[The Hill] As he prepared to collect a $500,000 payday in Moscow in 2010, Bill Clinton sought clearance from the State Department to meet with a key board director of the Russian nuclear energy firm Rosatom ‐ which at the time needed the Obama administration’s approval for a controversial uranium deal, government records show.
Arkady Dvorkovich, a top aide to then-Russian President Dmitri Medvedev and one of the highest-ranking government officials to serve on Rosatom’s board of supervisors, was listed on a May 14, 2010, email as one of 15 Russians the former president wanted to meet during a late June 2010 trip, the documents show.
"In the context of a possible trip to Russia at the end of June, WJC is being asked to see the business/government folks below. Would State have concerns about WJC seeing any of these folks," Clinton Foundation foreign policy adviser Amitabh Desai wrote the State Department on May 14, 2010, using the former president’s initials and forwarding the list of names to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s team.
The email went to two of Hillary Clinton’s most senior advisers, Jake Sullivan and Cheryl Mills.
The approval question, however, sat inside State for nearly two weeks without an answer, prompting Desai to make multiple pleas for a decision.
"Dear Jake, we urgently need feedback on this. Thanks, Ami," the former president’s aide wrote in early June.
Sullivan finally responded on June 7, 2010, asking a fellow State official "What’s the deal w this?"
The documents don’t indicate what decision the State Department finally made. But current and former aides to both Clintons told The Hill on Thursday the request to meet the various Russians came from other people, and the ex-president’s aides and State decided in the end not to hold any of the meetings with the Russians on the list.
Bill Clinton instead got together with Vladimir Putin at the Russian leader’s private homestead.
"Requests of this type were run by the State Department as a matter of course. This was yet another one of those instances. Ultimately, President Clinton did not meet with these people," Angel Urena, the official spokesperson for the former president, told The Hill.
MOSCOW (AP) — A presidential bid by a celebrity Russian TV host drew conflicting reaction from the country's beleaguered opposition Thursday, with some accusing her of playing into the Kremlin's hands and others welcoming her move.
Though President Vladimir Putin's spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, denied that the Kremlin has encouraged Ksenia Sobchak to run, some opposition figures say her move would allow the government to counter voter apathy and at the same time sow discord in opposition ranks.
The 35-year old Sobchak announced her intention to run in the March 2018 election Wednesday, saying the country has grown tired of stagnation and needs change.
She is the daughter of Anatoly Sobchak, the reformist St. Petersburg mayor in the early 1990s. President Vladimir Putin once worked as her father's deputy.
Sobchak, who joined anti-Kremlin protests in 2011-2012, said she had warned the president of her intention during a recent meeting, adding that Putin didn't seem to like it.
Putin hasn't yet said whether he would seek re-election, but he's widely expected to run and is poised to convincingly see off the same set of lackluster veterans of past campaigns. More at the link
She participated in the anti Kremlin protests a few years back.
She is known as a television news reader, but she also has a television cooking show. Russian military journalist Aleksandr Kots quipped on Twitter that (going from memory) "...now cooks can run the state."
I guess you hadda be there to appreciate the humor
Former Secretary of State John Kerry on Thursday criticized President Donald Trump's policies, warning that he risks driving Iran towards nuclear proliferation and worsening a standoff with North Korea if he ends the nuclear deal with Iran.
"If you want to negotiate with (North Korean leader) Kim Jong Un, and your goal is to avoid war and try to be able to have a diplomatic resolution, the worst thing you can do is first threaten to destroy his country in the United Nations," Kerry said in a private lecture delivered at Geneva’s Graduate Institute, according to Reuters.
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Kerry is losing credibility, even in the Ivy League. He recently was appointed a visiting professor of something at Yale and gave his usual pontifications. The last issue of the Yale Alumni Magazine contained 4 letters about it--none of them favorable. I was pleasantly surprised.
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If Kerry is upset, that's a solid indicator we are on the right track. Piss him off more please.
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Ending the deal could lead to Iran hiding fissile production facilities “deep in a mountain where we have no insight”,
Iran's probably already hiding these facilities.
and I thought we were done hearing from Lurch sigh....
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they are already hiding sites and refusing access
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[Twitchy] In a powerful speech at this afternoon’s White House press briefing, Gen. John Kelly called out people who have shamelessly been using the death of Green Beret La David Johnson to score cheap political points. Kelly singled out Democratic Rep. Frederica Wilson, saying, ""I was stunned when I came to work yesterday morning and brokenhearted at what I saw a member of Congress doing."
"John Kelly's trying to keep his job. He will say anything," says @RepWilson in response to Trump's staff chief who ripped her for disclosing details of controversial call with soldier's widow. "There were other people who heard what I heard." I tried to find an appropriate .jpg, but could find nothing ugly enough.
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She hates the military based on her voting record. Those of her race that served to defend the Constitution are more useful to her per her twisted thinking in death than any white, brown or Asian American soldier who are alive and still defending our freedoms. Trash like her thinks just because he is black and dead she can now use him to bash others with.
To stress the gravity of the Clinton Foundation’s Russian Uranium One scandal, Ortel told Infowars.com that he believes Clinton Foundation financial reports are criminally fraudulent in failing to report payments received in relation to the Russian Uranium One Scandal.
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Take 2009 results , for example, completed during 2010," Ortel argued. "You will not find combining results for the Clinton Foundation, by "Initiative" on the Clinton Foundation website as these are purposefully omitted. But you will find these key results on versions of the required audit that are obtained here in New York (punch in EIN: 31-1580204) and look at the 2009 filing."
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"These show total contributions (normally these are from the general public) of $82.9 million and total grants (normally these are from governments and from foundations) of $162.9 million," he continued. "Focus on the column "CHAI" (Clinton Health Access Initiative) that shows contributions of $15.5 million (19% of the combined total) and $159.7 in grants (98% of the total). Clearly "CHAI" existed during 2009 as a material portion of the Clinton Foundation."
Ortel then poses an important question to Corsi: "who contributed $159.7 million to "CHAI" in 2009?"
"By going here, we find that a Swiss NGO called UNITAID may have contributed $85 million during 2009," Ortel then points out.
"There is no $85 million grant from UNITAID listed and there is no grant listed in 2009 that may have been routed through CGSGI from Russia or from any other source‐in fact the combining statement shows $100 (not a typo) in contributions, and only $1.5 million in grants for ’CGSGI,’" Ortel concludes.
Prior to the Obama administration approving the very controversial deal in 2010 giving Russia 20% of America’s Uranium, the FBI had evidence that Russian nuclear industry officials were involved in bribery, kickbacks, extortion and money laundering in order to benefit Vladimir Putin, as previously reported by The Gateway Pundit.
The Department of Justice decided to continue investigating this for four years without Congress or the public knowing, according to The Hill’s reporting.
Hillary Clinton was Secretary of State at the same time the State Department and government agencies on the Committee on Foreign Investments UNANIMOUSLY approved the partial sale of Canadian mining company Uranium One to the Russian nuclear company Rosatom, ultimately giving Russia 20% of U.S. Uranium.
[NBCNEWS] A shake-up is underway at the Democratic National Committee as several key longtime officials have lost their posts, exposing a still-raw rift in the party and igniting anger among those in its progressive wing who see retaliation for their opposition to DNC Chairman Tom Perez.
The ousters come ahead of the DNC's first meeting, in Las Vegas, Nevada, since Perez took over as chairman with a pledge this year to unite a party that had become badly divided during the brutal Bernie Sanders ...The only openly Socialist member of the U.S. Senate. Sanders was Representative-for-Life from Vermont until moving to the Senate for the rest of his life in 2006, assuming the seat vacated by Jim Jeffords... -Perennial Presidential Campaigner Hillary Crooked Hillary Clinton ... former first lady, former secretary of state, former presidential candidate, Conqueror of Benghazi, Heroine of Tuzla, formerly described by her supporters as the smartest woman in the world, usually described by the rest of us as The Thing That Wouldn't Go Away... 2016 primary race.
Complaints began immediately after party officials saw a list of Perez's appointments to DNC committees and his roster of 75 "at-large" members, who are chosen by the chair.
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[AMERICANTHINKER] It is now clear to anyone who filters through all the media chaff on condolence calls that the FBI and Department of Justice allowed a criminal conspiracy to proceed, endangering national security but enriching the Clintons, and have been covering up the evidence. The two people responsible for targeting the special counsel on Trump and Russia are directly responsible for the cover-up.
Yesterday's Senate Judiciary Committee hearing produced plenty of video clips of Al Franken badgering Jeff Sessions, making him look off-balance. That might comfort the sensibilities of Trump-haters, but it is all a phony distraction. It is now clear that real collusion with Russians did take place ‐ between Secretary Clinton's machine and the Russians.
Greg Jarrett, a lawyer and fearless Fox News correspondent, lays out the case that racketeering laws apply to the Uranium One scandal (hat tip: Jim Host, Gateway Pundit).
There is much more to this clear-eyed presentation, including Jarrett's call for Mueller and Rosenstein to resign, since they were responsible for the investigation, kept quiet and allowed it to unfold, and kept it secret. It is well worth five minutes.
The old bromide that "the cover-up is worse than the crime" derives from Watergate, a third-rate burglary, criminally. Endangering national security through racketeering could be a serious crime, indeed. But the cover-up, implicating the pinnacle of our justice and law enforcement hierarchies, could be even bigger, if you think about it. When you lose the police and prosecutors, you are no longer a functioning democratic republic.
No matter how much chaff the media generates, about half the public (46%, according to a poll released today) believes that the media make up stuff about Trump. And the Truth will out.
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Mueller needs a special prosecutor ON HIS ASS. He needs to resign his charge in disgrace
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The entire Trump - Russian thing is a distraction. If Clinton had been elected (as was predicted) none of this unpleasantness would have seen the light of day.
Her only hope now is (as it was before) to win the next presidential election. If not under criminal indictment prior to 2018, I suspect she'll be running again.
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When you lose the police and prosecutors, you are no longer a functioning democratic republic.
It's not just the police and prosecutors; its also the bought judges who support a personal ideology rather than to follow the rule of law. Congress has a role as well. If this happens, you become no better than a corrupted banana republic. I blame the Clintons and the Obama administrations for the tainted government.
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[The Hill] As he prepared to collect a $500,000 payday in Moscow in 2010, Bill Clinton sought clearance from the State Department to meet with a key board director of the Russian nuclear energy firm Rosatom ‐ which at the time needed the Obama administration’s approval for a controversial uranium deal, government records show.
MOSCOW (AP) — A presidential bid by a celebrity Russian TV host drew conflicting reaction from the country's beleaguered opposition Thursday, with some accusing her of playing into the Kremlin's hands and others welcoming her move.
"There is no $85 million grant from UNITAID listed and there is no grant listed in 2009 that may have been routed through CGSGI from Russia or from any other source‐in fact the combining statement shows $100 (not a typo) in contributions, and only $1.5 million in grants for ’CGSGI,’" Ortel concludes.
...The only openly Socialist member of the U.S. Senate. Sanders was Representative-for-Life from Vermont until moving to the Senate for the rest of his life in 2006, assuming the seat vacated by Jim Jeffords...
Perennial Presidential Campaigner Hillary 
