New Drops
https://www.congress.gov/congressional-record/2018/4/27/house-section/article/H3738-1
[Pages H3738-H3740] {April 27, 2018}
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
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ISSUES OF THE DAY
The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Faso). Under the Speaker's announced policy of January 3, 2017, the Chair recognizes the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Gohmert) for 30 minutes.
Mr. GOHMERT. Mr. Speaker, it is always an honor to speak here, and especially to follow friends--very dear friends--hear Steve King talk about the importance of life.
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Now, it took me weeks to get it done, but I have written an article recently. Giving attribution, there are many other articles and sources I used in accumulating these 48 pages. But after standing up a number of times in our conference and pointing out to the Republicans in conference that any Republican who says they know Robert Mueller will be fair or come to a fair decision or a fair conclusion or be just, they don't know the Robert Mueller I know. Here is where you get into a lot of different opinions, but that is where it is helpful to look at things that he has done in his life.
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I had hoped that, because he seemed clearly to be a person who should never have accepted the job of special counsel, that he was recusable. He was not qualified to be the special counsel on anything involving Russia, and certainly not the Trump campaign and Russia. Yet Rod Rosenstein, as the deputy AG, who had been involved in the Russia illegal attempts to gain control of U.S. uranium--and they knew that Russia was committing crimes to try to get our uranium--and Mueller was the head of the FBI, and he was the lead law enforcement person overseeing the operation, there was an informant within the system that was providing information to the Justice Department to Rosenstein and Mueller. Yet they put the kibosh on the investigation and the crimes that were being committed to get U.S. uranium. If they had not, then the sale of U.S. uranium that would end up in the hands of Russia would never have been allowed to go through.
CFIUS that approves sales that are sensitive to our security, they surely could never have approved the sale if Rosenstein and Mueller had just been honest and open that there is an investigation to Russia's illegal attempts to get our uranium. But, if they had spoken up about that, I don't think there is any question that the Clinton Foundation would never have gotten $145 million in contributions from people involved with the uranium sale. And it is quite likely that Bill Clinton would not have gotten $500,000 to speak for 20 minutes from Russia.
But I have written an article, 48 pages, entitled: ``Robert Mueller: Unmasked.'' You can go to my website. You can go to Sean Hannity's website, or others. I wouldn't do it on Google because of their dishonesty when it comes to conservatives. But DuckDuckGo. Bing is not as bad as Google. But look up ``Robert Mueller: Unmasked'' and download this article, read it, and arrive at your own opinion.
This week, I found an article I had not seen before, by Eren Moreno, back in January of this year, entitled ``Mueller, Rosenstein, and McCabe Exposed Covering Hillary's Uranium One Scandal.'' At the end of the article, they reference a succinct recitation of things that have occurred. We don't know who this person is. He has used an anonymous name. But here is the thread. He says: ``As we now know, the DOJ have indicted a Mark Lambert on 11 counts related to his role in a bribery, money laundering, and kickback scheme.''
Involving the sale of our uranium that would end up in Russian hands.
So they finally indicted somebody over this. There have been others who have been quietly handled, and they are referenced here.
And they reference an article here from the New York Post. It says: ``Exec charged with bribing Russian official in uranium deal. There's an indictment in the FBI probe of the Uranium One scandal, in which the Obama administration cleared a business deal that gave a Russian company control of 20 percent of the U.S. uranium.''
``Background and reminder: from at least 2008, Robert Mueller's FBI were investigating Tenam, the U.S.-based subsidiary of Tenex, a subsidiary of Rosatom, the Kremlin's (Putin's) energy company. The same Rosatom that purchased Uranium One.''
``Tenam was importing Russian uranium into the U.S. Between 2004- 2014, the local manager, Mikerin, engaged with U.S. companies Transport Logistics (TL) and NexGen Security in a racketeering, wire fraud, bribery, and money laundering scheme.''
``When a TL insider, William Campbell, blew the whistle on what he was seeing, Mueller's FBI started an investigation that led to at least four indictments by Holder's DOJ.''
``Remember--the Tenam investigation is related to the Uranium One (U1) sale. That's because the Tenam investigation was hidden from Congress and CFIUS''--the group that analyzes and approves or disapproves foreign investments in the U.S.--``who approved the U1 sale in October 2010. If either had known about it, it's highly unlikely the U1 sale would have been approved.''
``And the more you analyze the Tenam investigation, the more it appears that the Obama administration and/or Clintons deliberately wanted it hidden. Consider.''
``William Campbell--the whistleblower. . . . `'
He is the one who was providing information to Mueller's FBI about the illegal acts of Russia.
Now, there are times that the witness wants witness protection, wants to be anonymous, and doesn't want anybody to know who he was, or who she was, and so for those reasons of the informant's safety it is not given. But that was not the case.
Mueller at the FBI, the DOJ took a very unusual step. Instead of preventing others from knowing who this person was, they went after William Campbell and made him sign--under threat that they would come after and prosecute him--made him sign a nondisclosure agreement. Incredible.
They didn't want--Rosenstein, who is the U.S. attorney over the investigation--they didn't want Campbell out telling about all of the crimes committed in Russia's acquisition of U.S. uranium. They have their own informant sign a nondisclosure agreement under threat so he wouldn't let anybody know about all the criminality surrounding Russia's efforts to get our uranium. That doesn't make sense, unless you know how much money came into the Clinton Foundation after the deal was approved.
This goes on. It says: ``Now consider this--none of the four indictments ever saw the light of day.''
Actually, that is not quite accurate. They just handled it very quietly. It says: ``Every one was either quietly settled under plea agreements, or dropped entirely, as follows.''
``Mikerin, the Tenam manager, was sentenced to 48 months under a plea deal, for crimes that had 20-plus year sentences.''
That was in: ``United States of America v. Vadim Mikerin--Original Indictment 11/12/14. Conspiracy to Interfere with Interstate Commerce by Extortion . . . Forfeiture.''
Darren Condrey had a plea agreement regarding his violations of antibribery and conspiracy laws.
Carol Condrey had a plea agreement, and her case was dropped.
Rubizhevsky from NexGen had the case settled with a plea agreement. That is astonishing given the charges.
This stinks to high heaven. Mueller needs to go ahead and recuse himself and step down, and Rosenstein should do the same thing.
Mr. Speaker, I yield back the balance of my time.