DoJ Blocked FBI Undercover Testimony On Russia Bribery-Extortion Probe

 

An American businessman who worked for years undercover as an FBI confidential witness was blocked by the Obama Justice Department from telling Congress about conversations and transactions he witnessed related to the Russian nuclear industry’s efforts to win favor with Bill and Hillary Clinton and influence Obama administration decisions, his lawyer tells The Hill.

Attorney Victoria Toensing, a former Reagan Justice Department official and former chief counsel of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said Tuesday she is working with members of Congress to see if they can get the Trump Justice Department or the FBI to free her client to talk to lawmakers.

The undercover client witnessed “a lot of bribery going on around the U.S.,” but was asked by the FBI to sign a non-disclosure agreement (NDA) that prevents him from revealing what he knows to Congress, Toensing explained.

When he tried to bring some of the allegations to light in the lawsuit last year, “the Obama Justice Department threatened him with loss of freedom. They said they would bring a criminal case against him for violating an NDA,” she added.

 

https://hotair.com/archives/2017/10/18/attorney-doj-blocked-fbi-undercover-testimony-russia-bribery-extortion-probe/

 

 

 

20 minutes ago, Rigid1 said:

nope just setting you up to look like a hypocritical fool...

 

 

 

um no. when i made that statement it was in response to dumbski's claim that is was DU gossip. I'd never make the claim that because something is in the news, means it's accurate. jesus Christ dude, who would? furthermore, I'm not even 100% convinced that story is 100% legit. i could see that family misconstruing things, and at the same time I could see trump being an inconsiderate, no empathy whatsoever, dipshit.

 

 

6 minutes ago, Snoslinger said:

um no. when i made that statement it was in response to dumbski's claim that is was DU gossip. I'd never make the claim that because something is in the news, means it's accurate. jesus Christ dude, who would? furthermore, I'm not even 100% convinced that story is 100% legit. i could see that family misconstruing things, and at the same time I could see trump being an inconsiderate, no empathy whatsoever, dipshit.

 

 

don't you know its improper to use the lords name in vein? Fucking liberal asshole

Just now, COPO said:

don't you know its improper to use the lords name in vein? Fucking liberal asshole

 so you're a religious whack too........

8 minutes ago, Snoslinger said:

um no. when i made that statement it was in response to dumbski's claim that is was DU gossip. I'd never make the claim that because something is in the news, means it's accurate. jesus Christ dude, who would? furthermore, I'm not even 100% convinced that story is 100% legit. i could see that family misconstruing things, and at the same time I could see trump being an inconsiderate, no empathy whatsoever, dipshit.

 

 

But yet Trump cares about respecting the flag...

1 minute ago, BEANPOLE DAVE said:

But yet Trump cares about respecting the flag...

well he said he did.

can you seriously not see the difference here?

 

8 minutes ago, Snoslinger said:

um no. when i made that statement it was in response to dumbski's claim that is was DU gossip. I'd never make the claim that because something is in the news, means it's accurate. jesus Christ dude, who would? furthermore, I'm not even 100% convinced that story is 100% legit. i could see that family misconstruing things, and at the same time I could see trump being an inconsiderate, no empathy whatsoever, dipshit.

 

 

uh huh........................................for dayzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Just now, Snoslinger said:

well he said he did.

can you seriously not see the difference here?

 

All I see is you liberals scurrying around like ants from one thing to another....try and stay focused.

2 minutes ago, Rigid1 said:

uh huh........................................for dayzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

omg

 

i have a pretty good idea what kindergarten teachers experience daily.

Just now, Snoslinger said:

i have a pretty good idea what kindergarten teachers experience daily.

Maybe you should start hanging around some conservatives.

Just now, Snoslinger said:

omg

 

2 minutes ago, BEANPOLE DAVE said:

Maybe you should start hanging around some conservatives.

i do, and they're not nearly as dumb as some of you...

16 minutes ago, Snoslinger said:

i have a pretty good idea what kindergarten teachers experience daily.

I have a good idea what a caretaker for a special needs person experiences daily. That's a career I could not do.

Edited October 18, 20177 yr by T1R9sledder

22 minutes ago, Snoslinger said:

i do, and they're not nearly as dumb as some of you...

what does your inlaws have to say about trump.

2 minutes ago, COPO said:

what does your inlaws have to say about trump.

some like him, some see him for what he is, a POS.

relevancy?

 

Late 2004: Canadian mining magnate Frank Giustra creates a company to invest in uranium mining called UrAsia Energy Ltd.

TRENDING:

Timeline: The Clintons, the Russians, and Uranium

 

June 2005: Giustra meets Bill Clinton at “a fundraiser for tsunami victims at Mr. Giustra’s Vancouver home.” The two hit it off. (Note: Newsweek reports Clinton and Giustra first met in January, not June.)

August 2005: Giustra’s company UrAsia Energy sends engineering consultants to Kazakhstan, which is home to about 20 percent of the world’s uranium supply. Kazakhstan has a repressive government with a poor human rights record and a history of unfair elections. Nursultan Nazarbayev has been its only president since 1991. A 2004 Human Rights Watch report stated, “The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) and the Council of Europe found that the elections ‘fell short’ of international standards, citing unbalanced election commissions and media bias favoring pro-presidential parties.”

September 6, 2005: Giustra flies former President Clinton on his private jet for stops in three nations. The stops are all part of Clinton Foundation work to grant cheaper access to AIDS drugs. The first stop on the tour, said to be “arranged hastily,” is Kazakhstan. It will be Clinton’s only post-presidential visit to the country.

Clinton then gives a news conference about his AIDS work with President Nazarbayev and afterward praises him for “opening up the social and political life of your country.” Clinton specifically praises Nazarbayev for pledges he had made weeks earlier to free and fair elections. Clinton suggested this commitment “will be quite influential in what I hope will be a successful bid to be the leader of the OSCE in 2009. I think it’s time for that to happen, it’s an important step, and I’m glad you’re willing to undertake it.” At the time Clinton made this statement, the U.S. government did not support Kazakhstan’s bid for OSCE leadership, citing “serious corruption.”

Also during their one-night stay in Kazakhstan, Frank Giustra tells President Nazarbayev he is seeking a business relationship with Kazatomprom, Kazakhstan’s state-owned uranium mining company. President Nazarbayev replies, “Very good, go to it.”

September 7, 2005: Clinton and Giustra leave Kazakhstan on Giustra’s private jet.

September 8, 2005: UrAsia Energy Ltd. signs a Memorandum of Understanding with Kazatomprom worth $450 million. The New York Times reports that UrAsia went from a second-tier shell company to leading uranium producer overnight. One uranium industry expert tells the Times the selection of UrAsia for the deal is a “mystery.”

November 11, 2005: Zamanbek Nurkadilov, a former Mayor of Almaty who joined an opposition party and threatened to publish documents proving government “high level” corruption in President Nazarbayev’s administration, is found dead. He was shot three times, twice in the chest and once in the head. The government rules his death a suicide.

December 2005: Nursultan Nazarbayev wins another 7-year term as President with 91 percent of the vote. Mr. Clinton congratulated Nazarbayev on the win in a letter which states, “Recognizing that your work has received an excellent grade is one of the most important rewards in life.”

Early 2006: Giustra makes a $31.3 million donation to the Clinton Foundation. The donation is kept secret until December 2007.

September 2006: Giustra “co-produces” former President Clinton’s star-studded 60th birthday gala, an event which eventually raises $21 million for the Clinton Foundation.

February 2007: Uranium One, a South African mining company, buys UrAsia Energy Ltd. for $3.1 billion. The head of Kazatomprom has a private, 3-hour meeting with Bill Clinton at Clinton’s New York home to discuss a forthcoming business deal arranged by Giustra. When asked about the meeting by the New York Times, Giustra denied it happened or that he arranged it. When it is pointed out that Moukhtar Dzhakishev, president of Kazatomprom, has a photo with Mr. Clinton taken inside his home during the meeting, Giustra does an about face. Similarly, a spokesman for Clinton initially denies the meeting took place, then issues a “correction” acknowledging it did.

2009: Ian Telfer, Chairman of Uranium One, donates $1 million to the Clinton Foundation through his family charity.

June 2009: Moukhtar Dzhakishev, the head of Kazatomprom, is arrested for illegally selling mining rights to foreign companies, including some given to Frank Giustra’s UrAsia (which are now owned by Uranium One). The NY Times reports “American diplomatic cables made public by WikiLeaks…reflect concerns that Mr. Dzhakishev’s arrest was part of a Russian power play for control of Kazakh uranium assets.”

June 10-11, 2009: Uranium One pressures the U.S. Embassy in Kazakhstan to clarify the situation regarding its mining rights and US officials meet with Kazakh officials on these two days to discuss it.

June 14, 2009: A subsidiary of the Russian atomic energy agency Rosatom gains a 17 percent ownership share in Uranium One.

November 2009: With the permission of the FBI, an American businessman begins making kickback payments at the direction of Vadim Mikerin, “the main Russian overseeing Putin’s nuclear expansion inside the United States.” Between 2009 and 2012, with the approval of Rosatom, Mikerin would use bribes and extortion to compromise “American contractors in the nuclear industry.”

June 2010: Rosatom seeks a majority ownership share in Uranium One. Because Uranium One owns mining interests in several states within the US, the deal must be approved by the Committee on Foreign Investment. One agency that has to sign off on the deal is the State Department, where Hillary Clinton is Secretary of State.

2010: Ian Telfer, Chairman of Uranium One, donates $250,000 to the Clinton Foundation through his family charity. Between 2009-2012 Telfer’s charity would donate more than $2.3 million to the Clinton Foundation.

June 29,2010: The New York Times timeline notes, “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.” President Putin reportedly thanked Clinton for giving the speech.

October 2010: Rosatom’s majority ownership of Uranium One is approved by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States. The company’s most valuable assets are the mining rights originally owned by UrAsia Energy Ltd., thanks to the deal reached just one day after former President Clinton left Kazakhstan.

2011: “the administration gave approval for Rosatom’s Tenex subsidiaryto 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.”

January 2013: Rosatom takes 100% control of Uranium One and takes the company private.

 

 

7 hours ago, Snoslinger said:

how many threads do we need on this topic?

This actually a second story on this dipshit.  

Discredit Hillary....fucking A Slinger that is some comedy gold right there!

 

 

8 hours ago, bussman said:

Stoli Elit

 

I drink good vodka straight on the rocks. 

Tito's is by no means bad but I probably like 5-8 others better. Part of it is I'm sure after 30 years of drinking it I've developed a preference. Ketel, GG and regular Stoli are my other go tos. Nothing was a bigger disappointment than Crystal Skull, that tastes like rubbing alcohol. 

Glad I'm not the only one!  I had to choke down a 750 and a 1.75 of that stuff!

CONNECT THE DOTS

24 minutes ago, racinfarmer said:

Glad I'm not the only one!  I had to choke down a 750 and a 1.75 of that stuff!

God it was terrible 

16 minutes ago, f7ben said:

God it was terrible 

Thankfully, the 1.75 was free.  No way was I got to shell out money for that after I paid for the 750.  When I used to be more alcoholically inclined, I liked the occasional screwdriver and no amount of OJ would get rid of that biting bitter taste.