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originally posted by: Gryphon66
Senators have introduced bipartisan bills intended to keep Trump from firing Mueller, hardly the act of a Congress that wants to remove Mueller
Chicago Tribune
There is zero evidence that CFIUS knew anything about any investigation into individuals loosely associated with Rosatom. ZERO. The investigation started in 2009, the Uranium One merger was approved in 2010, and the investigation into bribery CONCLUDED IN 2014 with convictions in 2015.
The investigation went on for FOUR YEARS after the Uranium One merger was done.
This is a non-story.
Fifteen months before the 13 members of the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States, known as CFIUS, approved the sale of the Canadian company Uranium One to Russia’s nuclear arm giant Rosatom, the FBI began investigating persons who were connected to the Russian state corporation. The FBI said in court documents and in interviews conducted by Circa that by 2010 they had gathered enough evidence to prove that Rosatom-connected officials were engaged in a global bribery scheme that included kickbacks and money laundering. FBI officials said the investigation could have prevented the sale of Uranium One, which controlled 20 percent of U.S. uranium supply under U.S. law.
The deal which required approval by CFIUS, an inter-agency committee who reviews transactions that leads to a change of control of a U.S. business to a foreign person or entity that may have an impact on the national security of the United States. At the time of the Uranium One deal the panel was chaired by then-Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and included then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and then-Attorney General Eric Holder.
By the time CFIUS approved the sale of Uranium One to Rosatom the FBI’s investigation had already gathered substantial evidence of bribery and kickbacks against a Russian national, Vadim Mikerin, who was then a top official with Rosatom’s Tenex subsidiary, according to court documents. The FBI said while at Tenex, which was located in Maryland, Mikerin was involved in multiple bribery and kickback schemes.
Circa News, also known as Circa, is an American online news and entertainment service founded in 2012, by Matt Galligan, Ben Huh, and Arsenio Santos. The service features news stories and features consisting of individual bits of information.
The service went offline for financial reasons on June 24, 2015, and then relaunched in Spring 2016 under the ownership of media company Sinclair Broadcast Group. Under Sinclair, the website's coverage has been described by some media outlets as conservative although the site claims to report from a neutral point of view.
originally posted by: Gryphon66
Senators have introduced bipartisan bills intended to keep Trump from firing Mueller, hardly the act of a Congress that wants to remove Mueller
This is a non-story.
originally posted by: TinfoilTP
originally posted by: Gryphon66
Senators have introduced bipartisan bills intended to keep Trump from firing Mueller, hardly the act of a Congress that wants to remove Mueller
This is a non-story.
Trump or Congress or the Justice Department could dismiss Mueller at any time.
If the Congress finds that Mueller's tenure as head of the FBI during Uranium One is a conflict of interest because Russian collusion happened under his watch, he gets sent home unceremoniously. The Fake News will raise a stink but that is the framework. So you see Trump doesn't have to do anything but sit back and let the real Russian collusion come to light, then Congress steps in and sends Mueller packing.
Here's the story on Mueller's subordinate position as Special Investigator, by the guy who wrote the law.
Source
originally posted by: Gryphon66
The Canadian company Uranium One ALREADY OWNED the mines in question.
The FBI was not investigating Rosatom the company merging with Unanium One but a New Jersey-based subsidiary ... Tenex.
Everything else being said, supposed, inferred, implied, and downright LIED ABOUT in this regard is false.
originally posted by: Gryphon66
It becomes more evident with each desperate post made by those lying in order to discredit the investigation and Special Counsel Mueller that anything will be said ANY argument no matter how irrelevant and meaningless.
Every effort is being made ... most curious isn’t it?
originally posted by: Throes
originally posted by: TinfoilTP
originally posted by: Gryphon66
Senators have introduced bipartisan bills intended to keep Trump from firing Mueller, hardly the act of a Congress that wants to remove Mueller
This is a non-story.
Trump or Congress or the Justice Department could dismiss Mueller at any time.
If the Congress finds that Mueller's tenure as head of the FBI during Uranium One is a conflict of interest because Russian collusion happened under his watch, he gets sent home unceremoniously. The Fake News will raise a stink but that is the framework. So you see Trump doesn't have to do anything but sit back and let the real Russian collusion come to light, then Congress steps in and sends Mueller packing.
Here's the story on Mueller's subordinate position as Special Investigator, by the guy who wrote the law.
Source
Here's some color on what happened under Mueller's watch:
www.newsweek.com...
originally posted by: spiritualzombie
a reply to: Grambler
All the desperate scrambling of the disinformation agents with their fantasy narratives gives me hope for Monday.
The more unhinged Trump becomes the more blood we smell in the water.
Following news of Mueller charges, White House desperately tries to shift focus to Clinton
thinkprogress.org...
originally posted by: Throes
originally posted by: spiritualzombie
a reply to: Grambler
All the desperate scrambling of the disinformation agents with their fantasy narratives gives me hope for Monday.
The more unhinged Trump becomes the more blood we smell in the water.
Following news of Mueller charges, White House desperately tries to shift focus to Clinton
thinkprogress.org...
We? Who is we?