Good day all. This story just came out this morning, and it’s YUUGE! It looks like the “Smoking Gun” in the Russian Collusion case may have been found. There’s just one teensy weensy little problem. It has nothing to do with President Trump’s winning the election.
Nope, this one is all about the sale of American Uranium mines to Russia under President Barack Obama. This is the one where certain large “Donations” were made to the Clinton Foundation, prior to Felonia von Pantsuit approving the sale. Here are the details from The Hill:
Before the Obama administration approved a controversial deal in 2010 giving Moscow control of a large swath of American uranium, 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.
The information and evidence they found was a prosecutors wet dream. They had documents, witnesses secret recording, financial records, the sort of stuff that sends people for long stays in the House with many doors.
They also obtained an eyewitness account — backed by documents — indicating Russian nuclear officials had routed millions of dollars to the U.S. designed to benefit former President Bill Clinton’s charitable foundation during the time Secretary of State Hillary Clinton served on a government body that provided a favorable decision to Moscow, sources told The Hill.
The racketeering scheme was conducted “with the consent of higher level officials” in Russia who “shared the proceeds” from the kickbacks, one agent declared in an affidavit years later.
Just how high up? I think we have a pretty good idea. So what happened next? Arrests? Indictments? Trials? Not exactly.
Rather than bring immediate charges in 2010, however, the Department of Justice (DOJ) continued investigating the matter for nearly four more years, essentially 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 first decision occurred in October 2010, when the State Department and government agencies on the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States unanimously approved the partial sale of Canadian mining company Uranium One to the Russian nuclear giant Rosatom, giving Moscow control of more than 20 percent of America’s uranium supply.
During the election last year, President Trump’s campaign used the information that Felonia von Pantsuit had approved the deal under rather fishy circumstances. Felonia denied she had anything at all to do with the decision.
The Obama administration’s decision to approve Rosatom’s purchase of Uranium One has been a source of political controversy since 2015.
That’s when conservative author Peter Schweitzer and The New York Times documented how Bill Clinton collected hundreds of thousands of dollars in Russian speaking fees and his charitable foundation collected millions in donations from parties interested in the deal while Hillary Clinton presided on the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States.
The Obama administration and the Clintons defended their actions at the time, insisting there was no evidence that any Russians or donors engaged in wrongdoing and there was no national security reason for any member of the committee to oppose the Uranium One deal.
But FBI, Energy Department and court documents reviewed by The Hill show the FBI in fact had gathered substantial evidence well before the committee’s decision that Vadim Mikerin — the main Russian overseeing Putin’s nuclear expansion inside the United States — was engaged in wrongdoing starting in 2009.
So why wasn’t the deal killed and arrests made? Well, who was Attorney General back then?
Then-Attorney General Eric Holder was among the Obama administration officials joining Hillary Clinton on the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States at the time the Uranium One deal was approved.
Multiple current and former government officials told The Hill they did not know whether the FBI or DOJ ever alerted committee members to the criminal activity they uncovered.
Oh I think Holder knew. He would have had to know considering how big a deal this was and that he was the Attorney General. Then we get to the real meat and potatoes of this investigation. Guess who was involved in it back then?
The connections to the current Russia case are many. The Mikerin probe began in 2009 when Robert Mueller, now the special counsel in charge of the Trump case, was still FBI director. And it ended in late 2015 under the direction of then-FBI Director James Comey, whom Trump fired earlier this year.
Bringing down a major Russian nuclear corruption scheme that had both compromised a sensitive uranium transportation asset inside the U.S. and facilitated international money laundering would seem a major feather in any law enforcement agency’s cap.
Normally it would. The FBI and the Justice Department would be holding press conferences and doing fist bumps til the cows came home. Only this time, the didn’t. They actually kept the whole thing quiet.
But the Justice Department and FBI took little credit in 2014 when Mikerin, the Russian financier and the trucking firm executives were arrested and charged.
The only public statement occurred a year later when the Justice Department put out a little-noticed press release in August 2015, just days before Labor Day. The release noted that the various defendants had reached plea deals.
You know, this sounds more like they were trying to bury the whole thing, not put a stop to it.
By that time, the criminal cases against Mikerin had been narrowed to a single charge of money laundering for a scheme that officials admitted stretched from 2004 to 2014. And though agents had evidence of criminal wrongdoing they collected since at least 2009, federal prosecutors only cited in the plea agreement a handful of transactions that occurred in 2011 and 2012, well after the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States’s approval.
The final court case also made no mention of any connection to the influence peddling conversations the FBI undercover informant witnessed about the Russian nuclear officials trying to ingratiate themselves with the Clintons even though agents had gathered documents showing the transmission of millions of dollars from Russia’s nuclear industry to an American entity that had provided assistance to Bill Clinton’s foundation, sources confirmed to The Hill.
That sounds an awful lot like a cover up to me. At this point, Felonia von Pantsuit was winding down her tenure as secretary of state and getting ready to await her coronation as President of the United States.
The lack of fanfare left many key players in Washington with no inkling that a major Russian nuclear corruption scheme with serious national security implications had been uncovered.
I think that was the plan Stan.
“I had no idea this case was being conducted,” a surprised Ronald Hosko, former assistant FBI director in charge of criminal cases, said in an interview.
He wasn’t alone either.
Likewise, major congressional figures were also kept in the dark.
Former Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Mich.), who chaired the House Intelligence Committee during the time the FBI probe was being conducted, told The Hill that he had never been told anything about the Russian nuclear corruption case even though many fellow lawmakers had serious concerns about the Obama administration’s approval of the Uranium One deal.
“Not providing information on a corruption scheme before the Russian uranium deal was approved by U.S. regulators and engage appropriate congressional committees has served to undermine U.S. national security interests by the very people charged with protecting them,” he said. “The Russian efforts to manipulate our American political enterprise is breathtaking.”
So, it looks like the investigation into the Russian’s bribery scheme probably got started at the tail end of the Bush Administration. Then in comes the most corrupt Attorney General in the history of the United States. He can’t stop the investigation, but it does look like he did move to protect all the “Important People” in the Obama regime, starting with Felonia von Pantsuit.
We then have all the people in the DoJ who hate Trump and are now “Investigating” the so called collusion between the Trump Campaign and Russia. Does anyone see a problem here? It looks like to my utterly untrained eye that Robert Mueller is the one who should be under investigation. I’ve always wondered why President Trump wasn’t all that worried about Mueller’s out of control investigation. Perhaps he knew about this investigation and how it seems to have been buried. I think some interesting things may happen in the next few months.
Thatisall
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