Posted on 07/29/2019 3:55:00 PM PDT by RummyChick
Washington, D.C. (July 29, 2019)—Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, the Chairman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, issued a second interim staff report in the Committee’s investigation into efforts to transfer U.S. nuclear technology to Saudi Arabia.
Chairman Cummings issued the following statement:
“Today’s report reveals new and extensive evidence that corroborates Committee whistleblowers and exposes how corporate and foreign interests are using their unique access to advocate for the transfer of U.S. nuclear technology to Saudi Arabia. The American people deserve to know the facts about whether the White House is willing to place the potential profits of the President’s personal friends above the national security of the American people and the universal objective of preventing the spread of nuclear weapons.”
(Excerpt) Read more at oversight.house.gov ...
Is Uranium One involved?
I believe the Trump administration would like to develop an Arab block of nations, friendly to and supported by the US, to keep the peace in the Mideast. Something like an Arab Nato. If that is the case, then he will need to provide them with the weaponry to do the job. Does anyone else think that is possible??
Obama didn’t worry about profits he just sent plane loads of cash.
So what corporate and foreign interests might be influencing Cummings and his committee to issue this statement, which focuses on Saudi Arabia and makes no mention of other countries that seek to influence U.S. Middle Eastern policy?
Imam of Peace claims Qatar is backing Ilhan Omar. And that the horrible radical Linda Sarsour is going to run for office.
“I believe the Trump administration would like to develop an Arab block of nations, friendly to and supported by the US, to keep the peace in the Mideast. Something like an Arab Nato.”
The idea is old, as old as the start of the cold war, and though it had a few attempts Arab and Middle East politics, sometimes with Soviet interference and often related to the Israel-Arab disputes, usually got the idea sidelined.
I don’t agree that WE need to form an Arab NATO.
However, if some of the Arab states - Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Egypt - start such a project on their own, the U.S. will find itself facing an Arab block that will go to whomever is willing to supply the military goods they need. If not the U.S. they could get help from China, and I think China more likely than Russia. What then would the U.S. do?
For the U.S. it is not a matter of chosing “friends”. Its a calculation that hopes to side with the lesser of two evils, between Sunni hard line fundamentalists (the Saudis) or Shia hard line fundamentalists (the Mullahs of Tehran). Very ling term neither has or will have our values.
As far as Cummings releasing this, I think (1) he merely seeks to take a poke at the Trump administration over this and (2) he chooses this issue because as a Leftist, and as one aligned with the Muslim Brotherhood in geopolitics, he as after the Saudis for the kiling of the phony prominent “journalist”. He was actually just a mouthpiece for the Muslim Brotherhood - an organization the Saudis see as an existential threat to their kingdom (because they could take the “better Muslim” mantle away from the Wahabi clerics and the Saudi Royals). So, Cummings is playing the Left’s geopolitical agenda on this.
I’m fascinated that this is a major topic when Clinton was fined, ultimately, with Hughes and Loral for the transfer missile technology to China approved by Clinton that ended up in North Korea.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/campfin/stories/satellite123198.htm
And the transfer of supercomputers by way of the commerce department that is the reason Sec. Ron Brown was murdered. This coming from Salon.com, a very liberal site:
https://www.salon.com/1999/05/28/espionage/
The story on the transfer originally broke with the NY Times when they found out the NK’s took industrial grade enriching computers and set them up to enrich weapons grade cake.
Ron Brown murder: No autopsy was ever done or ordered on Brown’s body, despite the fact that Air Force personnel noted a beveled edge hole in the head of Brown that looked to all of them exactly like a 45 caliber bullet hole. Autopsy photos were stolen, and these Air Force officers and a petty officer were isued gag orders. A “ lead snowstorm” was noted in his head around where the circular wound was noted.
There was a public televised report done at the coroner’s report on Brown and it was shut down over the networks when the beveled hole was pointed out by the commentator. One week later, there was another televised report and the head holes were not even in the displayed xrays.
Like I said, they get their panties in a bunch over the transfer of technology to people we support but don’t say squat about the transfer of direct nuclear support to a rogue threatening nation and a nation sending American satellites up in Chinese missiles so they can aim them properly.
rwood
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