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For Wed., Nov. 22, 2017
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All~God Bless America
“Woke up this morning to learn that Charles Manson is dead and Donald Trump is still president. It's already a good day.” –Chuck Muth
Standing with Judge Roy Moore
“Duty, Honor, Country”
Judge Roy Moore’s race for the U.S. Senate will determine the future makeup of the Supreme Court. Currently, the Republicans hold a slim 52-48 majority in the U.S. Senate. If the Democrats pick up the Alabama Senate seat, then they will be within easy striking distance of winning enough seats in the 2018 General elections to control the U.S. Senate and prevent any conservative jurist from being confirmed to the U.S. Supreme Court. The future of our nation hangs in the balance on Judge Moore’s race.
Judge Roy Moore graduated from West Point Military Academy. There he embraced the virtues “Duty, Honor, Country” and they found permanent residence in his heart. As a captain in the infantry, he led his men into battle against the atheistic Communists in Vietnam.
After being elected Chief Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court, Judge Moore continued to demonstrate his valor by fighting to protect the lives of unborn babies and in defense of the Ten Commandments’ monument.
After being elected Chief Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court, Judge Moore continued to demonstrate his valor by fighting to protect the lives of unborn babies and in defense of the Ten Commandments’ monument.
“Duty, Honor, Country”
Judge Moore refused to bow to the unconstitutional ruling of a federal judge, who ordered removal of the Ten Commandments from the State Courthouse. Although he realized this might cost him his position, Judge Moore refused to compromise his principles. Then an unelected group of political appointees removed him from office.
The people of Alabama admired and respected his courage and re-elected him Chief Justice in 2012. Then the US Supreme Court unconstitutionally imposed same-sex mirage on the country in the Obergefell decision.
“Duty, Honor, Country”
Once again, Judge Moore opposed this tyrannical federal court ruling and supported the people of Alabama as he stood unswervingly for Biblical marriage. The people of Alabama had passed the Sanctity of Marriage Amendment to the State of Alabama Constitution in 2006 by an overwhelming margin of 81%-19%. Once again, Judge Moore refused to compromise his principles and once again he was removed from office by an unelected group of political appointees.
Rather than give way to political pressure, Judge Moore has chosen time and time again to maintain his principles, even when he knew it might cost him his position.
This speaks volumes about Judge Moore’s stout heart and his sterling character.
“Duty, Honor, Country”
The United States Senate needs an uncompromising leader like Judge Roy Moore who will drain the slimy swamp in Washington, DC, which is inhabited by cowardly RINOs, atheistic, communistic Democrats, greedy lobbyists and Alt-Left lackeys in the media.
I am proud to stand for and with Judge Roy Moore in his candidacy to become the next U.S. Senator from the great state of Alabama.
Judge Moore’s Marxist Democrat Opponent – Doug Jones
The Democrat opponent of Judge Moore is Doug Jones, who favors all abortions, even partial birth abortions. Jones supports the homosexual agenda that promotes allowing perverted men, who claim to be women, to enter women’s and girls’ public bathrooms, showers and locker rooms, including public schools. Jones supports gun control legislation, and opposes both restricting immigration and lowering taxes.
Judge Roy Moore has been smeared by the RINO’s, like Mitch McConnell, the hypocritical, communist Democrats and their Alt-left lackeys in the press. The Democrats know that by defeating Judge Moore they can take control of the Senate in 2018 and prevent a conservative jurist from being affirmed to the U.S. Supreme Court who would be willing to overturn the Roe v Wade abortion decision and oppose establishing a minority class for perverted men who claim to be women.
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“Through God we shall do valiantly and it is He who will tread down our adversaries.”(Psalm 108:13)
All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men and women to do nothing.
The words of General Douglas MacArthur in his “Farewell Address” to West Point apply here:
The shadows are lengthening for me. The twilight is here. My days of old have vanished, tone and tint. They have gone glimmering through the dreams of things that were. Their memory is one of wondrous beauty, watered by tears, and coaxed and caressed by the smiles of yesterday. I listen vainly, but with thirsty ears, for the witching melody of faint bugles blowing reveille, of far drums beating the long roll. In my dreams I hear again the crash of guns, the rattle of musketry, the strange, mournful mutter of the battlefield. But in the evening of my memory, always I come back to West Point. Always there echoes and re-echoes: Duty, Honor, Country. Today marks my final roll call with you, but I want you to know that when I cross the river my last conscious thoughts will be of The Corps, and The Corps, and The Corps. I bid you farewell.
Kathy Griffin: No One Has My Back, Everyone Thinks I’m Crazy, I’m Being Targeted Like Rose McGowan
This “State of the Union” video by Kathy Griffin has so many hilarious moments. She begins by talking about the empowerment of women. Then, she gets more personal.
“I just want you guys to know I’m fully in the middle of a blacklist,” she said. “I am in the middle of a Hollywood blacklist. It is real. I am not booked on any talk shows. I’m selling tickets worldwide, which is really hard when you don’t have any sort of television platform, no one has your back, and everyone thinks you’re crazy. But a handful of people think I’m kind of onto something.”
I doubt she’s actually on any sort of “blacklist.” I bet she wasn’t working much when she posed with what looked like the bloody, severed head of the President of the United States anyway, right?
She kept talking.
“I just want you guys to know. When I get home, I do not have one single day of paid work in front of me. And people who want me to go back and start in clubs and do ten minutes again… I don’t mean to be an asshole, but no. I’m not going to do that. I’ve worked way too hard to go back and work for free and do the club scene again. Because this is some bullshit. Because I’ve been blacklisted.”
Again with this “blacklist.” Here’s a thought. She’s supposed to be a comedian, right? But no one actually finds her funny. That’s definitely a problem for Griffin, but it’s not a problem for anyone else.
“My legal bills are through the roof, obviously, because I’m doing something I really believe in.” Wait, what? I thought her legal bills were through the roof because she is an abject idiot. Not in her mind. She said, ” I still say the end goal is for younger women and younger LGBT folks, or disenfranchised people of any kind can watch me survive.”
Got that? Kathy Griffin needs to survive so she can inspire young gay people… Ha! How’s that for cloaking your stupid decision in a worthy cause? Then, she has the gall to compare herself to Rose McGowan, the brave woman who outed Harvey Weinstein for his freaky, horrific abuse… and she said that she believes she’s targeted in the same way.
McGowan, of course, said she was “blacklisted” because she got raped, and then she absolutely changed the culture by revealing what a disgusting man Harvey Weinstein is. In other words, McGowan did something important. Griffin is merely a postscript to pop culture history. She hasn’t been funny in years – if she ever has been. I honestly haven’t followed the downward trajectory of her sorry career, but I know she claimed to be on the “D List” years before she did her attention-getting stunt with the President’s head.
If you’d like to see exactly how the Palins feel about Griffin, click here. In the meantime, I guess I have to admit it. Griffin, in her self-serving video, finally made me laugh. Because watching her career go down in flames is actually the first funny things she’s pulled off in a long time.
Ex-ESPN’s Britt McHenry Comes Out Swinging Against GQ for Honoring Anthem-Hating ColinKaepernick
BY K. CAMPBELL
In the wake of GQ magazine revealing that it has named former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick its “Citizen of the Year,” the publication has received a lot of backlash from Americans, including a former ESPN host.
Britt McHenry, who was let go from ESPN in April due to what she claims were her conservative beliefs, took to Twitter to rip GQ for honoring Kaepernick.
In a series of tweets, McHenry pointed out why the controversial former quarterback was clearly not deserving of the label.
“Wear socks depicting police officers as pigs; wear Fidel Castro as a fashion statement IN MIAMI; sue NFL for collusion when gf compares owners to slave owners … Win Citizen of the Year,” she tweeted. “Serve in the US military … nothing. What a joke, GQ.”
Wear socks depicting police officers as pigs; wear Fidel Castro as a fashion statement IN MIAMI; sue NFL for collusion when gf compares owners to slave owners...
Win Citizen of the Year.
Serve in the US military...nothing. What a joke, GQ. #Kaepernick
McHenry also pointed out that if GQ wanted to honor a football player, there were others whose actions were far more respectable than the man who has taken every opportunity to trample on American values.
In particular, she believed Houston Texans star J.J. Watt would be a commendable choice for the title, considering his work to help victims of Hurricane Harvey.
“JJ Watt raised $37 million for Hurricane Harvey victims,” she said. “37 MILLION! But Kaepernick refused to stand for our national anthem (a year ago) and is Citizen of the Year. Right…”
JJ Watt raised $37 million for Hurricane Harvey victims. 37 MILLION! But Kaepernick refused to stand for our national anthem (a year ago) and is Citizen of the Year. Right...
“I see that magazine cover and I think if we want to go with a football player, Houston Texans’ JJ Watt raised $37 million for Hurricane Harvey relief. Why is he not the citizen of the year?” she told Fox News‘ Neil Cavuto on Monday night.
McHenry also pointed out that if GQ had wanted to honor a football player who specifically took action to correct racial injustice in America, there were others who would have been better picks than Kaepernick.
For example, she pointed to Philadelphia Eagles player Malcolm Jenkins who met with lawmakers to help the community, as well as Miami Dolphins player Kenny Stills who met with local police officers to see how they could come together to solve problems.
“More examples of Citizen of the Year,” she contended.
McHenry also pointed out that if GQ had wanted to honor a football player who specifically took action to correct racial injustice in America, there were others who would have been better picks than Kaepernick.
For example, she pointed to Philadelphia Eagles player Malcolm Jenkins who met with lawmakers to help the community, as well as Miami Dolphins player Kenny Stills who met with local police officers to see how they could come together to solve problems.
“More examples of Citizen of the Year,” she contended.
For those who think I don't get the reason for protest you're wrong. Eagles Malcolm Jenkins met with lawmakers to help community. Dolphins Kenny Stills met with Miami police. More examples of Citizen of the Year.
In announcing the honor, GQ said they chose Kaepernick because of his activism both on and off the field, calling him a “powerful symbol of activism and resistance.”
Ha.
“There’s a huge disconnect with reality and the NFL right now and they need to figure it out,” McHenry said on Fox News.
She’s right. If anything, Kaepernick’s actions have only further divided our country. Even among those who do believe that racial inequality is a worthy issue that needs to be addressed, many strongly disagree with the athlete’s disrespect of the American flag in protesting for his cause.
If GQ wanted to honor someone who gave up everything in order to fight for what they believe in, there are thousands of military servicemen and women currently serving overseas who would be more than deserving of that honor.
Like and share this article on Facebook and Twitter if you agree with Britt McHenry that Colin Kaepernick does not deserve to be “Citizen of the Year.”
“There’s a huge disconnect with reality and the NFL right now and they need to figure it out,” McHenry said on Fox News.
She’s right. If anything, Kaepernick’s actions have only further divided our country. Even among those who do believe that racial inequality is a worthy issue that needs to be addressed, many strongly disagree with the athlete’s disrespect of the American flag in protesting for his cause.
If GQ wanted to honor someone who gave up everything in order to fight for what they believe in, there are thousands of military servicemen and women currently serving overseas who would be more than deserving of that honor.
Like and share this article on Facebook and Twitter if you agree with Britt McHenry that Colin Kaepernick does not deserve to be “Citizen of the Year.”
Then we had a Raiders’ player sit for U.S. anthem, stand for Mexico’s
Washington Times
Oakland Raiders running back Marshawn Lynch sat Sunday for “The Star-Spangled Banner,” as he has done all season, but then stood for the Mexican national anthem before his team faced the New England Patriots in Mexico City.
Lynch’s double move, reported by the Associated Press and Boston Globe, was reminiscent of the Sept. 24 game in London, in which about two dozen players stood for “God Save the Queen” after kneeling for the U.S. national anthem.
Not surprisingly, the decision drew a reaction on Twitter, with some applauding Lynch with comments like “legend” and “awesome,” and others blasting him.
Lynch’s double move, reported by the Associated Press and Boston Globe, was reminiscent of the Sept. 24 game in London, in which about two dozen players stood for “God Save the Queen” after kneeling for the U.S. national anthem.
Not surprisingly, the decision drew a reaction on Twitter, with some applauding Lynch with comments like “legend” and “awesome,” and others blasting him.
Marshawn Lynch of the NFL’s Oakland Raiders stands for the Mexican Anthem and sits down to boos for our National Anthem. Great disrespect! Next time NFL should suspend him for remainder of season. Attendance and ratings way down.
“Marshawn Lynch doesn’t protest Mexico’s long history of human rights abuses by corrupt politicians but sits for our National Anthem — the ‘land of the free and the home of the brave.’ Disgusting,” said commentator Neil A. Carousso.
After Boston Globe reporter Ben Volin tweeted a photo of Lynch both sitting and standing, several respondents said that Lynch did so because trainers were working on his equipment, while others disagreed.
After Boston Globe reporter Ben Volin tweeted a photo of Lynch both sitting and standing, several respondents said that Lynch did so because trainers were working on his equipment, while others disagreed.
Marshawn Lynch sits during the US national anthem, stands for Mexican anthem
Photos posted last weekend show Lynch sitting for the national anthem in Denver but surrounded by coaches and training staff in an apparent effort to shield him from publicity.
Lynch has not commented publicly on why he sits for the national anthem, but his decision comes with other players refusing to stand in a protest that began last season over black men killed at the hands of police.
Good. Protest injustice and spread international goodwill at the same time
— Jonathan Libby (@JonLibbyTwit) November 19, 2017
— Jonathan Libby (@JonLibbyTwit) November 19, 2017
Thats why we love him lol !!
— riddimboy (@riddimboy) November 19, 2017
— riddimboy (@riddimboy) November 19, 2017
Mexico is a utopia free from bigotry. Duh
— jordan smith (@smith_jordo) November 19, 2017
— jordan smith (@smith_jordo) November 19, 2017
This dude needs to run the ball instead of playing games
— StackN Boxes (@noxqsezz) November 19, 2017
— StackN Boxes (@noxqsezz) November 19, 2017
Trump Goes Nuclear On Hillary, It’s Absolutely Brutal
Benjamin Welton
Ever since the election of November 2016, Hillary Clinton and President Donald Trump have constantly been involved in a war of words. This war shows no sign of stopping anytime soon.
On Saturday, President Trump tweeted out a major slam on Clinton: “Crooked Hillary Clinton is the worst (and biggest) loser of all time. She just can’t stop, which is so good for the Republican Party. Hillary, get on with your life and give it another try in three years!”
President Trump’s criticism did not come from out of nowhere — his tweet was likely in response to an interview that Clinton did with the far-Left magazine Mother Jones on Friday.
In the interview, Clinton once again questioned the legitimacy of the 2016 election.
Clinton criticized Republican voter ID laws, shortened early voting periods, and voting “irregularities” in certain states.
“In a couple of places, most notably Wisconsin, I think it had a dramatic impact on the outcome,” Clinton said.
In late 2016/early 2017, the Clinton campaign actually joined with Green Party candidate, Jill Stein, in order to demand a recount in certain states. These efforts wound up finding 131 more votes for Trump.
Clinton has now realized that complaining about the election is better than actually recounting votes in certain states.
President Trump’s twitter slam on Clinton also suggests that she is nothing short of electoral poison for the Democrats. A poll this summer found that Clinton is still more unpopular than Trump. Among certain voters (white working class members, white men, conservative Christians, the military), the name “Hillary Clinton” is scorned.
It could be that Clinton’s constant shouts of “illegitimate” are done in order to support the investigation conducted by Robert Mueller, which many Democrats see as their best hope of impeaching President Trump. However, one of the people indicted by Mueller is none other than Tony Podesta, the brother and business partner of Clinton’s former campaign advisor.
That campaign advisor, John Podesta, may face an investigation following perjury accusations over his testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee concerning the Clinton campaign’s funding of the “dirty dossier” compiled by Fusion GPS.
Because of these accusations of corruption, the Podestas are considered all but done in the world of Washington politics.
Clinton herself may soon face increased heat concerning the details of the Uranium One scandal. More to the point, former FBI agent William Campbell has claimed that he has video evidence of Hillary Clinton accepting bribes directly from Russian officials.
Campbell has been cleared to testify before Congress after trying to go public with his information for at least five years. According to him, his explosive information got stonewalled repeatedly by the Obama administration, especially by Attorney Generals Eric Holder and Loretta Lynch.
Overall, House Republicans have mused the idea of opening up a second independent investigation into Clinton’s dealings during the Uranium One deal that saw Rosatom, a Kremlin-backed company, acquire twenty-percent of America’s uranium supply. Investigative journalist Peter Schweizer claims that the Clinton Foundation got millions out of the deal, and many politicians have already seconded this idea.
Gowdy Drops Massive Hillary Bombshell, She’s Busted
William Widener
The misdeeds of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton have not been forgotten. As Judicial Watch continues to fight Fusion GPS in court, more details of the corruption in the Clinton campaign have emerged. One Congressman is paying close attention to these details, and he isn’t letting the issue go.
Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC), appeared on Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace to discuss whether or not the actions of the Hillary Clinton campaign are laundering crimes. Rep. Gowdy stated, “I’m not an election law expert, Chris, but the good news is you don’t have to be to understated the absurdity believing you can just launder all of your campaign money by just hiring a law firm.”
Mr. Wallace summed up the issue: “The Clinton campaign and the DNC — which paid $12 million to the law firm Perkins Coie that paid for the opposition research that led to the dossier — that in the FEC filings it simply says ‘12 million dollars to Perkins Coie, the law firm, for legal work.’ No mention of the fact that it was also paying for oppo research that went to Christopher Steele.”
The Clinton campaign paid attorney Marc Elias and his firm Perkins Coie, for “legal services.” Perkins Coie then made payments to Fusion GPS for supposed “opposition research.” Fusion GPS then hired Steele, a former British spy, to create a dossier.
Steele took his paid investigation to the Kremlin, where more money exchanged hands for information he used to create the dossier from a series of memos. The series of money exchanges certainly raises suspicion.
Wallace then added, “As I understand it, that willful misrepresentation of campaign expenditures is a criminal offense.”
Rep. Gowdy explained, “Imagine if you and I were running for Congress and we just hired a law firm and said ‘Hey, you go do all the oppo, you go buy all the television, you go buy all the bumper stickers, you go hire all the experts.’ And we’re going to launder all of this through a law firm. I can’t think of anything that defeats the purpose of transparency laws more than that.”
Rep. Gowdy then remarked that Democrats involved with the circumstances claim they can’t remember who paid for the research. “I’m also interested in sharing some memory tricks with folks at the DNC because no one can remember who paid $10 million to a law firm to do oppo research. I find that stunning! $10 million and no one can remember who authorized it, who approved it, who said ‘yeah, this is a really good idea,’” he said.
“You’ve got two issues: a memory issue, and then the lack of transparency by laundering money through a law firm,” Rep. Gowdy concluded.
Judicial Watch president Tom Fitton recently appeared on Lou Dobbs Tonight and stated, “We’ve got a real crisis here … It’s one thing to have Democratic lawyers or Fusion GPS lawyers protecting the dossier information payments about it. It’s another thing to have the FBI and Justice Department fighting to keep the public in the dark about this.”
Dobbs lamented on the absurdity of how the issue is being handled, from documents hidden from the public to closed-door meetings. “It’s a joke … The thing that’s broken here is the integrity of our committees in Congress, the integrity of our intelligence agencies. And I’m saying it out loud because there is every evidence of corruption across all of those agencies.”
Dobbs lamented on the absurdity of how the issue is being handled, from documents hidden from the public to closed-door meetings. “It’s a joke … The thing that’s broken here is the integrity of our committees in Congress, the integrity of our intelligence agencies. And I’m saying it out loud because there is every evidence of corruption across all of those agencies.”
Judicial Watch has already made progress in forcing Fusion GPS to reveal information that sheds light on the Clinton campaign involvement in the creation of the dossier. They will continue to fight to obtain Fusion GPS bank records to uncover the intricacies of money exchanges. They may be able to prove that Clinton was involved in money laundering, proving Rep. Gowdy correct.
FBI informant gathered years of evidence on Russian push for US nuclear fuel deals, including Uranium One, memos show
BY JOHN SOLOMON
An FBI informant gathered extensive evidence during his six years undercover about 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, according to more than 5,000 pages of documents from the counterintelligence investigation.
The memos, reviewed by The Hill, conflict with statements made by Justice Department officials in recent days 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.
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 memos show.
Campbell, who was paid $50,000 a month to consult for the firm, was solicited by Rosatom colleagues to help overcome political opposition to the Uranium One purchase while collecting FBI evidence that the sale was part of a larger effort by Moscow to make the U.S. more dependent on Russian uranium, contemporaneous emails and memos show.
The memos, reviewed by The Hill, conflict with statements made by Justice Department officials in recent days 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.
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 memos show.
Campbell, who was paid $50,000 a month to consult for the firm, was solicited by Rosatom colleagues to help overcome political opposition to the Uranium One purchase while collecting FBI evidence that the sale was part of a larger effort by Moscow to make the U.S. more dependent on Russian uranium, contemporaneous emails and memos show.
“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 working for the Russians, wrote in a June 24, 2010 email to Campbell.
The email forwarded an article on Rosatom’s efforts to buy Uranium One through its ARMZ subsidiary. Fisk also related information from a conversation with the Canadian executives of the mining firm about their discomfort with the impending sale.
“I spoke with a senior Uranium One Executive,” Fisk wrote Campbell, detailing his personal history with some of the company’s figures. “He said that corporate Management was not even told before the announcement [of the sale] was made.
“There are a lot of concerns,” Fisk added, predicting the Canadians would exit the company with buyouts once the Russians took control. Fisk added the premium price the Russians were paying to buy a mining firm that in 2010 controlled about 20 percent of America’s uranium production seemed “strange.”
At the time, Campell was working alongside Fisk as an American consultant to Rosatom’s commercial sales arm Tenex.
But unbeknownst to his colleagues, Campbell also was serving as an FBI informant gathering evidence that Fisk, Tenex executive Vadim Mikerin and several others were engaged in a racketeering scheme involving millions of dollars in bribes and kickbacks, plus extortion and money laundering.
Justice Department officials confirmed the emails and documents gathered by Campbell, saying they were in the possession of the FBI, the department's national security division and its criminal division at various times over the last decade. They added that Campbell's work was valuable enough that the FBI paid him nearly $200,000, mostly for reimbursements over six years, but that the money also included a check for more than $51,000 in compensation after the final convictions were secured.
The information he gathered on Uranium One was more significant to the counterintelligence aspect of the case that started in 2008 than the eventual criminal prosecutions that began in 2013, they addeJustice spokeswoman Sarah Isgur Flores said Monday Justice plans to brief members of Congress next week on Campbell's work, the counterintelligence investigation into Russian uranium and the nuclear bribery case. Some issues related to the case are also being reviewed by senior Justice officials, she added.
"The Department of Justice has authorized the confidential informant to disclose to the chairmen and ranking members of the Senate Committee on the Judiciary, the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, as well as staff, any information or documents he has concerning alleged corruption or bribery involving transactions in the uranium market. Until the informant publicly speaks to what he knew or knows about these matters, we are unable to respond further," she said.
Campbell’s undercover work helped FBI counterintelligence chronicle a Russian uranium strategy modeled after Moscow’s success in creating natural gas monopolies in eastern Europe that strengthened Russia’s economy and geopolitical standing after the Cold War, the officials said.
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. The 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.
Campbell also produced leads for the FBI about suspicious activity inside Iran’s and South Africa’s nuclear industry, the documents show.
And most importantly, it developed concrete evidence that Tenex — at its Russian leadership’s behest — had engaged in a massive racketeering scheme. That evidence led to indictments in 2014 and the convictions of several figures in 2015.
The defendants who pled guilty included Mikerin, the very man Russia sent to the United States to quarterback its uranium strategy, as well as the head of the American trucking company that moved Russia’s uranium around the United States.
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.
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.
Campbell also relayed detailed information about criminal conduct throughout 2010, including the coordinates for various money laundering drops, according to his FBI debriefing reports. The evidence Campbell gathered indicated Mikerin’s corruption scheme was being directed by and benefitting more senior officials with Rosatom and Tenex back in Russia, the records show, a claim U.S. officials would make in court years later.
“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.
Republican members of Congress have been angered by the Justice Department’s first answers because they conflict with the evidence already gathered in their probe.
“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.
Flores said Sessions stands by his testimony. "The Attorney General’s testimony is accurate. The criminal case in which Mikerin was convicted and the factual and legal requirements needed to make that case did not address the CFIUS matter," she said.
Similar misinformation surfaced last week in articles by Reuters and Yahoo News in which officials were quoted as casting doubt that Campbell had any information about the Uranium One deal, because Tenex was a different division of Rosatom than the ARMZ subsidiary that bought the mining firm.
But Campbell’s FBI informant file shows Uranium One came up several times in 2010 as the sale was pending, partly because Tenex was Rosatom’s commercial arm and would be charged with finding markets for the new uranium being mined and enriched both in the United States and abroad.
Campbell himself was directly solicited by his colleagues to help overcome opposition to the Uranium One deal, the FBI informant files show. In an Oct. 6, 2010, email with the subject line “ARMZ + Uranium One,” Fisk forwarded a news article outlining Republican efforts to derail the sale.
“The referenced article may present a very good opportunity for Sigma [Campbell’s company] to try and remove the opposing influences, if that is something you can do,” Fisk wrote the informant, who was also a paid consultant for the company at the time
The next day, Mikerin was sent an 11-page report laying out the larger Russian nuclear strategy and what Russia wanted to do inside the U.S. to gain advantage in the uranium market. The report cited specific concerns about the political pressure opposing Uranium One if it wasn’t overcome. Campbell intercepted the document.
“Some Republicans truly fear the entry of Russia into the U.S. market, as demonstrated by the fact that they are taking steps to block the purchase of Uranium One,” the report warned Mikerin. “This effort bears watching as it may provide clues as to the likely political reaction if a Russian entity was going to participate in the construction and operation of a uranium enrichment plant in the U.S.”
After Rosatom’s sale was approved, Uranium One officials would have direct contact with Tenex and Mikerin, some of which was witnessed by Campbell, the documents show.
For instance, Mikerin forwarded to Campbell an email in 2012 from a Uranium One executive suggesting the planned construction of a new nuclear reactor near Augusta Ga., might prove a good opportunity for both Uranium One and Tenex to expand their business, the documents show.
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.
Uranium One was a large enough concern for the informant that he confronted one of his FBI handlers after learning CFIUS had approved the sale and that the U.S. had given Mikerin a work visa despite the extensive evidence of his criminal activity, source said.
The agent responded back to the informant with a comment suggesting “politics” was involved, the source familiar with Campbell’s planned testimony said.
Justice officials said federal prosecutors have no records that Campbell or his lawyer made any allegations about the Uranium One deal during his debriefings in the criminal case that started in 2013, but acknowledged he collected evidence about the mining deal during the FBI counterintelligence investigation that preceded it.
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.”
But the recent leaks that have most concerned congressional investigators occurred in a Yahoo story late Friday, in which Justice officials anonymously questioned Campbell’s credibility and suggested they had to alter their criminal case against Mikerin in 2015, eventually striking a plea deal, because they feared he would be a “disaster” as a trial witness.
The FBI informant file, however, paints a different picture. After Mikerin pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 48 months prison in December 2015, the FBI took Campbell out to a celebratory seafood dinner and delivered a handsome reward: a check for $51,046.36 dated Jan. 7, 2016, a copy of which was obtained by The Hill.
A source directly familiar with the FBI’s evidence said the primary reason prosecutors working under Rosenstein, then the U.S. attorney in Maryland, changed course in the case was because of concerns their initial indictment miscast Campbell’s role in the investigation.
The original indictments and affidavits portrayed Campbell as a “victim” who became a confidential witness after the Russians tried to “extort” him in summer 2009 into a kickback scheme, court records show.
In fact, Campbell was an informant deeply controlled by FBI counterintelligence starting when he signed a nondisclosure agreement in January 2008, more than a year before Mikerin engaged him in the criminal activity, the FBI’s records show.
Campbell was inserted inside Mikerin’s world specifically to look for criminal activity and other harmful national security actions by the Russians, starting with undercover work he performed as a consultant contracting with a lobbying firm in 2008 and then inside Tenex starting in 2009, according to documents and memos.
Campbell’s regular debriefings dating to 2008 show the nature of some of his undercover work, including making surreptitious recordings and collecting documents well before the first money laundering started in inside Tenex in 2009. He also had a long history of collaboration with U.S. intelligence, including the FBI, that predated his case, sources told The Hill.
To facilitate his cover, Campbell made a cash payment in summer 2009 to a Russian consultant after he secured the Tenex consulting contract. His Russian colleagues demanded he hire the overseas consultant to better learn the company's strategy and how the Russians preferred to receive their consulting reports, sources said.
The transaction later worried prosecutors in the criminal case because they feared it might muddy their case of extortion against Mikerin because the voluntary payment was made only shortly before the kickback demands started, the sources said.
The prosecutors also faced another concern about the case unrelated to Campbell, the sources said.
When Fisk — one of the main targets of their bribery investigation — died in 2011, the FBI did not execute a grand jury subpoena to capture all of his evidence. Instead, agents asked his widow for permission to voluntarily search his computer hard drive and remove the documents the agents wanted.
The hard drive was subsequently discarded before the criminal charges were filed, leaving it unavailable for defense lawyers to search, the sources said. Defense lawyers pounced on the revelation late in the case, court records show.
At the time, Fisk was a larger than life figure inside the Russian nuclear industry, having headed the trucking firm that moved uranium across the United States on behalf of Rosatom. Campbell helped the FBI document that both Fisk, stating in 2004, and a successor starting in 2011 at the trucking firm were paying bribes to the Russians, the records show.
During 2010, Fisk was transitioning from the trucking firm to become a key strategist for Tenex and Mikerin, advising them on the Russian nuclear industry’s aggressive push to expand its business in the United States.
Sources said the recasting of the prosecution in 2015 had much to with avoiding exposing the extensive nature of the FBI counterintelligence operations that involved Campbell.
“This isn’t really about his credibility or work, which generated leads we relied on well into 2016. Often times, CI investigations are focused first on monitoring and stopping activity that threatens U.S. security and the consequences to later criminal case are a secondary concern,” said one source familiar with the probe. “That’s the reality of a dirty business.”
Asked whether the criminal side of Justice knew about Campbell’s work, including its origins to 2008 and its possible ties to Uranium One, a source with direct knowledge said the prosecutors acquired all of Campbell’s emails as part of a 2015 agreement he signed. Justice also had access to Campbell’s emails recovered from Fisk’s computers in 2011 as well as documents Campbell gave during debriefings that started in 2008, the source added.
The 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.”
Campbell endured significant stress during his time undercover and suffered a handful of episodes related to drinking, resulting in two misdemeanor reckless driving charges and one misdemeanor driving under the influence, his lawyer said.
Attorney Victoria Toensing told The Hill that the FBI was fully aware of the drinking incidents and continued to use her client for many years after.
“Until he began working undercover for the U.S. government in his early 60s, Mr. Campbell had an unblemished driving record,” she said. “However, the pressure of living a double life and being threatened by the Russians if he violated their trust took a toll.
“Additionally, there were numerous occasions where he was required to meet socially with the Russians, who were prodigious imbibers of vodka. Any refusal by him to participate could have compromised his cover. Mr. Campbell has not had any driving or drinking issue since 2014 when he ceased working undercover,” she added.
The information he gathered on Uranium One was more significant to the counterintelligence aspect of the case that started in 2008 than the eventual criminal prosecutions that began in 2013, they addeJustice spokeswoman Sarah Isgur Flores said Monday Justice plans to brief members of Congress next week on Campbell's work, the counterintelligence investigation into Russian uranium and the nuclear bribery case. Some issues related to the case are also being reviewed by senior Justice officials, she added.
"The Department of Justice has authorized the confidential informant to disclose to the chairmen and ranking members of the Senate Committee on the Judiciary, the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, as well as staff, any information or documents he has concerning alleged corruption or bribery involving transactions in the uranium market. Until the informant publicly speaks to what he knew or knows about these matters, we are unable to respond further," she said.
Campbell’s undercover work helped FBI counterintelligence chronicle a Russian uranium strategy modeled after Moscow’s success in creating natural gas monopolies in eastern Europe that strengthened Russia’s economy and geopolitical standing after the Cold War, the officials said.
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. The 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.
Campbell also produced leads for the FBI about suspicious activity inside Iran’s and South Africa’s nuclear industry, the documents show.
And most importantly, it developed concrete evidence that Tenex — at its Russian leadership’s behest — had engaged in a massive racketeering scheme. That evidence led to indictments in 2014 and the convictions of several figures in 2015.
The defendants who pled guilty included Mikerin, the very man Russia sent to the United States to quarterback its uranium strategy, as well as the head of the American trucking company that moved Russia’s uranium around the United States.
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.
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.
Campbell also relayed detailed information about criminal conduct throughout 2010, including the coordinates for various money laundering drops, according to his FBI debriefing reports. The evidence Campbell gathered indicated Mikerin’s corruption scheme was being directed by and benefitting more senior officials with Rosatom and Tenex back in Russia, the records show, a claim U.S. officials would make in court years later.
“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.
Republican members of Congress have been angered by the Justice Department’s first answers because they conflict with the evidence already gathered in their probe.
“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.
Flores said Sessions stands by his testimony. "The Attorney General’s testimony is accurate. The criminal case in which Mikerin was convicted and the factual and legal requirements needed to make that case did not address the CFIUS matter," she said.
Similar misinformation surfaced last week in articles by Reuters and Yahoo News in which officials were quoted as casting doubt that Campbell had any information about the Uranium One deal, because Tenex was a different division of Rosatom than the ARMZ subsidiary that bought the mining firm.
But Campbell’s FBI informant file shows Uranium One came up several times in 2010 as the sale was pending, partly because Tenex was Rosatom’s commercial arm and would be charged with finding markets for the new uranium being mined and enriched both in the United States and abroad.
Campbell himself was directly solicited by his colleagues to help overcome opposition to the Uranium One deal, the FBI informant files show. In an Oct. 6, 2010, email with the subject line “ARMZ + Uranium One,” Fisk forwarded a news article outlining Republican efforts to derail the sale.
“The referenced article may present a very good opportunity for Sigma [Campbell’s company] to try and remove the opposing influences, if that is something you can do,” Fisk wrote the informant, who was also a paid consultant for the company at the time
The next day, Mikerin was sent an 11-page report laying out the larger Russian nuclear strategy and what Russia wanted to do inside the U.S. to gain advantage in the uranium market. The report cited specific concerns about the political pressure opposing Uranium One if it wasn’t overcome. Campbell intercepted the document.
“Some Republicans truly fear the entry of Russia into the U.S. market, as demonstrated by the fact that they are taking steps to block the purchase of Uranium One,” the report warned Mikerin. “This effort bears watching as it may provide clues as to the likely political reaction if a Russian entity was going to participate in the construction and operation of a uranium enrichment plant in the U.S.”
After Rosatom’s sale was approved, Uranium One officials would have direct contact with Tenex and Mikerin, some of which was witnessed by Campbell, the documents show.
For instance, Mikerin forwarded to Campbell an email in 2012 from a Uranium One executive suggesting the planned construction of a new nuclear reactor near Augusta Ga., might prove a good opportunity for both Uranium One and Tenex to expand their business, the documents show.
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.
Uranium One was a large enough concern for the informant that he confronted one of his FBI handlers after learning CFIUS had approved the sale and that the U.S. had given Mikerin a work visa despite the extensive evidence of his criminal activity, source said.
The agent responded back to the informant with a comment suggesting “politics” was involved, the source familiar with Campbell’s planned testimony said.
Justice officials said federal prosecutors have no records that Campbell or his lawyer made any allegations about the Uranium One deal during his debriefings in the criminal case that started in 2013, but acknowledged he collected evidence about the mining deal during the FBI counterintelligence investigation that preceded it.
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.”
But the recent leaks that have most concerned congressional investigators occurred in a Yahoo story late Friday, in which Justice officials anonymously questioned Campbell’s credibility and suggested they had to alter their criminal case against Mikerin in 2015, eventually striking a plea deal, because they feared he would be a “disaster” as a trial witness.
The FBI informant file, however, paints a different picture. After Mikerin pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 48 months prison in December 2015, the FBI took Campbell out to a celebratory seafood dinner and delivered a handsome reward: a check for $51,046.36 dated Jan. 7, 2016, a copy of which was obtained by The Hill.
A source directly familiar with the FBI’s evidence said the primary reason prosecutors working under Rosenstein, then the U.S. attorney in Maryland, changed course in the case was because of concerns their initial indictment miscast Campbell’s role in the investigation.
The original indictments and affidavits portrayed Campbell as a “victim” who became a confidential witness after the Russians tried to “extort” him in summer 2009 into a kickback scheme, court records show.
In fact, Campbell was an informant deeply controlled by FBI counterintelligence starting when he signed a nondisclosure agreement in January 2008, more than a year before Mikerin engaged him in the criminal activity, the FBI’s records show.
Campbell was inserted inside Mikerin’s world specifically to look for criminal activity and other harmful national security actions by the Russians, starting with undercover work he performed as a consultant contracting with a lobbying firm in 2008 and then inside Tenex starting in 2009, according to documents and memos.
Campbell’s regular debriefings dating to 2008 show the nature of some of his undercover work, including making surreptitious recordings and collecting documents well before the first money laundering started in inside Tenex in 2009. He also had a long history of collaboration with U.S. intelligence, including the FBI, that predated his case, sources told The Hill.
To facilitate his cover, Campbell made a cash payment in summer 2009 to a Russian consultant after he secured the Tenex consulting contract. His Russian colleagues demanded he hire the overseas consultant to better learn the company's strategy and how the Russians preferred to receive their consulting reports, sources said.
The transaction later worried prosecutors in the criminal case because they feared it might muddy their case of extortion against Mikerin because the voluntary payment was made only shortly before the kickback demands started, the sources said.
The prosecutors also faced another concern about the case unrelated to Campbell, the sources said.
When Fisk — one of the main targets of their bribery investigation — died in 2011, the FBI did not execute a grand jury subpoena to capture all of his evidence. Instead, agents asked his widow for permission to voluntarily search his computer hard drive and remove the documents the agents wanted.
The hard drive was subsequently discarded before the criminal charges were filed, leaving it unavailable for defense lawyers to search, the sources said. Defense lawyers pounced on the revelation late in the case, court records show.
At the time, Fisk was a larger than life figure inside the Russian nuclear industry, having headed the trucking firm that moved uranium across the United States on behalf of Rosatom. Campbell helped the FBI document that both Fisk, stating in 2004, and a successor starting in 2011 at the trucking firm were paying bribes to the Russians, the records show.
During 2010, Fisk was transitioning from the trucking firm to become a key strategist for Tenex and Mikerin, advising them on the Russian nuclear industry’s aggressive push to expand its business in the United States.
Sources said the recasting of the prosecution in 2015 had much to with avoiding exposing the extensive nature of the FBI counterintelligence operations that involved Campbell.
“This isn’t really about his credibility or work, which generated leads we relied on well into 2016. Often times, CI investigations are focused first on monitoring and stopping activity that threatens U.S. security and the consequences to later criminal case are a secondary concern,” said one source familiar with the probe. “That’s the reality of a dirty business.”
Asked whether the criminal side of Justice knew about Campbell’s work, including its origins to 2008 and its possible ties to Uranium One, a source with direct knowledge said the prosecutors acquired all of Campbell’s emails as part of a 2015 agreement he signed. Justice also had access to Campbell’s emails recovered from Fisk’s computers in 2011 as well as documents Campbell gave during debriefings that started in 2008, the source added.
The 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.”
Campbell endured significant stress during his time undercover and suffered a handful of episodes related to drinking, resulting in two misdemeanor reckless driving charges and one misdemeanor driving under the influence, his lawyer said.
Attorney Victoria Toensing told The Hill that the FBI was fully aware of the drinking incidents and continued to use her client for many years after.
“Until he began working undercover for the U.S. government in his early 60s, Mr. Campbell had an unblemished driving record,” she said. “However, the pressure of living a double life and being threatened by the Russians if he violated their trust took a toll.
“Additionally, there were numerous occasions where he was required to meet socially with the Russians, who were prodigious imbibers of vodka. Any refusal by him to participate could have compromised his cover. Mr. Campbell has not had any driving or drinking issue since 2014 when he ceased working undercover,” she added.
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