The Hill: FBI informant ”Moscow sent millions to benefit the Clinton”

[SBJJ]

Its funny as fuck and calls into question everything else he believes


Deal with it

You currently in Middle School?

 

[AnGrYcRoW]

You currently in Middle School?

I'm not laughing because he said fart I find it amusing that he thinks we aren't on a planet ......

 

[KONG-D'SNT-TAP]

I think i'm hanging off the side of a spinning ball and are kin to monkeys because people say so. Dur dur duuurrrrr - thechoice2

Ahahaha good grief you’re dumb

 

[Gregolian]

This is it..




And if it isn´t I am confident the next Benghazi investigation will be it.

I get the joke you're going for but I'm still real annoyed that someone hasn't gone to jail yet for that fuck up.

 

[xcvbn]

That informant talks a lot. Every answer is a wall of text.

At this point it's difficult to find who to believe. I think the obvious choice is to hit reset and vote out any and every politician associated with every presidency dating back to Reagan.

 

[P4p Islam]

The intelligence community colluded with the Clinton campaign, the DNC, Russian intelligence, and the media to take down/prevent a sitting president. They then lied about it all and tried to cover it up.

Lololololololol

x642135

 

[P4p Islam]

Boy @TheComebackKid got scorched in this thread

 

[Oeshon]

obama wasn't walked over, he was complicit in all this shit.

 

[Bunk Moreland]

Uranium One informant makes Clinton allegations in testimony
BY JOHN SOLOMON - 02/07/18 08:18 PM EST 3,715
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An FBI informant connected to the Uranium One controversy told three congressional committees in written testimony that Moscow routed millions of dollars to America with the expectation it would be used to benefit Bill Clinton's charitable efforts while Secretary of State Hillary Clinton quarterbacked a “reset” in US-Russian relations.

The informant, Douglas Campbell, said in the testimony obtained by The Hill that he was told by Russian nuclear executives that Moscow had hired the American lobbying firm APCO Worldwide specifically because it was in position to influence the Obama administration, and more specifically Hillary Clinton.

Democrats have cast doubt on Campbell’s credibility, setting the stage for a battle with Republicans over his testimony.

Campbell said Russian nuclear officials “told me at various times that they expected APCO to apply a portion of the $3 million annual lobbying fee it was receiving from the Russians to provide in-kind support for the Clinton’s Global Initiative,” he added in the testimony.

“The contract called for four payments of $750,000 over twelve months. APCO was expected to give assistance free of charge to the Clinton Global Initiative as part of their effort to create a favorable environment to ensure the Obama administration made affirmative decisions on everything from Uranium One to the U.S.-Russia Civilian Nuclear Cooperation agreement. “


He accused Obama administration officials of making decisions that ended up benefitting the Russian nuclear industry, which he said was seeking to build a monopoly in the global uranium market to help President Vladimir Putin seek a geopolitical advantage over the United States.

The United States already imports more than 90 percent of the uranium it uses in nuclear reactors, according to U.S. government figures from 2016.

Campbell wrote that Russian nuclear executives “boasted” during vodka-fueled meetings monitored by the FBI about “how weak the U.S. government was in giving away uranium business and were confident that Russia would secure the strategic advantage it was seeking in the U.S. uranium market.”

He also said he asked his FBI handlers why the U.S. was not more aggressive.

“I expressed these concerns repeatedly to my FBI handlers. The response I got was that politics was somehow involved,” he testified.

Much of the GOP’s interest in Campbell’s testimony centers on the Obama administration’s approval of the Uranium One deal. That deal at the time gave the Russian mining giant Rosatom control of roughly 20 percent of America’s capacity to mine uranium.

The deal was approved unanimously in 2010 by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS), a multi-agency board that includes the State Department, the Defense Department and the Justice Department, among other agencies. The board has the power to block deals that threaten national security.

Campbell, whose work as an informant was first disclosed in a series of stories published last fall by The Hill, helped the FBI gathered evidence as early as 2009 that the Russian nuclear industry was engaged in a kickback, bribery and racketeering scheme on U.S. soil. The criminal scheme, among other things, compromised the U.S. trucking firm that had the sensitive job of transporting uranium around America, Campbell testified.

Campbell says he provided the FBI the evidence of wrongdoing months before the Obama administration approved a series of favorable decisions that enriched Rosatom, including the CFIUS decision.

The Hill’s stories last fall prompted the Justice Department to take the rare step of freeing Campbell from his nondisclosure agreement as an intelligence asset so he could testify to Congress about what he witnessed inside Russia’s nuclear industry.

Campbell gave the congressional committees documents he said he provided to his FBI handlers in 2010 showing that the Russian and American executives implicated in the Tenex bribery scheme specifically asked him to try to help get the Uranium One deal approved by the Obama administration.

“In 2010, officials inside Tenex became interested in helping another Rosatom subsidiary, ARMZ, win Obama administration approval to purchase Uranium One, a Canadian company with massive Kazakh and large U.S. uranium assets,” Campbell testified. “Although Tenex and ARMZ are separate subsidiaries, Tenex had its own interest in Uranium One. Tenex would become responsible for finding commercial markets and revenue for those uranium assets once they were mined.

“The emails and documents I intercepted during 2010 made clear that Rosatom’s purchase of Uranium One – for both its Kazakh and American assets – was part of Russia’s geopolitical strategy to gain leverage in global energy markets,” he testified. “I obtained documentary proof that Tenex was helping Rosatom win CFIUS approval, including an October 6, 2010 email … asking me specifically to help overcome opposition to the Uranium One deal.”

Campbell told lawmakers the purchase of the Uranium One assets and the securing of billions of new uranium sales contracts inside the United States during the Obama years were part of the “Russian uranium dominance strategy.”

“The importance of the Uranium One decision to Tenex was made clear by the fact that the Russian government directed Mikerin to open a new U.S. office for Tenex and to create a new American entity called Tenam in early October 2010, just weeks before Rosatom and ARMZ won the Obama administration approval to buy Uranium One,” he said.

“Rosatom/Tenex threw a party to celebrate, which was widely attended by American nuclear industry officials. At the request of the FBI, I attended and recorded video footage of Tenam’s new offices,” he added.

Campbell’s written testimony covered a wide array of activities he conducted under the FBI’s direction, ranging from a failed sting effort to lure Putin to the United States to gathering evidence that Russia was “helping Iran build its nuclear capability.”

Campbell provided Congress an April 16, 2010, memo he said he wrote and gave to the FBI that spelled out in detail the Russian efforts to aid Iran.

“Tenex continues to supply Iran fuel through their Russian company,” Campbell wrote in that 2010 document obtained by The Hill, naming the specific company that was being used to help. “They continue to assist with construction consult [sic] and fabricated assemblies to supply the reactor. Fabricated assemblies require sophisticated engineering and are arranged inside the reactor with the help and consult” of Russians.

“The final fabricators to Iran are being flown by Russian air transport due to the sensitive nature of the equipment,” his 2010 memo to the FBI added.

Campbell told lawmakers he also gave the FBI “documentary proof that officials in Moscow were obtaining restricted copies of IAEA compliance reports on Iranian nuclear inspections, a discovery that appeared to deeply concern my handlers.”

While most of his testimony involved intelligence matters, Campbell also briefly described the toll years of undercover work took on him personally. He continued informing through a bout with brain cancer, a case of leukemia and battles with excessive drinking, he told lawmakers.

He also was never reimbursed for the hundreds of thousands of dollars he used of his own money to make bribe payments under the FBI’s direction to the Russians to facilitate his cover.

But Campbell testified he was gratified when the FBI in 2016 gave him a $50,000 reward check celebrating his undercover work, directly answering Democrats criticisms that federal prosecutors didn’t trust him as a witness.

“My FBI handlers praised my work. They told me on various occasions that details from the undercover probe had been briefed directly to FBI top officials. On two occasions my handlers were particularly excited, claiming that my undercover work had been briefed to President Obama as part of his daily presidential briefing,” he testified

In the end, though, he told lawmakers he remains disturbed that the Obama administration made so many favorable decisions benefitting the Russian nuclear industry when the evidence of wrongdoing and ill intent was so extensive.

“I was frustrated watching the U.S. government make numerous decisions benefiting Rosatom and Tenex while those entities were engaged in serious criminal conduct on U.S. soil,” he testified. “Tenex and Rosatom were raking in billions of U.S. dollars by signing contracts with American nuclear utility clients at the same time they were indulging in extortion by using threats to get bribes and kickbacks, with a portion going to Russia for high ranking officials.”

He said he never got a satisfactory answer from the FBI.

“I remember one response I got from an agent when I asked how it was possible CFIUS would approve the Uranium One sale when the FBI could prove Rosatom was engaged in criminal conduct. His answer: ‘Ask your politics,’ ” Campbell said.

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LOL at anyone here who praised the Clinton’s sham charity.


LOL at Obama, the most walked over President in my lifetime.


LOL at “it was her turn”, it wasn’t.

 

[Big Nasty Edison]

Boy @TheComebackKid got scorched in this thread

Much like the government on Russia, he'll only believe he got scorched if Trump tells him so.

 

[A Very Serious Cat]

This was clearly a Russian trick to fool Clinton and make Trump look good

Only Russian bots are spreading this

 

[SBJJ]

It's an interesting read. In short, Russia hired a lobbying firm to lobby for a deal that would further their global ambitions. They did this because they thought the U.S. was too casual with these types of agreements.

It's certainly bad from a geopolitical strategy perspective. Nothing criminal in it but strategically bad.

But to believe this, I'd have to believe that Russia isn't our friend. That they are trying to take our place on the global stage. And they use U.S. assets to try and influence political entities.

Thankfully, I already believe that. But I wonder how much cognitive dissonance others will have with it.

You don't have to hate every country that tries to further itself. You are being way to simplistic and looking at things through a Neocons eyes.

If any politician is caught taking bribes(not saying that was done) it's a bad thing. Bad thing on us not the other country. It's actually kinda crazy that you'd read that story and proclaim Russia a "bad" guy but just give our government a pass. Hell, you'd think you'd hold our government to a higher standard. What did Russia do that was bad? They bribed our government officials? The Clintons? They Duped the Obama Admin? So that makes them bad? What does it make our government then!

Russia is not the boogeyman it's made out to be. And if Hillary would have won we wouldn't be going through this. But now we have a joining of the MSM, the Democratic Party and the Neocon Failures of the Right.

 

[SBJJ]

Years from now the people screaming RUSSIA will look no different than the reactionaries of the past. Being force fed their info from the MSM and the Intelligence Agencies.

It will all come out though and I think it will be glorious to see how wrong so many were

 

[GSP_37]

They hate Clinton. They ain't giving her any money.

 

[Throttlehead]

The informant has been identified as Douglas Campbell, a lobbyist who acted as a confidential source in the FBI’s investigation of a bribery and kickback scheme involving Vadim Mikerin, the former head of the U.S. division of Rosatom, prior to the approval of the Uranium One deal in 2010. Through his lawyer, Campbell has expressed concerns about the fact that the Uranium One deal was approved despite his informing the agency how corrupt Rosatom was.

But DOJ officials had their own concerns regarding Campbell’s reliability, summarized as follows in Cummings and Schiff’s letter:

• Career attorneys initially planned to build their case against Mikerin based on evidence provided by this individual. However, they began to have “serious credibility concerns” because of “inconsistencies” between the individual’s statements and documents they obtained as part of the investigation.
• After interviewing the individual and reviewing the documents they had obtained, prosecutors determined that there was a “high chance” that he had begun engaging in illegal activity earlier than he initially disclosed—and that he had concealed those actions from the FBI.
• As a result, Justice Department officials working the case began to have “serious concerns” with using the individual as a witness. They “assessed” that the individual “would not present as a good witness” and “did not want to rely on him at trial.”
• Because Justice Department officials could not trust this individual, they decided instead to pursue alternate charges against Mikerin that would not rely on his testimony.
• Justice Department officials said it was a “godsend” that they had another avenue to charge Mikerin that relied on evidence other than this individual’s testimony. Mikerin ultimately was sentenced to 48 months in prison in 2015 for money laundering and violating the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.
• Justice Department officials confirmed that they do not plan to use the testimony of this individual in any future prosecution.
• Most importantly, Justice Department officials explained that this individual never provided any evidence or made any allegations regarding Secretary Clinton or the Clinton Foundation in any of their interactions with him.

Cummings and Schiff say Republican committee leaders have denied Democrats access to the informant for months, all the while issuing statements about how important his testimony will be. The Democrats’ letter opens with a request for a transcript of an interview the Republicans say they have scheduled with Campbell some time this week.

 

[Bloodworth]

What's the crime that either the Clintons or Obama are being accused of?

The aiding and abetting of an illegal element

 

[P4p Islam]

The aiding and abetting of an illegal element

Can you be less super ultra vague?


What "illegal element" were they "aiding"?

 

[Quipling]

The aiding and abetting of an illegal element

That's not a thing. Aiding and abetting has to be of a crime. "an illegal element" is just a mishmash of words.

 

[panamaican]

You don't have to hate every country that tries to further itself. You are being way to simplistic and looking at things through a Neocons eyes.

I'm being simplistic when I never said anything about "hate"? It's far more simplistic to reduce what I said to "hate", rather than manage the complexity of what I actually said.

Then you took your over-simplification of what I said and labelled me a Neocon based on your simplification.

If any politician is caught taking bribes(not saying that was done) it's a bad thing. Bad thing on us not the other country. It's actually kinda crazy that you'd read that story and proclaim Russia a "bad" guy but just give our government a pass. Hell, you'd think you'd hold our government to a higher standard. What did Russia do that was bad? They bribed our government officials? The Clintons? They Duped the Obama Admin? So that makes them bad? What does it make our government then!

Russia is not the boogeyman it's made out to be. And if Hillary would have won we wouldn't be going through this. But now we have a joining of the MSM, the Democratic Party and the Neocon Failures of the Right.

If you're not saying that taking bribes occurred then why should we be interpreting this story through that lens?

Think through what you wrote: You're not saying a crime occurred but, even if the crime didn't occur, we should still judge the parties as if the crime did occur. Nothing says irrational bias like "I'm going to judge you for doing a bad thing, even if I don't think you did it."

Also, I didn't proclaim Russia as "bad", once again you simplified something. I said the situation was bad from a geopolitical strategy perspective. Bad for the U.S. Which a statement about our country, not Russia.

I've said it before and it bears repeating - you have lost your bearings. You're trying to chastise me for things I didn't say. You're simplifying complex points down to "You must hate them." And then when I criticize the U.S., you still read it as a criticism of Russia because that's what you want to believe I think regardless of what I actually wrote.

You have devolved to simply disagreeing with whatever I post, regardless of the content. You're not even thinking about it anymore. You probably see my username, filter my words through some anti-panamaican filter and then fire off these missives.

Re-read my post.

 

[Demoslasher]

I guess there are a few people at the FBI who would know something about "hyper partisanship."



You see, if you picked up a book printed after the 1920's, you would know that socialism is an economic system and Democracy is a system of government (two different things that are not necessarily in opposition to one another). And, oh boy, is Russia ever a "Democracy!" <45>



Remind me of the legal code for "collusion," so that I can "keep up."



Precisely. Democrats got pwned, so they have attempted to frame a duly elected president. That's how it goes when Democrats don't get their way.



Are you referring to Mike Flynn? Is that the "numerous people?" The guy who the FBI couldn't charge with a crime other than lying to the FBI? Obstruction of a non-crime? Score one for the Democrats. You are living in a CNN induced dream world.

1. Name one time in the last 30 years where the FBI acted hyper partisan...it's Trumps attack line of the month, nothing factual about it.

2. Socialism is a form of government As well, try actually reading your link. furthermore almost nothing about Russia is socialist at all. Again you only used that term because it's one of the Republicans buzz words. And yeah they are a democracy, might be a shock to you that people actually vote over there. I know this doesn't fit into your narrative, but facts matter

3. Its called google, I know you trumpets never look anything up but due give it a try...

4. This is why people don't debate Trump fans... if Russia only helps one side of a election, through millions of dollars of state funding devoted to it and with great geopolitical risks involved. Logic would ask why they took such a expensive or dangerous risk to help said candidate....but you live in a world where Russia did it "to pwn democrats" with no other motive whatsoever. Btw the recent declassified documents say the investigation started years ago. Again reading is fundamental.

5. Mike Flynn is one of the people, and seeing he was Trumps national security adviser, it's a big deal. And we don't know what he confessed to but it was bad enough that he agreed to a deal to rat out others in the administration. He wouldn't do that for a none crime, again mouth closed, brain open. You also have His campaign manager, and numerous others that have confessed. We will know more once mueller releases his findings

Stop watching Fox...