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Mueller’s Role in Delivering Uranium to Russians Raises Questions
The New American ^ | Wednesday, 02 August 2017 | Written by Steve Byas

Posted on 10/20/2017 7:48:34 AM PDT by b4its2late

The latest release late last week by Julian Assange at WikiLeaks of a 2009 State Department cable to the Russians raises fresh questions about the objectivity of Special Counsel Robert Mueller (shown), the man named to investigate any possible “collusions” between the presidential campaign of Donald Trump and the Russians.

In 2009, then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton directed FBI Director Mueller to deliver a sample of Highly Enriched Uranium (HEU) to Russia. The uranium had reportedly been stolen. It seems particularly odd, considering that the FBI is not under the supervision of the State Department, and that the FBI director would personally make the transfer.

Assange released the controversial cable on May 17, the same day that Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein tapped Mueller as an “independent” counsel to investigate any supposed Trump-Russian ties.

Trump has expressed legitimate concerns about the personnel that Mueller has hired to conduct his work. They are practically all partisan Democrats, with seven staffers having contributed large sums of money to either Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, or the Democratic National Committee. None donated any money to Trump, or to any other Republican presidential candidate in the last campaign.

Adding to that concern is the question as to what exactly was Mueller’s role in the deal between Russia and Uranium One, the company that Hillary’s husband, Bill Clinton, supported at the same time she was secretary of state. Hillary Clinton, in her role as secretary of state, voted to allow the Russian State Atomic Nuclear Energy Agency control of about 20 percent of all uranium holdings in the United States.

As revealed by WikiLeaks, Secretary of State Clinton sent a cable to John Beryle, who was U.S. Ambassador to Russia; the U.S. Ambassador to the Georgia Embassy; and U.S. ambassador to the Russian Embassy, on August 17, 2009. The cable read in part, “Action Request: Embassy Moscow is requested to alert at the highest appropriate level the Russian Federation that FBI Director Mueller plans to deliver the HEU sample once he arrives in Moscow on September 21.”

Shepard Ambellas, editor-in-chief of Intellihub.com, said in June 2017 that the classified cable indicated that the delivery of the 10-gram sample of HEU to Russian law enforcement sources occurred during a secret “plane-side” meeting on the tarmac. (This brings up memories of Bill Clinton’s tarmac meeting in Arizona with Attorney General Loretta Lynch, where they said they just discussed their grandchildren.)

Not surprisingly, supporters of the Clintons, such as the Huffington Post, interpreted the cable in the most favorable light for Hillary and Bill Clinton. “The text and tweet released by WikiLeaks more than suggests Mueller is guilty of a serious crime, passing on nuclear material to the USA’s superpower rival. But,” the Post added, “the section it omitted from the tweet changes the entire context of Mueller’s actions.”

The portion the Post contended was not mentioned, but relevant, read, “Over two years ago Russia requested a ten-gram sample of highly enriched uranium (HEU) seized in early 2006 in Georgia [the Russian territory, not the American state] during a nuclear smuggling sting operation … In response to the Russian request, the Georgian Government authorized the United States to share a sample of the material with the Russians for forensic analysis.”

The Post then laments, “WikiLeaks used to be a force for good in the world, playing a major role in revealing the inner workings of Guantanamo Bay and exposing events like the killing of journalists by U.S. forces in Iraq.” In other words, as long as WikiLeaks was producing negative material on a Republican president, it was a “force for good in the world.” Now that it is raising questions about the man investigating a different Republican president, not so much.

Actually, the fact that WikiLeaks appears to be nonpartisan in its activities should give it more credibility --- more so than the Huffington Post, well-known for its pro-Clinton bias.

In his highly-praised book Clinton Cash, Peter Schweizer discusses the famous “Russian Reset” initiated by Hillary Clinton when she took over the State Department. Relations between the U.S. and the Russians had degenerated during the last couple of years of the Bush administration, and Hillary publicly said she intended to reverse the worsened relations, complete with a “reset button.”

For their part, the Russians appeared pleased with her selection as secretary of state. Schweizer noted, “An important side note to the Russian reset was how it involved a collection of foreign investors who had poured vast sums of money into the Clinton Foundation and who continued to sponsor lucrative speeches for Bill. These investors stood to gain enormously from the decisions Hillary made as secretary of state.”

Schweizer explained why the Hillary “reset” was so important in the uranium deals. The Bush administration had pulled out of a uranium deal with the Russians after Russian forces went into Georgia in 2008, but the Obama administration (with Hillary taking the lead) reopened the negotiations. A deal was reached in 2010, and as Schweizer wrote, “Several multimillion-dollar Clinton Foundation donors were at the center of the deal.” In fact, “The Clinton Foundation also failed to disclose major contributions from entities controlled by those involved in the Uranium One deal. Thus, beginning in 2009, the company’s chairman, [Ian] Telfer, quietly started funneling what would become $2.35 million to the Clinton Foundation through a Canadian entity he controlled.”

While the revelation of a secret meeting involving Robert Mueller in the delivery of uranium to the Russians, by itself, does not prove anything of a criminal or unethical nature, it does raise questions that merit an investigation. After all, when Mueller was FBI director under the Obama administration, he was trusted enough by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to carry out this mission. If it was a diplomatic mission, why was the FBI director involved? And if it was a law enforcement mission, why was Clinton involved?

And is Mueller sufficiently objective to conduct an impartial investigation of a Republican president?

These are questions that the mainstream media should pursue, but will not.


TOPICS: Government; Miscellaneous; Politics
KEYWORDS: fbidirectormueller; hillary; mueller; muellerrussia; russia; russiabriberyscandal; uranium
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To: Hostage
"The port of Savannah, Georgia receives Maersk shipments of depleted uranium (DU) in exchange for dollars by a $40B fund established to take in the DU. There is a lot of corruption apparent in this trade. Entire containers are sealed as ‘diplomatic pouches’.

Shipping containers in the name of the Awans under diplomatic pouch seal have been uncovered.

Yes, the same Awan members that comprise the spy ring in Congress. Those Awan containers went to Savannah from Karachi, Pakistan."

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Holy batshit! That is not good.

21 posted on 10/20/2017 9:48:21 AM PDT by ForYourChildren (Christian Education [ RomanRoadsMedia.com - Classical Christian Approach to Homeschool ])
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To: ForYourChildren

The Awan Spy Ring are part of the Pakistani ISI 111th. This is the military group that is subversive. They are involved in anything and everything illicit or illegal that makes large profits. They will do anything for money. There is no moral judgment, no conscience in any of their doings other than grow their monitoring, control, and enforcement networks. They provide themselves as advancing on the path to be more covert and crafty than any other similar group around the world.


22 posted on 10/20/2017 10:58:33 AM PDT by Hostage (Article V)
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To: b4its2late; Whenifhow; GregNH; null and void; aragorn; EnigmaticAnomaly; kalee; Kale; White Bear; ..

BIG PING


23 posted on 10/20/2017 1:14:44 PM PDT by bitt (press takes him literally, but not seriously; his supporters take him seriously, but not literally)
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To: bitt

Thanks for the ping.


24 posted on 10/20/2017 1:58:14 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
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To: Hostage; Whenifhow; GregNH; null and void; aragorn; EnigmaticAnomaly; kalee; Kale; White Bear; ...

AWAN ping - start with #8


25 posted on 10/20/2017 3:38:44 PM PDT by bitt (press takes him literally, but not seriously; his supporters take him seriously, but not literally)
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To: Hostage

Not a thing will be done about any of these domestic enemies.


26 posted on 10/20/2017 3:45:28 PM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
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To: E. Pluribus Unum; Hostage; Whenifhow; GregNH; null and void; aragorn; EnigmaticAnomaly; kalee; ...
Mueller, McCabe, Comey, Weissmer, Rosenstein, and others are said to have stellar careers in D.C. Imagine what they have been pulling off for decades!

BTW- Have a look at the team Mueller hired to invent a crime and charge Trump or one of his associates with anything they can dream up.
(NOTE:They all can bill the government as much as they want at any hourly rate they want and they each can hire any staff they desire)

27 posted on 10/20/2017 6:45:22 PM PDT by Baynative ( Someone's going to have to pay for these carbon emissions, so it might as well be you.)
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To: Hostage

Yes... It just bugs me that the article was knowingly dishing out false information on the timeline of the document release. When I see things like that I have to question the accuracy of the rest of what they say.


28 posted on 10/20/2017 10:01:52 PM PDT by Revel
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To: Revel

Assange released it twice. The first time during the campaign, the Mueller cable went unnoticed because he wasn’t in the news and because there were so many other disclosures that pertained to Hillary.

The second release was timed when Mueller was brought onboard by Rosenstein because by then he was in the news. Assange ostensibly aimed to alert of the connection between Hillary and Mueller among other things.

The article wasn’t “dishing out false” anything. It cited the May 2017 release as the “latest” release.

Hopefully, this fills in some context for you.


29 posted on 10/20/2017 10:34:41 PM PDT by Hostage (Article V)
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