There is one axiom any person can take the bank: Today’s
Dems are a pack of liars. ERGO, it is unsurprising Senator Grassley fingers top
Dem leaders for smearing his and Senator Ron Johnson’s investigation of Hunter
Biden involvement with corrupt Ukrainian company Burisma with lies UNDOUBTEDLY
as cover for Quid Pro Joe and the Obama Administration.
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of the longest serving members of Congress in a scathing speech on Wednesday
accused Democrats of resorting to dirty tricks in order to derail
investigations into Joe and Hunter Biden’s dealings with
Ukraine. "This is the behavior of cowards. And it has to stop,"
Sen. Chuck Grassley declared.
Democrats have accused two leading senators of engaging in
disinformation, while in truth the accusers are engaging in disinformation,
said Grassley, R-Iowa, in his speech
to lawmakers.
Citing investigations being led by himself and Sen. Ron
Johnson of Wisconsin, Grassley highlighted important revelations, among them
that parts of the infamous anti-Trump document, the Steele Dossier, were based
on Russian disinformation.
The current investigations by Grassley and Johnson center on
Hunter Biden’s position on the board of the Burisma company in Ukraine when his
father, Joe Biden, was vice president.
Both Grassley and Johnson have come under fire from
Congressional Democrats who have sought to discredit the investigation - thus
prompting Grassley's floor speech.
“In the last few weeks, Democrats have falsely accused me
and Senator Johnson of receiving packets of information, including tapes, from
a Ukrainian,” Grassley said. “That’s false reporting based on leaks from a
letter written by Senator Schumer, Senator Warner, Speaker Pelosi, and
Representative Schiff, which is itself based on cherry picked innuendo from
classified documents.”
In his forceful remarks, Grassley accused Democrats of
acting in bad faith.
"This nonsense of orchestrated leaks to plant stories
falsely accusing me of dealing in disinformation based on actual disinformation
that I wasn’t even privy to serves only the interest of our shared
adversaries," he said. "This is the behavior of cowards. And it has
to stop."
Elsewhere, he countered the Democrats’ claims.
“Let me be clear, my investigation with Senator Johnson is
based on how the Obama administration formulated its Ukraine policy, which then
Vice President Biden oversaw while his son was on the board of a corrupt
Ukrainian natural gas company that was under investigation,” Grassley said.
Summarizing the Russia collusion investigation that produced
no evidence of collusion between Moscow and Donald Trump, Grassley took a swipe
at the Democrats for not examining the roots of those charges.
“Maybe the Democrats don’t want to look under the hood of
the fake Russia investigation because they’d be front and center,” Grassley
said.
The pointed floor statement follows an Aug. 4 letter from Grassley and
Johnson to Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), Speaker Nancy Pelosi
(D-Calif.), Senate Intelligence Vice Chair Mark Warner (D-Va.), and House
Intelligence Chair Adam Schiff (D-Calif.).
“The fact that the press knew more about the content of the
allegedly classified material than we did indicates that you are more
interested in grabbing headlines and scoring political points than actually
addressing and confronting the issue of foreign interference in our elections,”
Grassley and Johnson wrote in their letter.
“We have neither sought out, relied upon, nor publicly
released anything that could even remotely be considered disinformation,” the
two wrote.
Grassley, 86, was first elected in 1980, and is serving his
seventh term in the United States Senate.
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Two posts (BPR & CFP) are telling their readers that
more and more corruption is being exposed. Showing again that Dems LIE and the
former Obama Administration is riddled with a load treasonous Deep State
Comrades to the Constitution.
The BPR post is about two Senators (Grassley & Graham)
of the Senate Judiciary Committee have sent a criminal referral to the FBI to
investigate Christopher Steele lying under oath. A second deceitful memo
authored by Steele evidently was fed “allegations” by Clinton associates
against President Trump.
Judi McLeod has an interesting article at CFP indicating the
black robed FISC Judges may have been in on Obama Administration,
FBI-Leadership & DOJ-Leadership coup agenda to prevent or impeach President
Trump depending on the November 2016 election results.
Talk about a swamp needing drained. These nefarious actions
if ever successful renders our Constitutional Republic null and void!
Christopher Steele isn’t getting off the hook so easily.
According a memo released by the Senate Judiciary Committee
on Monday, Steele, the former British MI6 agent who compiled the Trump dossier
commissioned by Fusion GPS, was fed allegations from Clinton associates during
his research on President Trump, Fox News reports.
The Monday memo is an unclassified, redacted version of a
criminal referral filed on Jan. 4 by Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) and Lindsey
Graham (R-SC) that suggests Steele lied to the FBI about his contacts or that
the FBI misrepresented Steele’s statements.
Grassley and Graham wrote to the Justice Department in
January, requesting an investigation of Steele. The Senators now ask the FBI
for an emergency review of their criminal referral so that it can be made
public with limited redactions.
In the memo, the lawmakers state “there is substantial
evidence suggesting that Mr. Steele materially misled the FBI about a key
aspect of his dossier efforts, one which bears on his credibility.”
Christopher Steele.
(Photo by Victoria Jones/PA Images via Getty Images).
One portion of the heavily-redacted memo claimed that Steele
received information from “a foreign sub-source who ‘is in touch with
(redacted), a contact of (redacted), a friend of the Clintons, who passed it to
(redacted).”
“It is troubling enough that the Clinton Campaign funded Mr.
Steele’s work, but that these Clinton associates were contemporaneously feeding
Mr. Steele allegations raises additional concerns about his credibility,”
Grassley and Graham wrote to Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein in January.
The Grassley-Graham memo says that Steele used the
information from the “foreign sub-source” to write an additional document
related to President Trump’s ties to Russia that was not included in the
infamous dossier published by BuzzFeed in January 2017, the Washington Post reports.
According to the memo, Clinton associate Cody Shearer was in
contact with Steele about anti-Trump research. Jonathan Winer, an Obama
State Department official, was a connection between Steele and the State
Department during the 2016 election.
A House Intelligence Committee memo declassified on Friday revealed that
the largely unverified Steele dossier, which was paid for by the Democratic
National Committee and Clinton campaign through the law firm Perkins Coie, was
used by the FBI to obtain a FISA warrant to spy on Trump associate Carter Page.
Friday’s memo showed that the FBI was aware of the dossier’s
origins but did not disclose that information to the Foreign Intelligence
Surveillance Court when applying for a FISA warrant.
The FBI opposed the release of the Grassley-Graham referral,
saying the Bureau “respects” the committee’s desire for transparency but that
it “cannot and will not weaken its commitment” to protecting classified
information.
Sens. Grassley and Graham said the FBI’s remarks
“mischaracterize and misstate” the amount of classified information in the
document, and have asked the Bureau and Justice Department to “immediately
review the classified referral in light of [Friday’s] declassification and
provide the Committee with the declassified version by no later than February
6, 2018.”
Add Barack Obama-appointed Foreign Intelligence Court (FISC)
members to the braggadocio list of the “17 intelligence agencies” that
Hillary Clinton openly bragged about at the Oct. 19, 2016 presidential debate
when she told debate host Chris Wallace that “17 of our intelligence
agencies have confirmed”, the highest levels of the Russian government,
including Putin himself had been caught up in “an effort to influence our
election”.
What Clinton was, in essence saying, was that the fix was
in; that Candidate Donald Trump would have zero chance of beating the rap of
colluding with the Russians because “17 intelligence agencies”, including FISA
judges, were at the ready to smear him as a Russian spy to
discredit, first his candidacy, and then his unwanted and unexpected
presidency.
Clinton’s admission made on national television during the
University of Nevada presidential debate was jaw-dropping in its
breath-taking brazenness for any who were aware.
Now that it’s out there, heads should roll. (video 25:16
mark)
Up to the present, millions suspected the FBI, the DoJ, Jim
Comey and Robert Mueller of foul play.
FISC sat quietly back in obscurity with no one noticing the
key role it played in the Hillary Clinton/DNC-manufactured
‘Russians-stole-the-election’ conspiracy.
But Obama’s Men in Black were onboard from the get-go:
“Is it surprising that nearly all
of the judges who serve on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISA)–
the court that gave the go-ahead to wiretap the Trump campaign–were appointed
by Barack Obama? (Media Equalizer, Feb. 5, 2018)
According to Media Equalizer, in
fact 10 of the 11 judges were Obama appointees, including Rudolph Contreras who was
recused from the Michael Flynn case for undisclosed reasons, and granted the warrant
based on fake material provided by the Clinton campaign after another judge
denied it.
“Trial lawyer Robert Barnes notes
that the FISA court does not operate like other courts. Because the court’s
jurisdiction is limited to legitimate security threats, its judges are supposed
to hold the evidence they consider to a much higher standard.
Legal commentary thread on #Memo:
It is important to remember that FISA courts are not like other courts; there
needs to be specific evidence of a particular national security threat to
circumvent regular federal courts. It is a HIGHER standard because its
jurisdiction is LIMITED
To spy on Americans through a FISA
court, the FBI must show the target is an "agent of a foreign power,"
not merely in contact with a foreign power. The law makes it difficult to show
someone is an "agent of a foreign power" to make sure it is
not misused to spy on Americans.
“As NPR noted in 2013, the
FISA court has not really functioned like a typical federal court since 2008
when Obama took office.
“It “became less a court than
an administrative entity or ministerial clerk,” said William Banks, director of
the Institute for National Security and Counterterrorism at Syracuse
University. “They weren’t reviewing law anymore; they were simply sort of
stamping papers as approved or filed.”
“That a DNC sponsored document that
was poorly written and riddled with spelling errors was considered to meet the
court’s high standard raises serious concerns. It is also important to
recognize the damage caused by the judges at the FISA court when they used
their secretive status to influence America’s most important political
election.”
In order to keep presidential election campaigns safe from
the sabotage of Hillary Clinton’s boasted “17 intelligence agencies”, patriots
must learn to see through major media distractions.
During the 2016 election campaign Clinton tore a page from
Obama’s stylebook.
Barack Hussein Obama wasn’t kidding when he boasted just
five days before the 2008 presidential election that he intended to
“fundamentally transform America”. People were too caught up in the media
hype that presented him as the Messiah to take the radical Marxist at his word.
Hillary Clinton wasn’t kidding when she outed the 17
intelligent agencies at the last presidential debate before election at the
University of Nevada debate.
She counted on people being too caught up in her health
issues, including her could- have-been-staged faint routine which televised her
being shoved like a side of beef into a parked van on the 15th anniversary of
9/11.
Time for patriots to return presidential election campaigns
to We the People.
Boot spy agencies out of the American election campaign
process.
Obama’s FISA Men In Black Played Key Role in Russian
Election Conspiracy
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experience in the print media. A former Toronto Sun columnist, she also worked
for the Kingston Whig Standard. Her work has appeared on Rush Limbaugh,
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Crooked Clintons, Dems, Obamunists, Uranium One,
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John R. Houk, Editor
Posted November 13, 2017
It’s time to look at some anti-Trump Deep State horse pucky
the Leftist Mainstream Media (MSM) is ignoring and yet still fabricating
Trump/Russia collusion and calling for President Trump’s impeachment based on
ZERO legal reasoning.
“Today’s report that Fusion
GPS CEO Glenn Simpson met with Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya both before
and after her meeting with Donald Trump, Jr. in June 2016 is breathtaking. It
is clear the Democratic National Committee and the Clinton campaign paid for a
consultant who was using Russians in an attempt to create the appearance of
collusion through false offers of dirt on Hillary Clinton. Even the
Closseau-like Robert Mueller should be able to piece this together and see that
Fusion GPS is at the center of his investigation into the 2016 election.
“It is also reasonable to
assume that the Clinton campaign did not receive any information from that
meeting that they deemed relevant in the campaign, except for the meeting
itself, or else they would have used it. If taking a meeting with Russians is
deemed a criminal act, then Simpson and everyone else who used Russian sources
for the dossier, including the Clinton campaign since they paid for it, should
apparently be in jail. It should also be clear to anyone with an ounce of
honest blood flowing through their veins that the entire foundation of the
Mueller investigation is based on a manufactured concept. If taking a meeting
is criminalized, no one in Washington, D.C. can be exempt from Mueller’s witch
hunt. It’s time to close Robert Mueller’s desperate search for criminality
where none exists.”
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It’s finally underway. The
unraveling of the Clintons.
With no James Comey to protect her, and a complicit crooked president to
provide cover, Hillary Clinton finds herself naked and standing before the man.
“Spread
your butt-cheeks,” yells her jailer, as he waters her down, and checks for a
“keestered” weapon.
According to The Hill, the
unraveling of the Clinton Cartel has begun:
The
FBI has begun turning over to Senate investigators hundreds of pages of
memos regarding the bureau’s probe into Hillary Clinton’s private email server, sources told The
Hill.
The sources said the Justice Department notified the Senate Judiciary Committee
late Friday and the FBI began transmitting memos soon after to assist Congress
in its review of former Director James Comey’s handling of the Clinton email
case.
The memos detail how and when the bureau’s leadership declined to pursue
criminal charges against Clinton for transmitting classified information on her
private email server as secretary of State, an investigation that has remained
controversial since the 2016 presidential campaigns.
FBI officials declined to comment. “We don’t have any information for you,”
spokeswoman Carol Cratty told The Hill.
The Senate committee has been seeking the memos for some time as it
investigates whether Comey chose to absolve Clinton of criminal liability
before the election-year probe was complete and before she was even interviewed.
Comey ultimately concluded that while Clinton’s handling of classified
emails was careless, there was not enough evidence of intent to warrant
criminal charges.
The co-founder of Fusion GPS,
the firm behind the unverified Trump dossier, met with a Russian lawyer before
and after a key meeting she had last year with Trump’s son, Fox News has
learned. The contacts shed new light on how closely tied the firm was to
Russian interests, at a time when it was financing research to discredit
then-candidate Donald Trump.
The opposition research firm
has faced renewed scrutiny after litigation revealed that the DNC and Hillary
Clinton’s campaign paid for that research. Congressional Republicans have since
questioned whether that politically financed research contributed to the FBI’s
investigation of Russian collusion with the Trump campaign – making Fusion’s
2016 contacts with Russian interests all the more relevant.
The June 2016 Trump Tower
meeting involving Donald Trump Jr. and Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya
occurred during a critical period. At that time, Fox News has learned that bank
records show Fusion GPS was paid by a law firm for work on behalf of a
Kremlin-linked oligarch while paying former British spy Christopher Steele to
dig up dirt on Trump through his Russian contacts.
But hours before the Trump
Tower meeting on June 9, 2016, Fusion co-founder and ex-Wall Street Journal
reporter Glenn Simpson was with Veselnitskaya in a Manhattan federal courtroom,
a confidential source told Fox News. Court records reviewed by Fox News, email
correspondence and published reports corroborate the pair’s presence
together. The source told Fox News they also were together after the Trump
Tower meeting.
Simpson’s presence with
Veselnitskaya during this critical week in June -- together with revelations
about Fusion’s simultaneous financial ties to the DNC, Clinton campaign and
Russian interests -- raise new questions about the company’s role in the 2016
election.
In the pile of emails released by Wikileaks, there was one from
American Progress Action to Hillary Clinton campaign manager John Podesta that
contained a brief reference to the Bundys.
The email
address progress@americanprogressaction.org sent Podesta an email on January 11, 2016 with the
subject line: And then the Bundys showed up.
The text of the email read as
follows: After years of conflict, residents of Harney County, Oregon had
finally begun to rebuild ties between ranchers and the federal government. Then
the Bundys showed up. And, President Obama is leaving a seat open for shooting
victims at tomorrow's State of the Union address. In case you missed it, gun
violence survivors speak out in this powerful video (editor's note: tissues
recommended).Additionally, there was a list of articles linked to Think
Progress and at the top of the list was one titled How The Bundy Standoff Could Screw Over
Ranchers. The article has been removed and has not been archived. [Blog
Editor: web cache version courtesy Google]
Keep in mind, this email was
sent less than 2 weeks before Oregon State Troopers, alongside the FBI shot and
killed LaVoy Finicum, also a rancher
who stood alongside the Bundys at Bundy Ranch in Bunkersville in 2014 and at
the Malheur Wildlife Refuge in Oregon in late 2015 and 2016.
...Northwest Liberty News radio
show, a bombshell from documentsJim
White and I obtained indicates that the entire operation of January 26, 2016
goes up not only to Oregon Governor Kate Brown's office,
but even to the White House. Because of the language that was used in the
documents by the officers, we speculated along with Red Smith of ShastaLantern.com and
Paul Preston of Agenda21radio.com that the
White House orchestrated the entire thing and that when it comes to calling the
shots, we don't look to Barack Hussein Obama Soetoro Sobarkah, but rather to
Obama's mama, Valerie Jarrett.
First,
let me remind you that there are over 600 emails and texts that
indicate the Governor Brown was in the loop on everything that was going on in
Oregon during the protest at the Malheur Refuge, including some emails and
texts that were directly from her. Second, due to newly released documents, we
know that at least one Oregon State Trooper specifically acknowledged that the
county to which the protesters were traveling on the day of LaVoy Finicum's
murder was a well-known "UN free zone." The officer made the
statement as though it was common knowledge, so does that mean that
Harney County is not a "UN free zone"?
However,
in those same documents, we have run across even more chilling and telling
statements concerning where the command for the roadblock and the ambush came
from.
oMueller
is planning to conspire in the cover-up of James Comey, Peter Comey, The
Clinton Foundation, Uranium One, Loretta Lynch, Ron Wyden, Adam Wyden, Jeff
Merkley, Steven E Grasty, Brent Grasty, Neil Kronze, Gregory Kronze, Harry
Reid, Rory Reid, George Soros, Barrack Hussein Obama and others for TREASON.
Mueller Hires 13 Lawyers, Including One Who Represented Hillary! - BB4SP https://bb4sp.com/mueller-hires-13-lawyers/
Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA),
chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, is calling for the appointment
of a special counsel to investigate the Obama-era Uranium One deal.
Uranium One refers to the
name of a Canada-based company with mines in the U.S. that was bought by
Rosatom, a company backed by the Russian state. The State Department, then led
by Hillary Clinton, was one of nine U.S. government agencies that had to
approve the controversial 2010 deal, which gave Russia control over more than
20 percent of U.S. uranium supplies.
Republicans have raised
concerns about Russian efforts to influence Clinton to sign off on the deal –
citing donations to the Clinton Foundation as well as a $500,000 speaking fee
received by former President Bill Clinton.
Whoever in DOJ is capable w
authority to appoint a special counsel shld do so to investigate Uranium One
"whoever" means if u aren't
recused
On "Fox & Friends," Grassley said that if a special counsel was necessary to
investigate Russian meddling in the 2016 election, then one is also necessary
to look into these "potentially criminal, fraudulent money laundering
activities."
He said he's looking forward
to hearing from a former FBI informant, who claims to have information
about efforts to bribe the Clintons involving the uranium deal.
The Justice Department said
Wednesday night that it had lifted a gag order the informant, clearing the
individual to speak to Congress.
“We ought to know about [what
he knows], because transparency brings accountability,” Grassley said,
explaining that …READ THE REST
++++++++++++++
Surprise! Big Media
Ignores the Real Russian Scandal
Additionally, the chairman of
Uranium One is a close friend of the Clintons and is on the board of the
Clinton Foundation, according to Peter Schweizer, author of
“Clinton Cash: The Untold Story of How and Why Foreign Governments and
Businesses Helped Make Bill and Hillary Rich.”
Fast forward to now.
Enter: Rod Rosenstein, Andrew
McCabe, Robert Mueller and James Comey --the same folks investigating the
so-called Trump-Russia collusion investigation were also involved in Uranium
One.
DOJ documents disclose the
investigation was ultimately supervised by Rosenstein and McCabe. Robert
Mueller was FBI director when the probe began and James Comey was director
until Trump fired him.
We now know the FBI was aware
of multi-faceted Russian wrongdoing long before the Uranium One nuclear deal
was approved.
The Hill reports the “FBI had gathered substantial
evidence that Russian nuclear industry officials were engaged in bribery,
kickbacks, extortion and money laundering designed to grow Vladimir Putin’s
atomic energy business inside the United States, according to government
documents and interviews.”
Investigators also knew
“Russians were compromising American contractors in the nuclear industry with
kickbacks and extortion threats, all of which raised legitimate national security
concerns,” The Hill reports.
Apparently, the Obama
administration was desperate to keep this under wraps and allegedly threatened
an FBI informant to remain silent. Fox News reports that
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa has asked the DOJ to
“lift an apparent ‘gag order’ on the FBI informant who “allegedly was
‘threatened’ by the Obama administration to stay quiet.”
All that, while we were told
there was nothing to see here.
Despite the mainstream
media’s best efforts to dismiss and ignore the Uranium One bribery scheme,
newly released memos show that the Obama Administration worked hard to deceive
Americans into thinking the sale wouldn’t result in uranium exports.
The Uranium One deal landed
the Clinton Foundation roughly $145 million, but former President Obama approved of the obvious
bribe.
…
But the U.S. Nuclear
Regulatory Commission repeatedly assured Congress that U.S. uranium
reserves wouldn’t be exported.
“No
uranium produced at either facility may be exported,” the NRC declared in a
November 2010 press release that announced that ARMZ, a subsidiary of the
Russian state-owned Rosatom, had been approved to take ownership of the Uranium
One mining firm and its American assets.
A
year later, the nuclear regulator repeated the assurance in a letter to
Sen. John Barrasso, a Wyoming
Republican in whose state Uranium One operated mines.
“Neither
Uranium One Inc. nor AMRZ holds a specific NRC export license. In order to
export uranium from the United States, Uranium One Inc. or ARMZ would need to
apply for and obtain a specific NRC license authorizing the exports of uranium
for use in reactor fuel,” then-NRC Chairman Gregory Jaczko wrote to Barrasso.
…
The 2011 Barrasso letter
makes it clear that Rosatom didn’t have an export license and explained why
such a liscense is of value to the “common defense and security of the United
States.”
…
Freshly released Nuclear
Regulatory Commission memos, however, prove that exports were approved.
Yellowcake uranium was
exported from the U.S., regularly between 2012 and 2014.
To cover their tracks, Obama
signed a waiver which allowed the uranium to be first driven to Canada, where
it would then be exported to Europe.
Yet NRC
memos reviewed by The Hill show that it did approve the shipment of
yellowcake uranium — the raw material used to make nuclear fuel and weapons —
from the Russian-owned mines in the United States to Canada in 2012 through a
third party. Later, the Obama administration approved some of that uranium
going all the way to Europe, government documents show.
NRC
officials said they could not disclose the total amount of uranium that Uranium
One exported because the information is proprietary. They did, however, say
that the shipments only lasted from 2012 to 2014 and that they are unaware of
any exports since then.
NRC
officials told The Hill that Uranium One exports flowed from Wyoming
to Canada and on to Europe between 2012 and 2014, and the approval
involved a process with multiple agencies.
Rather
than give Rosatom a direct export license — which would have raised red flags
inside a Congress already suspicious of the deal — the NRC in 2012 authorized
an amendment to an existing export license for a Paducah, Ky.-based trucking
firm called RSB Logistics Services Inc. to simply add Uranium One to the list
of clients whose uranium it could move to Canada.
The
license, reviewed by The Hill, is dated March 16, 2012, and it increased the
amount of uranium ore concentrate that RSB Logistics could ship to the Cameco
Corp. plant in Ontario from 7,500,000 kilograms to 12,000,000 kilograms and
added Uranium One to the “other parties to Export.”
Uranium left U.S. shores
after all, and the efforts to cover up the move left Congress in the dark for
years.
The Hill received an email
from “Uranium One’s American arm” admitting that uranium was trucked to Canada
to be exported throughout Europe and Asia. According to the letter, the move
technically complies with federal law.
Well, well, well. It
looks as if former FBI director Robert Mueller, who is now special counsel in
charge of the Justice Department’s Russia investigation, allegedly hid evidence
that was collected as early as 2009 which shows Russian officials were involved
in a bribery scheme with Hillary Clinton’s charity in order to expand their
atomic energy business within the U.S.
Federal
agents used a confidential U.S. witness working inside the Russian nuclear
industry to gather extensive financial records, make secret recordings and
intercept emails as early as 2009 that showed Moscow had compromised an
American uranium trucking firm with bribes and kickbacks in violation of the
Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, FBI and court documents show.
Rather
than bring immediate charges for the scheme though, the FBI and Justice
Department decided to continue “investigating” the issue for four more years –
leaving the American public and Congress in the dark about Russian nuclear
corruption on U.S. soil during a period when the Obama administration made two
major decisions benefiting Putin’s commercial nuclear ambitions.
The details were revealed in
a report earlier this
week. Apparently, the evidence was withheld from lawmakers while they
were questioning the Obama administration’s approval of the sale of Uranium One
to Russia’s nuclear giant Rosatom in 2010, which ultimately led to Russian
control of 20% of U.S. uranium supply.
Then, in 2011, the
administration approved Tenex, a subsidiary of Rosatom, in partnership with the
United States Enrichment Corp., to sell commercial uranium to U.S. nuclear
power plants. Prior to that, Tenex was only allowed to sell reprocessed
uranium recovered from dismantled Soviet nuclear weapons under the 1990s
“Megatons to Megawatts” peace program U.S. nuclear power plants.
An anonymous person who
worked on the case informed The Hill, “The Russians were
compromising American contractors in the nuclear industry with kickbacks and
extortion threats, all of which raised legitimate national security concerns.
And none of that evidence got aired before the Obama administration made those
decisions.”
[Blog Editor: RCP post a
56 second video of Trish Regan and Ned Ryun discussing the issue of a criminal
cover-up in the Obama Administration. There was no embed at RCP. But I did find
a Facebook on Trish Regan’s video page. I’ll embed that first followed by a
more detailed similar version I found a Youtube video of Regan and Ryun on the
same subject but four-minutes in length.
American
Majority CEO Ned Ryun on the Uranium One deal and Russia reportedly exporting
U.S. uranium to Canada and Europe.]
American Majority CEO Ned
Ryun talks to FOX Business Network's Trish Reagan about the Russian connection
between Fusion GPS, DNC, and the Clinton presidential campaign. Ryun also said
the meeting between Donald Trump Jr. and a Russian lawyer smells like a setup.
"This Russian lawyer we will discover that she was actually one of the
unnamed sources for the Russian dossier," Ryun said Wednesday on FOX
Business. "The thing that is amazing to me in all of this is we have seen
harder and stronger evidence over the last two weeks for Russian collusion
between Fusion GPS, the DNC and Hillary Clinton with Russia than we have any
evidence for the Trump campaign and Russia for the last year."
"The reason I think the Intelligence Committee is trying to get ahold of
all of their bank records -- I think Fusion GPS was actually paying journalists
to promote their manufactured news," he said. "And so you asked if
there was anything illegal. We'll have to find that out and that's why I want
to see the DOJ to go under the RICO statutes and look what Fusion GPS has done.
It's highly unethical."
Some U.S. national security
officials are urging an investigation of the burgeoning Uranium One scandal to
focus on whether the New START arms treaty with Russia was compromised by
Moscow payoffs and not just by Obama administration policies that sought to
curry favor with the Kremlin.
The Obama team, through the
Treasury Department-led Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States
(CFIUS), approved the 2010 sale of 51 percent of Canada-based Uranium One
to JSC Atomredmetzoloto, or ARMZ,
the mining arm of Rosatom, the Russian state nuclear energy agency. The
merger gave Russia control of some 20 percent of U.S. uranium extraction
capability.
In 2015, it was revealed that
nine lobbyists for Uranium One paid the Clinton Foundation, Bill and Hillary
Clinton’s charitable organization, $145 million before, during and after the
deal was approved. Bill Clinton also traveled to Moscow, where
he was paid $500,000 by a Russian government-linked bank for a speech.
Last month, the Uranium One
case resurfaced when news reports revealed that the FBI apparently covered up
information about illegal Russian attempts to lobby then-Secretary of
State Hillary Clinton.
The deal was approved by
senior Obama officials, including Mrs. Clinton, apparently without knowledge of
an FBI probe that led to the conviction of a Russian lobbyist linked to the
deal who was found guilty of bribery and kickbacks. A confidential source used
in the prosecution was forced to remain silent and only recently revealed
details of the payoffs.
Since the disclosures,
Congress has jumped on the Uranium One deal and is investigating, including
potential links between conciliatory policies toward Moscow by the Obama
administration and the New START treaty.
…
Mark Schneider, a former Pentagon nuclear official, said there are
national security implications to the Uranium One deal — but not much linkage
to New START.
“Russia has enough plutonium
and highly enriched uranium for a nuclear force vastly larger than the one it
can possibly produce in the next two decades,” he said.
“We have killed our uranium
enrichment capability, which in turn has killed our tritium production
capability. The emerging tritium crisis eliminates any potential to hedge
against a greater-than-expected threat, and we will soon start losing
capability that even the Obama administration thought was necessary.”
Uranium One will solidify
Moscow’s hold on the uranium enrichment market and will increase leverage on
nations that use low-enriched uranium-powered reactors.
“Uranium One is a symptom of
Third World corruption coming to the United States,” Mr. Schneider said.
“The Russians bought the
secretary of state with massive bribes — $500,000 for a speech and $145 million
for the Clinton Foundation, their personal piggy bank,” he said. “The Democrat
leadership in the Congress does not care. Unless they are punished, this is
just the beginning.”
