1. I surfaced an interesting fact while researching this piece. Jeff Sessions appointed John Huber after a John Solomon report in The Hill, the details of which are very familiar.
2. Solomon's reporting revolved around an anonymous informant's claim that "Russian nuclear officials had routed millions of dollars to the U.S." designed to benefit the Clinton Foundation and influence the approval of the Uranium One deal.
3. The idea here was that Hillary Clinton corruptly influenced the approval process because of this money, and that the informant could prove it.
4. The informant's claims were deemed unreliable by DOJ, and congressional investigators subsequently said he had no evidence related to Clinton. But the Solomon report triggered hours of Fox coverage and pressured Sessions into appointing Huber.
5. The informant whose claims spurred John Solomon's reporting was William Douglas Campbell. Campbell's lawyer was Victoria Toensing. Toensing is also Solomon's longtime lawyer. Those ties were not revealed in Solomon's The Hill articles.
6. If this pattern sounds familiar, it's exactly how Solomon's Ukraine disinformation campaign played out. Solomon's biggest stories seem to involve clients of his lawyer, with those ties never revealed in his account.
