This is not a scandal. There are people who will shout "Scandal, scandal, scandal", they will even use ALL CAPS and shout "SCANDAL, SCANDAL, SCANDAL!!!", but this is not a scandal.
Posted on 10/27/2017 5:13:14 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest
CNN is a “non-news” organization.
They need to be shutdown.
Jeffrey, sometimes an apple is really an apple.
Naturally. The media exist to promote leftist causes.
I watched a bit of CNN last night - Anderson Cooper, I believe. I couldn’t believe the spinning done by Bash and Toobin. Talk about obsessed! Those people are out of it. They really have a thing about FOX. Funny, really!
They even insisted that none of the recent revelations hold water because - wait for it - they were all debunked when “Clinton Cash” was released. I guess all the criticism they had at that time of the book is what they now call “debunked” and that’s apparently what Hillary is basing her most recent stupid statement on. That’s why none of us recall a congressional investigation that did the “debunking.”
Hillary does the same thing with the Benghazi “araby”
(ARB) commission - with her handpicked members who whitewashed the whole thing for her.
Joule Unlimited, a secretive green energy company that appears to have placed a big bet hiring Democratic insider John Podesta to its board, appears to have been doomed when former Secy of State Hillary Clinton lost the 2016 election. Dmitry Akhanov, the president and CEO of Rusnano USA Inc, a Kremlin-owned venture capital firm nicknamed “Putin’s child,” oversaw the Russian govt’s investment in Joule and sat on its board along with two other Russians with ties to the Kremlin. Akhavov agreed that Clinton’s loss doomed the company. (Excerpt) Read more at dailycallernewsfoundation.org ...
NOTE Podesta’s daughter (she runs a FINANCIAL OUTFIT in California) was the holding place for his Russian energy company STOCK. The IRS says this is a common practice....inveigling a family member in a shady scheme.
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RECAP---A leaked Jan. 3, 2014 document shows that Podesta transferred more than 25,000 of 75,000 shares of Joule Technologies---a Russian-connected firm---to Leonidio Holdings LLC.
Leonidio Holdings, LLC, is listed w/ an address at his daughter's Megan Rouse’s Shannon Court home in Dublin, California. Rouse operates Megan Rouse Financial Planning from that same address.
The inference is to money laundering, perhaps tax evasion. Suggests that Megan Rouse's father, John Podesta, hid stocks connected to Russia.
Documents show that Podesta received 75,000 shares of Joule Unlimited Technologies......an outfit which was linked to alleged money laundering by the Russian government, according to media reports.
Podesta needs to be under intense scrutiny.....he's no shrinking violet.
This is not a scandal. There are people who will shout "Scandal, scandal, scandal", they will even use ALL CAPS and shout "SCANDAL, SCANDAL, SCANDAL!!!", but this is not a scandal.
Law professor Jonathan Turley said the Clintons uranium scheme .... "could be criminal." Turley (or somebody) needs to address the Clinton criminality in this context.
More egregiously (to me) is that the criminal Clintons used proprietary information----intel the govt uses to secure the safety and security of we, the people.....to carry out their criminal acts.
I consider it reprehensible that Secy Hillary routinely sent her itinerary to the Clinton Foundation, giving the Clintons govt info to plot their scams.
BILLYBOOBOO TO THE RESCUE---This gambit by Bill Clinton (meddling in a foreign election) got the Russian uranium scheme going. Bill's calculated handshake was a bonanza for the Kazahk president's re-election. Nazarbayev responded in kind and signed-off on the initial phase of Russia's takeover of US uranium assets.
Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev greets former
president Clinton (L) in Almaty on September 6, 2005.
CIRCA 2015 A Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times reporter claims that former President Bill Clinton falsely denied hosting a meeting with Kazakh officials when she tried to write a story that involved his foundation several years ago.
Jo Becker, who works on the newspaper's investigative desk, said Clinton only confirmed the meeting took place after she informed him there were photographs.
Clinton's role in a deal that involved Kazakhstan, the Russian government, and a man who donated millions to the president's charitable foundation were detailed in a story Becker published on Thursday.
That article revisited some of her earlier reporting and included information from the upcoming book "Clinton Cash," which is generating widespread headlines amid a flurry of reports suggesting it will raise serious questions about Clinton's family foundation.
The donor in question is Canadian mining executive Frank Giustra, a longtime friend of the former president who has given tens of millions to the Clinton Foundation in the past few years. (A couple of hours after the NYT story was published, Giustra issued a defiant statement. We've included that below.)
Becker initially wrote about the February 2007 meeting between Clinton, Giustra, and executives from the state-owned nuclear company Kazatomprom in 2008. The gathering took place at Clinton's home in Chappaqua, New York.
"When I first contacted both the Clinton foundation — Mr. Clinton's spokesman — and Mr. Giustra, they denied any such meeting ever took place," Becker recalled in footage aired by Fox News on Thursday.
However, Becker said Clinton and Giustra both changed their stories after she confronted them with evidence to the contrary.
"And then when we told them, 'Well we already talked to the head of Kazatomprom, who not only told us all about the meeting, but actually has a picture of him and Bill at the home in Chappaqua, and that he proudly displayed on his office wall.' They then acknowledged that yes, the meeting had taken place," Becker continued in the television interview.
The purpose of the meeting, then Kazatomprom President Moukhtar Dzhakishev told The Times, was to discuss Kazakhstan potentially buying a 10% stake in Westinghouse, a US nuclear company. Becker's 2008 story also noted one of Giustra's companies secured a deal to buy uranium deposits from Kazatomprom in 2005.
That agreement was made after Clinton accompanied Giustra on a trip to Kazakhstan. During the trip, Giustra and Clinton met with Kazakhstan's President Nursultan Nazarbayev.
Clinton issued a public statement praising the Kazakh leader despite his questionable, antidemocratic record. The Times called the praise a "propaganda coup" for Nazarbayev. (he later "won relection" w/ an unbelievable 90% of the vote)
"Just months after the Kazakh pact was finalized, Mr. Clinton's charitable foundation received its own windfall: a $31.3 million donation from Mr. Giustra that had remained a secret until he acknowledged it last month. The gift, combined with Mr. Giustra’s more recent and public pledge to give the William J. Clinton Foundation an additional $100 million, secured Mr. Giustra a place in Mr. Clinton’s inner circle," wrote Becker and another reporter, Don Van Natta.
A spokesperson for the Clinton Giustra Enterprise Partnership told Business Insider they are "working on a formal statement" in response to a request for comment on Thursday. Clinton Giustra Enterprise Partnership is an initiative of the Clinton Foundation that was cofounded by Clinton and Giustra in 2007. A Clinton Foundation spokesperson did not respond to a request for comment.
http://www.businessinsider.com/nyt-reporter-clinton-lied-about-meeting-2015-48/25
They also insisted that none of the uranium SOLD to Russia has left our country. They know this because ???????
I am so looking forward to the “crow dinner” served at the end of all this mess. I hope they all choke on it..
And SOUL dead.
Sounds like something Little Richard might sing.
Their scurrilous indifference doesn’t matter since we have Attorney General Sessio...... Ahh, err, ummm...never mind.
Kudos to Fox for staying on the right side of this. Fox has its problems but I still find reason to watch them from time to time and it has been gratifying to see them overtly question (just short of mocking in some cases) those who appear to claim this is another “vast right-wing conspiracy”....
Toobin a pathetic partisan hack. The Democrat party is the stooge of the Democrat media.
CNN is fake news.
Fox is the ONLY station doing any kind of serious reporting on this story.
Sure I don’t like listening to some of their their liberal-leaning guests, but I have never thought it good to hear only one side to an issue, or story.
So I yell at my TV a few times during their programs, but deeply appreciate that their reporting is CONSISTENTLY fair and balanced, and thus far and away more favorable to Trump than any other cable network!!
Leftism is a cult immune to facts. That’s why it is pointless and counterproductive to try to convince them to change their minds.
‘On Thursday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “The Story,” George Washington Washington University Law Professor Jonathan Turley argued that the allegations against the Clintons for the Uranium One deal and the Trump dossier are “more recognizable as a criminal allegation” than the allegations of Russian collusion against the Trump camp and possibly could be criminal.’
The header from an earlier thread today.....it’s Turley vs Toobin......stay tuned.
Had the Russians given Donald Trump $145 million in walking around money, would Toobin think it was no story?
I dunno…. Hard to be pi$$ed at watching Toobin since it’s soooo entertaining watching these guys spin like a cat trying to catch a laser pointer. I watched Tucker with Brad Woodhouse the other day….it was the greatest entertainment ever watching the pretzel twisting machine in action.
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