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Uranium One is back in the news thanks to Shepard Smith, who laid out his version of events relating to Uranium One. From Smith’s monologue:
Here’s the accusation. Nine people involved in the deal made donations to the Clinton Foundation totaling more than $140 million. In exchange, Secretary of State [Hillary] Clinton approved the sale to the Russians, a quid-pro-quo.
That statement is inaccurate in a number of ways.Continue Reading
Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein has proven himself a polarizing figure. Depending on who you speak to, Rosenstein, appears to occupy one of three rather varying roles.
According to some, Rosenstein is part of the problem, actively working against President Trump’s Administration. To others, he occupies a slightly more grey area, compromised but with the capability to adjust to a new political climate. Not actively bad, but not to be trusted either.
To add to the confusion, there are those who see Rosenstein as something of a quiet hero, a man who intentionally took control of the Russia Investigation out of the FBI’s hands and has operating with honorable, or at least fully legal intentions.Continue Reading
Last week, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) and House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.) announced that Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein was meeting with them on Oct. 24 for a transcribed interview along with Ranking Members Jerry Nadler (D-N.Y.) and Elijah Cummings (D-Md.).
As noted in the press release, the interview will be conducted in a secure setting so “all relevant questions can be asked and answered without regard to classification.”
Additionally, the interview will be under oath. The transcript will then be reviewed by the Intelligence Community “to avoid the public dissemination of classified or otherwise protected information.” Upon completion of the clearance process, the transcript will be publicly available.
It’s worth keeping in mind that the special counsel probe by Robert Mueller appears to be winding down.Continue Reading
A classified interview with Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein that was planned for Oct. 24 has been postponed indefinitely, the chairmen of two congressional committees announced.
An announcement about the postponement was made jointly Oct. 23 by House Judiciary Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) and House Oversight and Government Reform Chairman Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.):
“The Committees are unable to ask all questions of Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein within the time allotted for tomorrow’s transcribed interview, therefore, the interview will be postponed. Mr. Rosenstein has indicated his willingness to testify before the Judiciary and Oversight committees in the coming weeks, in either a transcribed interview or a public setting. We appreciate his willingness to appear and will announce further details once it has been rescheduled,” the statement read.Continue Reading
Attorney General Jeff Sessions resigned on Wednesday, Nov. 7, at President Donald Trump’s request.
Sessions was replaced on an acting basis by Matthew G. Whitaker, who had been serving as Sessions’s chief of staff.
Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, however, remained in his current position.Continue Reading
It’s being reported that Attorney General Jeff Sessions has ordered DOJ prosecutors to ask FBI agents about evidence they found in the now dormant Uranium One Investigation.
The true Uranium One story was always about Kazakhstan uranium assets.
Here are the basic facts (full details below):
Bill Clinton met Canadian investor Frank Giustra in June 2005, during a fund-raiser at Mr. Giustra’s Vancouver home.
Frank Giustra owned UrAsia, a small – and newly formed – uranium company that was seeking to purchase lucrative uranium reserves in Kazakhstan.
Kazakhstan has about one-fifth of the world’s uranium reserves.Continue Reading
John Durham, the U.S. Attorney for Connecticut tasked with investigating the origins of the FBI’s probe into the Trump campaign, has obtained two cell phones belonging to Maltese professor Joseph Mifsud.
Mifsud, who disappeared from public view shortly after his name was outed in the media in 2017, played a key role in events that led the FBI to investigate the Trump campaign. The news of the cell phones was first made known in an Oct. 15, 2019, filing by Sidney Powell, the attorney for Trump’s former national security adviser, Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn. In the motion, she requested that the U.S. Government be ordered to “produce evidence that has only recently come into its possession.”Continue Reading
By Jeff Carlson & Hans Mahncke
Originally Published 6/10/21
The investigation by special counsel John Durham into the origins of the FBI’s Russia–Trump investigation—Crossfire Hurricane—has now been active for more than two years.
Appointed by Attorney General William Barr following the completion of Robert Mueller’s special counsel investigation, Durham immediately began his work in the spring of 2019.Continue Reading
Originally Published 5/12/23
Many of the corruption allegations currently swirling around President Joe Biden have been around for years, dating back to his son Hunter Biden’s early trips to China with him on Air Force Two. But recently, there’s been a flood of new information that has come to light.
This includes allegations from two separate whistleblowers—one with the IRS involving the Hunter Biden criminal probe and another who’s alleging corruption and potential bribes on the part of Joe Biden. There are also allegations from Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.) regarding flows of foreign money through shell companies to the Biden family.Continue Reading
The New York Times is reporting that former Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe may be fired by Jeff Sessions days before he is allowed retirement benefits.
The Times’ story fails to mention most of the underlying details involving McCabe.Continue Reading