Yesterday
we learned
of a massive Russian bribery scheme that was occurring under the nose
of the Obama administration, which involved lots of federal agencies,
Obama, Hillary Clinton, and DOJ head Eric Holder, and private companies.
Oh, and uranium. And the Clinton’s “charitable” foundation. And now we
learn
Senate Judiciary opens probe into Obama-era Russian nuclear bribery case
The Senate Judiciary Committee has launched a full-scale probe into a
Russian nuclear bribery case, demanding several federal agencies
disclose whether they knew the FBI had uncovered the corruption before
the Obama administration in 2010 approved a controversial uranium deal
with Moscow.
Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), the committee chairman, gets his first
chance to raise the issue in public on Wednesday when he questions
Attorney General Jeff Sessions during an oversight hearing.
Though the hearing was scheduled for other purposes, aides said they expected Grassley to ask Sessions questions about
a story published in The Hill on Tuesday that
disclosed the FBI had uncovered evidence showing Russian nuclear
officials were engaged in a racketeering scheme involving bribes,
kickbacks and money laundering designed to expand Russian President
Vladimir Putin’s atomic energy business on U.S. soil.
The evidence was first gathered in 2009 and 2010 but Department of
Justice officials waited until 2014 to bring any charges. In between
that time, President Obama’s multi-agency Committee on Foreign
Investment in the United States (CFIUS) gave approval to Russia’s
Rosatom to buy a Canadian mining company called Uranium One that
controlled 20 percent of America’s uranium deposits.
The committee’s members at the time included former Attorney General
Eric Holder and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, whose husband
collected large speech fees and millions in charitable donations from
Russia and other entities interested in the outcome of the decision.
Of, course, let’s face it, it’s highly unlikely anything will come
out of this, as Republicans haven’t shown they have the cajones to get
tough on Obama or the people who worked for him on pretty much anything.
And we do not know how in-depth the committee will get on this. They
are demanding certain documents from federal agencies by October 26th.
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