It Exists: DOJ Finds Letter Ordering Scrutiny of Uranium One, Hillary Clinton

After it claimed no such document existed, the Justice Department just unearthed a letter Matt Whitaker delivered to the Utah U.S. attorney directing a review of how the department handled the Clinton Foundation and the Uranium One issues.

Then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions wrote the letter on Nov. 22, 2017 for Utah U.S. Attorney John Huber. Matt Whitaker, who was Sessions’ chief of staff at the time, emailed the letter to Huber that day, writing, “As we discussed.” He also sent Huber a copy of a letter the Justice Department’s Congressional affairs chief sent to the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee on Nov. 13 of that year.

The existence of a letter documenting Sessions’ directive that the DOJ revisit probes of Trump’s top political foe is a surprise because a department lawyer said in court last year that senior officials insisted it didn’t exist. The liberal nonprofit American Oversight obtained the letter through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request they filed on Nov. 22, 2017––the same day Whitaker emailed Sessions’ letter to Huber.....

Naturally Huber reports to his boss, the acting attorney general. With Sessions recused, that would have been Rosenstein. But, Huber was well-informed at the time about the nuance of investigating his boss. As you noted, we all were back in early 2018 :

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2018/03/can_huber_investigate_his_boss_rosenstein.html

Being an intelligent man, Huber would most likely not deliver a report to his boss if the investigation showed his boss was dirty. Instead he would continue his investigation, dragging it out as needed, until the way was cleared or the responsibility was removed from him. With Barr now installed, the way is cleared. This was all-but-confirmed in the article posted :

Reached for comment, a DOJ spokesperson said Huber’s review is still underway.

Huber has not delivered a report as of yet because its creation is still underway. And your point that there is nothing new in the letter is valid. But we on this forum are more tuned in that most folks. What has changed is that they are now tuned in too. Both sides are now in the loop and have claws out. Also from the article :

And on Nov. 16, 2018, Senior Counsel in the Office of Information Policy Vanessa Brinkmann, who handles FOIA Requests, said a lawyer in Sessions’ office told her no such letter existed. That lawyer spoke with Huber and Whitaker, she said in a declaration filed in federal court, and then told her that “when the Attorney General directed Mr. Huber to evaluate these matters, no written guidance or directives were issued to Mr. Huber in connection with this directive, either by the Attorney General, or by other senior leadership office staff.”

This was Vanessa Brinkmann's statement in court. I do not recall the lawyer in Sessions' office being named publicly. Likely that information has not been released -- no merit in naming names at that time. But that might have to change now with this FOIA showing we've all been misled.

Sweet and short... Thanks Liz:

BACKSTORY REFERENCE——Uranium company deal nearly done;
Utah town and mill part of sales pkg to subsidiary of Russian nuclear agency
By Judy Fahys / The Salt Lake Tribune / December 13, 2010 / FR Posted on 4/3/2018, 11:52:50 AM by bitt

A Canadian mining company is close to finalizing a deal that will give a Russian company controlling interest in its uranium operations, which include a Utah town, a uranium mill and thousands of acres of claims.

In October, four members of Congress urged the U.S. Treasury Department to block plans by Uranium One to sell majority ownership to the mining company, Atomredmetzoloto (ARMZ), whose parent company is Rosatom, the Russian nuclear agency, to protect national security. Since then, the Treasury Department has approved Uranium One’s plans, as has the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission and the Utah Division of Radiation Control. (Excerpt) Read more at archive.sltrib.com ...

SOURCE http://archive.sltrib.com/article.php?id=50850101&itype=cmsid

Again, tell me how someone who was the first Republican to endorse Trump and campaign alongside him suddenly becomes the object of his ridicule?

It doesn't make any sense, but it does. Any AG that would have immediately went after Clinton and Obama would have been torn to pieces by the media, the Dems, and gutless RINOs.

When Trump told Hillary he was going to appoint a special prosecutor during one of the debates, who do you think he meant?

MUELLER AND ROSENSTEIN HAVE BEEN WORKING ALONGSIDE TRUMP ALL THIS TIME

MUELLER AND ROSENSTEIN HAVE BEEN WORKING ALONGSIDE TRUMP ALL THIS TIME

EEE, I have never met anyone holding more strongly to their convictions than you, and I admire that.

As I've said in the past, I think you're wrong, but I always temper my skepticism with the sincere hope that you are right.

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