Posted on 08/03/2016 9:02:51 AM PDT by maggief
Two Senate Democrats are demanding that Sen. Ted Cruz hold a hearing investigating whether Donald Trump's plea to Russian hackers to go after Hillary Clintons private emails violated federal law.
"Mr. Trumps encouragement of a Russian cyber incursion of a U.S. presidential candidate represents an unprecedented call for a foreign government to spy on a U.S. citizen and interfere with a U.S. election," Sens. Chris Coons of Delaware and Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island said Wednesday in a letter to Cruz, Trump's former presidential rival who chairs the Senate Judiciary Committee oversight subpanel.
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
F Cruz! Most of us realized right from the first debate that Cruz was similar to another King Obama and was hiding behind the Constitution. He was full of shi!.
Cruz is to busy trying to get Hillary elected so he can grandstand against Hillary’s Supreme court Picks
What's this "WE" crap?
I guess if I have to explain the joke it's not worth it. I really need to get used to adding the infamous "/sarc" tag to avoid criticism. If this is all she has to hide, so be it. We all know there is more to it than yoga, weddings, and Hillary's college beau.
No thanks. You can enjoy it for us!
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. Giustras more recent and public pledge to give the William J. Clinton Foundation an additional $100 million, secured Mr. Giustra a place in Mr. Clintons 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-2015-4
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REFERENCE---In September of 1989, Nursultan Nazarbayev became the General Secretary of the Communist Party of Kazakhstan, replacing an ethnic-Russian. On December 16, 1991, the Republic of Kazakhstan declared its independence from the crumbling remains of the Soviet Union. He privatized much of the economy, but Pres Nazarbayev maintains a KGB-style police state, and rigs elections. (He received 95.54% of the vote in April 2011 presidential elections.)
Russia is legally required to hand over those emails because of a Clinton era mutual legal assistance treaty:
http://www.state.gov/documents/organization/123676.pdf
Are her internals so disastrous, they are putting out anything and everything making Trump look deranged and mentally unfit?
Newsflash!!!!
Donald Trump is not a member or employee of the government. He can say and email anything he wants. He can make no demands on the government that I can’t. Factually, I can make more. He cannot say anything any different than I can. I can ask Putin to send the emails if he has them just the same as Trump can over the media. And unless he talked directly to Putin, and not said something over the media for the request, if it was one and not just a joke, then they are invading Trump’s rights as a citizen under the first amendment. You remember those don’t you libs? The ones you have been misusing and and violating for about 100 years?
red
In a word, yes. And it’s not working.
What we are seeing is desperation.
Yup. Trump basically told Russia to abide by a treaty. And the demscum are trying to make hay out of that.
If I want to read fiction, I’ll buy a good Clancy or Eddings novel.
Tell Cruz to investigate Skolkovo,both Hillary and her campaign manager John Podesta are I involved in that scam.
The democrat candidate is a Benedict Arnold
sorry libtards
there is a 90’s treaty agreement that says
russia is supposed to assist wiht the investigation of felonies and other crimes..
suck it up
TRUMP WAS RIGHT ....... AGAIN
The outrage should be that these congress critters are wasting valuable time and taxpayer dollars with these useless shenanigans...If they have nothing better to do they should punch out and go home...
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