Shocking New Information On Hillary Clinton Investigations Revealed By AG Barr In CBS Interview

All News PipeLine ^ | June 3, 2019 | By Susan Duclos

[Red Badger]

FULL TITLE:

Shocking New Information On Hillary Clinton Investigations Revealed By AG Barr In CBS Interview, Downplayed And Ignored By Liberal Media

======================================================================

Conservative media and former federal prosecutors are highlighting a portion of the recent CBS News interview with Attorney General William Barr, where Barr informed the public that after U.S. Attorney John Huber was tapped to investigate the FISA applications to target the Trump campaign for spying and the subsequent electronic surveillance of Carter Page, Huber "stood back and put that on hold while the Office of Inspector General was conducting its review."

Coverage of that statement has been highly critical of Huber's inaction despite the AG stating directly after that this "would've been normal for the department," but what is being downplayed and in many cases totally ignored, is the rest of AG Barr's answer, where he describes what Huber has been working on while awaiting the IG to conclude his investigation.

Here is the entire answer, the emphasis in bold type mine, via the full transcript at CBS News:

JAN CRAWFORD: Um, what's the status of Huber's investigation in Utah? I think the former Attorney General Sessions had asked him to look at this.

WILLIAM BARR: Right, so Huber had originally been asked to take a look at the FISA applications and the electronic surveillance but then he stood back and put that on hold while the Office of Inspector General was conducting its review, which would've been normal for the department. And he was essentially on standby in case Mr. Horowitz referred a matter to him to be handled criminally. So he has not been active on this front in recent months and so Durham is taking over that role. The other issues he's been working on relate to Hillary Clinton. Those are winding down and hopefully we'll be in a position to bring those to fruition.

In the short clip below, viewers can hear Barr's full answer, as well as former federal prosecutor Rudy Giuliani blasting Huber's choice to await the IG report and referrals.

Other former federal prosecutors like Joe diGenova agree with Giuliani and have been openly critical of Huber's actions or lack of action while working in coordination with the DOJ's Office of Inspector General in regards to the FISA warrants and spying of the Trump campaign, but we are seeing an almost-total media blackout on what AG Barr says Huber has been investigating in the meantime....specifically the myriad of Clinton-related issues.

While multiple congressional investigations are ongoing into the FISA warrant issues and the actions on the part of former senior level members of the intelligence community (IC) under Obama, in regards to spying, as well as an ongoing review of the same matters by the DOJ's Inspector General's office, with U.S. attorney John Durham being appointed to take over Huber's role for AG Barr's investigation into the same matter.... Huber's team of senior prosecutors are the only group we are aware of to date, that are still investigating a number of Clinton-related legal issues.

TIMELINE OF EVENTS - THE HUBER INVESTIGATIONS

What many observers are not aware of is that while it wasn't until March 2018, the general public found out that John Huber was appointed to work with the DOJ IG's office to investigate potential wrongdoing on the part of senior level IC officials under Obama, Huber was originally tasked with investigating a number of Clinton-related issues back in November 2017.

In October 2017, John Solomon at The Hill revealed that the "FBI uncovered Russian bribery plot before Obama administration approved controversial nuclear deal with Moscow, in where he also exposed the following:

Federal agents used a confidential U.S. witness working inside the Russian nuclear industry to gather extensive financial records, make secret recordings and intercept emails as early as 2009 that showed Moscow had compromised an American uranium trucking firm with bribes and kickbacks in violation of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, FBI and court documents show.

They also obtained an eyewitness account — backed by documents — indicating Russian nuclear officials had routed millions of dollars to the U.S. designed to benefit former President Bill Clinton’s charitable foundation during the time Secretary of State Hillary Clinton served on a government body that provided a favorable decision to Moscow, sources told The Hill.

The racketeering scheme was conducted “with the consent of higher level officials” in Russia who “shared the proceeds” from the kickbacks, one agent declared in an affidavit years later.

Rather than bring immediate charges in 2010, however, the Department of Justice (DOJ) continued investigating the matter for nearly four more years, essentially leaving the American public and Congress in the dark about Russian nuclear corruption on U.S. soil during a period when the Obama administration made two major decisions benefiting Putin’s commercial nuclear ambitions.

Due to a Freedom of Information Act request by the liberal group American Oversight Org., it wasn't until March 2019 that it was finally revealed that former AG Jeff Sessions originally appointed Huber to investigate a number of issues, unrelated to FISA/Obama-era intelligence officials, but rather his primary mandate was investigations into a number of Clinton related matters, including Uranium One.

Huber was appointed originally in November 2017 and the FISA-related investigations were tacked on at a much later date.

On November 22, 2017, Sessions sent a letter to John Huber tasking him with reviewing issues that Congressional members had asked the AG to investigate. Attached to that letter were response letters that Sessions had sent to congressional members, which stated "This responds to your letters dated July 27, 2017, and September 26, 2017, in which you and other Members request the appointment of a Special Counsel to investigate various matters, including the sale of Uranium One, alleged unlawful dealings related to the Clinton Foundation and other matters........"

Those letters informed members of congress that senior federal prosecutors had been tasked with reviewing the issues brought to his attention by Congress.

In order to determine what other investigations Huber had originally been charged with leading a team of senior federal prosecutors to investigate, we go to the July 27, 2017, and September 26, 2017, letters from Congress to former AG Sessions.

In the first letter, signed by 20 members of Congress, they asked a Special prosecutor be appointed to investigate items they believed Special Counsel Robert Mueller was not investigating, calling them a "plethora of matters connected to the 2016 election and its aftermath," unrelated to Russia interference, including "actions taken by previously public figures like Attorney General Loretta Lynch, FBI Director James Comey and Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton."

Those issues, as stated in that letter, include:

1) Then-Attorney General Loretta Lynch directing Mr. Comey to mislead the American people on the nature of the Clinton investigation;

2) The shadow cast over our system of justice concerning Secretary Cliton and her involvement in mishandling classified information;

3) FBI and DOJ's investigative decisions related to former Secretary Clinton's email investigation, including the propriety and consequence of immunity deals given to potential Clinton co-conspirators Cheryl Mills, Heather Samuelson, John Bentel and possibly others;

4) The apparent failure of the DOJ to empanel a grand jury to investigate allegations of mishandling of classified information by Hillary Clinton and her associates;

5) The Department of State and its employees' involvement in determining which communications of Secretary Clinton's and her associates to turn over for public scrutiny;

6) Wikileaks disclosures concerning the Clinton Foundation and its potentially unlawful international dealings;

7) Connections between the Clinton campaign, or the Clinton Foundation, and foreign entities, including those from Russia and Ukraine;

8) Mr. Comey's knowledge of the purchase of Uranium One by the company Rosatom, whether the approval for the sale was connected to any donations made to the Clinton Foundation, and what role Secretary Clinton played in the approval of that sale that had national security ramifications.

9) Disclosures arising from unlawful access to the Democratic National Committee's (DNC) computer systems, including inappropriate collusion between the DNC and the Clinton campaign to undermine Senator Bernie Sanders' presidential campaign;

The other five issues addressed include what Comey and Lynch knew of president Trump being wiretapped, Comey's reliance on Fusion GPS, Comey leaks, and the unprecedented amount of "unmasking" of individuals on the trump campaign, transition team or both by Comey, Lynch, Susan Rice, Samantha Powers and others.

Note: Some of these issues are will possibly be addressed in the upcoming IG report to some extent, which any criminal referrals will then be handed over to Durham,but any that is outside the IG's scope in his investigation that are not handed over to Durham will fall under the purview of the Huber investigation.

The September 26, 2017 letter focuses on the premature exoneration of Hillary Clinton, before she and other witnesses had even been interviewed by the FBI.

Both letters can be seen here (PDF).

Because of the overlapping investigations, Durham and Huber are working in direct coordination with the DOJ's Inspector General's Office, which is why both are awaiting the final report, along with any criminal referrals may be attached.

The Epoch Times highlights another interesting detail in regards to the Uranium One investigation: "Notably, Uranium One had significant holdings in Utah, where Huber is based, including a small town, a uranium mill, and more than 10,000 acres of uranium claims."

BOTTOM LINE

The most shocking of statements by AG Barr in his CBS News interview is the one sentence that almost all liberal media outlets are completely ignoring, which is that Hillary Clinton, Uranium One, the actions of former IC members unrelated to Russia or the the actions taken against President Trump by those former officials, is still pending, was and still is John Huber's primary mandate, handed to him well before the public was first informed and months before Sessions piled the FISA investigation onto Huber's plate.

According to AG Barr, those Clinton-related investigations are "winding down and hopefully we'll be in a position to bring those to fruition."

One has to wonder what "bring those to fruition" actually means.

It is apparent that none of those results and/or reports will be issued before the IG issues upcoming report within the next few weeks.

Editors Note: While I am not holding my breath for this to take us directly to the top of the Obama administration corruptness, I am also not going to join in with the chorus of critics that are more than willing to speculate that nothing at all will be done about the corrupt actions of a number of individuals before the investigations are complete and the results known to the public.

We do not have the results, the reports, or the criminals referrals referenced by many that are expected to be attached, so to me, preemptively criticizing documents that aren't even released yet, along with "expected" action or inaction, seems a bit premature, and frankly, too much like what liberals did the entirety of the Mueller investigation by "assuming" they knew what would or would not happen.

[Fido969]

BOOM???

[Big Red Badger]

Fizz,

[neverevergiveup]

I think people who know who the Clintons truly are, and what they're reach is (or at least has been) are afraid of them.

[dp0622]

I read halfway down before it became Moby Dick.

Someone with more patiwnce/knowledge care to summarize?

[Red Badger]

The other issues he's been working on relate to Hillary Clinton. Those are winding down and hopefully we'll be in a position to bring those to fruition.

[ETL]

From the article...

"In October 2017, John Solomon at The Hill revealed that the "FBI uncovered Russian bribery plot before Obama administration approved controversial nuclear deal with Moscow, in where he also exposed the following:

Federal agents used a confidential U.S. witness working inside the Russian nuclear industry to gather extensive financial records, make secret recordings and intercept emails as early as 2009 that showed Moscow had compromised an American uranium trucking firm with bribes and kickbacks in violation of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, FBI and court documents show.

They also obtained an eyewitness account — backed by documents — indicating Russian nuclear officials had routed millions of dollars to the U.S. designed to benefit former President Bill Clinton’s charitable foundation during the time Secretary of State Hillary Clinton served on a government body that provided a favorable decision to Moscow, sources told The Hill."

_____________________________________________________

FBI uncovered Russian bribery plot before Obama administration approved controversial nuclear deal with Moscow

John Solomon and Alison Spann
Oct 17, 2017

Before the Obama administration approved a controversial deal in 2010 giving Moscow control of a large swath of American uranium, the FBI had gathered substantial evidence that Russian nuclear industry officials were engaged in bribery, kickbacks, extortion and money laundering designed to grow Vladimir Putin’s atomic energy business inside the United States, according to government documents and interviews.

Federal agents used a confidential U.S. witness working inside the Russian nuclear industry to gather extensive financial records, make secret recordings and intercept emails as early as 2009 that showed Moscow had compromised an American uranium trucking firm with bribes and kickbacks in violation of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, FBI and court documents show.

They also obtained an eyewitness account — backed by documents — indicating Russian nuclear officials had routed millions of dollars to the U.S. designed to benefit former President Bill Clinton’s charitable foundation during the time Secretary of State Hillary Clinton served on a government body that provided a favorable decision to Moscow, sources told The Hill.

The racketeering scheme was conducted “with the consent of higher level officials” in Russia who “shared the proceeds” from the kickbacks, one agent declared in an affidavit years later.

Rather than bring immediate charges in 2010, however, the Department of Justice (DOJ) continued investigating the matter for nearly four more years, essentially leaving the American public and Congress in the dark about Russian nuclear corruption on U.S. soil during a period when the Obama administration made two major decisions benefiting Putin’s commercial nuclear ambitions. ...”

http://thehill.com/policy/national-security/355749-fbi-uncovered-russian-bribery-plot-before-obama-administration

---

November 14, 2017

Intermediary Who Facilitated Corrupt Payments to a Russian Nuclear Energy Official Sentenced for Money Laundering Conspiracy

A New Jersey businessman was sentenced to a year and one day in prison for Conspiracy to Commit Money Laundering in connection with his role in arranging corrupt payments to influence the awarding of contracts with the Russian state-owned nuclear energy corporation.

The sentence was announced by Acting Assistant Attorney General Kenneth A. Blanco, Acting U.S. Attorney Stephen M. Schenning for the District of Maryland; Special Agent in Charge Angela Sigler of the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Inspector General (DOE-OIG); and Assistant Director in Charge Andrew G. Vale of the FBI’s Washington Field Office.

Boris Rubizhevsky, 67, of Closter, New Jersey was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Theodore D. Chuang to 12 months and one day in prison, followed by three years of supervised release.  The defendant was also ordered to forfeit $26,500.  Rubizhevsky pleaded guilty on June 15, 2015, to conspiracy to commit money laundering.

According to court documents, Rubizhevsky acted as an intermediary in connection with corrupt payments to co-conspirator Vadim Mikerin, the former director of the Pan American Department of JSC Techsnabexport (TENEX), a subsidiary of Russia’s State Atomic Energy Corporation and the sole supplier and exporter of Russian Federation uranium and uranium enrichment services to nuclear power companies worldwide. 

According to court documents, between October 2011 and February 2013, Rubizhevsky and Mikerin agreed to conceal corrupt payments being made from the United States to overseas bank accounts for the benefit of Mikerin, including a payment to a foreign bank account located in Latvia.  Rubizhevsky admitted that the conspirators used sham consulting agreements to disguise the corrupt payments. 

Mikerin previously admitted that he conspired with Rubizhevsky and others to transmit more than $2 million from Maryland, and elsewhere in the United States, to offshore shell company bank accounts located in Cyprus, Latvia and Switzerland with the intent to promote violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.  Mikerin pleaded guilty to money laundering conspiracy in August 2015, and was sentenced in December 2015 to 48 months in prison for his role in the money laundering scheme.

The DOE-OIG and FBI investigated the case.  Assistant Chiefs Christopher Cestaro and Ephraim Wernick and Trial Attorney Derek Ettinger of the Criminal Division’s Fraud Section and Assistant U.S. Attorneys David I. Salem and Michael T. Packard of the District of Maryland prosecuted the case.

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/intermediary-who-facilitated-corrupt-payments-russian-nuclear-energy-official-sentenced-money

____________________________________________________________________________________________

[ETL]

Gohmert: Mueller “Covering” Involvement In Clinton-Uranium Deal While Trying To Have A “Coup” Against Trump

Posted By Ian Schwartz
June 9, 2018

Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas) said Saturday special counsel Robert Mueller is trying to cover up his involvement with the Uranium One deal that benefited the Clintons while “trying to have a coup against the president.”

REP. LOUIE GOHMERT (R-TX): Robert Mueller has done more damage during his 12 years as FBI director than any other — probably all directors put together...

He has wasted money right and left.

Amazingly, he’s hired people like [Andrew] Weissmann that worked with him and [Rod] Rosenstein in investigating the Russian illegal efforts to obtain our uranium which they quashed information in order to allow the sale to go through so that Hillary could get the $145 million for her foundation.

So it is really outrageous. He’s covering for himself at the same time he’s trying to have a coup against the president.

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2018/06/09/gohmert_mueller_covering_involvement_in_clinton-uranium_deal_while_trying_to_have_a_coup_against_trump.html

____________________________________________________________________________________________

"...he’s [Mueller] hired people like [Andrew] Weissmann that worked with him and [Rod] Rosenstein in investigating the Russian illegal efforts to obtain our uranium which they quashed information in order to allow the sale to go through so that Hillary could get the $145 million for her foundation.

So it is really outrageous. He’s covering for himself at the same time he’s trying to have a coup against the president.

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2018/06/09/gohmert_mueller_covering_involvement_in_clinton-uranium_deal_while_trying_to_have_a_coup_against_trump.html

____________________________________________________________________________________________

Andrew Weissmann

Andrew Weissmann headed the Obama administration’s Department of Justice Criminal Fraud Section. Weissman was knowledgeable of Deputy Assistant Attorney General Bruce Ohr’s collusion with Christopher Steele and Glenn Simpson and did not report the illegal activity to his superiors as departmental regulations require.[1] Weissman is now lead prosecutor in the Mueller investigation.[2] Weissmann is suspected in illegal leaks from the Mueller probe.[3]

Weissmann donated $2,300 to the Obama Victory Fund in 2008, $2,000 to the DNC in 2006 and at least $2,300 to the Clinton campaign in 2007. He was at Hillary Clinton headquarters on election night and is part of the anti-Trump Resistance.

Uranium One

Main article: Uranium One bribery scandal

Vadim Mikerin, director of Tenex, plea agreement shows that the Obama DOJ’s Fraud Section was then run by Andrew Weissmann.

The Justice Department instructs prosecutors that when Congress has given a federal offense its own conspiracy provision with a heightened punishment (as it has for money laundering, racketeering, narcotics trafficking, and other serious crimes), they may not charge a section 371 conspiracy. Section 371 is for less serious conspiracy cases. Using it for money laundering — which caps the sentence below Congress’s intent for that behavior — subverts federal law and signals to the court that the prosecutor does not regard the offense as major.

Yet, that is exactly what Rod Rosenstein’s office did, in a plea agreement his prosecutors co-signed with attorneys from the Justice Department’s Fraud Section. (See in The Hill’s report, the third document embedded at the bottom, titled “Mikerin Plea Deal.”) No RICO, no extortion, no fraud — and the plea agreement does not mention any of the extortions in 2009 and 2010, before Committee on Foreign Investment in the US approved Rosatom’s acquisition of Uranium One. Mikerin just plead guilty to a nominal “money laundering” conspiracy charge, insulating him from a longer sentence. Thus, he got a term of only four years’ for a major national security crime.

https://www.conservapedia.com/Andrew_Weissmann

[thinden]

BOTTOM LINE

The most shocking of statements by AG Barr in his CBS News interview is the one sentence that almost all liberal media outlets are completely ignoring, which is that Hillary Clinton, Uranium One, the actions of former IC members unrelated to Russia or the the actions taken against President Trump by those former officials, is still pending, was and still is John Huber’s primary mandate, handed to him well before the public was first informed and months before Sessions piled the FISA investigation onto Huber’s plate.

According to AG Barr, those Clinton-related investigations are “winding down and hopefully we’ll be in a position to bring those to fruition.”

One has to wonder what “bring those to fruition” actually means.

It is apparent that none of those results and/or reports will be issued before the IG issues upcoming report within the next few weeks.

[Gene Eric]

That’s one long, ongoing interview...

[Sir Bangaz Cracka]

“BOOM???”

POOP! Er, rather POP!!!!

[jjotto]

heh heh

Here’s a clue: When an OIG finds evidence of crime, it is quickly turned over to prosecutors. Prosecution doesn’t wait until a report is issued.

Go to the DOJ OIG website and look at some reports. Many times prosecution is wrapped up before the IG issues a report.

Has the prosecution of anyone started yet?

[arthurus]

Their.

[dp0622]

Wow. I wonder why he did the interview

[IC Ken]

I love America but the corruption is to the very core.

[Bonemaker]

Yet, nothing is done. Manafort is in prison for far, far less.

[COBOL2Java]

[JoSixChip]

Someone with more patiwnce/knowledge care to summarize?

The fbi agent that seesions assigned to look into fisa abuses was a deception and delay tactic. But this same agent who did nothing on fisa is suddenly the silver bullet that is going to take down clinton. It's just more "Q" type garbage to distract and delay until it just fades away.

LOOK SQUIRREL!

[Red Badger]

The core can be cut out.....................

[neverevergiveup]

Yep. Thanks. Maybe I need an MRI. We’ll see how the rest of the day goes.