Clinton Campaign ‘Killed’ Story Linking Bill’s $500k Moscow Speech To Russia-Friendly Stance

Brietbart ^ | 12 July 2017 | Aaron Klein

[Lorianne]

A leaked email from Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign previously published by Wikileaks may take on new significance because it relates to key issues brought up in media reports about Donald Trump Jr. and a meeting with a Russian lawyer. The email in question was purportedly sent by Jesse Lehrich, a Clinton campaign foreign policy spokesman and member of the campaign’s rapid response communications team.

In the correspondence, which has not yet received news media attention and remains searchable in the WikiLeaks archive, Lehrich writes that the campaign “killed a Bloomberg story” attempting to link Clinton’s opposition to the anti-Russia legislation known as the Magnitsky Act to a speech that Bill Clinton delivered in Moscow for $500,000.

The May 21, 2015 message, titled, “May 21st Nightly Press Traffic Summary,” was purportedly sent by Lehrich to the campaign’s “HRCRapid” Google group, and was captured by the leaking of campaign chairman John Podesta’s Gmail account emails.

Lehrich’s list of press actions carried out by the campaign included this:

With the help of the research team, we killed a Bloomberg story trying to link HRC’s opposition to the Magnitsky bill to a $500,000 speech that WJC gave in Moscow.

Based on Peter Schweizer’s bestselling book Clinton Cash, the New York Times in April 2015 reported on Clinton’s $500,000 speech in Moscow and its possible ties to a deal in which the Russians gradually assumed control of the Uranium One mining company.

[Ray76]

Clinton was bought by the Russians for $500,000.

[ETL]

Who’s in Putin’s Pocket — Clinton or Trump? (Clinton Uranium RussiaGate scandal)

The New American ^ | August 3, 2016 | William F. Jasper

"according to some calculations, the Uranium One deal, involving top Clinton donors Frank Guistra and Ian Telfer, has transferred as much as 50 percent of projected American uranium production to Kremlin control."

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RUSSIAGATE

Who paid Bill Clinton's $2.5 million commission & $500,000 speaking fee (US uranium to Russia)

qura.com ^ | July 27, 2016 | Sierra Spaulding

Who paid Bill Clinton's $2.5 million commission and $500k speaking fee for brokering the sale of 20% of America's uranium deposits to Russia?

You are speaking about a really interesting deal that ended up giving Vladimir Putin and the Russians control of one-fifth of all uranium production capacity in the United States.

Since uranium is considered a strategic asset, with implications for national security, the deal had to be approved by a committee composed of representatives from a number of United States government agencies. ..."

[Repeal The 17th]

Once you’ve sold your soul the first time,
anything else you get for it is just gravy on the biscuit.

[poinq]

If we are investigating the Russians interfering with our election, we should not stop with the President. We should know any Federal politician, media person or government worker who met with the Russians. Why is this just about Trump.

[Mears]

And why isn’t THIS worth coverage by the MSM????

I have never been so disgusted in my very long life.

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[Liz]

This gambit by Bill Clinton (meddling in a foreign election) got the Russian uranium scheme going. Bill's calculated handshake was a bonanza for the Kazahk president's re-election. Nazarbayev responded in kind and signed-off on the initial phase of the US uranium assets takeover.

Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev greets former
president Clinton (L) in Almaty on September 6, 2005.

NOTE Kazakh is remembered as the last state to peel off from the USSR.

CIRCA 2015 A Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times reporter claims that former President Bill Clinton falsely denied hosting a meeting with Kazakh officials when she tried to write a story that involved his foundation several years ago.

Jo Becker, who works on the newspaper's investigative desk, said Clinton only confirmed the meeting took place after she informed him there were photographs.

Clinton's role in a deal that involved Kazakhstan, the Russian government, and a man (Giustra) who donated millions to the president's charitable foundation were detailed in a story Becker published on Thursday.

That article revisited some of her earlier reporting and included information from the upcoming book "Clinton Cash," which is generating widespread headlines amid a flurry of reports suggesting it will raise serious questions about Clinton's family foundation.

The donor in question is Canadian mining executive Frank Giustra, a longtime friend of the former president who has given tens of millions to the Clinton Foundation in the past few years. (A couple of hours after the NYT story was published, Giustra issued a defiant statement. We've included that below.)

Becker initially wrote about the February 2007 meeting between Clinton, Giustra, and executives from the state-owned nuclear company Kazatomprom in 2008. The gathering took place at Clinton's home in Chappaqua, New York.

"When I first contacted both the Clinton foundation — Mr. Clinton's spokesman — and Mr. Giustra, they denied any such meeting ever took place," Becker recalled in footage aired by Fox News on Thursday. However, Becker said Clinton and Giustra both changed their stories after she confronted them with evidence to the contrary.

"And then when we told them, 'Well we already talked to the head of Kazatomprom, who not only told us all about the meeting, but actually has a picture of him and Bill at the home in Chappaqua, and that he proudly displayed on his office wall.' They then acknowledged that yes, the meeting had taken place," Becker continued in the television interview.

The purpose of the meeting, then Kazatomprom President Moukhtar Dzhakishev told The Times, was to discuss Kazakhstan potentially buying a 10% stake in Westinghouse, a US nuclear company. Becker's 2008 story also noted one of Giustra's companies secured a deal to buy uranium deposits from Kazatomprom in 2005.

That agreement was made after Clinton accompanied Giustra on a trip to Kazakhstan. During the trip, Giustra and Clinton met with Kazakhstan's President Nursultan Nazarbayev.

Clinton issued a public statement praising the Kazakh leader despite his questionable, antidemocratic record. The Times called the praise a "propaganda coup" for Nazarbayev. (he later "won relection" w/ an unbelievable 90% of the vote)

"Just months after the Kazakh pact was finalized, Mr. Clinton's charitable foundation received its own windfall: a $31.3 million donation from Mr. Giustra that had remained a secret until he acknowledged it last month. The gift, combined with Mr. Giustra’s more recent and public pledge to give the William J. Clinton Foundation an additional $100 million, secured Mr. Giustra a place in Mr. Clinton’s inner circle," wrote Becker and another reporter, Don Van Natta.

A spokesperson for the Clinton Giustra Enterprise Partnership told Business Insider they are "working on a formal statement" in response to a request for comment on Thursday. Clinton Giustra Enterprise Partnership is an initiative of the Clinton Foundation that was cofounded by Clinton and Giustra in 2007. A Clinton Foundation spokesperson did not respond to a request for comment.

http://www.businessinsider.com/nyt-reporter-clinton-lied-about-meeting-2015-48/25

[Liz]

It's amazing that the Russians offered "damaging info on Hillary."
Did they think the existing dirt wasn't enough to damage her?

[bray]

Collusion is only bad when it has Trump attached to it.

[Gigantor]

Bookmark for later

[Seaplaner]

With the help of the research team, we killed a Bloomberg story trying to link HRC’s opposition to the Magnitsky bill to a $500,000 speech that WJC gave in Moscow.

Bigger than any Trump Jr email or even Watergate.

[Ray76]

It may have been killed for a reason.

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Nov 16, 2009 - Magnitsky dies

**** this space for rent - fill it in, win a prize ****

Jun 28, 2010 - Bill Clinton is receives $500,000 for speech - http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/emails-show-clinton-ties-to-russian-oligarch-under-investigation/article/2601514

Jun 24, 2010 - ... we remember [] the Russian lawyer Sergei Magnitsky, who died in pre-trial detention last year. We continue to urge that justice be delivered in these cases.
https://web.archive.org/web/20100628013041/https://www.state.gov/secretary/rm/2010/06/143628.htm - Remarks at the US-Russia “Civil Society to Civil Society” Summit

May 19, 2011 - The Magnitsky Act introduced in Senate - “To impose sanctions on persons responsible for the detention, abuse, or death of Sergei Magnitsky” - enables the US to withhold/revoke visas and freeze financial assets - https://www.congress.gov/bill/112th-congress/senate-bill/1039/text

Dec 14, 2012 - signed into law

wikileaks e-mail - https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/303

[Fedora]

From the article:

Clinton helped lead the charge against the bill, the magazine reported. “The administration, starting with Hillary Clinton and then John Kerry, did everything they could do to stop the Magnitsky act,” said American hedge fund manager Bill Browder, who was instrumental in lobbying Congress in favor of the bill.

[ptsal]

Arkanicide Nov 16, 2009 - Magnitsky dies

[DocRock]

Bookmark

[Bookshelf]

Re Lehrich:

“Jesse Lehrich is a Clinton spokesman, focusing on foreign policy. (Twitter/Jesse Lehrich) Jesse Lehrich is supposed to help his boss, Hillary Clinton, take the spotlight from Donald Trump as her foreign policy spokesman. But during the second presidential debate, he put the spotlight on himself by telling Trump to “go f**k yourself” after Trump suggested that Captain Humayun Khan would not have died in Iraq if Trump were president in 2004.

The 27-year-old Lehrich has been working for the Clinton campaign for over a year and previously worked as an unpaid volunteer.”

[Governor Dinwiddie]

It staggers the mind that someone can give a $500,000 speech. Why don't they call it what it is—a bribe. It is open bribery and influence peddling.

[Ray76]

In December 2015, The Wall Street Journal reported that Hillary Clinton opposed the Magnitsky Act while serving as secretary of state. Her opposition coincided with Bill Clinton’s June 29, 2010 speech in Moscow for Renaissance Capital, a Russian investment bank, for which he was paid $500,000.

Mr. Clinton received a personal thank-you call from Vladimir Putin

http://www.frontpagemag.com/point/267289/hillary-clinton-obama-donald-trump-jr-and-daniel-greenfield

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/446526/clinton-russia-ties-bill-hillary-sold-out-us-interests-putin-regime