Russian Espionage and Political Compromise

We have a source in the Russian SVR.

This individual has provided us with a list of Russian sources who are currently

working in the US.

We're aware.

What you aren't aware of is some of the more prominent names on

that list.

How prominent?

Executives of multiple television networks, senior editors at the Post and

the Times,

four district court judges, two circuit court judges,

seven members of the House, and two in the Senate.

My God.

But you know this, not speculate. Know it.

We have the SVR files, ma'am, which contain bank account information,

routing numbers, pay schedules through various foundations

and NGOs, typically

as campaign contributions. The evidence is damning.

The question is,

what would you like us to do with it?

Our worry is that whether we detain or FBI arrests, it's gonna send a

shockwave through the higher learning institutions, through the major media

outlets, through the public officials both elected

to office.

Will it cause a collapse in confidence through these institutions that is

actually more helpful to the Russians than the sources they have in place?

We could do arrests in stages over a period of time.

What period of time are we talking about?

Once one of the dominoes falls, they all fall,

whether we knock them down or

not.

May I?

Joe,

let us figure this out.

I d- d-, I just-

No, I, I'd like to hear what she has to say.

Go ahead, Joe.

Look, Kyle and I are the only spies in the room,

right?

It was spies who hooked these fish.

You can arrest them, sure, but we can switch the hooks.

Remove theirs, put in ours.

Explain that.

We approach every compromised official.

We present them our evidence, and we give them the option of retiring in

the

next twenty-four hours, or they face prison.

We don't offer them immunity.

We don't offer them anything. We simply withhold action.

They tell us everything, they give us everything,

and from this day forward, they

are our sources.

Who are these senators?

Olsen, Meyer.

Meyer's a freshman.

It's likely they had him before and were just instrumental in his decision to

run.

We audited his campaign contributions.

Energy company in Crimea, Armenian IT company, Alibaba,

Tencent, Baidu.

Jesus.

Yes.

Well, your plan makes sense, Joe.

They're removed from power immediately.

They have no means of defying the demand 'cause we

can prosecute.

We'd be forced to in this instance.

No statute of limitations on treason.

We could prosecute any time we see fit.

Yeah, okay. You two,

you take Meyer.

I'll take Olsen.

Yes, sir.

You two start working the House.

With pleasure.

Director Wexler.

Sir.

If we can have special agent from the CED at all of these

meetings,

anyone that says no is arrested.

Let the chips fall where they may.

Go and have a drink on us.