Uranium One + the Russia Dossier = HillaryGate, and Trump, the Innocent Man, Facing Evil at High Noon

THE WEEK'S REAL NEWS IS ABOUT URANIUM ONE, THE RUSSIA Dossier AND THE DEMOCRAT COVER-UP. Let's call it what it is -- HILLARYGATE. The mainstream media is still running from this critically important story, but Fox News and online conservative, and even some pro-Democrat, sites are covering it. • • • THE BIG LIST AGAINST HILLARY JUST GOT BIGGER. Attorney Gregg Jarrett, Fox News legal expert, when asked by Fox News host Sean Hannity how many crimes Hillary could be charged with, responded : “13 potential crimes committed by Hillary Clinton, she’d be charged for six anti-corruption -- they were all felonies. She could also be charged with racketeering for using her charity as a criminal enterprise and then you’ve got all of the email crimes -- two of them under the espionage act and two additional.” Jarrett also said Clinton could be facing prison for her involvement in colluding with Russia to pay for what he called the infamous "peegate" Dossier on Trump : “You can’t pay a foreign national relative to a political campaign and it appears she also -- and the DNC -- hid it -- in their disclosure reports, which could also be criminally charged.” • AND, allegations surrounding Hillary’s culpability for both the Uranium One scandal and the Russia Dossier are mounting, despite the mainstream media’s best efforts to bury both issues. A Federal Elections Committee complaint asserts that the Clinton campaign violated campaign finance law when it hid payments to opposition research firm Fusion GPS to investigate ties between Trump and Russia. • And, as we will discuss later, the Department of Justice has also cleared an FBI informant to testify on the Uranium One bribery scandal, which was allegedly paid for by both Hillary Clinton's campaign and Robert Mueller’s FBI. Hillary’s former campaign spokesman Brian Fallon admitted during an appearance on CNN that Hillary “may have known” about the Dossier that was intended to smear Trump. • • • WHEN YOUR AIDES WAFFLE, YOU ARE IN TROUBLE. The American Mirror reported Wednesday about the strange turnaround of Brian Fallon, Hillary's former campaign spokesman, when given the opportunity to distance Hillary from the bombshell revelation that her campaign paid for the salacious Russia Dossier smearing Donald Trump. Brian Fallon punted, telling CNN : “I don’t know.” Obviously, CNN's Poppy Harlow didn't expect the answer. Her comeback was : “Just to be clear, Brian, you have said previously in the last 24 hours you don’t believe Hillary Clinton knew about this?” Harlow was referring to the Washington Post report that the Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee funded research intended to harm Trump. Fallon stuck to his original answer : “Oh, I don’t know, I haven’t asked, I haven’t spoken to her,” Fallon said. Harlow was befuddled : “You don’t know...okay, thank you for clarifying. Shouldn’t she know, shouldn’t you, someone so high up in the campaign be informed of this?” Fallon was also a little befuddled -- maybe he had visions of dead bodies floating in his head when he answered : “Well, I mean, she may have known, but the degree of exactly what she knew is, is, is beyond my knowledge.” Fallon went on to to say Hillary “may or may not have known” about the people and companies involved. • Fallon must feel the hot breath of the DOJ -- on Tuesday, the Washington Post reported : "The Hillary Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee (DNC) helped fund research that resulted in a now-famous Dossier containing allegations about Donald Trump’s connections to Russia and possible coordination between his campaign and the Kremlin, people familiar with the matter said. Marc Elias, a lawyer representing the Clinton campaign and the DNC, retained Fusion GPS, a Washington DC firm, to conduct the research. Fusion GPS hired Dossier author Christopher Steele, a former British intelligence officer with ties to the FBI and the US intelligence community. Elias and his law firm, Seattle-based Perkins Coie, retained the firm in April 2016 on behalf of the Clinton campaign and the DNC. Before that agreement, Fusion GPS’ research into Trump was funded by a still unknown Republican client during the GOP primary. The Clinton campaign and the DNC, through the law firm, continued to fund Fusion GPS’ research through the end of October 2016, days before Election Day." That, coming from the Washington Post, is a "coming-out" of sorts. The bombshell dropped by the Washington Post encouraged President Trump, who on Wednesday lashed out at the “fake Dossier” and described it as the cornerstone of “the whole Russia hoax.” • • • AT LAST -- DOJ RELEASES INFORMANT FROM THE GAG ORDER. Fox News reports that the Justice Department said Wednesday night it had lifted a gag order on a former FBI informant involved in the high-profile Russia bribery case, clearing the individual to speak to Congress about Moscow’s Obama-era uranium deals in the US market and other schemes. In a statement, the DOJ said it had authorized the informant to speak to the leaders of the Senate Judiciary Committee, House Oversight Committee, and the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, in addition to select staffers. The Department said the informant could provide “any information or documents he has concerning alleged corruption or bribery involving transactions in the uranium market,” including Russian company Rosatom, subsidiary Tenex, Uranium One and the Clinton Foundation. • Uranium One is the Canada-based company with mines in the US that was bought by Rosatom, a company backed by the Russian state after the State Department, then led by Hillary Clinton, was one of nine US government agencies to approve the deal in 2010. Congressional committees launched investigations after TheHill reported that the FBI had evidence that Russian nuclear officials were involved in fraudulent dealings -- including extortion, bribery and kickbacks -- as far back as 2009 in a case involving Rosatom’s subsidiary, Tenex. Congressional Republicans have since questioned how [given the prior FBI investigation] the Uranium One deal was approved the following year by an inter-agency committee, and sought to gain access to the informant. Republicans also have raised concerns about efforts by interested parties to influence the Clintons -- citing $145 million in donations to the Clinton Foundation, as well as a $500,000 speaking fee received in Russia by former President Bill Clinton, who reportedly met with Vladimir Putin around the time of the deal. Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley tweeted Tuesday that the Justice Department should appoint a special prosecutor to investigate the Uranium One deal : "Whoever in DOJ is capable w authority to appoint a special counsel shld do so to investigate Uranium One "whoever" means if u aren't recused." • The informant's attorney, Victoria Toensing, told Fox Business Network Monday that her client can "tell what all the Russians were talking about during the time that all these bribery payments were made." The informant earlier was prevented from testifying by former attorneys general Eric Holder and Loretta Lynch, according to Toensing, after having signed a non-disclosure agreement. • • • "THE LADY DOTH PROTEST TOO MUCH METHINKS." That was the wicked Queen Gertrude's answer to her son Hamlet as she was watching a play he presented that actually contained the facts of Claudius and Gertrude's murder of his father, the old king. • But, in our case, it is Hillary and her cronies who are protesting loudly that she and they are innocent of anything having to do with the Russia Dossier or Uranium One corruption. Former FBI Director James Comey has said none of the allegations in the memo have been verified, although Comey testified it was used by the FBI as the reason for its investigation into allegations that Trump campaign officials had improper contacts with Russian officials. • Not only is Hillary's former campaign spokesman Brian Fallon saying he was not in a position to know what Hillary knew about Uranim One, on Wednesday, TheHill reported that the DNC and then-DNC chairman Debbie Wasserman Schultz say they were unaware of Steele Russia Dossier payments. Current and past leaders of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) say they had no knowledge that the national party was helping to fund a Dossier compiled by Christopher Steele, a British spy, that contained scandalous accusations about President Trump. The Washington Post reported Tuesday that Hillary Clinton’s campaign and the DNC paid millions to the law firm Perkins Coie, where Democratic lawyer Marc Elias worked with the opposition research firm Fusion GPS to construct the memo, which was compiled by British spy Christopher Steele. • SO, who authorized the payments to Fusion GPS??? DNC communications director Xochitl Hinojosa said chairman Tom Perez, who only became the Democratic leader in April, had nothing to do with the arrangement. The law firm Perkins Coie handles a range of issues for the DNC. Hinojosa said : “Tom Perez and the new leadership of the DNC were not involved in any decision-making regarding Fusion GPS, nor were they aware that Perkins Coie was working with the organization.” Representative Keith Ellison, the Minnesota Democrat who has been accused of consorting with the Moslem Brotherhood, and who is now DNC deputy chairman, emphasized that both he and Perez came to the DNC long after the contract with Fusion GPS had ended : “Tom and me, we weren’t even there at the time,” Ellison told The Hill. “I know as much about it as you guys who have reported it.” • OKAY -- if it wasn't Perez and Ellison, was it Wasserman Schultz??? NOPE. A spokesman for Representative Debbie Wasserman Schultz, who was forced out as DNC chairman at the party’s national convention in 2016, also denied knowing about the arrangement. Her spokesman David Damron said : “She was not aware of anything related to this research arrangement." Democrat officials said that the national party was not empowered to make campaign decisions, particularly at a time when it was racked by controversy over leaked emails and while its chairwoman was being forced out. So, we do not know who within the Democrat Party paid Fusion GPS and Steele • WELL, that leaves only the Clinton campaign. Former Clinton officials kicked back at the controversy oo Twitter and cable news on Wednesday, arguing that compiling opposition research is standard for all political campaigns. Republicans fired back, noting that the Clinton campaign paid a foreign spy for opposition research that got published online, while Donald Trump Jr. has been at the center of controversy for trying and failing to get opposition research from a Russian lawyer. BUT, we take note that nobody in the Clinton campaign has actually denied that Hillary knew about the Steele Russia Dossier or her campaign paying for it. • • • WHAT WE KNOW. Fox News said on Tuesday : "The controversial Dossier containing salacious allegations about President Donald Trump and his possible connections to Russia, including coordination between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin, resulted from funding by Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign and the Democratic National Committee to the firm Fusion GPS, a source familiar with the situation confirmed to Fox News." Fusion GPS was retained by Marc E. Elias, an attorney representing the DNC and the Clinton campaign, the Washington Post first reported Tuesday. Fusion GPS then reportedly hired former British intelligence officer Christopher Steele to write the now-infamous Dossier. Steele had ties both to the US intelligence community and the FBI. Prior to the firm being retained in April 2016 by Elias and his law firm, Perkins Coie, Fusion GPS’s research had been subsidized by an unidentified Republican during the GOP primary -- it is important to note that there was no Republican paying for the "Dossier" because there was No Dossier and no Steele before the DNC-Hillary Campaign takeover of Fusion GPS's work; there was simply Fusion GPS doing opposition research on behalf of a Trump opponent, which stopped in April 2016. It was tthe Clinton campaign -- and the DNC -- that started the writing of the Dossier, after it took over Fusion GPS's and Fusion then hired Steele for research and preparation of a Dossier, which they funded through Fusion GPS to the end of October 2016, just days before Trump defeated Clinton in the general election, according to WP reporting. Following Trump’s victory, the WP reported, the FBI arranged to pay Steele to proceed with intelligence gathering about both Trump and Russia. That deal was later halted after Steele was identified in news reports. Perkins Coie was paid $5.6 million in legal fees by the Clinton campaign in a time period ranging from June 2015 to December 2016, the WP reported, citing campaign finance records. The DNC also paid the firm $3.6 million for “legal and compliance consulting” going back to November 2015. • According to Fox News : "Fusion GPS co-founder Peter Fritsch and top lieutenant Thomas Catan were subpoenaed to appear before the House Intelligence Committee in a closed-door session recently but asserted their right not to testify, a source close to the matter told Fox News. Fritsch and Catan took the Fifth on every question posed by committee members. Another co-founder, Glenn Simpson, is under subpoena for a later date.The move was expected." A source close to the matter told Fox News that Democratic staffers in the hearing were aggressive and ran interference to protect Fusion GPS, often interrupting questions by Republican members of the committee. A Fusion GPS lawyer said in a letter to the panel that House Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes was acting “in bad faith.” A congressional official familiar with the matter responded in a statement to Fox News : "Democrats and Fusion GPS have tried to obstruct every effort to get the facts about the compilation of the Steele Dossier and who paid for it, so it’s no surprise that Fusion GPS is saying they’ll continue to obstruct these efforts. Fusion GPS is clearly paving the way to plead the Fifth, and Congress is trying to find out if they're trying to hide something." • • • WHAT THE FEDERAL ELECTION COMMISSION SHOULD KNOW BUT WASN'T TOLD BY HILLARY. American Thinker's Rick Moran reported on Thursday that : "A non-partisan campaign watchdog group has filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission, alleging illegal payments by the Clinton campaign the Democratic opposition research group Fusion GPS to fund a questionable Dossier on Donald Trump. The nonprofit Campaign Legal Center says that the Clinton campaign hid the purpose of the payments, thus violating campaign finance laws. The Washington Times wrote : “ 'By filing misleading reports, the DNC and Clinton campaign undermined the vital public information role of campaign disclosures,' said Adav Noti, senior director of trial litigation and strategy at CLC and a former FEC official. 'Voters need campaign disclosure laws to be enforced so they can hold candidates accountable for how they raise and spend money. The FEC must investigate this apparent violation and take appropriate action.' ” Brendan Fischer, director of federal and FEC reform at CLC said : “Questions about who paid for this Dossier are the subject of intense public interest, and this is precisely the information that FEC reports are supposed to provide. Payments by a campaign or party committee to an opposition research firm are legal, as long as those payments are accurately disclosed. But describing payments for opposition research as ‘legal services’ is entirely misleading and subverts the reporting requirements.” This breach is legal plain 'vanilla' -- there was a deliberate effort by the Clinton campaign to hide the purpose of these payments, knowing that if the reason was exposed, it would damage them politically, but the law requires that the reason for payments to be made public in filings. Moran says : "The fact that the campaign spent a billion dollars also makes one wonder what other similar violations of the law occurred over the course of the campaign." • • • THE REAL RUSSIA SCANDAL? In addition to former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort, close Clinton allies John and Tony Podesta have become central figures in special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia probe, a source told Fox News' Tucker Carlson....The source, a former employee of the Podesta Group who has been interviewed by Mueller's investigators, says Manafort worked extensively with the Podestas as far back as 2011 on behalf of Russian government and business interests. Russia sought influence in Capitol Hill and focused on the Podesta Group because of Tony and John's close ties to then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Carlson reported. The source, Carlson said, alleged that Tony Podesta and a member of the Clinton Foundation had a meeting about how to assist Uranium One, the Russia-owned company that controls 20% of US uranium production capacity and whose board members gave more than $100 million to the Clinton Foundation. • Got that??? John Podesta was Hillary's campaign chairman, and his brother Tom Podesta and a member of the Clinton Foundation met to talk about how to assist Uranium One !!! • • • WHO WAS PAYING FUSION GPS FOR OPPOSITION RESEARCH ON TRUMP? Online news outlet TheConservativeTreeHouse wrote on Wednesday : "We likely know, with great confidence, exactly who that 2016 originating Trump opponent was. Thanks to: the timing, the originating entities, the associations and the player networks....What began as ordinary commissioned opposition research into candidate Donald Trump back in 2015, stopped in April 2016. This date is important because two key people, allies in the GOP roadmap for Jeb Bush, took action at the exact same time the oppo-research was discontinued. Candidate Jeb Bush dropped out of the race (Feb 20th, 2016); and not long after Rupert Murdoch dropped out of his influence campaign after losing his alternate (Rubio – March)." TheConservativeTreeHouse shows a picture from the 2014 US Chamber of Commerce Christmas Dinner celebration with Jeb Bush, Rupert Murdoch and Valerie Jarrett sitting together at a table. TheConservativeTreeHouse continued its analysis : "Christopher Steele was the retired British MI6 operative who authored the 'Russian Dossier.' Mr. Steele also formerly worked under Sir John Macleod Scarlett, a retired senior British Intelligence Officer in Moscow before Steele starting his own 'consulting' business, Orbis in 2009. Sir John Scarlett was behind the Tony Blair dossier claiming Saddam had deliverable weapons of mass destruction. He has experience trafficking fabricated charges and putting them in the hands of powerful people. However, more importantly, since 2011 Scarlett also sits on the board of Rupert Murdoch´s rebranded News UK, formerly News International. This network is the likely connection between Rupert Murdoch wanting to aid the Jeb Bush candidacy and connect opposition research via familiar intelligence gathering operatives in the UK. It is highly likely, though not certain, the originating finances for the GOP 'opposition research' on Trump, via Fusion GPS, came from Rupert Murdoch." ZING!!! • But, said TheConservativeTreeHouse : "Knowing that the Clinton campaign, the DNC, and Perkins Coie supported the Dossier is not the end of the story. The most important next step is the FBI. Sometime in October 2016 -- that is, at the height of the presidential campaign -- Christopher Steele, the foreign agent hired by Fusion GPS to compile the Trump Dossier, approached the FBI with information he had gleaned during the project. According to a February report in the Washington Post, Steele 'reached an agreement with the FBI a few weeks before the election for the bureau to pay him to continue his work.' It was an astonishing turn : the nation’s top federal law enforcement agency agreeing to fund an ongoing opposition research project being conducted by one of the candidates in the midst of a presidential election. 'The idea that the FBI and associates of the Clinton campaign would pay Mr. Steele to investigate the Republican nominee for President in the run-up to the election raises further questions about the FBI’s independence from politics, as well as the Obama administration’s use of law enforcement and intelligence agencies for political ends,' wrote Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa. In the end, according to reports, the FBI did not pay Steele. But the Dossier did not go away. Indeed, in January 2017, Comey briefed President-elect Trump (and President Obama) on the Dossier’s contents." • Comey admitted to a House committee that the counter-intel investigation began in July 2016. Congress was not notified until March 2017. That’s an eight month period that obviously cuts against Comey's same-day testimony that the FBI notifies Congress every calendar quarter of its ongoing investigations. TheConservativeTreeHouse concludes : "There is only one reasonable explanation for FBI Director James Comey to be launching a counter-intel investigation in July 2016, notifying the White House and Clapper, and keeping it under wraps from Congress. Comey was a participant in the intelligence gathering for political purposes -- wittingly, or unwittingly....it is now clear...that Director Comey was using his office as a facilitating conduit for the political purposes of the Obama White House. • • • DEAR READERS, we now have the broad factual outline of the Steele Russia Dossier and the Uranium One scandal. We know who the players are. We will undoubtedly learn more, but there is really only one question for Congress and the Department of Justice to answer for America -- WILL JUSTICE BE DONE? The No Evidence Russia-Trump collusion ploy by Hillary and the DNC was, according to American Thinker, "an attempt to frame an innocent man, Donald Trump. The principal aim : Save the necks of the Uranium One culprits. Let that sink in. We can be sure the President has." • Name the "culprits" -- Hillary, Bill, the Clinton Foundation, the DNC, Fusion GPS, Holder, Lynch, Mueller, Comey, Obama, Clapper, Brennan, McCabe?, Rosenstein? It paints an ugly picture of an Obama presidency and its key players up to their throats in political corruption and treacherous activities with a foreign state, leading to the pay-for-play stealing of 20% of US uranium resources. On Tuesday, Newt Gingrich told Sean Hannity that Uranium One will be the biggest political scandal in US history. That’s not hyperbole, says American Thinker : "Watergate pales by comparison. The Teapot Dome scandal didn’t involve selling out a national security asset to a rival nation -- Russia. Putin’s Russia, which -- irony of ironies -- Democrats and establishment Republicans have been decrying as Enemy Number One. You have to marvel at the audacity. The massiveness of the corruption, the breaches of national security, the players involved, and the daring to misdirect and coverup should stun -- but for the names central to the plot : Bill and Hillary Clinton. They’re proof of reincarnation. They’re the Borgias sans miters. The Borgias weren’t just scoundrels, they were evil. So are the Clintons -- from sex scandals to dirty money to enemies’ lists and revenge...decades worth of sordidness and corruption. They’ve tainted about everything and everyone they’ve touched. Future generations will be intrigued and appalled. How on earth did these rogues get away with serial lawbreaking? How? They were excused and abetted by Democrats and the MSM. Political gain, power, and money -- which flowed from Clintons’ successes -- had Faustian seductiveness." • Will justice be done? Can the Republic survive an ending with no justice? Can the US justice system survive a no-justice ending? The FBI is probably already damaged beyond recovery in its present form. A no-justice ending will cement Americans’ belief that justice is for them, not for the rich, powerful, and connected -- not for the Swamp Creatures who ignore the Deplorables while over-taxing them to pay for things the Deplorables do not want or need. American Thinker reminds us : "Justice, mind you, means criminal punishment. That’s not to be confused with the punishments typically meted out by elites toward miscreant elites. You know, shunning, board directorships stripped, loss of book deals, and pricey speaking gigs evaporating. Justice is investigations, fairly and thoroughly conducted, that lead to the truth. It’s indictments, if warranted (and everything points that way). It’s prosecutions -- and not just of those down the chain. The risks to national security and the depth of venality that are part and parcel of Uranium One means getting at the truth and sparing no one. No chatter about sparing the nation the trauma of months of trials of people who once held -- or who now hold -- high stations and the public trust. Because it’s precisely the public trust that hangs in the balance." • And, it is the Innocent Man President Trump who will have to decide finally. It is always the Innocent Man, isn't it, who faces evil alone at High Noon? Again, American Thinker : "President Trump must catch his breath at times, as he weighs the impact of criminal investigations and indictments. Even a man as bold as Trump must be shaken by what needs to be done to remedy wrongdoings of historic magnitude....Whatever the passions and tumult are in the moment, justice done in Uranium One makes for a stronger nation in the long run. Americans must see that the system can be cleaned up and act on the side of the angels....the Uranium One scandal is a greatly disturbing -- and actually frightening -- affair. It sets a dangerous precedent -- if real justice isn’t sought and rendered. High officials -- elected and appointed, existing and former -- willingly compromising national security for bribes, and then covering up the affair. Getting away with it could only embolden unscrupulous characters to dare similar crimes in the future....Bad people with vaulting ambitions there always will be. But their bad deeds must be punished -- doubly so for acts of treachery...treachery by the very men and women sworn to uphold the law and protect the nation." • This is the time for all Americans to pray for President Trump and to pray for America.