Posted on 11/20/2017 4:15:19 PM PST by markomalley
Evidence gathered by an FBI undercover informant conflicts with several media reports as well as statements by Justice officials concerning the connections between a Russian nuclear bribery case and the Obama administration's approval of the sale of uranium One to Russia's state-owned Rosatom nuclear company.
Here are five revelations from those documents reviewed by The Hill:
Russia saw its purchase of Uranium One as part of a strategy to dominate global uranium markets, including making the United States more dependent on Moscow's nuclear fuel.
Documents the informant gave the FBI clearly show that the purchase of Uranium One was seen by Russia and its American consultants as one tool in a strategy to "control" the uranium market worldwide. In the United States, that strategy focused on securing billions of new uranium contracts to create a new reliance on Russian nuclear fuel just as the Cold War-era Megatons to Megawatts program was ending.
Uranium One did export some of its U.S. uranium ore.
News organizations, including The Washington Post, continue to report none of Uranium One's product left the U.S. after Russia took control. In fact, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) approved an export license for a third party trucking firm to export Uranium One ore to Canada for enrichment, and that some of that uranium ended up in Europe, NRC memos show. Uranium One itself admits that as much as 25 percent of the uranium it exported to Canada ended up with European or Asian clients through what is know in the industry as "book transfers."
The FBI informant Douglas Campbell does have information to share with Congress about Rosatom's Uranium One purchase.
Justice officials have suggested in recent stories that Campbell has little on Uranium One because his work forced on nuclear bribery involving a different Rosatom subsidiary. While it's true Campbell's undercover work focused on criminality inside the Rosatom subsidiary Tenex, he did gather extensive documents about Rosatom's efforts to win approval to buy Uranium One.
The FBI did have evidence that Rosatom officials were engaged in criminality well before the Obama administration approved Rosatom's purchase of Uranium One.
Evidence that a foreign company is involved in criminality can disqualify it from Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) approval to buy a sensitive U.S. asset. And Campbell helped the FBI recorded the first criminal activity by Rosatom officials inside its Tenex arm in November 2009, nearly an entire year before CFIUS approved Rosatom's purchase of Uranium One.
Justice officials trusted the informant Campbell enough to keep him working undercover for six years and to pay him more than $51,000 once the convictions were secured.
A check obtained by The Hill shows the FBI paid Campbell an informant fee of more than $51,000 in January 2016, shortly after the last convictions in the Russian nuclear bribery case were made.
The first pressure has been applied. Trump is president. The next step is the election of Constitutional patriots to Congress in sufficient numbers to pass the president’s initiatives. This will give us the court system we need to return us to a nation of laws.
The price we must pay is continued vigilance and determined action. This is a revolution in which we are not outnumbered but we are outflanked. We have a president who is fighting for us. We must give him the tools and the people he needs to succeed.
Nice, as usual.
I asked this question on another thread. Could the gov’t declare Russian ownership of the uranium mine to be contrary to national security interests, confiscate the mine, and pay the Russians fair market value? Would this be legal? I suspect there is a FReeper who knows the answer to these questions.
Russia owns the European natural gas market and was supporting 100+ dollar a barrel oil.
Economics and the Global Warming scare were pushing the the world back to large scale nuclear power generation with new technology reactors
The Obama Admin drove the value of Uranium and nuclear power futures down to rock bottom by its green energy policy and then sold off control of US Uranium reserves to a Russian state controlled company
Had it not been for frackers breaking the Oil cartel and the stalling of the Global Warming agenda, Russia would have built an enormously rich and powerful oil-gas-nuclear energy conglomerate cartel
Only coal power would out of Russian hands which perhaps explains Batak Obama and Hillary Clinton's scorched earth war to destroy coal power generation which brought the US coal industry to the brink of collapse.
Perhaps Russian bribes bought more than just Russian control of US Uranium reserves - looks like the Russians also bought control of US energy policy from Omama and the Clintons
As a lawyer once told me, "If you think that what goes on in a courtroom is fair or just, you have a lot to learn".
Yet Hillary is still on the loose.”””
Bergdahl is on the loose....
A defendant in the 1st Bundy trial got a sentence of 68 years for trying to help Bundy.
The injustice of this country fed by Obama & Clintons is massive.
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