Clinton Uranium One deal: FBI informant blocked by Obama-era AG can unlock key info, attorney says
An informant for the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is under a gag order that prevents him from testifying before the United States Congress that Russian nuclear officials were involved in fraudulent dealings in 2009 before the Uranium One deal was approved.
Former Attorney General Loretta Lynch blocked the informant from testifying last year and threatened criminal action against him if he were to do so.
In an interview with FOX Business’ Lou Dobbs, Victoria Toensing, the attorney representing the FBI informant, said she has never heard of a criminal penalty for breaching a non-disclosure agreement (NDA).
“If it does and it is unconstitutional and it’s invalid, if it prohibits my client from giving information to the legislature, the executive cannot say to people, ‘Hey, you can’t give information to another body of the government,’” Toensing said.
The former Reagan Justice Department official and former chief counsel of the Senate Intelligence Committee said the impact of her client’s knowledge of the Russians’ ability to use the Clintons’ position of power is significant.
“He can tell what all the Russians were talking about during the time that all these bribery payments were made,” Toensing said on “Lou Dobbs Tonight.”
The House Oversight Committee is investigating the Obama-era Uranium One deal, and Rep. Ron DeSantis (R-Florida) is calling for the Justice Department to remove the NDA that prevents the former FBI informant from testifying.
“We are glad Ron DeSantis is doing it because he is a former federal prosecutor, and he is a go-getter on this and I think he’ll do a great job,” Toensing said.
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Is there a link to this?
It came from Fox Business.....nuff said
Newsweek?
Umm.......so the part IN the article that states
Didn't seem to register huh?
Really?
So I guess that part about
Is just another alternative fact in your universe huh?
This seed came word for word from the Fox Business article!
If you really don't wish to discuss the topic, why do you keep posting?
You see the only reason we can do something to them NOW is because they NOW have the uranium and it becomes a national security issue NOW...not back in 2009!
Umm....the topic is about some supposed witness who signed a NDA who claims was stopped from testifying to Congress......what does your link have to do with that?
And picked up by about 10 other outlets
Then maybe you can tell us what was so good about selling 20% of the US supply of uranium?
Maybe because we didn't sell off 20% of our uranium supply! Uranium One SUPPLIES 1/5 of our uranium production capacity. Basically one private company bought out another private company, which followed the guidelines laid out by us regarding corporate mergers
False
First off despite what you on the right believe the uranium has gone nowhere, Russia doesn’t have a license to export uranium from the United States (for now anyway) the uranium still remains under the control of the US based subsidiaries of Uranium One, and that is coming from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Second that 1/5 number you all are trying to quote goes to the mines, and other facilities in the US that equals to 20% of US uranium production capacity . The actual production number is around 11%.....ALL of which is STILL IN THE UNITED STATES!
COMEDY! I need to educate myself?! LOL!
Dude! That’s yellowcake! NOT actual URANIUM ORE! A uranium miner such as Mr. Christiansen knows the difference, but ran with the fact that the average person doesn't and you all ate it up!
So which is it, was yellowcake shipped or uranium?
You can’t show one iota of proof that URANIUM ORE has been shipped out of the US by Russia
It's been clear that the Clintons were doing what they always do, selling governmental access for cash.
What's interesting here is that Obama's DOJ slow walked and lied about an investigation into Russian bribery, apparently to keep his "reset" moving forward.
Hillary Clinton Gave 20 Percent of United States' Uranium to Russia in Exchange for Clinton Foundation Donations?
Allegations of a "quid pro quo" deal giving Russia ownership of one-fifth of U.S. uranium deposits in exchange for $145 million in donations to the Clinton Foundation are unsubstantiated.
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Sec. of State Hillary Clinton's approval of a deal to transfer control of 20% of U.S. uranium deposits to a Russian company was a quid pro quo exchange for donations to the Clinton Foundation. See Example( s )
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Among the ways these accusations stray from the facts is in attributing a power of veto or approval to Secretary Clinton that she simply did not have. Clinton was one of nine cabinet members and department heads that sit on the CFIUS, and the secretary of the treasury is its chairperson. CFIUS members are collectively charged with evaluating the transaction for potential national security issues, then turning their findings over to the president. By law , the committee can’t veto a transaction; only the president can. According to The New York Times , Clinton may not have even directly participated in the Uranium One decision. Then-Assistant Secretary of State Jose Fernandez, whose job it was to represent the State Dept. on CFIUS, said Clinton herself “never intervened” in committee matters.
You should try reading the article - It dosen't mention Hillary Clinton - It talks about the "gag order" put on a whistle blower by the Obama justice department
The article is not about Trump
This is, once again, trump trying to distract the public from his problems. Just like trump announcing that LGBT members would no longer be allowed to serve in the US military. Just an hour before that announcement, Paul Manafort's home was raided by the FBI. This was debunked years ago and even the author of "Clinton Cash" admits what he said was not true. It literally is another made up scandal that is based almost entirely in bullshit. I did find it funny that trump said this was all "pay for play", when he is the one that used his "charitable foundation", (which is now shut down because it too is under investigation), to pay off the AG's of Florida and Texas to drop his trump u fraud case.
This is just rehashing old news. It's deflection, nothing more. The GOP are experts at beating dead horses for political gain... 9 benghazi investigations? Can you imagine the outrage by the GOP if after Mullers investigation turns up nothing the dems investigated the same thing......8.........more........times? Wow.
I think it may be a bigger scandal than "teapot dome"