NDA lifted for FBI informant----Uranium One

[boutons_deux]

For Repugs, it's ALL HILLARY, ALL THE TIME

‘No you brought her up!’ Krazy Anne Conway melts down when CNN asks why she keeps talking about Hillary




Conway then insisted that reaching out to Assange was completely unnecessary anyway because

Hillary Clinton ran such a bad campaign that the Trump campaign didn’t need WikiLeaks’ assistance to beat her.

Unprompted, Conway suddenly grew defensive about the fact that

she had once again brought up Hillary Clinton as a way to deflect from alleged wrongdoing committed by associates of the Trump campaign.

“People are now writing about our discussion, and earlier in your broadcast, two commentators mentioned, ‘Oh, we just like to talk about Hillary,'” Conway said.

“You’re still talking about Hillary! I’ll make you a deal — I’ll never say a word [about Hillary] again.”

Camerota agreed to Conway’s deal and tried to move on from talking about Clinton.

However, Conway interrupted her to once again talk about Hillary Clinton.

“She was the loser, so you have to keep talking about her,” Conway said.

Camerota pointed out that Conway was still talking about Clinton despite her offer to stop doing so.

“No, you brought her up!” Conway snapped.

https://www.rawstory.com/2017/10/no-...e+Raw+Story%29

KAC is typical piece of the Mercers got into Trash's mafia when Mercers financed Trash.

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Hillary Clinton’s “real Russia scandal”: The vast right-wing conspiracy will never die

Right-wing media’s latest concoction: Stir a few old stories into the cauldron of Hillary hate. It just might work

House Intelligence Committee chair Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif., came before the cameras to announce a new investigation into a 2010 sale of uranium to Russia,

Rep. Trey Gowdy of the House Oversight Committee also announced a new investigation into the Clinton email probe --

yes, that would be an investigation of an investigation

Republicans have been desperate to figure out a way to discredit special counsel Robert Mueller

and at the same time muddy the waters with some parallel scandal implicating Hillary Clinton. They understand perfectly well that pursuing her is something of a compulsive neurosis among the political media. They seem to have decided that

their best bet is to throw several different Russia-related threads out at the same time to try to overwhelm the system.

a dozen flaws in this argument but the most important is the one set forth by Robert Litt, former general counsel to the office of the director of national intelligence under the Obama administration:

The dossier itself played absolutely no role in the coordinated intelligence assessment that Russia interfered in our election.

That assessment, which was released in unclassified form in January but which contained much more detail in the classified version that has been briefed to Congress, was based entirely on other sources and analysis.

Other than that, they have an airtight case.

As for Gowdy's snipe hunt into the Justice Department's handling of Clinton's emails, well, what can you say? It's an obsession.
There is no evidence that Clinton took a particular interest in the uranium sale or that it was an unusual transaction in any way.

Nonetheless, Fox News, led by Sean Hannity, has pushed this story hard,

based on a repackaging of the old story by a right wing journalist named John Solomon in the Hill alleging 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.”

the underlying conspiracy theory that Hillary Clinton personally pushed the uranium deal through is still nonsense.

But the

Fox talking heads have found a way to imply that

the FBI and the Justice Department have been covering up for Clinton and Obama,

which once again leads to Comey, Mueller and even Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein,

who oversees the Mueller investigation.

https://www.salon.com/2017/10/27/hil...ill-never-die/

[TSA]

TSA can you explain how this boom is bigger than this older boom?

Never BOOM'd the OP

[TSA]

Hillary Clinton’s “real Russia scandal”: The vast right-wing conspiracy will never die

Right-wing media’s latest concoction: Stir a few old stories into the cauldron of Hillary hate. It just might work

House Intelligence Committee chair Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif., came before the cameras to announce a new investigation into a 2010 sale of uranium to Russia,

Rep. Trey Gowdy of the House Oversight Committee also announced a new investigation into the Clinton email probe --

yes, that would be an investigation of an investigation

Republicans have been desperate to figure out a way to discredit special counsel Robert Mueller

and at the same time muddy the waters with some parallel scandal implicating Hillary Clinton. They understand perfectly well that pursuing her is something of a compulsive neurosis among the political media. They seem to have decided that

their best bet is to throw several different Russia-related threads out at the same time to try to overwhelm the system.

a dozen flaws in this argument but the most important is the one set forth by Robert Litt, former general counsel to the office of the director of national intelligence under the Obama administration:

The dossier itself played absolutely no role in the coordinated intelligence assessment that Russia interfered in our election.

That assessment, which was released in unclassified form in January but which contained much more detail in the classified version that has been briefed to Congress, was based entirely on other sources and analysis.

Other than that, they have an airtight case.

As for Gowdy's snipe hunt into the Justice Department's handling of Clinton's emails, well, what can you say? It's an obsession.
There is no evidence that Clinton took a particular interest in the uranium sale or that it was an unusual transaction in any way.

Nonetheless, Fox News, led by Sean Hannity, has pushed this story hard,

based on a repackaging of the old story by a right wing journalist named John Solomon in the Hill alleging 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.”

the underlying conspiracy theory that Hillary Clinton personally pushed the uranium deal through is still nonsense.

But the

Fox talking heads have found a way to imply that

the FBI and the Justice Department have been covering up for Clinton and Obama,

which once again leads to Comey, Mueller and even Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein,

who oversees the Mueller investigation.

https://www.salon.com/2017/10/27/hil...ill-never-die/

Testimony from the FBI informant should clear everything up don't worry.

[spurraider21]

Never BOOM'd the OP

"spin away libs"

[Pavlov]

Testimony from the FBI informant should clear everything up don't worry.

Just like all the other testimonies you relentlessly pimped then conveniently forgot all about, right?

[TSA]

"spin away libs"

I meant this thread was never BOOM'd dummy

[spurraider21]

I meant this thread was never BOOM'd dummy

What important and damning testimony did we get from the clinton employee who got immunity that libs had to spin away?

If the answer is none (it is) do you understand why your credibility here regarding upcoming BOOM testimony is weak?

[Pavlov]

The FBI let the FBI informant out of his NDA so he can tell everyone how the FBI was guilty of the biggest coverup evah!

[TSA]

What important and damning testimony did we get from the clinton employee who got immunity that libs had to spin away?

If the answer is none (it is) do you understand why your credibility here regarding upcoming BOOM testimony is weak?

Why do you keep saying I said this upcoming testimony is BOOM? Not once have I said that in this thread.

[spurraider21]

Why do you keep saying I said this upcoming testimony is BOOM? Not once have I said that in this thread.

OK fine. The word boom upsets you.

What important testimony are we going to get here? What important testimony did we get from the person getting immunity in the clinton thing?

[TSA]

OK fine. The word boom upsets you.

What important testimony are we going to get here? What important testimony did we get from the person getting immunity in the clinton thing?

I love the word BOOM, I just never used it to describe this testimony despite you pulling it out of your ass three times. The lawyer for the FBI informant claims he has on the record quid pro quo regarding the Clinton Foundation and Bill Clinton's speaking fees tied to the Uranium One deal.

For your second question I'd have to re-read the testimony from over a year ago as it's not fresh in my memory.

[TSA]

Because there is zero evidence this deal would have been scuttled had some other element of unproven crimes been revealed. That's all anonymous is going to talk about.

Not one person is now saying the US needs to take muh uranium back from Russian "control" -- why is that, TSA?

A legal expert on the CFIUS process told The Hill that the new revelation that the FBI knew that a Rosatom official was engaged in illegality on U.S. soil before the sale was approved could very well have affected the decision if that evidence had been made public in real time.

http://thehill.com/policy/national-s...ope-memos-show

[TSA]

Uranium One deal led to some exports to Europe, memos show

http://thehill.com/policy/national-s...ope-memos-show

The NRC never issued an export license to the Russian firm, a fact so engrained in the narrative of the Uranium One controversy that it showed up in The Washington Post’s official fact-checker site this week. “We have noted repeatedly that extracted uranium could not be exported by Russia without a license, which Rosatom does not have,” the Post reported on Monday, linking to the 2011 Barrasso letter.

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 do ents show.

NRC officials said they could not disclose the total amount of uranium that Uranium One exported because the information is proprietary.

[Pavlov]

A legal expert on the CFIUS process told The Hill that the new revelation that the FBI knew that a Rosatom official was engaged in illegality on U.S. soil before the sale was approved could very well have affected the decision if that evidence had been made public in real time.

http://thehill.com/policy/national-s...ope-memos-show

Oh, they would have taken it into consideration?

Wow.

[DMC]

Philo with no real argument, just crazy direction shifting comments.

[spurraider21]

Philo with no real argument, just crazy direction shifting comments.

Pot, kettle, etc.

[TSA]

NATION United States National Security
Current DOE official once consulted for Russian nuclear companies


By Sara A. Carter
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Cheryl Moss Herman, an official with the United States Department of Energy, produced a detailed report in 2010 for a Russian nuclear company when she was a private energy and environmental consultant.

The do ent Moss Herman wrote as a consultant in 2010 was for TENAM/Tenex, according to the consulting memorandum she provided to the Russian subsidiary and obtained by Circa. TENAM is a fully-owned U.S. subsidiary of Tenex, which is 100 percent owned by the Russian state controlled nuclear company Rosatom, according to public do entation.

led “Policy/Legislative Issues Affecting the Business Climate in the U.S. for TENAM/Tenex,” the memorandum discussed the Department of Energy’s uranium regulations. She is now employed at the DOE’s Office Nuclear Energy develops sustainable fuel cycles.

Richard Painter, former Chief White House ethics lawyer for President George W. Bush, told Circa that although no laws were broken regarding Moss Herman’s work as a consultant for the Russians prior to her work with the U.S. government there is a strong ethical argument that consultants who have worked for foreign en ies “could pose a significant problem when dealing with national security interests.”

Painter said background security checks on incoming U.S. government employees aren’t thorough enough, adding it’s “a very lax system, there’s lots of room for mistakes. There’s no rules to stop a consultant from working with the Russians to then come work in the government.”

“We live in a different world now with concentrated wealth in Russia, Saudi Arabia and China,” Painter said. “When you’re dealing with uranium, it’s a national security interest.”

The do ent Moss Herman wrote as a consultant, “Policy/Legislative Issues Attesting the Business Climate in the U.S. for TENAM/Tenex,” discussed the Department of Energy’s uranium regulations. She is now employed at the DOE’s Office of Uranium Management and Policy which assures supplies of fuel for nuclear power plants, which TENAM provides.

The executive to whom she provided the report, former Tenam president Vadim Mikerin was separately under a clandestine investigation by the FBI for corruption and money laundering, including extortion against American energy companies, and ultimately pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit money laundering.

In 2010, when Moss Herman submitted her memorandum to TENEX and Tenam Corp., the Obama administration was in its final days of reviewing the proposal from Russian state-controlled nuclear giant Rosatom to acquire Uranium One, a Canadian firm, which controlled roughly twenty percent of American uranium mining interests.

https://www.circa.com/story/2017/11/...lear-companies

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Three House Republicans try to oust Mueller over laughable uranium deal conspiracy theory

On the very week that Special Counsel Robert Mueller's probe started producing evidence of problematic Russian contacts by the Trump campaign,

three House Republicans suddenly want to kneecap Mueller. Who could have guessed it? The Washington Post writes:

Three conservative House Republicans are expected to file a resolution Friday

calling on special counsel Robert S. Mueller III to recuse himself from his probe of Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, accusing him of conflicts of interest.

Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.), who wrote the resolution, accuses Mueller of having a conflict of interest because he was serving as FBI chief

when the Obama administration approved a deal allowing a Russian company to purchase a Canada-based mining group with uranium operations in the United States, according to a draft obtained by The Washington Post.

Now keep this in mind:

While there is zero evidence that Hillary Clinton was involved in any improper dealings on the Uranium One sale referenced above,

there's less than zero evidence that Mueller had anything at all do with it

because his agency wasn't even on the multi-agency governing committee that approved the sale.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/1712314

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Over a three week span, Fox spent 12 hours on a psuedoscandal

Trump propagandist Sean Hannity led the way with almost three and a half hours of Uranium One coverage

the Uranium One story is a bogus conspiracy theory, a sloppy mishmash of shoddy reporting, fabrications, and motivated reasoning whose central premise -- that Clinton played a role in the deal -- has been debunked.

The president and his allies in Congress and in the conservative press -- particularly at Fox News -- have created a phony scandal to divert attention away from Trump’s Russia ties, focus criticism instead on their longtime foe Clinton, and justify calls to remove Mueller from his post.

Conservative author and Breitbart.com writer Peter Schweizer and his boss Steve Bannon launched the Uranium One tale in Schweizer’s 2015 book, Clinton Cash.

Schweizer alleged that Hillary Clinton played a "central role" in approving the Russian atomic nuclear agency’s purchase of the mining company.

He suggested that Clinton did so because Russians and people linked to the deal had given money to the Clinton Foundation and to Bill Clinton.

A panoply of conservative media figures pushed Schweizer’s allegation; Trump himself parroted it on the campaign trail.

But the conspiracy theory fell apart when examined by reporters, not least because there was no evidence Hillary Clinton had actually intervened.

?The story re-emerged thanks to John Solomon, the executive vice president of The Hill, whose reporting is frequently cited by Trump’s media allies because it feeds their paranoia about a “deep state” conspiracy targeting the president.

These claims quickly collapsed under scrutiny, with Washington Post fact-checker Glenn Kessler noting that the “fatal flaw in this allegation is Hillary Clinton, by all accounts, did not participate in any discussions regarding the Uranium One sale.”



https://www.salon.com/2017/11/12/fox-spent-12-hours-on-a-psuedoscandal-over-a-three-week-span_partner/

[TSA]

“I have worked with the Justice Department undercover for several years, and do entation relating to Uranium One and political influence does exist and I have it,” Campbell said. He declined to give details of those do ents.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-u...-idUSKBN1DG1SB

[Pavlov]

Sure he does....

[Pavlov]

“I have worked with the Justice Department undercover for several years, and do entation relating to Uranium One and political influence does exist and I have it,” Campbell said. He declined to give details of those do ents.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-u...-idUSKBN1DG1SB

ICYMI.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/doubts-su...203614558.html

[TSA]

An FBI informant gathered extensive evidence during his six years undercover about a Russian plot to corner the American uranium market, ranging from corruption inside a U.S. nuclear transport company to Obama administration approvals that let Moscow buy and sell more atomic fuels, according to more than 5,000 pages of do ents from the counterintelligence investigation.

The memos, reviewed by The Hill, conflict with statements made by Justice Department officials in recent days that informant William Campbell's prior work won't shed much light on the U.S. government's controversial decision in 2010 to approve Russia's purchase of the Uranium One mining company and its substantial U.S. assets.

Campbell do ented for his FBI handlers the first illegal activity by Russians nuclear industry officials in fall 2009, nearly a entire year before the Russian state-owned Rosatom nuclear firm won Obama administration approval for the Uranium One deal, the memos show.

Campbell, who was paid $50,000 a month to consult for the firm, was solicited by Rosatom colleagues to help overcome political opposition to the Uranium One purchase while collecting FBI evidence that the sale was part of a larger effort by Moscow to make the U.S. more dependent on Russian uranium, contemporaneous emails and memos show.

http://thehill.com/homenews/administ...ush-for-us?amp

[TSA]

Treasure Trove of Do ents Tying Russia to Uranium One
posted by Sara A. Carter | @SaraCarterDC - 2 hours ago
https://www.hannity.com/content/2017...DIbfxo.twitter