However,\u00a0The Hill’s John Solomon<\/a>\u00a0has reviewed\u00a01000s of new memos<\/strong>\u00a0from an FBI informant that\u00a0clearly show illegal activity surrounding a Russian plot to corner the American uranium market,<\/u>\u00a0ranging from corruption inside a U.S. nuclear transport company to Obama administration approvals that let Moscow buy and sell more atomic fuels<\/strong>.<\/p>\n 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…<\/p>\n The Hill’s John Solomon details<\/a>\u00a0that\u00a0Campbell 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<\/strong>.<\/p>\n \u201cThe 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,\u201d Rod Fisk, an American contractor colleage working for the Russians,\u00a0wrote in a June 24, 2010 email to Campbell.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n Part of the goal was to make Americans more reliant on Russian uranium\u00a0<\/strong>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.<\/p>\n The FBI task force supervising Campbell since 2008\u00a0watched as the Obama administration made more than a half dozen decisions favorable to the Russian\u2019s plan,\u00a0<\/strong>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.\u00a0 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.<\/p>\n 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.\u00a0Lawmakers 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<\/strong>, like the Uranium One deal.<\/p>\n Since Campbell\u2019s identity emerged in recent days, there have been\u00a0several statements by Justice officials, both on the record and anonymously, casting doubt on the timing and value of his work<\/strong>, and specifically his knowledge about Uranium One. However, as\u00a0The Hill’s John Solomon crucially details,<\/a>\u00a0the more than 5,000 pages of\u00a0documents reviewed by The Hill directly conflict with some of the Justice officials\u2019 accounts<\/strong><\/u>.<\/p>\n For instance, both\u00a0Attorney 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.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Their argument was that the criminal charges weren\u2019t filed until 2014, while the Committee of Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) approval of the Uranium One sale occurred in October 2010.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cThe 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,\u201d Sessions testified to the House Judiciary Committee last week, echoing Rosenstein\u2019s letter from a few weeks earlier.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cThere is zero doubt we had evidence of criminal activity before the CFIUS approval,<\/strong>\u00a0and that Justice knew about it through NSD [the natural security division],\u201d said a source with direct knowledge of the investigation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n This clear conflict has angered a number of Republican congress members<\/strong>\u00a0(not so many Democrats)…<\/p>\n \u201cAttorney General Sessions seemed to say that the bribery, racketeering and money laundering offenses involving Tenex\u2019s Vadim Mikerin occurred after the approval of the Uranium One deal by the Obama administration. But we know that the FBI\u2019s confidential informant was actively compiling incriminating evidence as far back as 2009,\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0Rep. Ron DeSantis, (R-Fla.) told The Hill.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cIt is\u00a0hard to fathom how such a transaction could have been approved without the existence of the underlying corruption being disclosed.\u00a0<\/strong>I hope AG Sessions gets briefed about the CI and gives the Uranium One case the scrutiny it deserves,\u201d added DeSantis, whose House Oversight and Government Reform subcommittees is one of the investigating panels.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) sent a similar rebuke last week to Rosenstein, saying the deputy attorney general\u2019s first response to the committee \u201clargely missed the point\u201d of the congressional investigations.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cThe 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,\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0Grassley scolded.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n The Hill documents<\/a>\u00a0numerous attempts at misinformation and ‘fake news’ attempting to downplay or obfuscate documented evidence from Campbell of the timing of events.<\/p>\n Most critically,\u00a0The Hill points out<\/a>\u00a0that\u00a0Campbell\u2019s 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\u2019s business in the United States.<\/strong><\/u><\/p>\n The entity began increasing its financial support to a Clinton charitable project after it was hired by the Russians<\/strong><\/u>, according to the documents.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Campbell engaged in conversations with his Russian colleagues about\u00a0the efforts of the Washington entity and others to gain influence with the Clintons and the Obama administration<\/strong>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n He also listened as\u00a0visiting Russians used racially tinged insults to boast about how easy they found it to win uranium business under Obama,<\/strong>\u00a0according to a source familiar with Campbell\u2019s planned testimony to Congress.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n And…<\/p>\n In recent days, news media including The Washington Post and Fox News anchor Shepard Smith have\u00a0inaccurately reported<\/strong>\u00a0another element of the story:\u00a0that Uranium One never exported its American uranium because the Obama administration did not allow it.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n A Uranium One executive acknowledged to The Hill that\u00a025 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 \u201cbook transfers.\u201d<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n 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\u2019s credibility pointing to episodes of drinking and reckless driving<\/strong>.<\/p>\n However,\u00a0The Hill’s sources<\/a>\u00a0familiar with the full body of Campbell\u2019s work said they expect he can provide significant new information to Congress.<\/p>\n \u201cWill he be able to prove that we knew Russia was engaged in criminal conduct before Uranium One was approved, you bet,\u201d\u00a0<\/strong>the source said.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cWere the Russians using political influence and pulling political levers to try to win stuff from the U.S. government, you bet.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Was he perfect, no one in this line of work is. But we were focused on much larger issues than just that.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n All of which still leaves us asking – why is the Justice Department downplaying this evidence and not moving forward with the probe? Two immediate scenarioes 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.<\/p>\n![](\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/user3303\/imageroot\/2017\/11\/19\/20171120_fbi1.jpg\")
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