Atty. Gen. Jeff Sessions orders Department of Justice officials to interview FBI agents connected with the Uranium One deal, selling off 20% of the U.S. uranium supply to Russian company Rosatom in 2013. Sessions wants to know the precise involvement of former Secretary of State and 2016 Democratic nominee Hillary Rodham Clinton. Speculation has grown that the Clinton Foundation profited from the deal that was signed off by some nine U.S. agencies while Hillary ran the State Department Jan. 21, 2009 to Feb. 1, 2013. If the Clinton Foundation profited from the sale of Uranium One, it would be one of the greatest crimes committed by any government official in U.S. history. Hillary’s backers insist that Uranium’s deal with signed off by nine U.S. agencies. But those same agencies didn’t approve of Bill and Hillary Clinton collecting over a $100 million from Uranium One.
Sessions recused himself March 2 from the FBI’s ongoing investigation into Russian meddling and alleged Trump campaign collusion into the 2016 presidential campaign. Allegations of Trump campaign collusion with Russia hasn’t been proven by any Congressional committee or the FBI in over a year-and-a-half investigation. All indictments and guilty pleas by Special Counsel Robert Mueller have not been related to Russian meddling or Trump campaign collusion. Session’s possible decision to appoint a Special Counsel to look into racketeering by Hillary and Bill Clinton has nothing to do with the 2016 campaign. Session’s March 2 recusal only applied to the investigation into the 2016 presidential campaign. Uranium One’s deal preceded the campaign by at least two years. On the matter of Hillary’s FBI email investigation, there might be some overlap with Uranium One.
When you consider that 33,000 emails were deliberately scrubbed from Hillary’s private server and at least 12 cell phones were physically destroyed, it makes no sense that FBI former FBI Director James Comey exonerated Hillary July.5, 2016. Destroying evidence in the course of a law enforcement investigation defines “obstruction-of-justice.” Yet the Comey and the FBI found nothing actionable when it came to the narrow issue of whether or not Hillary transmitted classified material over an unsecured private email server. Of all the questions remaining about Hillary, it’s the missing emails and how they possibly relate to the Uranium One deal or any other transactions conducted while secretary of state. When the Uranium One deal was signed off by nine government agencies for national security risks, they didn’t sign off on Hillary and Bill collecting untold millions.
Democratic partisans want to dismiss the Uranium One deal a pure right wing conspiracy. Yet without Hillary missing emails, it’s difficult to know the extent to which the Clinton profited from transaction. Uranium One CEO Frank Giustra donated more that $100 million after securing the mining rights in Kazakhstan before selling to Uranium one in 2007. There’s no way that a secretary of state should be profiting from any transaction for U.S. business. How Democrats excuse the Clintons without any responsible investigation is anyone’s guess. Saying the Uranium One sale was approved by nine federal agencies for national security doesn’t deal with the possible conspiracy, money laundering and racketeering charges. Debating the advisability to selling some 20% of U.S. uranium rights to Russia is another matter. No public official should engage in egregious piracy.
If Sessions does appoint a Special Counsel to look into the Uranium One deal it doesn’t violate his recusal in the 2016 meddling and alleged collusion investigation currently underway by the FBI and congressional committees. You can’t have heads of companies doing business with the U.S. government donating millions to Cabinet officials. Trump told Hillary Oct. 9 in a CNN-sponsored debate at Washington University in St. Louis, “If I win, you’d be in jail,” referring to her email scandal not mentioning specifically Uranium One. Trump promised in the debate to appoint a Special Prosecutor to get to the bottom of the missing emails and destroyed cell phones. After Uranium One was acquired by Rosatom in Jan. 2013, Chairman Ian Tefler donated over $2 million to the Clinton Global Initiative [CGI]. It’s no accident the Clintons closed the CGI Jan. 17, only three days before Trump became president.
Reports of Special Counsel Robert Mueller winding down the Russian meddling and alleged Trump collusion investigation, there’s plenty of reason for Sessions to look into perhaps the biggest crime ever committed by a U.S. government official. If Hillary ran the State Department as her personal cash register, it’s high time to at least look at the books of the Clinton Global Initiative. Whether or not there was racketeering by Rosatom officials isn’t known. But if a U.S. Cabinet secretary lined her family’s pockets at the expense of the U.S. government, it’s time to find out. No U.S. agency that approved the Uranium One deal signed off on Hillary and Bill collecting millions into their personal coffers. Only Sessions can decide if enough-is-enough to appoint a long-overdue Special Counsel to look into Hillary’s wheeling-and-dealing while running the State Department.
