[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.
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.
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.
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 benefitting 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.
When this sale was used by Trump on the campaign trail last year, Hillary Clinton’s spokesman said she was not involved in the committee review and noted the State Department official who handled it said she "never intervened ... on any [Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States] matter."
In 2011, the administration gave approval for Rosatom’s Tenex subsidiary to sell commercial uranium to U.S. nuclear power plants in a partnership with the United States Enrichment Corp. Before then, Tenex had been limited to selling U.S. nuclear power plants reprocessed uranium recovered from dismantled Soviet nuclear weapons under the 1990s Megatons to Megawatts peace program.
Skipping a few paras to the closing and epitome of hypocrisy.
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.”
Yes, that would be the same Congressman Mike Rogers, head of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI) who 'slow walked' (some use the term 'obstructed') Congressman Trey Gowdy's investigation of Benghazi. Probably little more than a coincidence.
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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.
Appears we've been targeted by classic disinformation and psychological projection. Perhaps this is why the Hildebeest will not go away. She wraps herself in political issues and swamp connections as cover, knowing that a return to life as a private person will quickly spell her doom.
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These two scandals, if properly investigated, would show massive collusion and cover-up from Obumble himself and several powerful libtards at the highest levels.
So we can't have that and the deep state will deep six this.
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My take as well DV. We simply cannot lump Soetoro in with the likes of tyrants such as Chas. Taylor, Robert Mugabe, Biya, Abacha, Zuma, Toure, and Idi Amin. History will not permit it.
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It is telling that this story, the Comey email story about clearing Hilda before even interview, the Tarmac Meeting documents, and a range of other stories about the unmasking, Trump dossier, etc, all are coming out now, post Obama, but from the 8 years of that presidency. Sadly, it suggests that the FBI and CIA and others are able to be muzzled, neutered and directed fairly effectively when enough political leadership is at the lower tiers....
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#3 My take as well DV. We simply cannot lump Soetoro in with the likes of tyrants such as Chas. Taylor, Robert Mugabe, Biya, Abacha, Zuma, Toure, and Idi Amin. History will not permit it.
[The Hill] Comey began drafting Clinton statement months in advance FBI Director James Comey apparently began drafting his statement about Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server months before his July 2016 announcement that the FBI would not recommend charges, according to a document posted by the FBI Monday.
The only visible content in the posted document is an unclassified email from FBI official James Rybicki, who asks officials in mid-May to "please send any comments on this statement so we may roll it into a master doc for discussion with the Director at a future date."
Rybicki's email forwarded a redacted email from the FBI chief on May 16, 2016 with the subject line "Midyear Exam." The Comey email he forwarded was dated May 2, 2016.
Newsweek first highlighted the document's release on Monday.
Comey, however, would not publicly make his recommendation to not press charges against Clinton until July 2016. In his public statement, though, he also sharply criticized the then-Democratic presidential candidate and her colleagues for being "extremely careless in their handling of very sensitive, highly classified information."
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But, but, but the 4+ year old investigation of the Canadian mining company Uranium One and the Russian nuclear giant Rosatom was still on-going. We simply couldn't conflate the two investigations.
The Rosatom matter took priority. It was destined to go nowhere, which was precisely why it took priority.
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Mueller, who has been put in charge of the Special Counsel Russian collusion witch hunt investigation was FBI Director when the Uranium One-Rosatom deal was inked by the State Department. Has anyone seen a bigger cluster f&ck? Wait a minute, there is the Iran nuke deal.
[DAILYCALLER] Fusion GPS, the opposition research firm behind the infamous Trump dossier, says it will not comply with subpoenas for documents and testimony issued earlier this month by the House Intelligence Committee. Fine, send them all to Marian, IL for six months to ponder their decision.
In a Monday letter to the committee, Fusion’s attorneys argue that the subpoena, which seeks testimony from three of the firm’s partners, violates its First Amendment privileges and would force it to break attorney-client privilege and its contractual obligations. So the company's identical with its lawyers, and any conspiracy is covered by the first amendment? It sounds like a stretch.
The lawyer, Josh Levy, also argued that forcing Fusion GPS to comply with the subpoenas would "chill any American running for office" from conducting political opposition research. Aha! The old "chilling effect" argument!
Fusion GPS began investigating Trump in September 2015 at the financial discretion of an unidentified Republican donor who opposed the real estate billionaire. After Trump won the GOP nomination, an unidentified Democratic ally of Perennial Presidential Campaigner Hillary Crooked Hillary Clinton ... former first lady, former secretary of state, former presidential candidate, Conqueror of Benghazi, Heroine of Tuzla, formerly described by her supporters as the smartest woman in the world, usually described by the rest of us as The Thing That Wouldn't Go Away... ’s hired Fusion. Fusion then hired former British spy Remington Christopher Steele to investigate Trump. The result is the dossier, which remains largely uncorroborated.
"We cannot in good conscience do anything but advise our clients to stand on their constitutional privileges, the attorney work product doctrine and contractual obligations," Levy, the Fusion lawyer, wrote to Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, Rep. Devin Nunes, the committee’s Republican chairman. Business Insider first reported details of the letter.
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Fusion GPS began investigating Trump in September 2015 at the financial discretion of an unidentified Republican donor who opposed the real estate billionaire.
He still vehemently opposes President Trump. His medical condition is said to be grave however, so his identity may soon no longer be an issue soon.
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If they want to stop this type of activity they need to slap it down now and punish whomever. Since the establishment dislikes Trump so much Trump can expect more dirty tricks. If Sessions is not part of the swamp he should act decisively.
Since the investigation is in the House it pretty much tells you how it's going to end.
[MYSANANTONIO] In a big defeat for Democratic Sen. Bob Menendez, the judge at his corruption trial Monday refused to throw out any of the charges against him in light of a U.S. Supreme Court ruling narrowing the definition of bribery.
The decision by U.S. District Judge Williams Walls was a major victory for federal prosecutors, who had warned that dismissing the charges would torpedo nearly all other bribery cases and open the door wide to graft.
Walls rejected defense lawyers' arguments that the allegations against Menendez didn't meet the new, narrower definition of bribery under the 2016 Supreme Court ruling that reversed the conviction of Republican former Gov. Bob McDonnell of Virginia. In recent months, the McDonnell ruling led judges to throw out bribery convictions of at least three other former public officials, including a former Louisiana congressman.
Just days ago, the judge in Menendez's case appeared to be leaning toward a ruling in the senator's favor.
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Multi-count conviction please. Perhaps there are issues Robert would like to get off of his chest that might favorably impact his sentencing. No promises, but we're all ears.
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NOBODY falls backward going down stairs in heels with coffee in their hands. She can can't even run to a waiting Suburban on flat ground without collapsing.
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Dear Gawd! Day in and day out all the way through the election, now day out until the end of time!
[CNN] Perennial Presidential Campaigner Hillary Crooked Hillary Clinton ... former first lady, former secretary of state, former presidential candidate, Conqueror of Benghazi, Heroine of Tuzla, formerly described by her supporters as the smartest woman in the world, usually described by the rest of us as The Thing That Wouldn't Go Away... slammed what she called "endemic" sexism and misogyny in America during an interview with Fareed Zakaria, which aired Sunday.
Clinton, who was interviewed by Zakaria on his show, "GPS," said sexism was so inherent that she purposely hadn't highlighted her career history of fighting for women's rights when she ran for president in 2016. However, some people cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go... she admitted that with the benefit of hindsight, she "could have tried harder" to do so.
"I'm a middle-class girl from the middle of the country, and so I always struggled with like, OK, so what's my story. And it suddenly dawned on me that I was the beneficiary of these radical changes in, you know, women's rights and opportunities that began in the '60s and continue and that I could have and maybe should have tried harder to tell that story," she conceded.
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"Sexism"? "Misogyny"? You mean like the sexism and misogyny that are rampant among Democrats (like Bill Clinton and Harvey Weinstein)? If you want to see REAL sexism and misogyny, you need only look at how the Democrats treated Sarah Palin in 2008 (and since), and how they're treating the Trump family women today.
No, Hillary, you didn't lose the election because of sexism or misogyny; you lost because enough people (thank God) correctly figured you for a compulsive liar, as genuine as a $3 bill, a finger-wagging, irritating scold, a shrill harpy, a termagant, and an all-around nasty bitch. THAT is why you lost.
Now shut up and go away.
Oops. On second thought, don't. Stick around, stay in the public eye, and keep on bitching. You'll hand Trump a second term on a silver platter.
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So is the mass covering up of it... and assault... and pedophilia... by the left.
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...but in their corrupt little minds, they project that those on the right are even worse animals. Its the only way to keep their soulless sanity. If they recognize that it isn't that rampant or deep among their enemy they'd have to face that they are the damned.
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you lost because enough people (thank God) correctly figured you for a compulsive liar, as genuine as a $3 bill, a finger-wagging, irritating scold, a shrill harpy, a termagant, and an all-around nasty bitch
[FOXNEWS] Perennial Presidential Campaigner Hillary Crooked Hillary Clinton ... former first lady, former secretary of state, former presidential candidate, Conqueror of Benghazi, Heroine of Tuzla, formerly described by her supporters as the smartest woman in the world, usually described by the rest of us as The Thing That Wouldn't Go Away... on Sunday defended NFL players who knelt during the national anthem, saying kneeling is a "reverent" position that is not against "our anthem or our flag."
The former Democratic presidential candidate, who was at the Southbank Centre's London Literature Festival, urged Democrats to use the issue against President Trump.
Clinton was embarking on a foreign trip to promote her book "What Happened."
She said people should resist "what are very clear dog-whistles" to the Trump base, pointing to the example of kneeling NFL players.
"That's what black athletes kneeling was all about," she said in response to a question about ways to resist the White House. "That's not against our anthem or our flag."
"Actually, kneeling is a reverent position," she continued. "It was to demonstrate in a peaceful way against racism and injustice in our criminal system."
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"That's not against our anthem or our flag."
Clintonian logic appeals to her base, but is soundly rejected by tens of millions of Americans.
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Walking up to Hillary and spitting in her face is "not against our anthem or flag" either.
Not that I'm advocating this behavior, just pointing out that the NFL owners tolerating their employee's political BS is exactly the same as a business owner spitting in his customers' faces. Hillary has been spitting in the faces of much of the electorate for most of her career, naturally she fails to see this.
[FREEBEACON] Senate Minority Whip Dick Durbin ...Senator-for-Life from Illinois and Democratic Party Whip. In April 2006, Time magazine identified Durbin as one of America's 10 Best Senators, so what's that tell you? He was the first United States Senator to support the presidential candidacy of Barack Obama, then the junior senator from Illinois.... (D., Ill.) said in a radio interview on Sunday that Democrats can lose to President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... in 2020 if they "overdo it" by becoming too liberal.
Durbin was asked on a local reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown ... home of Al Capone, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel,... radio program about comments from Rep. Cheri Bustos (D., Ill.), who warned fellow Democrats that Trump would be reelected if the party becomes too liberal.
CNN news hound Andrew Kaczynski was first to report on Durbin's comments.
"We need to be balanced," Durbin said on "Connected to Chicago" on WLS-AM. "She's right about that. And as downstater like her, I understand she represents a challenging district. We don't give up on our values, but we better be sensitive too that there are people with more moderate views, and people who may disagree with some parts of the Democratic platform as they as they are presented. We've got to be open to that possibility."
The radio host asked if Democrats could lose by "being too liberal."
"You can," Durbin said. "I think you can overdo it. We have to really appeal to that sensible center. It's a thin stripe now. It used to be a lot wider stripe, but it's an important and determining factor in most elections."
The number two Democrat in the Senate warned fellow Democrats not to underestimate Trump like they did in 2016.
Durbin's comments came about six months after he said on CNN that the Democratic Party is only for individuals who support the Supreme Court's Roe v. Wade abortion decision as a matter of policy.
"We need to be understanding of those who take a different position, because of personal conscience, but as long as they are prepared to back the law, Roe v. Wade, prepared to back women's rights as we've defined them under the law, then I think they can be part of the party," he said in April.
More recently, Durbin questioned the faith of federal judicial nominee Amy Coney Barrett, a professor at Notre Dame Law School, during her confirmation hearing, asking if she considers herself an "orthodox Catholic."
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A State's financial solvency should be a condition of representation and voting in the congress.
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This scumbag pol pot has been "representing" Illinois for a very long time. You may want to think about changing this out next election.
If you vote for pieces of shit like this, I doubt I care the crap train you voted for comes to your door. Like Puerto Rico, third world idiot people vote for third world idiot "representatives", and then get third world conditions
All the while.....
Asking GOD why.
Go ahead, keep him in office. Your state is on the chit list too.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
But, but, but the 4+ year old investigation of the Canadian mining company Uranium One and the Russian nuclear giant Rosatom was still on-going. We simply couldn't conflate the two investigations.
Perennial Presidential Campaigner Hillary 
[MYSANANTONIO] In a big defeat for Democratic Sen. Bob Menendez, the judge at his corruption trial Monday refused to throw out any of the charges against him in light of a U.S. Supreme Court ruling narrowing the definition of bribery.
Perennial Presidential Campaigner Hillary 
Perennial Presidential Campaigner Hillary 
