Posted on 10/20/2017 12:02:41 AM PDT by tired&retired
Full title: Bill Clinton sought State’s permission to meet with Russian nuclear official during Obama uranium decision
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.
“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.
Aides to the ex-president, Hillary Clinton and the Clinton Foundation said Bill Clinton did not have any conversations about Rosatom or the Uranium One deal while in Russia, and that no one connected to the deal was involved in the trip.
Per the article:
Current and former Clinton aides told The Hill that the list of proposed business executives the former president planned to meet raised some sensitivities after Bill Clinton’s speaker bureau got the invite for the lucrative speech.
Hillary Clinton had just returned from Moscow and there were concerns about the appearance of her husband meeting with officials so soon after.
In addition, two of the Russians on the former president’s list had pending business that would be intersecting with State.
The first was Dvorkovich, who was a chief deputy to Medvedev and one of the Russian nuclear power industry’s cheerleaders. He also sat on the supervisory board of Rosatom, the state owned atomic energy company that was in the midst of buying a Canadian uranium company called Uranium One
The deal required approval from the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS), an intergovernmental panel represented by 14 departments and offices that approve transactions and investments by foreign companies for national security purposes. Approval meant that control of 20 percent of U.S. uranium production would be shifting to the Russian-owned Rosatom’s control.
CFIUS approved the transaction in October 2010, saying there was no national security concerns. Hillary Clinton has said she did not intervene in the matter and instead delegated the decision to a lower official, who said he got no pressure from the secretary on any CFIUS matters. Any one of the participating offices and departments could have sought to block the deal by requesting intervention by the president.
The second person on the list that caught attention was Russian businessman Viktor Vekselberg.
Two days after Hillary Clinton’s visit to Russia, Vekselberg was named by Medvedev to oversee a new technology investment project called Skolkovo, designed to be Russia’s new Silicon Valley, according to media reports.
Hillary Clinton had directly discussed the Skolkovo project with Medvedev, and her State Department was whipping up support for it among U.S. companies, creating the potential appearance for a conflict. She even attended a major event with the Russians in 2010 to promote the project.
“We want to help because we think that it’s in everyone’s interest do so,” she was quoted as saying at the time.
A third issue that emerged was Renaissance Capital, a Russian bank that actually paid the $500,000 speaking fee to the former president for his 90-minute June 29, 2010, speech, one of the largest one-day fees Bill Clinton ever earned.
Renaissance Capital had ties with the Kremlin and was talking up the Uranium One purchase in 2010, giving it an encouraging investment rating in Russia right at the time the U.S. was considering approval of the uranium sale, according to reports in The New York Times in 2015.
OUCH.. Per the article:
The importance of CFIUS’s approval was highlighted in Rosatom’s annual 2010 report that listed Dvorkovich as one of its supervisor board directors. The report crowed the U.S. approval was one of its most “striking events” of the year and allowed Russia to begin “uranium mining in the United States.”
The head of Rosatom boasted in the report that the Uranium One deal was part of a larger Putin strategy to strengthen “Russia’s prestige as a leader of the world nuclear industry.”
Military weapons and technology sales needs to go back to the DOD and out of state. The Clintons deliberately did that by executive order because in 1993 the DOD refused the deals the Clintons were doing so in Clinton fashion they just shifted it to State where corruption was theirs to play.
THE HILL is doing some good work on this story.
Is Mueller a heat seeking missile or a political hack? The real betrayal to our country was by the Clintons and Obama’s hacks.
Might this be a case of the far left loons taking over the party from the Clinton Crime Family and using this investigation to end the Clinton reign? She was threatening to run again and seems to have backed off that recently.
This story seems to be getting worse every day for the Clintons. But... been saying that for a couple decades and they never seem to suffer consequences for ignoring the law or selling out America.
This is making me sick in my stomach and sad for our country.
Is it too late to pull this country out of the swamp?
Our only hope at this point is God.
Hence the ole Alinsky rules for radicals....accuse your opponent of doing something which you yourself are perpetuating. I have thought all along that this Russian crap about the Republicans and Trump was a ruse to cover up the shady dealing of the Demoncrats and the Clintons.
QUID PRO QUO!!! Emphasis on the $500,000.00 QUID and the $145 MILLION to the Clinton Crime Family Slush Fund!!
That is because our gangstamint is fake..totaly out of control managing a world wide economic collapse..using wars and discontent to correct the trajectory..never works, ask Rome..
God should have been our only hope continually,mankind’s reality is dead to God..only hate, fear and surviving in a world we are dying in is important to humans..sick friggin mindset..
Why is treason not corrected by lead anymore?
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