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ANSWER FOR REQUESTED BACKGROUND INFO Harry Reid http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/09/04/Harry-Reid-s-Son-Representing-Chinese-Solar-Panel-Plant-In-5-Billion-Nevada-Deal ALSO http://uslibertynews.com/breaking-uranium-one-informant-rolls-clintons/ PERSPECTIVE Harry Reid and the solar farm: The Blaze reports that the area where Bundy's cattle were grazing was not the area wanted for the solar farm. harry Reid and the solar farm, The Blaze reports that the area where Bundy's cattle were grazing was not the area wanted for the solar farm. But if The Blaze had done it's research it would have learned that the Gold Butte area was wanted for it's use as "offsite mitigation". The documents that discuss that and specifically talk about the "trespass cattle" being a problem were just recently scrubbed from the BLM website. It was not the solar farm itself that was going to be placed where Bundy grazed his cattle, it was going to used to "mitigate" the impact of the solar farm elsewhere. Also, Dana Loesch has even reported that Reid changed the boundaries of the tortoise habitat to accommodate a top campaign donor. It was not the solar farm itself that was going to be placed where Bundy grazed his cattle, it was going to used to "mitigate" the impact of the solar farm elsewhere. Also, Dana Loesch has even reported that Reid changed the boundaries of the tortoise habitat to accommodate a top campaign donor. Secret recording: BLM Agent & Radio Host threaten each other with arrest agenda21radio.com ^ | 4/13/14 | Paul Preston Posted on Sunday, April 13, 2014 1:37:50 PM by Texas Eagle Mike Adams, (NaturalNews) Natural News has obtained and is now releasing a secret audio recording of a conversation that took place Thursday, April 10th, between Daniel P. Love, Special Agent in Charge of Region 3 of the BLM and Guerilla Media Network radio host Pete Santilli, serving in the role as a communications liaison between the armed citizen protesters and the BLM. In this recording, you can hear Daniel Love and Pete Santilli discussing life-and-death confrontations, during which Santilli says Daniel Love and the Sheriff of the county will be arrested if they do not uphold their oath to the United States Constitution. This audio gives us all a special look inside the twisted mind of BLM Special Agent Dan Love who functions as an agent of government tyranny operating in complete violation of the U.S. Constitution even while telling himself he’s backed by the Constitution! Audio at link http://agenda21radio.com/?p=7525 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9p0YemhFnw8 Recording transcript Note: I typed this in myself (Mike Adams), late on a Saturday night, so I apologize for typos or errors. Doing my best to get this out ASAP for the sake of liberty in America… The first voice you hear in this audio is of Pete Santilli asking, “Where’s the cattle?” The next voice, the lower voice is of Dan Love from BLM. Some of the highlights of the recording, transcribed (this transcript is EDITED for length and continuity, listen to the actual audio if you want every single word). Santilli: “We want zero conflict. You know, confrontational, nose to nose…” And then later, “Are we going to be here screaming at you, and you’re gonna be tasing, are you gonna do that type of confrontation. What we are trying to do is to completely de-escalate, 100%.” Santilli: “What we’re going to ask for to de-escalate and to make sure we are not in confrontation with you… we want to let you know that we’re going to come here and it’s going to be non-negotiable what we believe in, and what we believe is the right thing to do.” Dan Love: “We have two federal court orders, and if you interfere, you will be arrested. If you impede and interfere, you will be taken into custody.” Santilli: “Tell DC Justice [Eric Holder] this is non-negotiable… but if you choose to go face to face and people get hurt, then we are going to hold you personally accountable.” Dan Love: “And I will hold you legally accountable. And I guarantee that the Constitution is on my side and not that side… Your Constitutions aren’t decided on the dirt… you can fight that argument from jail.” Santilli: “It’s not gonna be a fight, it’s gonna be a non-negotiable terms, peacefully. If you bring violence…” Dan Love: “If you interfere, if you impede, you will be arrested. I don’t know how you plan on arresting me, but good luck with that.” Santilli: “There are gonna be some law enforcement officials who are gonna be going to jail.” Dan Love: “Yeah, don’t do that. That’s not gonna end well for ya. That doesn’t happen. And again, I’ve seen your numbers right now, you’d better hope that 10,000 show up…” Dan Love: “You’re telling me you’re gonna show up and arrest officers? That’s not gonna happen, Mr. Santilli.” Santilli: “If anyone is unconstitutional, is not following to abide by their oath to the U.S. Constitution, they are going to be arrested including the Sheriff of this county.” Dan Love: “Okay, you start with him, go arrest Mr. Gillespie, and once you accomplish that you come back…” Santilli: “He will be incarcerated if he fails to uphold his oath to the U.S. Constitution… he will go to jail.” Dan Love: “I’m telling you right now I’m putting YOU on warning as the messenger, if you violate, if you impede, if you interfere with two lawful court orders, you will be prosecuted, you will be arrested.” Santilli: “They are unlawful court orders…. I did not come here to do anything but to give you the opportunity to prevent a scenario where you’re going to make a decision to cause harm to people.” Dan Love: “We’re lawfully here! Do you see all these signs? You’re in an enclosed area, you’re on federal land…” Santilli: “It’s not federal land.” Dan Love: “It is federal land. I am positive.” Santilli: “I’ll bet you lunch.” Dan Love: “Mr. Santilli, if you were right, I wouldn’t have a job. So you know what? Be right. Get it changed, and then I’m happy not to wear this little gold shield…” Santilli: “Do you know how dangerous it is for you to run around with a gun and a badge with what you just told me?… That you actually believe that you have the Constitution, and the law behind you, and the entitlement and you have a badge and a gun?” Dan Love: “If you come unlawfully, to impede or interfere, you will be arrested. Non-negotiable.” EXCLUSIVE: BLM To Cease Operation ON BUNDY RANCH April 12, 2014 Major Defeat for Totalitarians. Harry Reid Focus of Chinese Government Scandal to Push Bundy Off His Land Paul Preston, Agenda 21 Radio The scandal is now out of the box and will not be put back. Nevada Senator Harry Reid (D) has been exposed by the ‘New StreaMedia’ to have extensive ties to the the Chinese government and in his dealings with a company that that builds solar panels. In communications between people associated with Senator Reid and the Chinese government the Chinese were requesting that Senator Reid push ranchers off their ranches. Agenda 21 Radio first reported the involvement of Senator Reid in Chinese Government operations in Nevada as well as those of California Senator Dianne Feinstein (D) in October of 2013 and then again in January of 2014. This morning, the Sheriff of Clark County, Nevada, Douglas Gillespie, announced to thousands of Bundy supporters gathered in Bunkerville that a deal had been brokered with Cliven Bundy that would see the BLM cease its roundup of the rancher’s cattle. A press release has already been put forth that the BLM is going to cease this operation,” stated Gillespie, to a huge roar from the crowd of Bundy supporters. Further reports established that, “the BLM wants to proceed with the sale of the cattle already gathered during the roundup but is reportedly willing to share the revenue from the sale with Bundy.” 2. http://www.8newsnow.com/story/25230368/major-development-in-bunkerville-cattle-battle-between-cliven-bundy-and-blm LAS VEGAS -- A deal has been reached between the Bundy family and the Bureau of Land Management over the cattle that the agency rounded up earlier this week. After some tense moments Saturday afternoon, the BLM agreed to release the confiscated animals back to the family. The BLM announced it would stop the roundup of cattle owned by rancher Cliven Bundy Saturday morning. The BLM says the animals have been illegally grazing on public lands for 20 years and has spent the past week gathering the cattle from land near Gold Butte. The agency said it was stopping the roundup because of concerns about the safety of its employees and the public. Earlier this week, BLM officers and supporters of the Bundy family were involved in a scuffle. Cliven Bundy's son, Ammon Bundy, was tased twice by federal agents. Another woman said she was thrown to the ground by an officer. With more Bundy supporters pouring in from around the country, safety concerns began to grow. The I-Team has learned the deal to end the gather was brokered by Clark County Sheriff Doug Gillespie. According to sources, the BLM wants to proceed with the sale of the cattle already gathered during the roundup but is reportedly willing to share the revenue from the sale with Bundy. Sheriff Gillespie has been negotiating with Bundy behind the scenes for months reached a tentative agreement Friday night, though Bundy insisted the sheriff come to his ranch to finalize the arrangement face-to-face. The two men meet Saturday to discuss the agreement prior to a public announcement. In its statement, the BLM said its actions this past week were progress in enforcing two court orders to remove the trespassing cattle from public land. The agency director also asked that everyone involved in the dispute remain peaceful and law-abiding. 8 News NOW is following this developing story and will update it online as more information becomes available. 8 News NOW has a news crew in Bunkerville who will have a live report at 6 p.m. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5mjuHDuiVQ Check that out: Chilling Truth: The Siege of the Bundy Ranch Reaches into the White House [Obama] April 13, 2014 By Sara Noble Cliven Bundy, can a cowboy defeat the Marxists? In the end, there is only one reason why the Bundy ranch was besieged. President Obama had to have taken the lead. He knew it was going on and he sanctioned it. Beyond oil, solar, and Chinese Communists with money, lurks Obama’s Agenda. InfoWars has found a smoking gun in the case of embattled rancher Cliven Bundy. A lucrative contract – which will benefit Harry Reid and his son Rory Reid – specifically mentions the need to rid the land of Cliven Bundy. In addition, Natural News pointed out that the BLM is in the business of selling lucrative oil and gas leases. It does answer the question, Why now? There is a much bigger picture in all of this, however, and that is the fact Mr. Obama believes the government should control the land and water in the United States. He sees the government as the protector of the nation’s resources. It is his belief. He does not respect private property – it is the government’s to take. That should now be obvious to everyone. Mr. Obama is social engineering citizens off their land into congested hubs to preserve the land for nature and to have it available for government use, maybe even to share the resources with U.N. member nations such as China, because he believes in globalism, an extreme form of globalism. He has already expressed a desire to share the wealth from our resources with the world through treaties such as The Law of the Sea treaty. Natural News reported that the Bureau of Land Management is in the business of leasing government lands to energy companies. Significant exploratory drilling is being conducted in precisely the same area where the Bundy family has been running cattle since the 1870′s. The “Gold Butte” area can be clearly seen in the map of areas drilled (purple demarcations). Oil has been found in nearby areas but oil and gas drilling have worked alongside ranching over the years without a problem. Of course, if the government can lease the land on which the cattle graze, it will be lucrative for them. In July 2011, the federal government agreed to allow China to buy up 600,000 acres of gas & oil fields in Texas. This is the same administration that would not allow new drilling; kicked Shell out of Alaska after billions of dollars of investments; shut down most offshore drilling; and tried to shut down Texas oil fields on the remote possibility that it might harm a tiny useless lizard that was most often known for being road kill. The acreage takes in the Gold Butte area where Bundy grazes his cattle. Mr. Obama prefers solar and windmills to oil and gas however. Bundy’s name came up in a solar project that the government currently wants to put in place with the Chinese communists using Nevada land This time. InfoWars posted documents found on the BLM website which BLM has since taken down. One document is titled, “Cattle Trespass Impacts” and it states that Bundy’s cattle negatively “impacts” solar development and would prevent the construction of utility-scale solar power generation facilities” on “public lands.” They are talking about a very lucrative “investment” of $5 billion by Chines communists who will set up an enclave – a Chinese communist enclave – on U.S. land in Nevada. Check out the document: The first segment of the document was pulled by the feds from BLM.gov. Another BLM report entitled “Regional Mitigation Strategy for the Dry Lake Solar Energy Zone” (BLM Technical Note 444) reveals that Bundy’s land in question is within the “Dry Lake Solar Energy Zone and surrounding area” which is part of a broad U.S. Department of Energy program for “Solar Energy Development in Six Southwestern States” on land “managed” by BLM. Check that out: The second segment of the document was also pulled by the feds from BLM.gov. The person who will directly and immediately benefit from this is “Dirty Harry” Reid. His son, Rory, is the lobbyist for the project and will also rake in the dollars. It goes much further than that, reaching into the White House, to a president who is seizing land under the guise of necessary preservation. A leaked memo uncovered in 2010 exposed the Obama Administration’s land grab initiative that is intended to spread across other western states. The land grab in this memo alone covered 10 million acres of Western land in 11 states. As part of Obama’s “Great Outdoors Initiative”, the administration met quietly with environmental groups to map out government plans for acquiring untold millions of acres of both public and private land. It’s a stealthy power grab through executive order that promises to radically transform the American way of life. Michelle Malkin had a thorough description of what the government was doing. In April 2010, President Obama issued a memorandum outlining his “21st century strategy for America’s great outdoors”, calling for officials to conduct “listening and learning sessions” with the public to identify places that mean the most to Americans and leverage the support of the federal government to “protect” outdoor spaces. The memo bragged about the federal government being the nation’s “largest land manager.” They looked at millions of acres and Secretary Vilsack pleaded for “the need for additional attention to the Land and Water Conservation Fund — and the need to promptly support full funding of that fund.” Democrats put in a provision in these packages that would require the federal government to take over energy permitting in state waters. The amount of land the federal government owns or controls is shocking. Check out the map. Areas in red are the federal government’s to control and we now know they are willing to shoot American citizens to keep it that way. The Obama administration believes in Agenda 21 and, no, it’s not a conspiracy theory, it is clearly outlined on the U.N. website. ICLEI, its offshoot, is active throughout the United States. Agenda 21 sees the government as the best protector of the land, water and resources. The government must own the land and dole out the resources for humans and animals. That is what Mr. Obama believes. Toads, chickens, and tortoises are excuses for a much larger vision, a vision that will give the government the power and the wealth of the country’s resources. Recently, the EPA seized the entire town of Riverton, Wyoming and gave it to the Native-Americans. They did this because they believe they own the land and have the right to do it. The EPA seized control over all the water in the nation, even ditches with a “rule” that is actually an unconstitutionally-written law. The EPA is redefining the meaning of the word ‘water’ in such a way as to allow them to seize control over all water and, as a consequence, all private property in the United States. The Supreme Court of the United States has defined the meaning of ‘water’ as ‘navigable water.’ The EPA seeks to redefine the meaning of water as all ‘connected water,’ and they are seeking to define ‘connected water as all water, so they can assume power to regulate every body of water in the United States. Any water, even ditches, on private property will be controlled. They are using a bizarre theory found in a study which says all water is connected underground. On August 2011, Executive Order 13575 was issued and it gave the government control over 16% of our rural lands. For what reason? Are the rural lands doing badly? Did the farmers ask for this? Executive Order 13575 allows the President to develop “sustainable communities. The government has no constitutional authority to do this but they are. Last year, Mr. Obama announced his plan to develop “promise zones.” He’s starting small. The order is in complete agreement with the UN’s Agenda 21 - The UN’s View on Property Rights – Straight From the Marxist Manual. Obama created the White House Rural Council, chaired by the Secretary of Agriculture. It includes 25 Cabinet secretaries. Their mission, which will cover every government everything, is to promote prosperity and quality of life in rural USA. This is the beginning of a complete takeover of rural lands and it won’t matter who owns them. Obama’s agencies have been besieging farmers with regulations since he came into office. All over rural America, Obama’s agencies are seizing private property, but most particularly in the West, and they use toads, tortoises, frogs and wildflowers to make it happen. They often assume control through sue and settle cases by working hand-in-hand with radical environmental groups. It isn’t about the toads and the wildflowers per se. It’s about the federal government controlling all the land, water and resources in this country. Remember his plan to map every neighborhood throughout the country? He plans to shuffle the resources and the people among neighborhoods until all share equally in the pie regardless of how much each contributes. He has a mortgage redistribution scheme to be executed through HUD that will help make this happen. A lazy person will gain the most under this system. It is social engineering and Obama believes in it. Before the Bundy ranch was besieged, in March, The Center for Biodiversity, a truly powerful and radical environmental agency, released a memo falsely claiming that the tortoises were “suffering” because of cattle grazing and demanded the government do something. It specifically cited ranchers who “trespass cattle” for free, destroying the vegetation. Why did they choose to do that at this time? Were they working with someone in the administration? In November 2012, Obama gave 9.5 million acres of Western land to the spotted owl, even though the owl already had 4 million acres. It isn’t only about the owl. It’s about all the wildlife. He believes they should have preference to the humans in the area. President Obama has been using executive orders (EO’s) in ways they have never been used before. He is using them to do end-runs around Congress by legislating from the White House. Some EO’s are dormant but pose a potential future threat. One of those is EO 13603 which he signed on March 16, 2012. The purpose of the EO is to delegate authority and address national defense resource policies and programs under the Defense Production Act of 1950. It provides the framework and authority for the allocation or appropriation of resources, materials and services to promote national defense. It’s an update to prior National Preparedness Orders and normally it wouldn’t be a concern but there were some subtle changes that seem unnecessary. The definition of “national emergency” was made broader and left quite vague. There are no checks and balances within the EO but it includes all of the Executive Branch agencies, agencies that would have unlimited power if the president declared a “national emergency”. The Executive Branch would completely control our lives through the “industrial and technological base,” and he would have the power over all commodities and products capable of being ingested by human beings and animals; all forms of energy; all forms of civil transportation; all usable water from all sources; health resources; forced labor such as military conscription; and federal officials could issue regulations to prioritize and allocate resources.” EO 13603 is the plan to control our economy and our lives in the event of a crisis endangering our national security; there are no checks and balances written into the EO and “national emergency” is too broadly defined. Could a cyber threat be used as an excuse to use this authority? Could an economic crisis cause the president to take over retirement funds using this EO? In Obama’s hands, this EO does give one pause. President Obama was most certainly aware of the two-week siege in Nevada. He most certainly sanctioned it or the BLM wouldn’t have been there, hiding behind cars, fully armored with helmets, wielding military-grade weapons. The entire affair was an overreaction on the part of the government. Could they overreact to an alleged national emergency as well? The point of mentioning EO 13603 is to point to a pattern of behavior coming from this administration. Everything must be controlled by the Big Government. One of the Big Government commissioners in Nevada Tom Collins threatened to kill people according to Darin Bushman, a Utah commissioner, who called him to offer help. Bushman wrote this on his Facebook page: “I was just told by commissioner Collins of Clark County NV that all of us folks from Utah are a bunch of ‘inbred bastards’ and if we are coming to Clark County NV to support Cliven Bundy we all ‘better have funeral plans’. We should ‘turn our asses around and mind our own f-ing business’. Now there’s some classy leadership for you.” That’s a little more alarming than having one’s personal sensibilities ruffled. This man was threatening violence if people didn’t do as he and his Big Government colleagues demanded. The BLM law enforcement – their army of armed bureaucrats – threatened, repeatedly, to shoot the protesters at the Bundy Ranch because they had a court order, which in the 80% Democratic Clark County wouldn’t be hard to get. The BLM already roughed people up and tasered the son of the ranch owner. Remember in 2008 when Mr. Obama said he’d build a domestic army? Obama certainly knew about the attack on the ranch and when HARRY REID’S SOLAR PLAN was tied into the BLM, the attack was called off. Our government wants the land, the water and the resources to dole out as they see fit. That is the goal. That is the reason Bundy's ranch was under attack. http://www.independentsentinel.com/chilling-truth-siege-of-bundy-ranch-reaches-into-the-white-house/ 1. BUNDY RANCH: MORE GAMES BY FEDS Notice of Temporary Closure on Public Lands (BLM plan published in Federal Register in March) http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2014-03-27/pdf/2014-06826.pdf 2. MORE FED fun an games!!!! BLM THUG tacked 57 yr old woman CA survivor at Bundy Ranch from BEHIND. Margaret” was on that video for a short time explaining how she had been thrown to the ground by government officials earlier in the day. The video below is Margaret Houston, the sister of Cliven Bundy, recreating the story for the Moapa Valley Town Board. She said she was tackled from the back, no warning, and thrown to the ground (Margaret is a throat cancer survivor). If I understand her correctly, she says the BLM took the watering system for the cows, leaving them to 'choke.' http://viewpointsofasagittarian.com/margaret-bundy.../ 3. Michael Roop should be investigated for excessive force Portland Oregon #BLM office number is Public Desk: 503-808-6001 4. INTERESTING INFO ON FED BUNDY CATTLE RELEASE: (From a person that went there, drove there from L.A.) "I rolled into Laughlin really early, like 5:30 am. So many people had shown up, that we decided to leave in groups. A second group to leave at 8am as scheduled. Ours was a big group too. About two dozen cars, loaded with passengers. The highway was almost empty until near Mesquite. Then it was a traffic jam. Motor homes, campers, ATVs running along side the freeway, motorcyles, vehicles, every thing you could possibly imagine. Everyone on their way to Bunkersville. Then it about stopped, just inching along. Word traveled down the traffic line that the feds had blocked the road just out of Mesquite and were searching vehicles for weapons and cell phones. Cell phones were confiscated and smashed. The people were given a chit for $30.00 redemption value. I left my phone at home. Some of us that had four wheel drives decided to just leave the road and head overland. As we got closer to the ridge, we were stopped by armed militia. We could not go any further. We could wait, or turn around and go back to the road. Men, that I suspect were special forces, had climbed the ridge from the back side and captured the snipers. They were at that moment coming down the ridge to take them to Mesquite where they would be let go. They weren’t prisoners, they were just going to be replaced by friendlies. Because of the roadblock on I-15, people refused to be searched, and refused to turn back. They just pulled off the road and parked. It was like a dam backing up a river. Soon the feds were trapped between the Americans who had already gotten through, and the Americans that had been stopped on the highway. The BLM agents went into full panic mode and called for help. LVPD which had REFUSED to show up to help Americans HAD to show up to rescue BLM that was now trapped and helpless. The blockade was SEVEN MILES LONG! That’s a potload of people. A group of armed Americans along with local cowboys went to Mesquite to liberate the cows that had been confiscated and held by BLM. They were being driven back home in an old fashioned cattle drive. The feds say it was voluntary, don’t believe it. I was basically standing around twiddling my thumbs when the word came down that the Director of BLM had surrendered and all forces would be withdrawn. I could not go on. The road was blocked and would be blocked probably for the rest of the day at least. A bunch of us turned around and left. It was over. There was THOUSANDS of people there, and more arriving every minute. The ranch, Gold Butte, the entire area was completely surrounded by Americans. The highway was completely blocked in both directions of people trying to get through. Everyone was very peaceful and friendly. No fights or anything. There was a rumor in the line, that some of the mercenaries hired by the feds had defected and were now on the side of the Americans. I came back and immediately saw this pack of lies and half truths. At one point, I-15 was closed in both directions, about seven miles south of Mesquite, because protesters had blocked the freeway. Nearly two dozen police officers and a SWAT unit were at the scene to keep the peace and assist the BLM enforcement officers to safely leave the area." http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3144149/posts Bundy Ranch Standoff: Meet the BLM thug who tackled a 57-year old woman www.freerepublic.com Bundy Ranch Standoff: Meet the BLM thug who tackled a 57-year old woman. (See my post entitled, “Margaret Bundy Houston Tells Town Board of Being Tackled by BLM: Feds Take Cattle Watering System.”) Breaking: Uranium One Informant Rolls on Clintons February 9, 2018 An undercover FBI informant who was involved in the Russian acquisition of Uranium One finally broke his silence, and spoke with congressional investigators Wednesday. According to The Hill, American businessman William Douglas Campbell provided a written statement and answered several hours worth of questions from representatives of three separate committees — Senate Judiciary, House Intelligence and House Oversight and Government Reform — about what he had learned and shared with his handlers at the FBI. This included how Russia routed millions of dollars into America with the purpose of gaining influence with the Clintons, while then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton had taken the lead in the Russian "reset" foreign policy. Campbell testified that the money flowed through an American lobbying firm known as APCO Worldwide that had been hired for an annual fee of $3 million, with the intent of purchasing favor with the Clintons toward Russia by contributing financially to former President Bill Clinton's charitable work, according to the Washington Examiner. "The contract called for four payments of $750,000 over twelve months," Campbell explained in his written statement. "APCO was expected to give assistance free of charge to the Clinton Global Initiative as part of their effort to create a favorable environment to ensure the Obama administration made affirmative decisions on everything from Uranium One to the U.S.-Russia Civilian Nuclear Cooperation agreement." When reached for comment, APCO didn’t dispute that they worked with both Russian interests and the Clinton Foundation, but insisted that the work was separate and not connected in any way. A spokesman for Clinton, Nick Merrill, as well as elected Democrats, called Campbell's testimony a distraction and tried to cast doubt on its credibility. However, Republicans argued Campbell's credibility is not in question as he worked for years as an informant with both the FBI and CIA, and had even been rewarded with a $50,000 check and commendation from the bureau in 2016 for his efforts in uncovering a broad bribery and racketeering scheme by the Russians. Campbell began informing the FBI of the Russian plot to gain a foothold in the U.S. uranium market in 2009, which ultimately resulted in their gaining approval in 2010 from the Committee on Foreign Investment in the U.S. for the sale of Canadian-owned Uranium One — which held mining interests in America — to Russian mining company Rosatom. The informant also turned over documents in his possession which detailed how both Russian and American executives involved in the scheme had engaged in bribery to obtain that coveted approval. Furthermore, he also unveiled how Russia was potentially in violation of international sanctions by its provision of aid and assistance to Iran in regard to the construction and fabrication of the country's nuclear reactor facilities. Campbell also revealed that he had done much of his work while dealing with a bout of brain cancer and leukemia, as well as alcoholism. He also spent hundreds of thousands of dollars of his own money as part of FBI-directed bribes to maintain his cover — and was never reimbursed. Reporter Sara Carter, who has been covering the Uranium One story for some time, described Campbell's testimony as "explosive," particularly as it related to Russian aid to Iran and their efforts at influencing the Clintons. “Mr. Campbell testified for over four hours until he answered every question from three Congressional committees; the Senate Judiciary, House Oversight and House Intelligence committees," stated the informant's attorney, Victoria Toensing. "He recounted numerous times that the Russians bragged that the Clintons' influence in the Obama administration would ensure CIFIUS approval for Uranium One. And he was right." Douglas Campbell just laid out for Congress what many of us already suspected — namely that the Russians purchased influence with the Clintons in order to facilitate their purchase of a mining company that would grant them control of a significant portion of U.S.-produced uranium. American Standoff Documentary Part 1~ Bundy Hammonds LaVoy Finicum! youtube.com BACKGROUND INFORMATION American Standoff Documentary Part 1~ Bundy Hammonds LaVoy Finicum! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NeS0rgjspTU American Standoff Documentary Part 2~ Bundy Hammonds LaVoy Finicum! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UANzVdoZBds On day before his death, Robert 'LaVoy' Finicum spoke about potential encounters with feds youtube.com 1. On day before his death, Robert 'LaVoy' Finicum spoke about potential encounters with feds https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1DiMtcZXCA 2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDIa7egVG-4 3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLIUDBrU9Cs 4. Sheriff Ward admits to premeditated MURDER of Robert LaVoy Finicum Published on Jun 10, 2016 5. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmxvrMhjOrw Mar 8, 2016 [Sheriff Ward admits to the planned execution of LaVoy, boxed in the canyon on 395 with NO CELL SERVICE.] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwWkh6p3le0 LaVoy Finicum shooting: Indictment of agent 'devastating' for FBI oregonlive.com THIS IS AN OBSCENE INCIDENT WITH FAKE NEWS COVERAGE BY THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA SUPPORTING COVER-UP Fatal gunshot killed her rancher husband Robert LaVoy Finicumon Jan. 26, 2016. This was during the attempt for gov't to take control of private property [i.e. Harry Reid & Hillary's selling of magnesium rights to Russia.] FBI agent indicted in the case involving the killing of LaVoy Finicum. http://powderedwigsociety.com/lavoy-finicum/

MORE INFO: 2017- Comey's FBI Murders Rancher. Sessions' DOJ Leaves Innocent Ranchers in Jail. Nobody Cares. https://rockinrightside.com/2017/08/06/comeys-fbi-murders-rancher-sessions-doj-leaves-innocent-ranchers-in-jail-nobody-cares/ ALL very scary showing gov't corruption out of control: Bureau of Land Management (hopefully Hillary's emails will reveal.. but doubt it)

Just, TOO MUCH: Russia, China mineral (uranium) etc & land deals, Bureau of land management (B.L.M.) taking over land & water rights from States, farmers & ranchers losing property: A dispute between Cliven Bundy, a cattle rancher in Nevada, and the federal government over grazing rights on public land is decades old, according to numerous reports on the issue, which has become a national news story. Bundy has been in the news lately for comparing himself to Rosa Parks in his fight against the government. http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2017/11/ag-sessions-must-decide-create-special-investigations-into-uranium-one-or-go-down-in-history-as-modern-day-benedict-arnold/ dead count http://americantruthseekers.com/haiti-official-who-exposed-the-clinton-foundation-found-dead-in-miami/ I hope Hillary's e-mails will reveal more: OUR 'FREE PRESS JUST DOES NOT investigate or report completely: MOSTLY OREGON; HARRY REID; BILL & HILLARY CLINTON; URANIUM; CHINA, RUSSIA 1-Clinton had helped a Canadian financier named Frank Giustra and a small Canadian company obtain a lucrative uranium mining concession from the dictator in Kazakhstan; -The Clinton Foundation received millions from investors as Putin took over 20% of US uranium deposits http://www.businessinsider.com/the-clintons-putin-and-urani… -https://jonrappoport.wordpress.com/…/the-clintons-how-puti…/ -http://www.breitbart.com/…/one-year-silence-hillary-clinto…/ 2-The Hammonds are now off their ranch. They have ended up getting rid of their cattle -https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ul_smYcBV04 -https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7g8yfsr7N-E 3-Rancher Finicum is dead. -http://talkingpointsmemo.com/…/what-we-know-now-about-finic… -Shot in the back and left to bleed out in the snow, with not a soul to say a word over him or even touch his hand. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_ZybCBGUQ4 -No medical. Not on a blind curve. But the occupants of the truck survived because they lay low. Some of the bullet casings disappeared. 4- Meanwhile, the Bundys are in jail, with Ammon in solitary and Ryan nearly assassinated-pushed down a flight of stairs-before being taken to court, without medical attention. -http://www.americanthinker.com/…/bundy_ranch_the_federal_go… 5- From what I hear the Hammonds had as part of the probation offered as sentencing for one year, -They agree to never sell the property to anyone but the Feds. When they get out of prison, they are “RE-Sentenced. -This was a land grab in the tradition of some Western Movies where the powerful take all they can and kill those who stand in their way. 6-Chinese deal on solar. http://www.reuters.com/…/us-usa-china-reid-solar-idUSBRE87U… 7-Rare earths. 8-Water rights. http://www.breitbart.com/…/harry-reid-plots-federal-land-g…/ http://www.opb.org/…/judge-anna-brown-facebook-evidence-in…/ http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/24/us/cash-flowed-to-clinton-foundation-as-russians-pressed-for-control-of-uranium-company.html?_r=0 Cash Flowed to Clinton Foundation Amid Russian Uranium Deal- New York Times By JO BECKER and MIKE McINTIRE APRIL 23, 2015 The headline on the website Pravda trumpeted President Vladimir V. Putin's latest coup, its nationalistic fervor recalling an era when its precursor served as the official mouthpiece of the Kremlin: "Russian Nuclear Energy Conquers the World." The article, in January 2013, detailed how the Russian atomic energy agency, Rosatom, had taken over a Canadian company with uranium-mining stakes stretching from Central Asia to the American West. The deal made Rosatom one of the world’s largest uranium producers and brought Mr. Putin closer to his goal of controlling much of the global uranium supply chain. But the UNTOLD STORY behind that story is one that involves not just the Russian president, but also a former American president and a woman who would like to be the next one. At the heart of the tale are several men, leaders of the Canadian mining industry, who have been major donors to the charitable endeavors of former President Bill Clinton and his family. Members of that group built, financed and eventually sold off to the Russians a company that would become known as Uranium One. Beyond mines in Kazakhstan that are among the most lucrative in the world, the sale gave the Russians control of one-fifth of all uranium production capacity in the United States. Since uranium is considered a strategic asset, with implications for national security, the deal had to be approved by a committee composed of representatives from a number of United States government agencies. Among the agencies that eventually signed off was the State Department, then headed by Mr. Clinton's wife, Hillary Rodham Clinton. As the Russians gradually assumed control of Uranium One in three separate transactions from 2009 to 2013, Canadian records show, a flow of cash made its way to the Clinton Foundation. Uranium One's chairman used his family foundation to make four donations totaling $2.35 million. Those contributions were not publicly disclosed by the Clintons, despite an agreement Mrs. Clinton had struck with the Obama White House to publicly identify all donors. Other people with ties to the company made donations as well. And shortly after the Russians announced their intention to acquire a majority stake in Uranium One, Mr. Clinton received $500,000 for a Moscow speech from a Russian investment bank with links to the Kremlin that was promoting Uranium One stock.

Frank Giustra, right, a mining financier, has donated $31.3 million to the foundation run by former President Bill Clinton, left. Credit Joaquin Sarmiento/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images At the time, both Rosatom and the United States government made promises intended to ease concerns about ceding control of the company's assets to the Russians. Those promises have been repeatedly broken, records show. The New York Times's examination of the Uranium One deal is based on dozens of interviews, as well as a review of public records and securities filings in Canada, Russia and the United States. Some of the connections between Uranium One and the Clinton Foundation were unearthed by Peter Schweizer, a former fellow at the right-leaning Hoover Institution and author of the forthcoming book "Clinton Cash." Mr. Schweizer provided a preview of material in the book to The Times, which scrutinized his information and built upon it with its own reporting. Whether the donations played any role in the approval of the uranium deal is unknown. But the episode underscores the special ethical challenges presented by the Clinton Foundation, headed by a former president who relied heavily on foreign cash to accumulate $250 million in assets even as his wife helped steer American foreign policy as secretary of state, presiding over decisions with the potential to benefit the foundation’s donors. In a statement, Brian Fallon, a spokesman for Mrs. Clinton’s presidential campaign, said no one "has ever produced a shred of evidence supporting the theory that Hillary Clinton ever took action as secretary of state to support the interests of donors to the Clinton Foundation." He emphasized that multiple United States agencies, as well as the Canadian government, had signed off on the deal and that, in general, such matters were handled at a level below the secretary. "To suggest the State Department, under then-Secretary Clinton, exerted undue influence in the U.S. government's review of the sale of Uranium One is utterly baseless," he added. American political campaigns are barred from accepting foreign donations. But foreigners may give to foundations in the United States. In the days since Mrs. Clinton announced her candidacy for president, the Clinton Foundation has announced changes meant to quell longstanding concerns about potential conflicts of interest in such donations; it has limited donations from foreign governments, with many, like Russia's, barred from giving to all but its health care initiatives. That policy stops short of a more stringent agreement between Mrs. Clinton and the Obama administration that was in effect while she was secretary of state. Either way, the Uranium One deal highlights the limits of such prohibitions. The foundation will continue to accept contributions from foreign sources whose interests, like Uranium One's, may overlap with those of foreign governments, some of which may be at odds with the United States. When the Uranium One deal was approved, the geopolitical backdrop was far different from today's. The Obama administration was seeking to "reset" strained relations with Russia. The deal was strategically important to Mr. Putin, who shortly after the Americans gave their blessing sat down for a staged interview with Rosatom's chief executive, Sergei Kiriyenko. "Few could have imagined in the past that WE WOULD OWN 20 PERCENT of U.S. reserves," Mr. Kiriyenko told Mr. Putin.

Donations to the Clinton Foundation, and a Russian Uranium Takeover Uranium investors gave millions to the Clinton Foundation while Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton's office was involved in approving a RUSSIAN BID for MINING ASSETS in Kazakhstan and the UNITED STATES. Donations to the Clinton Foundation, and a Russian Uranium Takeover Now, after Russia's annexation of Crimea and aggression in Ukraine, the Moscow-Washington relationship is devolving toward Cold War levels, a point several experts made in evaluating a deal so beneficial to Mr. Putin, a man known to use energy resources to project power around the world. "Should we be concerned? Absolutely," said Michael McFaul, who served under Mrs. Clinton as the American ambassador to Russia but said he had been unaware of the Uranium One deal until asked about it. "Do we want Putin to have a monopoly on this? Of course we don't. We don't want to be dependent on Putin for anything in this climate." A Seat at the Table The path to a Russian acquisition of American uranium deposits began in 2005 in Kazakhstan, where the Canadian mining financier Frank Giustra orchestrated his first big uranium deal, with Mr. Clinton at his side. The two men had flown aboard Mr. Giustra's private jet to Almaty, Kazakhstan, where they dined with the authoritarian president, Nursultan A. Nazarbayev. Mr. Clinton handed the Kazakh president a propaganda coup when he expressed support for Mr. Nazarbayev's bid to head an international elections monitoring group, undercutting American foreign policy and criticism of Kazakhstan's poor human rights record by, among others, his wife, then a senator. Within days of the visit, Mr. Giustra's fledgling company, UrAsia Energy Ltd., signed a preliminary deal giving it stakes in three uranium mines controlled by the state-run uranium agency Kazatomprom. If the Kazakh deal was a major victory, UrAsia did not wait long before resuming the hunt. In 2007, it merged with Uranium One, a South African company with assets in Africa and Australia, in what was described as a $3.5 billion transaction. The new company, which kept the Uranium One name, was controlled by UrAsia investors including Ian Telfer, a Canadian who became chairman. Through a spokeswoman, Mr. Giustra, whose personal stake in the deal was estimated at about $45 million, said he sold his stake in 2007. Soon, Uranium One began to snap up companies with assets in the United States. In April 2007, it announced the purchase of a URANIUM MILL in Utah and MORE THAN 38,000 ACRES of URANIUM EXPLORATION PROPERTIES in FOUR WESTERN STATES, followed quickly by the acquisition of the ENERGY METALS CORP. and ITS URANIUM HOLDINGS IN WYOMING, TEXAS AND UTAH. That deal made clear that Uranium One was intent on becoming "a powerhouse in the United States uranium sector with the potential to become the domestic supplier of choice for U.S. utilities," the company declared.

Photo Ian Telfer was chairman of Uranium One and made large donations to the Clinton Foundation. Credit Galit Rodan/Bloomberg, via Getty Images Still, the company's story was hardly front-page news in the United States — until early 2008, in the midst of Mrs. Clinton's failed presidential campaign, when The Times published an article revealing the 2005 trip's link to Mr. Giustra's Kazakhstan mining deal. It also reported that several months later, Mr. Giustra had donated $31.3 million to Mr. Clinton's foundation. (In a statement issued after this article appeared online, Mr. Giustra said he was "extremely proud" of his charitable work with Mr. Clinton, and he urged the media to focus on poverty, health care and "the real challenges of the world.") Though the 2008 article quoted the former head of Kazatomprom, Moukhtar Dzhakishev, as saying that the deal required government approval and was discussed at a dinner with the president, Mr. Giustra insisted that it was a private transaction, with no need for Mr. Clinton's influence with Kazakh officials. He described his relationship with Mr. Clinton as motivated solely by a shared interest in philanthropy. As if to underscore the point, five months later Mr. Giustra held a fund-raiser for the Clinton Giustra Sustainable Growth Initiative, a project aimed at fostering progressive environmental and labor practices in the natural resources industry, to which he had pledged $100 million. The star-studded gala, at a conference center in Toronto, featured performances by Elton John and Shakira and celebrities like Tom Cruise, John Travolta and Robin Williams encouraging contributions from the many so-called F.O.F.s — Friends of Frank — in attendance, among them Mr. Telfer. In all, the evening generated $16 million in pledges, according to an article in The Globe and Mail. "None of this would have been possible if Frank Giustra didn't have a remarkable combination of caring and modesty, of vision and energy and iron determination," Mr. Clinton told those gathered, adding: "I love this guy, and you should, too." But what had been a string of successes was about to hit a speed bump. Arrest and Progress By June 2009, a little over a year after the star-studded evening in Toronto, Uranium One's stock was in free-fall, down 40 percent. Mr. Dzhakishev, the head of Kazatomprom, had just been arrested on charges that he illegally sold uranium deposits to foreign companies, including at least some of those won by Mr. Giustra's UrAsia and now owned by URANIUM ONE. Publicly, the company tried to reassure shareholders. Its chief executive, Jean Nortier, issued a confident statement calling the situation a "complete misunderstanding." He also contradicted Mr. Giustra’s contention that the uranium deal had not required government blessing. "When you do a transaction in Kazakhstan, you need the government's approval," he said, adding that UrAsia had indeed received that approval. But privately, Uranium One officials were worried they could lose their joint mining ventures. American diplomatic cables made public by WikiLeaks also reflect concerns that Mr. Dzhakishev's arrest was part of a Russian power play for control of Kazakh uranium assets. At the time, Russia was already eying a stake in Uranium One, Rosatom company documents show. Rosatom officials say they were seeking to acquire mines around the world because Russia lacks sufficient domestic reserves to meet its own industry needs. It was against this backdrop that the Vancouver-based Uranium One pressed the American Embassy in Kazakhstan, as well as Canadian diplomats, to take up its cause with Kazakh officials, according to the American cables. "We want more than a statement to the press," Paul Clarke, a Uranium One executive vice president, told the embassy’s energy officer on June 10, the officer reported in a cable. "That is simply chitchat." What the company needed, Mr. Clarke said, was official written confirmation that the licenses were valid. The American Embassy ultimately reported to the secretary of state, Mrs. Clinton. Though the Clarke cable was copied to her, it was given wide circulation, and it is unclear if she would have read it; the Clinton campaign did not address questions about the cable. What is clear is that the embassy acted, with the cables showing that the energy officer met with Kazakh officials to discuss the issue on June 10 and 11. Three days later, a wholly owned subsidiary of Rosatom completed a deal for 17 percent of Uranium One. And within a year, the Russian government substantially upped the ante, with a generous offer to shareholders that would give it a 51 percent controlling stake. But first, Uranium One had to get the American government to sign off on the deal. Among the Donors to the Clinton Foundation Frank Giustra $31.3 million and a pledge for $100 million more He built a company that later merged with Uranium One. Ian Telfer $2.35 million Mining investor who was chairman of Uranium One when an arm of the Russian government, Rosatom, acquired it. Paul Reynolds $1 million to $5 million Adviser on 2007 UrAsia-Uranium One merger. Later helped raise $260 million for the company. Frank Holmes $250,000 to $500,000 Chief Executive of U.S. Global Investors Inc., which held $4.7 million in Uranium One shares in the first quarter of 2011. Neil Woodyer $50,000 to $100,000 Adviser to Uranium One. Founded Endeavour Mining with Mr. Giustra. GMP Securities Ltd. Donating portion of profits Worked on debt issue that raised $260 million for Uranium One. The Power to Say No When a company controlled by the Chinese government sought a 51 percent stake in a tiny Nevada gold mining operation in 2009, it set off a secretive review process in Washington, where officials raised concerns primarily about the mine's proximity to a military installation, but also about the potential for minerals at the site, including uranium, to come under Chinese control. The officials killed the deal. Such is the power of the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States. The committee comprises some of the most powerful members of the cabinet, including the attorney general, the secretaries of the Treasury, Defense, Homeland Security, Commerce and Energy, and the secretary of state. They are charged with reviewing any deal that could result in foreign control of an American business or asset deemed important to national security. The national security issue at stake in the Uranium One deal was not primarily about nuclear weapons proliferation; the United States and Russia had for years cooperated on that front, with Russia sending enriched fuel from decommissioned warheads to be used in American nuclear power plants in return for raw uranium. Instead, it concerned American dependence on foreign uranium sources. While the United States gets one-fifth of its electrical power from nuclear plants, it produces only around 20 percent of the uranium it needs, and most plants have only 18 to 36 months of reserves, according to Marin Katusa, author of "The Colder War: How the Global Energy Trade Slipped From America's Grasp." "The RUSSIANSARE EASILY WINNING THE URANIUM WAR, and NBODY'S TALKING ABOUT IT," said Mr. Katusa, who explores the implications of the Uranium One deal in his book. "It's not just a domestic issue but a foreign policy issue, too." When ARMZ, an arm of Rosatom, took its first 17 percent stake in Uranium One in 2009, the two parties signed an agreement, found in securities filings, to seek the foreign investment committee's review. But it was the 2010 deal, giving the Russians a controlling 51 percent stake, that set off alarm bells. Four members of the House of Representatives signed a letter expressing concern. Two more began pushing legislation to kill the deal. Senator John Barrasso, a Republican from Wyoming, where Uranium One’s largest American operation was, wrote to President Obama, saying the deal "would give the Russian government control over a sizable portion of America's uranium production capacity." President Putin during a meeting with Rosatom's chief executive, Sergei Kiriyenko, in December 2007. Credit Dmitry Astakhov/Ria Novosti, via Agence France-Presse — Getty Images "Equally alarming," Mr. Barrasso added, "this sale gives ARMZ a significant stake in uranium mines in Kazakhstan." Uranium One's shareholders were also alarmed, and were "afraid of Rosatom as a Russian state giant," Sergei Novikov, a company spokesman, recalled in an interview. He said Rosatom's chief, Mr. Kiriyenko, sought to reassure Uranium One investors, promising that Rosatom would not break up the company and would keep the same management, including Mr. Telfer, the chairman. Another Rosatom official said publicly that it did not intend to increase its investment beyond 51 percent, and that it envisioned keeping Uranium One a public company American nuclear officials, too, seemed eager to assuage fears. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission wrote to Mr. Barrasso assuring him that American uranium would be preserved for domestic use, regardless of who owned it. "In order to export uranium from the United States, Uranium One Inc. or ARMZ would need to apply for and obtain a specific NRC license authorizing the export of uranium for use as reactor fuel," the letter said. Still, the ultimate authority to approve or reject the Russian acquisition rested with the cabinet officials on the foreign investment committee, including Mrs. Clinton — whose husband was collecting millions in donations from people associated with Uranium One. Undisclosed Donations Before Mrs. Clinton could assume her post as secretary of state, the White House demanded that she sign a memorandum of understanding placing limits on the activities of her husband's foundation. To avoid the perception of conflicts of interest, beyond the ban on foreign government donations, the foundation was required to publicly disclose all contributors. To judge from those disclosures — which list the contributions in ranges rather than precise amounts — the only Uranium One official to give to the Clinton Foundation was Mr. Telfer, the chairman, and the amount was relatively small: no more than $250,000, and that was in 2007, before talk of a Rosatom deal began percolating. Uranium One's Russian takeover was approved by the United States while Hillary Rodham Clinton was secretary of state. Credit Doug Mills/The New York Times But a review of tax records in Canada, where Mr. Telfer has a family charity called the Fernwood Foundation, shows that he donated millions of dollars more, during and after the critical time when the foreign investment committee was reviewing his deal with the Russians. With the Russians offering a special dividend, shareholders like Mr. Telfer stood to profit. His donations through the Fernwood Foundation included $1 million reported in 2009, the year his company appealed to the American Embassy to help it keep its mines in Kazakhstan; $250,000 in 2010, the year the Russians sought majority control; as well as $600,000 in 2011 and $500,000 in 2012. Mr. Telfer said that his donations had nothing to do with his business dealings, and that he had never discussed Uranium One with Mr. or Mrs. Clinton. He said he had given the money because he wanted to support Mr. Giustra's charitable endeavors with Mr. Clinton. "Frank and I have been friends and business partners for almost 20 years," he said. The Clinton campaign left it to the foundation to reply to questions about the Fernwood donations; the foundation did not provide a response. Mr. Telfer’s undisclosed donations came in addition to between $1.3 million and $5.6 million in contributions, which were reported, 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. Amid this influx of Uranium One-connected money, Mr. Clinton was invited to speak in Moscow in June 2010, the same month Rosatom struck its deal for a majority stake in Uranium One. The $500,000 fee — among Mr. Clinton's highest — was paid by Renaissance Capital, a Russian investment bank with ties to the Kremlin that has invited world leaders, including Tony Blair, the former British prime minister, to speak at its investor conferences. Renaissance Capital analysts talked up Uranium One's stock, assigning it a "buy" rating and saying in a July 2010 research report that it was "the best play" in the uranium markets. In addition, Renaissance Capital turned up that same year as a major donor, along with Mr. Giustra and several companies linked to Uranium One or UrAsia, to a small medical charity in Colorado run by a friend of Mr. Giustra's. In a newsletter to supporters, the friend credited Mr. Giustra with helping get donations from "businesses around the world." John Christensen sold the mining rights on his ranch in Wyoming to Uranium One. Credit Matthew Staver for The New York Times Renaissance Capital would not comment on the genesis of Mr. Clinton's speech to an audience that included leading Russian officials, or on whether it was connected to the Rosatom deal. According to a Russian government news service, Mr. Putin personally thanked Mr. Clinton for speaking. A person with knowledge of the Clinton Foundation’s fund-raising operation, who requested anonymity to speak candidly about it, said that for many people, the hope is that money will in fact buy influence: "Why do you think they are doing it — because they love them?" But whether it actually does is another question. And in this case, there were broader geopolitical pressures that likely came into play as the United States considered whether to approve the Rosatom-Uranium One deal. Diplomatic Considerations If doing business with Rosatom was good for those in the Uranium One deal, engaging with Russia was also a priority of the incoming Obama administration, which was hoping for a new era of cooperation as Mr. Putin relinquished the presidency — if only for a term — to Dmitri A. Medvedev. "The assumption was we could engage Russia to further core U.S. national security interests," said Mr. McFaul, the former ambassador. It started out well. The two countries made progress on nuclear proliferation issues, and expanded use of Russian territory to resupply American forces in Afghanistan. Keeping Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon was among the United States' top priorities, and in June 2010 Russia signed off on a United Nations resolution imposing tough new sanctions on that country. Two months later, the deal giving ARMZ a controlling stake in Uranium One was submitted to the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States for review. Because of the secrecy surrounding the process, it is hard to know whether the participants weighed the desire to improve bilateral relations against the potential risks of allowing the Russian government control over the biggest uranium producer in the United States. The deal was ultimately approved in October, following what two people involved in securing the approval said had been a relatively smooth process. Not all of the committee's decisions are personally debated by the agency heads themselves; in less controversial cases, deputy or assistant secretaries may sign off. But experts and former committee members say Russia’s interest in Uranium One and its American uranium reserves seemed to warrant attention at the highest levels. "This deal had generated press, it had captured the attention of Congress and it was strategically important," said Richard Russell, who served on the committee during the George W. Bush administration. "When I was there invariably any one of those conditions would cause this to get pushed way up the chain, and here you had all three." And Mrs. Clinton brought a reputation for hawkishness to the process; as a senator, she was a vocal critic of the committee's approval of a deal that would have transferred the management of major American seaports to a company based in the United Arab Emirates, and as a presidential candidate she had advocated legislation to strengthen the process. The Clinton campaign spokesman, Mr. Fallon, said that in general, these matters did not rise to the secretary's level. He would not comment on whether Mrs. Clinton had been briefed on the matter, but he gave The Times a statement from the former assistant secretary assigned to the foreign investment committee at the time, Jose Fernandez. While not addressing the specifics of the Uranium One deal, Mr. Fernandez said, "Mrs. Clinton never intervened with me on any C.F.I.U.S. matter." Mr. Fallon also noted that if any agency had raised national security concerns about the Uranium One deal, it could have taken them directly to the president. Anne-Marie Slaughter, the State Department's director of policy planning at the time, said she was unaware of the transaction — or the extent to which it made Russia a dominant uranium supplier. But speaking generally, she urged caution in evaluating its wisdom in hindsight. "Russia was not a country we took lightly at the time or thought was cuddly," she said. "But it wasn't the adversary it is today." That renewed adversarial relationship has raised concerns about European dependency on Russian energy resources, including nuclear fuel. The unease reaches beyond diplomatic circles. In Wyoming, where Uranium One equipment is scattered across his 35,000-acre ranch, John Christensen is frustrated that repeated changes in corporate ownership over the years led to French, South African, Canadian and, finally, Russian control over mining rights on his property. "I hate to see a foreign government own mining rights here in the United States," he said. "I don't think that should happen." Mr. Christensen, 65, noted that despite assurances by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission that uranium could not leave the country without Uranium One or ARMZ obtaining an export license — which they do not have — yellowcake from his property was routinely packed into drums and trucked off to a processing plant in Canada. Asked about that, the commission confirmed that Uranium One has, in fact, shipped yellowcake to Canada even though it does not have an export license. Instead, the transport company doing the shipping, RSB Logistic Services, has the license. A commission spokesman said that "to the best of our knowledge" most of the uranium sent to Canada for processing was returned for use in the United States. A Uranium One spokeswoman, Donna Wichers, said 25 percent had gone to Western Europe and Japan. At the moment, with the uranium market in a downturn, nothing is being shipped from the Wyoming mines. The "no export" assurance given at the time of the Rosatom deal is not the only one that turned out to be less than it seemed. Despite pledges to the contrary, Uranium One was delisted from the Toronto Stock Exchange and taken private. As of 2013, Rosatom's subsidiary, ARMZ, owned 100 percent of it. Correction: April 23, 2015 An earlier version of this article misstated, in one instance, the surname of a fellow at the Hoover Institution. He is Peter Schweizer, not Schweitzer. An earlier version also incorrectly described the Clinton Foundation's agreement with the Obama administration regarding foreign-government donations while Hillary Rodham Clinton was secretary of state. Under the agreement, the foundation would not accept new donations from foreign governments, though it could seek State Department waivers in specific cases. It was not barred from accepting all foreign-government donations. Correction: April 30, 2015 An article on Friday about contributions to the Clinton Foundation from people associated with a Canadian uranium-mining company described incorrectly the foundation's agreement with the Obama administration regarding foreign-government donations while Hillary Clinton was secretary of state. Under the agreement, the foundation would not accept new donations from foreign governments, though it could seek State Department waivers in specific cases. The foundation was not barred from accepting all foreign-government donations. -The Clinton Foundation received millions from investors as Putin took over 20% of US uranium deposits http://www.businessinsider.com/the-clintons-putin-and-urani… -WikiLeaks: Hillary Admits Clinton Foundation Donors Fund ISIS https://bsnews.info/wikileaks-hillary-admits-clinton.../

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