Trump Asks Why Intelligence Committee Isn't Probing The Clintons

Zero Hedge ^ | 03/28/17 | Tyler Durden

[Enlightened1]

Following a day of drama involving the Chair of the House Intelligence Committee, Devin Nunes, who has been under constant onslaught by Democrats ever since his disclosure last week that Trump had indeed been the object of surveillance, and whose Democrat peer at the Intel panel, Adam Schiff, on Monday night called for Nunes to recuse himself, moments ago Trump waded into the news cycle when he asked on Twitter why the House Intelligence Committee is not investigating the Clintons for various ties of their own to Russia. He then slammed the ongoing anti-Russian witch hunt, saying "the Russia story is a hoax."

“Why isn't the House Intelligence Committee looking into the Bill & Hillary deal that allowed big Uranium to go to Russia, Russian speech, money to Bill, the Hillary Russian ‘reset,’ praise of Russia by Hillary, or Podesta Russian Company. Trump Russia story is a hoax. #MAGA!” Trump wrote in two tweets Monday night.

Trump's rhetorical questions come amid a news cycle which as discussed on various occasions today has focused on the Republican chair of the Intel Committee, Nunes, who is under fire for briefing Trump about classified material he reviewed last week without sharing the information with committee Democrats. On Monday it was revealed that Nunes had secretly visited the White House grounds one day before announcing incidental surveillance of President Trump’s transition team. His visit raised questions about whether the White House could have been was the source of the intelligence Nunes reviewed.

Democratic lawmakers have now called on Nunes to recuse himself from the committee’s probe into Russia’s interference in the United States presidential election. Nunes on Monday evening said the chairman would not step aside from the investigation.

[Vaquero]

Just use your AG, Don. Put them in prison. Investigate Pizzagate.

Get busy

[RJS1950]

If he doesn’t want to start with the Clintons then start with Podesta’s Russian ties and Lynch’s meeting with the rapist.

[InterceptPoint]

What Nunes should do: Expand the “Russia Investigation” to include the “Uranium Connection” and start holding hearings. I’m sure Hillary would love to clear her name. And Bill as well. Surely the Dems would support such a move.

Or perhaps heads would explode. In any case the war is on: Trump via Twitter vs. the Dems-MSM. (And yes, the redundancy is noted.)

[ObozoMustGo2012]

[What Nunes should do: Expand the “Russia Investigation” to include the “Uranium Connection” and start holding hearings.]

BRILLIANT!!!

Th whole “Russia connection” talk will end immediately!!

[YepYep]

Ahhh, perhaps Nunes is getting too close to the truth.

But inquiring minds want to know!!

[Liz]

NYT REPORTS: Money poured into The Clinton Foundation from a constellation of people with ties to Uranium One or UrAsia, the company that originally acquired Uranium One’s most valuable asset: the Kazakh mines. Without those assets, the Russians would have had no interest in the deal: “It wasn’t the goal to buy the Wyoming mines. The goal was to acquire the Kazakh assets, which are very good,” Mr. Novikov, the Rosatom spokesman, said in an interview.

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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

[bert]

Boom!

It suddenly got worse for the Democrats. The Trump tweet will force them to go on defense

[pgkdan]

Ahhh, perhaps Nunes is getting too close to the truth.

That's exactly what he's doing and thus he finds himself in the cross hairs. The media and democrats, but I repeat myself, are in full attack mode. They demand he recuse himself, they demand HE be investigated, they demand he resign from his chairmanship. None of which he will do if he has any guts at all.

I believe we've got the goods on obama and the hammer's gonna drop. Soon.

[wardamneagle]

Why isn’t the FBI honoring the Oversite Committee request for the
FBI look into the obvious Hillary Bengahzi perjury charge ?

[FlingWingFlyer]

Two words. Shifty Schiff. There is no way in hell he’ll “investigate” his fellow Bolsheviks. His people would end up going to jail.

[silverleaf]

Needs to be asking this everyday
Did the russians attempt to buy influence from the democrat nominee and her friends and advisors?
What other foreign nations inserted themselves into the democrat campaign? What did they expect to gain??

[Sasparilla]

...Just use your AG...
No matter how an quietly an AG Investigation of Bonnie and Clyde begins, it will be the MSM lead story the first day.

[a fool in paradise]

This isn’t an investigation into Russian influence, it’s merely a partisan witchhunt by soreloser Demo-gauges.

[ripley]

The Intelligence Committee isn’t investigating the Clintons and other Progressives because the Leftists on the committee have hornswoggled the Republican members into investigating only Mr. Trump.

Any mention of other investigations is probably met with whining and screaming, ending ultimately in subversion and
adolescent, junior-high-school behavior.

IMHO

[Leep]

Why am i not serving at least 50 days in prison?

[Rashputin]

Trump won't start by chopping off the head of the pig.

This is going to be a pig pickin'. A long, slow, roast, then the meat picked off the bones when well done. Many a State AG will be at present to take nice portions, too.

[Little Ray]

And all the foreign money that went into the Clinton Foundation and the Clinton Campaign...

[Little Ray]

If Nunes is getting close to the truth, he better stay away from Ft. Marcy park and railroad tracks.

[Brilliant]

Didn’t Trump say he wasn’t going to prosecute Hillary? I knew that was a mistake.