House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes announced Tuesday morning he will look into a Uranium deal struck by the Russians, at the direction of Vladimir Putin, while Hillary Clinton was Secretary of State.
.@DevinNunes: "We are here today to announce an inquiry into Russia's involvement into the uranium deal that was done several years ago." pic.twitter.com/qlxwBxmHoZ
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.@RepDeSantis: "We do have a witness who is confidential informant who wants to talk about his role in this." pic.twitter.com/0W8zpwPKGh
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.@RepPeteKing: "7 years ago this month, I raised these objections with the Treasury Secretary who said they were being fully investigated." pic.twitter.com/Si8AcSdhKs
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Nunes is referring to a bombshell report recently published in The Hill about corruption surrounding the sale of Uranium One when President Obama was in the White House, which overwhelmingly and personally benefited former President Bill Clinton and the Clinton Foundation. While at the State Department, Hillary Clinton helped approve the sale, which handed over control 20 percent of the U.S. uranium supply to the Russian government. In order to make the sale happen, Russian nuclear officials engaged in rampant bribery and corruption.
Before the Obama administration approved a controversial deal in 2010 giving Moscow control of a large swath of American uranium, the FBI had gathered substantial evidence that Russian nuclear industry officials were engaged in bribery, kickbacks, extortion and money laundering designed to grow Vladimir Putin’s atomic energy business inside the United States, according to government documents and interviews.
Federal agents used a confidential U.S. witness working inside the Russian nuclear industry to gather extensive financial records, make secret recordings and intercept emails as early as 2009 that showed Moscow had compromised an American uranium trucking firm with bribes and kickbacks in violation of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, FBI and court documents show.
They also obtained an eyewitness account — backed by documents — indicating Russian nuclear officials had routed millions of dollars to the U.S. designed to benefit former President Bill Clinton’s charitable foundation during the time Secretary of State Hillary Clinton served on a government body that provided a favorable decision to Moscow, sources told The Hill.
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