The following excerpt highlights the shamelessness on display by the above the law crowd. Part of the difficult challenge of wading through the current morass of disinformation is finding the congruent story to discern the truth. Just the fact that there is so much deliberate sand being thrown in our eyes SPEAKS VOLUMES. Regular people trying to keep going don’t spent their money paying publicists huge amounts to come up with various schemes to confuse the public.
CHAPTER 3
Hillary's Reset
THE RUSSIAN URANIUM DEAL Perhaps Hillary Clinton and Vladimir Putin had gotten off to a rough start. When she was running for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2008, Hillary talked tough about the Russian president. Contradicting President George W. Bush's oft-quoted statement that he "was able to get a sense of [Putin's) soul," Hillary had pointedly countered had that Putin "doesn't have a soul."
When asked about the comment, Putin shot back, "At a minimum, a head of state should have a head." But when Hillary was confirmed as secretary of state in January 2009, dealing with Vladimir Putin would become a major part of her job. And the uranium deal in Kazakhstan, whose shareholders were sending in tens of millions of dollars to the Clinton Foundation and were also providing speechmaking opportunities for Bill, would set the stage to bring Putin into the cast of characters.
The uranium deal that was sealed in 2005 during Bill Clinton's visit to Kazakhstan and then fortified by the 2007 Kazakh approved merger would soon morph into a third transaction intersecting with some of Hillary's most consequential and difficult national security decisions as secretary of state. And as we will see, there is no evidence that she disclosed to US government ethics officials, the White House, or her cabinet colleagues the apparent conflicts of interest at play as she steered US nuclear policy.
In the final years of the Bush administration, relations with Moscow had cooled. The Russian incursion into neighboring Georgia, Bush's plans to erect a missile-defense shield, and Russian pressures on Ukraine had heightened tensions between the two nuclear powers.
What President Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton had in mind was a "reset." At Foggy Bottom, Hillary offered the Kremlin a chance to clean the slate and begin anew. Moscow was all in favor of a reset and viewed it as an opportunity to develop more trade and investment opportunities with the West.
And in spite of her pointed comments about Putin's soul, Hillary's appointment as secretary of state was generally praised in Moscow. Authorities saw her as offering a "balanced view of US relations with the Russian Federation." She was "by far not the worst" outcome for Moscow, said one official, noting that there were advisers around Obama who were "very critical of our country." Not a ringing endorsement perhaps, but Hillary was someone the Russians believed they could work with.
A nation cannot survive treason from within.
At the heart of the reset was what Newsweek called "a bevy of potential business deals." These included deals involving oil and which are the backbone of the Russian economy. But not far behind were Kremlin ambitions to expand its share of the world nuclear market. Uranium, civilian nuclear power natural gas, plants, and the technical services that supported them were considered a huge growth industry for Moscow.
In 2006 the Kremlin had approved plans "to spend $10 billion to increase Russia's annual uranium production by 600 percent." Putin considered the nuclear energy sector "a priority branch for the country, which makes Russia a great power."
Russia not only wanted to build nuclear plants around the world, it also wanted to control a large chunk of the global uranium market. But an important side note to the Russian reset was how it involved a collection of foreign investors who had poured vast sums of money into the Clinton Foundation and who continued to sponsor lucrative speeches for Bill.
Those investors stood to gain enormously from the decisions Hillary made as secretary of state. The Russian State Atomic Nuclear Agency (Rosatom) handles all things nuclear in Russia. Unlike the US Department of Energy or the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Rosatom is not just deeply imbedded with civilian nuclear power but actually controls the Russian nuclear arsenal.
Longtime Rosatom head Sergei Kiriyenko is a tall, lanky technocrat who served in the Komsomol, the Soviet Youth League, during the Soviet era. He went on to become energy minister and then prime minister of Russia while Bill Clinton was president of the United States. (Indeed, when Russian president Boris Yeltsin made Kiriyenko prime minister in 1998, it brought "instant endorsements" from the Clinton administration.)
He and his agency operate in a special way in Russia, without supervision from the Russian parliament. Rosatom "is subject only to the decision-making of the Kremlin," as one nuclear scholar at UC Berkeley puts it. "Unlike the oil and gas industries, the nuclear sector is under the direct supervision of the state."
Rosatom not only built the controversial Bushehr nuclear reactors in Iran, it also supplies them with uranium.
Rosatom also operates in North Korea, Venezuela, and Myanmar." As the agency makes clear in its annual report, it places a primacy on protecting information "constituting state secrets." During her tenure as secretary of state, Hillary Clinton and senior aides received numerous diplomatic cables discussing Moscow's nuclear ambitions.
In October 2009, for example, she received a cable exposing Rosatom's plan to leverage Ukraine into a long-range supply contract with the Russian state nuclear fuel company, and its efforts to create "zones of pressure" on Eastern European governments."
In December 2009 the US ambassador to Kazakhstan sent a classified cable to Washington laying out Russian efforts to exert control over Kazakh uranium markets." The cable noted that Rosatom sought to control this market as part of a broader initiative to reestablish itself as a world power.
The memo also stated that Russian military intelligence, the GRU, was involved in these nuclear ambitions. Even before that cable was sent, there were signs of Russian moves on the uranium market. In June 2009 Rosatom bought a stake in Uranium One. It was not a controlling stake, only 17 percent, but the Russians were just getting started.
Uranium One was an inviting target. Production was booming, jumping from 2 million pounds of uranium in 2007 to 7.4 million in 2010. But Uranium One was also aggressively buying uranium assets in the United States. By 2010 the Canadian company had "61 ongoing or planned projects on some 293,000 acres in Wyoming,"
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The firm also owned ten thousand acres of uranium claims in Utah, as well as holdings in Texas and South Dakota. In sum, Uranium One was projected to control up to half of US uranium output by 2015. In December 2009 Rosatom chief Kiriyenko appeared before the Presidium, a selection of Russian government officials. He laid out an aggressive plan to acquire uranium assets outside of Russia.
“An opportunity has opened up to buy foreign assets that are profitable and, for now, not very expensive," he said. "With this of buying uranium deposits, we can guarantee this program to any customers of ours." Then prime minister Putin announced at the meeting that the Russian government would allocate the money for the transactions to Rosatom's equity capital.
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The Kremlin's move came at a sensitive time. Hillary Clin- ton was directing negotiations for the 123 Agreement with the Russian government concerning civilian nuclear energy. The 123 Agreement is a nuclear nonproliferation treaty whose name derives from the fact that it falls under Section 123 of the US Atomic Energy Act. It requires that the United States have a 123 Agreement negotiated and in place to make nuclear cooperation possible with foreign countries.
In short, as the US State Department put it, the 123 Agreement with Russia would "support commercial interests by allowing U.S. and Russian firms to team up more easily in joint ventures."
The pact had previously been negotiated by the Bush administration, but when Russian forces went into Georgia in 2008, the administration withdrew a request that Congress approve it. The Obama-Clinton reset meant that the agreement was back on and (along with input from the US Department of Energy) that Hillary was in charge.
Congress would eventually approve the 123 Agreement in January 2011. In March 2010 Hillary was in Moscow for a meeting with Putin. Putin had set in motion the purchase of a controlling stake in Uranium One by Rosatom only a few months earlier. During a meeting on March 19, Hillary and Putin discussed a wide variety of issues related to trade. He expressed displeasure with US trade policy, presumably because Russian companies were affected by US sanctions. Whether the Uranium One deal was discussed is not known.