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Hillary Clinton email scandal (view source)
Revision as of 14:29, December 5, 2017
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Between August 28 and September 3, 2015 an FBI agent sent notification to preserve records to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission; [[United States Department of the Treasury|U.S. Dept. of Treasury]]; Office of Director of National Intelligence (ODNI James Clapper); National Counter Terrorism Center; and the [[United States Department of Energy|U.S. Department of Energy]] (DoE),<ref>[https://vault.fbi.gov/hillary-r.-clinton/Hillary%20R.%20Clinton%20Part%2015%20of%2015/view Hillary Clinton emails, FBI Vault, Part 15, page 7.]</ref> the [[National Security Agency]] (NSA – Admiral Mike Rogers) the [[United States Secret Service]] (USSS);<ref>https://theconservativetreehouse.files.wordpress.com/2017/11/katica-foia-2.jpg</ref> the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), and the Department of Defense in relation to Hillary Clinton email scandal.<ref>https://theconservativetreehouse.files.wordpress.com/2017/11/katica-foia-3.jpg</ref><ref>
Between August 28 and September 3, 2015 an FBI agent sent notification to preserve records to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission; [[United States Department of the Treasury|U.S. Dept. of Treasury]]; Office of Director of National Intelligence (ODNI James Clapper); National Counter Terrorism Center; and the [[United States Department of Energy|U.S. Department of Energy]] (DoE),<ref>[https://vault.fbi.gov/hillary-r.-clinton/Hillary%20R.%20Clinton%20Part%2015%20of%2015/view Hillary Clinton emails, FBI Vault, Part 15, page 7.]</ref> the [[National Security Agency]] (NSA – Admiral Mike Rogers) the [[United States Secret Service]] (USSS);<ref>https://theconservativetreehouse.files.wordpress.com/2017/11/katica-foia-2.jpg</ref> the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), and the Department of Defense in relation to Hillary Clinton email scandal.<ref>https://theconservativetreehouse.files.wordpress.com/2017/11/katica-foia-3.jpg</ref><ref>
https://theconservativetreehouse.files.wordpress.com/2017/11/katica-foia-4.jpg</ref> All member agencies of the CFIUS group necessary for approval of the Uranium One deal. During these notifications on August 31 Vadim Mikerin was allowed to plead guilty to lesser a charge.<ref>https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/russian-nuclear-energy-official-pleads-guilty-money-laundering-conspiracy-involving</ref>
https://theconservativetreehouse.files.wordpress.com/2017/11/katica-foia-4.jpg</ref> All member agencies of the CFIUS group necessary for approval of the Uranium One deal. During these notifications on August 31 Vadim Mikerin was allowed to plead guilty to lesser a charge.<ref>https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/russian-nuclear-energy-official-pleads-guilty-money-laundering-conspiracy-involving</ref>
===APCO Worldwide===
APCO Worldwide, a global communications firm that lobbied on behalf of Rosatom and it's American subsidiary Tenex at the time of the Uranium One deal, vastly understated its support for the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI). ''The Hill'' discovered APCO provided hundreds of thousands of dollars in pro-bono services and in-kind contributions which APCO reported, but CGI did not. In the fall of 2011 APCO’s lists in-kind contribution at $275,000, and the annual report submitted to the United Nations Global Compact, boasted “APCO significantly increased its pro-bono support for CGI and, for the first time, our team managed the press around CGI’s America meeting, as well as its global Annual Meeting."
At the time APCO was paid $3 million by Rosatom, Russia’s state-owned nuclear company. Rosatom paid APCO to lobby the State Department and other federal agencies on behalf of Tenex, which sought to increase uranium business inside federal agencies and Congress. APCO made more than 50 contacts with federal and congressional figures for Tenex, including at least 10 involving senior officials inside the Clinton State Department in 2010 and 2011. The contacts ranged from “promoting US-Russian civilian nuclear partnership” to attempts at freeing Russia from “anti-dumping” restrictions imposed on its uranium business.
APCO Executive Director Kent Jarrell claimed the company had little contact with Vadim Mikerin, director of Tenex, who pleaded guilty in 2015 to a corruption charge stemming from the FBI bribery probe. Jarrell said APCO dealt mostly with Rosatom oligarchs, who also were subjects of the FBI's extortion and money-laundering investigation. The firm promoted a U.S. visit in 2011 by former Russian Prime Minister Sergey Kirienko, who then as the top official at Rosatom.
Mikerin was tasked with forming Tenex’s new American office called Tenam. APCO’s lobbying records show the firm helped create a Web site for Tenam and a press release announcing the new American subsidiary. An invite list provided to the FBI by a confidential informant shows APCO executives attended the grand opening celebration of Tenam’s office in suburban Washington in October 2010.
APCO officials estimate their total cash donations to CGI totaled $45,600 and their in-kind support to CGI exceeded $1 million since 2008. They also acknowledged that the firm’s pro-bono work increased significantly in 2011 while it worked for Tenex. Pro-bono work involved providing free media support to CGI for various events and activities as well as to the other non-governmental organizations that made charitable commitments under the Clinton brand.
William Campbell, the FBI's confidential informant in the Uranium One scandal, informed Congress that he was told by top Russian officials that APCO was hired specifically because it had close connections to the Obama administration and the Clintons. “His Russian counterparts made clear to him they valued APCO’s connections to the Clinton Global Initiative and expected it to grow while the firm was working for Tenex,” Campbell's attorney Victoria Toensing said. “And he reported those conversations back to the FBI.”
Hillary Clinton and staff considered at least one APCO lobbyist, former career ambassador Elizabeth Jones, for two top jobs. “At Friday's meeting, Hillary made clear Beth Jones was her first choice for Ambassador to Iraq. Since I don't know her, we agreed that I should meet with her today or tomorrow,” [[Defense Secretary]] [[Robert Gates]] wrote Clinton confidant [[John Podesta]] in a 2009 email. Clinton’s top aides successfully vetted her in 2011 to become a special envoy for Pakistan and Afghanistan
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