bet,� the source said.
  �Were the Russians using political influence  and pulling political levers to try to win
  stuff from the U.S. government, you bet.
  Was he perfect, no one in this line of work  is.
  But we were focused on much larger issues  than just that.�
  All of which still leaves us asking � why  is the Justice Department downplaying this
  evidence and not moving forward with the probe?
  Two immediate scenarios are possible � first,  the rot is so deep and pervasive that the
  establishmentarians left are forcing the hands  of the few; or second, the Deep State has
  Sessions by the balls.
  
        
      
 
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