Attorney General Jeff Sessions has instructed DOJ prosecutors to begin asking FBI agents for explanations regarding evidence pertaining to a dormant criminal investigation into the controversial Uranium One deal linked to Bill and Hillary Clinton, according to NBC.
The order comes as part of a promise made last month by Sessions to examine whether or not a special counsel was warranted in the deal which saw 20% of American Uranium sold to a Russian state-owned energy company in a 2010 transaction allowed by the Obama administration. Prior to the deal, individual connected with Uranium One deal had donated over $140 million to the Clinton Foundation. Moreover, Bill Clinton gave a $500,000 speech to a Russian bank which issued a favorable rating on Uranium One stock. Clinton and Putin met the same day of the speech at the Russian leader's private homestead.
A report by the New York Times and the book Clinton Cash by investigative journalist Peter Schweizer in 2015 are said to have convinced the FBI in large part to launch their investigation into the Clinton Foundation over several claims of pay-for-play before and during Hillary Clinton's role as Secretary of State, including the Uranium One deal and several international arms sales.
As reported in International Business Times:
The Clinton-led State Department also authorized $151 billion of separate Pentagon-brokered deals for 16 of the countries that donated to the Clinton Foundation, resulting in a 143 percent increase in completed sales to those nations over the same time frame during the Bush administration.
As part of the Uranium One approval process, nine agencies which made up the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) had to sign off on the deal. The committee has been considered by some to be a "joke."
“The committee almost never met, and when it deliberated it was usually at a fairly low bureaucratic level,” Richard Perle said. Perle, who has worked for the Reagan, Clinton and both Bush administrations added, “I think it’s a bit of a joke.” –CBS
As discovered in early November by Twitter researcher Katica while looking at FOIA-requested documents, the FBI made several Preservation and Records requests to various agencies involved in the approval of the Uranium One deal on August 28th, 2015, as published by The Conservative Treehouse. Katica found the requests buried in an FBI file released via the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).
Revealing Timeline
While the Clinton email investigation was launched in March of 2015 after it was revealed that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton used a personal server and non-approved email accounts to conduct government business, reports from August, 2015 revealed that the FBI investigation was actually a criminal probe – though most assumed it was simply covering Clinton’s mishandling of classified information and not the content of her emails.
What Katica discovered is that weeks after the criminal probe began, the FBI sent notices to every agency involved in the Uranium One approval process to preserve records.
This is big: the agencies which received the request included the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, the U.S. Dept. of Treasury, the Office of Director of National Intelligence (ODNI James Clapper), The National Counter Terrorism Center, and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE).
Five days after the initial request, the same FBI agent sent another round of notifications to the same agencies, adding the National Security Agency (NSA) and the U.S. Secret Service (USSS).
The next day, September 3rd, 2015, three more agencies were added to the preservation request: The CIA, the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) and the Department of Defense (DOD)
At this point, every single member of the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) which signed off on the Uranium One deal was served with a notice to preserve records.
As The Conservative Treehouse noted in November:
It would be intellectually dishonest not to see the very likely attachment of the special agent’s action. That is to say an FBI probe originating as an outcome of information retrieved in parallel to the timing of the “criminal probe” of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s email use.
The sequence of events highlights a criminal probe starting [early August 2015], followed by notifications to the “Uranium One” CFIUS participants [late August 2015].
If you consider the larger Clinton timeline; along with the FBI special agent requests from identified participants; and overlay the Nuclear Regulatory Commission as the leading entity surrounding the probe elements; and the fact that the CFIUS participants were the recipients of the retention requests; well, it’s just too coincidental to think this is unrelated to the Uranium One deal and the more alarming implications.
FBI Mole
An October report in The Hill revealed that as early as 2009, the FBI – led by Robert Mueller at the time, had a mole in the Russian uranium industry, and that the agency had evidence that “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” – a deal which would grant the Kremlin control over 20 percent of America’s uranium supply.
The mole was forced to sign an iron-clad non-disclosure agreement (NDA) which threatened criminal penalties for revealing information, even to Congress. After a request was made by Reps Ron DeSantis (R-FL) and Chuck Grassley (R-IA) calling for the Justice department to invalidate the NDA, the gag order was lifted, and the FBI informant was authorized to speak with congress.
Tony Podesta and Uranium One
While one-time Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort turned himself in to the FBI a week ago on charges of money laundering, let’s not forget what a former Podesta Group executive interviewed by Special Counsel Robert Mueller told Tucker Carlson Tonight: the FBI probe is now focusing on people in Washington who have worked as de-facto operatives on behalf of Russian government and business. To that end, he had quite a bit to say about his former boss Tony and his relationship to the Uranium One deal.
- In late 2013 or early 2014, Tony Podesta and a representative for the Clinton Foundation met to discuss how to help Uranium One – the Russian owned company that controls 20 percent of American Uranium Production – and whose board members gave over $100 million to the Clinton Foundation.
- In 2013, John Podesta recommended that Tony hire David Adams, Hillary Clinton’s chief adviser at the State Department, giving them a “direct liaison” between the group’s Russian clients and Hillary Clinton’s State Department.
- “Tony Podesta was basically part of the Clinton Foundation.”
As far as the current state of the FBI investigation, “They are more focused on facilitators of Russian influence in this country than they are on election collusion,” Carlson’s source told Fox.
Tying it together – previous reports of Federal investigations into the Clinton Foundation:
Katica’s FOIA discovery corroborates a New York Times report from November 1, 2016, which asserts that an FBI investigation was kicked off based on revelations of pay-for-play in the book “Clinton Cash” written by Peter Schweizer:
The investigation, based in New York, had not developed much evidence and was based mostly on information that had surfaced in news stories and the book “Clinton Cash,” according to several law enforcement officials briefed on the case.
The book asserted that foreign entities gave money to former President Bill Clinton and the Clinton Foundation, and in return received favors from the State Department when Mrs. Clinton was secretary of state. Mrs. Clinton has adamantly denied those claims. -NYT
The Wall St. Journal also reported last October that five FBI field offices were investigating the Clinton Foundation; New York, Los Angeles, Washington, Little Rock and Miami, and “were collecting information about the Clinton Foundation to see if there was evidence of financial crimes or influence-peddling, according to people familiar with the matter.”
The FBI field office in New York had done the most work on the Clinton Foundation case and received help from the FBI field office in Little Rock, the people familiar with the matter said. –WSJ
And in November, as tweeted by Wikileaks and reported on by the Dallas Observer, the Clinton Foundation has been under investigation by the IRS since July of 2016, after 64 GOP members of Congress received letters urging them to push for an investigation. The investigation has been notably held at the Dallas IRS office – far away from Washington.
The Earle Cabell Federal Building in downtown Dallas is an all purpose office complex, a bastion of federal bureaucracy located at 1100 Commerce St. Most people come for a passport or to get business done in front of a federal judge. But inside, a quiet review is underway that has direct ties to the raging presidential election: The local branch of the IRS’ Tax Exempt and Government Entities Division is reviewing the tax status of the Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton Foundation.
So – while the FBI investigation into Hillary Clinton was sold as a simple matter of mishandling of classified material, we now have proof that the FBI set their sights on the Uranium One scandal weeks after they began looking into Hillary Clinton’s emails, and that five FBI field offices and the IRS have been investigating the Clinton Foundation on accusations of pay-to-play and other criminal acts.
Perhaps Sessions will see the logic in approving a second special counsel after all...
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END THE FED.
LOCK HER UP!!!
I know sending that criminal Hillary to Jail won't fix all of America's problems, but it would be a damn good start!
Please Dear God...let the Clintons go to the slammer...they'll take a lot of other shitheads with them.
I have been waiting decades to see those evil fucks get what they deserve; nothing works better for me, than to see them lose everything, and die in prison.
From 2011, Whitehouse Correspondance Dinner...
"Donald Trump is here tonight. Now I know that he’s taken some flak lately. But no one is happier—no one is prouder—to put this birth certificate matter to rest than The Donald. And that’s because he can finally get back to focusing on the issues that matter: Like, did we fake the moon landing? What really happened in Roswell? And where are Biggie and Tupac? All kidding aside, obviously we all know about your credentials and breadth of experience. For example … no seriously, just recently, in an episode of Celebrity Apprentice, at the steakhouse, the men’s cooking team did not impress the judges from Omaha Steaks. And there was a lot of blame to go around, but you, Mr. Trump, recognized that the real problem was a lack of leadership, and so ultimately you didn’t blame Lil Jon or Meat Loaf, you fired Gary Busey. And these are the kinds of decisions that would keep me up at night. Well handled, sir. Well handled. Say what you will about Mr. Trump, he certainly would bring some change to the White House. "
Obama got one thing right!
Obama got one thing right! - Blind squirrel
And what is the bar you have to cross to prove influence peddling beyond lots of cash showered on the peddler and the peddlee getting what they want.
This is what happens when you won't sit the fuck down and shut the fuck up.
The Donald told them that. He said they were nice people and didn't want to hurt anybody.
That was a unilateral declaration of truce
And nobody listened.
Instead, they kept fighting. And now they're under the microscope by their very own hands
They're doing this to themselves.
Got Competency?
Looks like Trump doesn't want this crooked piece of shit locked up:
"US President Donald Trump commuted the sentence of former kosher meat executive Sholom Rubashkin Wednesday, citing concerns about the Iowa slaughterhouse boss’s 27-year prison term.
Rubashkin, who was manager at the Agriprocessors meat plant in Postville, Iowa, was convicted in 2009 of financial fraud for submitting fake invoices to the plant’s bank that made the company’s finances appear healthier than they were so that it could borrow more. His prosecution came after federal authorities raided the plant and arrested 389 illegal immigrants in 2008."
For now this should keep the Clinton's and John Podesta preoccupied and seeking cover. They have had plenty of time, as have others, to hide/destroy, evidence. Hopefully there is a smoking gun out there somewhere. Can't imagine anyone of significance wanting to make much public contact with them at this point? Hillary must also know there are no smooth words she can deliver that can bring her any pleasure, she has tainted herself, her voice is now a warning sound.
It's not like any of this is new news... SSDD, if the FBI / DOJ don't already have enough evidence to hang the Clintons, they never will...
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-10-30/doug-band-john-podesta-if-story...
Straight Word, Knucks.
More than enough just was not enough.
These sociopaths simply could not be content living as oligarchs; insanely wealthy, pampered, revered, above the lot and the law.
They want to be Emperors. See them don purple? Hear them howl in dismay and indignation that their presumptive imperial titles and imperial entitelments be denied them?
These creatures crave power to abuse it and revel in their crepulences and sadisms and self agrandizements.
@ Doom,
It’s not “Hidden in plain View” anymore.
The Authoritarian Totalitarian
absolute, complete, open in our Faces,
Tyrannical Lawlessness
is here.
And, their completely Laughing Hysterically in our Faces, Criminally, Tyrannically controlling us with Impunity.
Arrest.
Enprison.
Indict.
Prosecutute.
Convict.
Execute.
For Crimes Against Humanity & Crimes Against The American People.
This make an example of them to the World & deter future Pure Evil War Criminal Treasonous Seditious Psychopaths from engaging in the same type of behaviors.
Barry Soetero reads.........
SOME asshole wrote it for him.........either that or Chalks went off the reservation that night..full of himself as always (shit............but Soetero droppings)
Now if he would just shut the fuck UP and let Trump continue dismantling the SHIT PILE he foiisted on the rest of us........
...............................................but no. We deal with the Mouth from Indonesia .............among other things.............
.....................as a curse
You forgot amen.
Amen to that.
Sleepy Sessions might be waking up!
YOOOOOO HOOOOOOOOOO....wake up, Sleepy!
it's about........................FUCKING TIME..........................
This career criminal air snatching death defying ball of snot needs to be hung out like a fried egg on a nail............
PERIOD.
BURY her..................and her pedo-sexual toy Bubs.......
Hillary is a cross hair.
All I want for Christmas is to see her and Bill in matching orange jumpsuits.
FBI agents will once again lie for that bitch and her rapist husband.
they are just beginning now?!?
wtf...
lock her up, lock them up
wake Sessions up from his rip van snorter nap
_Clinton Cash_ was published in 2015 and that's just a sketch compared to all the data a handful of people have put together and it's available on any PC.
Sessions sleeps and will continue to do so though he will pop up now and then to tell us that pot is the cause of the ruination of this land. He was Trump's WORST personnel choice and that's saying quite a bit.
Yep, just another teaser to get our hopes up. Happy belated hanukkah
these investigations are nothing but a joke, name one person who's gone to jail in the past 5-10 years.
Blago
Extra credit: Traficant?
May be fuzzy on the timing
pissed myself BandGap
You are gonna get it.
#THE_STORM_IS_UPON_US
in the same cell
forever
I fell in to a burning ring of fire
I went down, down, down
And the flames went higher
And it burns, burns, burns
The ring of fire
The ring of fire
The man in black was describing the men in black.
Need some preparation G up in 'air.
(Gowdy)! for that ring of fire.
sorry but i don't believe anyone has the ballz to go after the clinton crime family.
I think even the man with the sickle is even scared to come for Hillary.
They'll find Jimmy Hoffa and Bigfoot first
You are so wrong it's funny. Trump has them all boxed in. #QAnon.
#THE_STORM
Many cities have corrupt police forces. This is clear and, I think, established fact.
So many attempts at "cleaning them out" have been done over the years. Even Teddy R tried in NYC as I recall.
But unless I am mistaken, they all have failed. At best a new clique of controllers were emplaced ... and they themselves eventually were corrupted. The people benefitting from the power driving the corruption [ drugs, numbers, whores, etc.] simply found new routes to secure control over the new leaders.
So expand that to today, where the real benefactors of corruption are banksters, corp executives, and foreign leaders.
As much as I admire Trump for trying to drain the swamp, sadly, human nature has not changed a wit.
If he is serious about draining the swamp, he would have to devolve 75% of federal power and budget back to the states, abolish the FRB, and eliminate the deductibility of loan interest as a business
Lock her up...........
the day they do that will be the same day i make a huge donation to the chicago teachers retirement fund.
"...you'd be in prison".
Donald J. Trump
"What you think about you bring about".
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Just spinning wheels, this Sessions clown is just that a clown. Fire his sorry ass already.
Useless worthless, do nothing asshole. Hildacunt should have been shot a long time ago. In the end she will most likely get an award, perhaps the Nobel.
Sessions walks softly .... and carries a limp noodle .... I want to see 1,000 Trump clones .... on the march ?
Where do you start with that bitch .... she doesn't have a fuse .... after menopause .... she lost the tampon string .... she still has cross hairs .... like a spider's web .... covering her snatch ?
You mean "Hillary for Prison" might come true? OMG
"Wherever there is a carcass, there the vultures will gather." .... Luke 17:37
Like I said, at the end of the day, it will be found that the only "Russian collusion" going on was that being done by Hillary, Podesta and government officials at the highest levels trying to cover it up.
But will they admit it?
They won't need to ;-)
SETH RICH
It isn't just Clinton that will be the focus of this investigation. Other parties involved include none other than the very Special Prosecutor, Herr Mueller. This could be interesting.
Nothing is going to happen to the scumbags. It’s all just a shit-show.
Not even going to read the article. Been hearing this song for 25 years. Just let me know if a Clinton actually is indicted.