While all the attention has been on Robert Mueller’s abusive inquisition into factitious allegations about Donald Trump’s “collusion” with Russia, there’s been another, far more serious, investigation moling away in the background: DOJ Inspector General Horowitz’s inquiry into the Clinton Foundation and Obama administration’s shady dealings with Rosatom and Uranium One.
Wiring at National Review, the former Federal prosecutor and incisive legal analyst Andrew McCarthy laid out a detailed explanation late last year. His article began:
Let’s put the Uranium One scandal in perspective: The cool half-million bucks the Putin regime funneled to Bill Clinton was five times the amount it spent on those Facebook ads ”” the ones the media-Democrat complex ludicrously suggests swung the 2016 presidential election to Donald Trump.
The Facebook-ad buy, which started in June 2015 ”” before Donald Trump entered the race ”” was more left-wing agitprop (ads pushing hysteria on racism, immigration, guns, etc.) than electioneering. The Clintons’ own long-time political strategist Mark Penn estimates that just $6,500 went to actual electioneering. (You read that right: 65 hundred dollars.) By contrast, the staggering $500,000 payday from a Kremlin-tied Russian bank for a single speech was part of a multi-million-dollar influence-peddling scheme to enrich the former president and his wife, then”“secretary of state Hillary Clinton. At the time, Russia was plotting ”” successfully ”” to secure U.S. government approval for its acquisition of Uranium One, and with it, tens of billions of dollars in U.S. uranium reserves.
Here’s the kicker: The Uranium One scandal is not only, or even principally, a Clinton scandal. It is an Obama-administration scandal.
The Clintons were just doing what the Clintons do: cashing in on their “public service.’ The Obama administration, with Secretary Clinton at the forefront but hardly alone, was knowingly compromising American national-security interests. The administration green-lighted the transfer of control over one-fifth of American uranium-mining capacity to Russia, a hostile regime ”” and specifically to Russia’s state-controlled nuclear-energy conglomerate, Rosatom. Worse, at the time the administration approved the transfer, it knew that Rosatom’s American subsidiary was engaged in a lucrative racketeering enterprise that had already committed felony extortion, fraud, and money-laundering offenses.
The Obama administration also knew that congressional Republicans were trying to stop the transfer. Consequently, the Justice Department concealed what it knew. DOJ allowed the racketeering enterprise to continue compromising the American uranium industry rather than commencing a prosecution that would have scotched the transfer. Prosecutors waited four years before quietly pleading the case out for a song, in violation of Justice Department charging guidelines. Meanwhile, the administration stonewalled Congress, reportedly threatening an informant who wanted to go public.
I would summarize and excerpt the rest of Mr. McCarthy’s account here, but his article is already a cask-strength condensation of this complex and outrageous affair. It is a sickening story of venality and corruption at the highest levels of government, and you should read it for yourself, slowly and carefully. Suffice it to say that it seems clear that the Clintons and the Obama DOJ worked together to suppress a major international money-laundering and extortion racket, while compromising U.S. national-security interests in order to enrich and protect the Clintons and their benefactors, and to further the Obama/Clinton “reset” initiative.
Getting back to current events, the Epoch Times reports on several recent actions by federal investigators: a seizure of documents from a Uranium One whistleblower, two accelerating money-laundering investigations into European banks, and the indictment of one Abul Farouki, a Clinton Foundation donor and Clinton Global Initiative crony, for a variety of international mischief, including defrauding the U.S. military and money-laundering.
What will come of all this? Nothing, perhaps; it is not cynicism to imagine, in this dark world, that power and money and blackmail and intimidation may prevail against justice. If Mrs. Clinton had been elected, it would have been a certainty. But by an astonishing act of Providence, she wasn’t — and so we will watch and wait, and hope.