Sunday, October 29, 2017

Uranium One

Ever since the Soviet Union collapsed in 1992, the US has tried to develop a reasonable relationship with Russia. The nuclear arms reductions and the co-operation in space are two major moves. In 1992 Bush 1 negotiated a deal to remove the enriched uranium from Russia disassemble missiles. In 2008 Bush 2 proposed an agreement which was quickly squashed when Russian invaded Georgia. The Russian company who agreed to handle this deal was Tenex USA a subsidiary of Rosatom and the Russian official involved was Vadim Mikerin. When Obama came along he tried with the now famous Hilary reset. Getting along with Russia was deemed a positive. Obama allowed Mikerin to continue his work and this led to bribes to American companies putting them at risk of blackmail. For Mikerin to continue his work he needed a lobbyist and the man he found was a well-known Washington insider, a former federal prosecutor and counsel to the Senate Intelligence Committee. When this man found out what the Russians wanted him to do he was concerned about the legalities so he contacted the FBI and they agreed to use him as an informant called CS-1. At this time the FBI was headed by Robert Meuller who is now the Independent Prosecutor in charge of the Trump-Russian investigation. By May of 2010 the FBI had proof of three schemes of extortion payments. The secret lobbyist is now being allowed to testify and this information will be published in the coming weeks. In 2005, former President Clinton helped his Canadian billionaire friend and benefactor, Frank Giustra, obtain coveted uranium-mining rights from Kazakhstan’s dictator and his company Uranium One stood to profit handsomely. Putin wanted this ore so he leaned on the Kazakhstan leader and the person who made the deal was arrested and the whole deal was in jeopardy and stock in Uranium One plummeted. Then Secretary of State Clinton came to the rescue and brokered a deal with Putin to buy 17% of Uranium One stock and the crisis was averted and Giustra and his friends were saved from a large loss. In thanks for Clinton’s work her husband was paid $500,000 for a speech in Moscow and $145 million dollars Newsweek reports was donated to the Clinton Foundation by sources linked to the Uranium One deal.

No comments:

Post a Comment