About that CFIUS approval for the sale of uranium to Russia…
It was in October of 2010 that the sale of the majority ownership of Uranium One to Russian atomic agency Rosatom took place. This is how it all went down:
Uranium investors
SEPTEMBER 2005
Frank Giustra, a Canadian mining financier, wins a major uranium deal in Kazakhstan for his company, UrAsia, days after visiting the country with former President Bill Clinton.
2006
Uranium One
Mr. Giustra donates $31.3 million to the Clinton Foundation.
FEBRUARY 2007
UrAsia merges with a South African mining company and assumes the name Uranium One. In the next two months, the company expands into the United States.
JUNE 2008
Negotations begin for an investment in Uranium One by the Russian atomic energy agency, Rosatom.
Rosatom
2008-2010
Uranium One and former UrAsia investors make $8.65 million in donations to the Clinton Foundation. Uranium One investors stand to profit on a Rosatom deal.
JUNE 2009
Rosatom subsidiary ARMZ takes a 17 percent ownership stake in Uranium One.
17% STAKE
2010-2011
Investors give millions more in donations to the Clinton Foundation.
JUNE 2010
Rosatom seeks majority ownership of Uranium One, pending approval by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States, of which the State Department is a member.
Rosatom says it does not plan to increase its stake in Uranium One or to take the company private.
JUNE 29, 2010
Bill Clinton is paid $500,000 for a speech in Moscow by a Russian investment bank with ties to the Kremlin that assigned a buy rating to Uranium One stock.
OCTOBER 2010
Rosatom’s majority ownership approved by Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States.
51% STAKE
JANUARY 2013
Rosatom takes full control of Uranium One and takes it private.
100% STAKE Rosatom
Golly, who could have imagined the Russians would lie? Certainly not the Clinton’s or Obama. Rosatom is Vladimir Putin.
The Committee on Foreign Investment in the US at the time consisted of:
Treasury Geitner
Justice Holder
DHS Napolitano
Commerce Gary Locke
Defense Bob Gates
Energy Chu
Office of Science & Technology Policy Holdren
Office of the U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk
In 2006, Richard Perle said this about CFIUS:
“The committee almost never met, and when it deliberated it was usually at a fairly low bureaucratic level.” He also added, “I think it’s a bit of a joke if we were serious about scrutinizing foreign ownership and foreign control, particularly since 9/11.”
We have learned that the FBI uncovered a Russian bribery scheme before the sale was approved.
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.
We have also learned that not only did Bill Clinton get paid off to the tune of $500,000, he also paid a visit to Vladimir Putin’s home, apparently to cement the deal:
When planning a trip to Moscow for a speaking engagement in June 2010, former President Bill Clinton reportedly tried to meet with an official who was part of a Russian state-run company seeking approval to purchase a uranium company with holdings in the United States. Instead, Clinton wound up meeting with Vladimir Putin.
A month prior to the trip, Clinton, whose wife Hillary Clinton was secretary of state at the time, asked the State Department if it had any “concerns” about a list of 15 people he intended to meet in Russia, The Hill reported Thursday, citing emails and government records.
It seems Clinton asking State (i.e. Hillary Clinton) if it had any “concerns” was a diversion from his intent to meet directly with Putin, because Clinton didn’t meet with any of the people he asked about:
According to The Hill, the emails did not indicate how the matter was concluded, but Bill Clinton ended up not meeting with Dvorkovich or the 14 others listed. Also, aides to the Clintons and its foundation said the former president never met anyone involved in the Rosatom-Uranium One deal.
But Clinton did visit Putin at his home. At the time, Putin was serving as Russia’s prime minister after having spent eight years as its president, from 2000 to 2008.
At the time the FBI which uncovered the Russian bribery plot was headed by Robert Mueller- yes, THAT Robert Mueller. It is not known who the FBI informed about the plot.
The FBI told Newsweek it had no comment as to whether Mueller had alerted senior Obama administration officials, including Clinton, about the ongoing FBI investigation before they brokered the deal.
That’s pretty interesting.
Republican Sen. John Barrasso is looking for information about what CFIUS knew about the deal and the bribery backstory. They are stiffing him:
Barrasso received a response from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission in March 2011, which defended the deal since it did not also give Uranium One a license to export uranium.
However, the New York Timesreported that even without an export license, Uranium One had been exporting yellowcake to Canada by using a proxy transport company that was licensed.
Barrasso’s letter to the Treasury Department in 2015 asked for copies of any letters and emails from any agency that participated in the CFIUS review and expressed any concerns regarding the national security implications of the deal. He never received a response.
It is time to subpoena everyone on that Committee (and Obama as well) and have them testify under oath about what they knew when they approved the sale of the uranium stock to Vladimir Putin.
It’s pretty obvious now what happened. Bill Clinton gave up US guidance technology to China in return for cash donations and now Hillary and Bill have sold 20% of US uranium stocks to Vladimir Putin in return for cash- not just to Russia, but to Vladimir Putin himself. But like I said then, selling out the country for money is a long standing Clinton tradition.
I am going to bet that all on the CFIUS committee deny they knew about the bribery scandal. Now the question is- did Obama know? We already know that Obama knew about Russian attempts to mess with the election and did nothing. Did he also choose to do nothing about this? Why did they sell 20% of US uranium stocks to whom all democrats now say is our enemy?
This could be bigger than Watergate. Way bigger.
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The bunch of them need to stand trial for Treason, A full audit of the Clinton foundation and The Obama Foundation. Dont be surprised if bodies start accumulating.
You wont be seeing any big headlines in the New York Slimes(All the Sludge Thats Fit to Print)and nothing from the talking heads just crickets folks lots and lots of crickets
If you’re old enough to remember 1st hand, Watergate was HUGE!
Yet it was only an ATTEMPT at breaking into the oppo offices and then a cover-up uncovered when a simple question was asked and answered under oath.
What Obama/Hillary did w/ regard Russia/ the Clinton Foundation and $$$$ was FAR more egregious than Watergate.
When will Hillary pull an “all that’s already been litigated,” or Obama pull an “all that’s old news,” attempt to kill this investigation?
@Nanny G: Did Eric Braverman ever surface seems Podesta called him a mole at one time.
News from WaPo showing Clintons and DNC paid for the now-discredited “dossier” on Russia and Trump.
Dems and Clintons colluded with Russia in a laundered way, and now the media is colluding with them to show it’s “proof” of Trump/Russia, rather than proof of Democratic Party corruption.
First the DNC supplants the democratic process to bring Hillary to an electorate that wanted Sanders, and then they tried to supplant the presidential election by colluding with Russia…and then they say, in defeat, that it was TRUMP that colluded *using their own fabricated docs*.
Yeah, I think the majority of Americans is done with the Dems right now. Hope they find a new Wienstein this week to out, continuing the new trend of eating their own…
..a sign of true cultural victory for the non-left.
Nothing it the dossier has thus far been discredited. FBI sources state that some of the information has been confirmed.
Clinton campaign, DNC paid for research that led to Russia dossier
Why shouldn’t the DNC have picked up the tab after republican funding for the investigation ended? Somebody sure as hell needed to investigate Trump. Had they been more successful, we might not now have multiple investigations underway, and possibly be headed for impeachment and/or a Constitutional crisis. It’s all going to hit the fan at some point.
@Greg: Really what sources? Who? name names
That Trump traveled to Russia perhaps the only thing confirmed but that allows The MSM to fill in many wishful blanks. Same kind of reporting that uncovered the unmasking treason, you fools never learn.
Well, how can Holder claim he didn’t know? Even Napolitano would (should) have a difficult time making that claim. The Obama administration’s reknown incompetence and stupidity will only go so far in selling their ignorance. Even Obama can’t claim “he learned about it from the news” this time.
That roster is a who’s who of liberal turds.
@Greg:
Not discredited? Seriously, Greg? Then where is it? Clinton was in bed with the Russians on several fronts.
@Greg:
What, like the proper spelling of Trump’s name? Comey was complicit in propagating this lie as well. It also appears tax dollars were used to finance this propaganda.
Why are all the meetings between Bill and Hillary with Russians deemed benign but any meeting between Trump or a Trump associate is instant evidence of collusion and election tampering?
You whiners should have kept your mouths shut. Now you have stirred up 5 separate investigations into Hillary and DNC shenanigans. Why do Trump associates always testify but Hillary associates always plead the 5th? And, still, to date, not ONE SHRED of evidence supporting your accusations against Trump. Kind of funny, don’t you think?
There was some hanky panky going one with US uranium enrichment too that had a Russian angle.
Putin wanted to kill the Megatons to Megawatts deal that Yeltsin had signed where Soviet bomb-grade uranium was used to fuel US commercial reactors.
The result was US investors lost $3B and the US no longer can enrich its own reactor fuel.
http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2017/10/do_private_uranium_investors_have_a_3b_claim_against_obama_administration_officials.html
I know that this is a long post and feel free to skip it if you have heard it all before. When I was a lad in school, we were taught that the worst scandal to ever hit the country was the “Teapot Dome Scandal.” Briefly, an oil reserve in Wyoming belonging to the Navy was sold during the Harding (Republican) Administration. The Secretary of the Navy testified in hearings, that the Navy had no use for oil in Wyoming. If it was not near a port where they could access it, it was useless. But according to Democrats an oil company enriched themselves at the expense of the taxpayers. Two decades later the administration is rife with communists, many in high offices in the State Department. Some of them even performing an advisory role to two Democrat Presidents. Hearings anyone? Not until a decade later when Senator McCarthy held hearings. Then the media, doing what they always do, ran interference and destroyed the Senators career. Scandal or incompetence in the Kennedy admin? None observed. Ditto Johnson admin. Then comes Watergate. A scandal ginned up between the Washington Post and a disgruntled FBI employee. I’ll make no excuses for Nixon. He let his paranoia get to him after thirty years of media harassment. The media tried to destroy Reagan but he was too popular with the American people. All of the above scandals, taken together don’t come close to the number or severity of scandal in the Obama Administration. All of the other scandals seemed to be single issue items. The Obama Whitehouse conducted a multi front war on the American people with scandals in almost every cabinet level department. The point is, the media is doing now what it has done for almost a hundred years. And it is not a watchdog for the Republic.
@71 Grad: Well, some liberals
in the media have stated the Obama administration was “scandal free”, so I guess we should believe them. After all, would they lie to us?
@Greg: Greggie, it’s against the law to pay for it without disclosure of doing so!! How’s that for starters. As far as content, fake news!!