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you think everyone that voted AGAINST trump, for what they thought was a lesser of two evils is a fan of Hilary?
even those that might actually think she is a decent human being, gotta admit it would be 10x better entertainment for HiLIARy Cliton to go to the slammer than it was for Martha StewartComment -
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In other Liberal Halloween costume news, they are claiming that Fox purposely dressed up a black kid in a watermelon themed costume.
Is this kid black? He looks like he may be Hispanic.
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First of all my dishonest friend. I hate the clintons because they tore down the projects and those fuckers moved to my neighborhood. I lost 100,000 of value on my house in 2 weeks. But just like the benghazi hearings ; It will be a waste of our tax dollars. Also here is a good reading for you
We gave the statement a rating of Mostly False. While the connections between the Clinton Foundation and the Russian deal may appear fishy, there was simply no proof of any quid pro quo.
Trump’s allegation went too far in two ways.
One, Trump seemed to say that Clinton bears all of the responsibility for the deal’s approval. That is incorrect.
Clinton told a New Hampshire TV station in June 2015 that "I was not personally involved because that wasn’t something the secretary of state did." And Jose Fernandez, who served as assistant secretary of state for economic, energy and business affairs under Clinton and represented the department on the panel, told the Times that Clinton "never intervened with me on any CFIUS matter."
But even if you don’t take either Clinton or Fernandez at their word, the reality is that the State Department was just one of nine government agencies that signed off on the transaction.
Second, while we concluded that nine people related the company did at some point donate to the Clinton Foundation, we found that the bulk of the $145 million came from Giustra. Guistra said he sold all of his stakes in Uranium One in the fall of 2007, "at least 18 months before Hillary Clinton became secretary of state" and three years before the Russian deal.
We couldn’t independently verify Giustra’s claim, but if he is telling the truth, the donation amount to the Clinton Foundation from confirmed Uranium One investors drops from more than $145 million to $4 million.
The main exception is Ian Telfer, an investor who the New York Times found donated between $1.3 million and $5.6 million to the Clinton Foundation during and after the review process for the Russian deal.
So while Trump was within his right to question links between foundation donors and their ties to Uranium one, his specific charge was exaggerated.
Meanwhile, the Washington Post Fact Checker subsequently looked at a similar Trump statement: "Remember that Hillary Clinton gave Russia 20 percent of American uranium and, you know, she was paid a fortune. You know, they got a tremendous amount of money."
The Fact Checker came to the same conclusion about Trump’s misleading language, giving Trump’s assertion its worst rating of Four Pinocchios.
Why this story is coming up again
After Trump won the presidency, the Uranium One story received relatively little attention -- perhaps because Clinton is now a private citizen rather than serving as president. But that changed in the wake of a report published in the Hill newspaper on Oct. 17, 2017.
The article’s key finding was that by the time CFIUS was weighing the deal, the FBI had been investigating whether Russia was trying to gain influence in the U.S. nuclear industry. The report said that the FBI has already "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."
The implication of the Hill article is that Clinton either did know, or should have known, about problems with the Russian bid for Uranium One before deciding whether to let it go forward. (Clinton, the FBI and the Justice Department did not provide a comment on this story.)
The article cited FBI, Energy Department and court documents showing that the FBI had gathered "substantial evidence well before the committee’s decision that Vadim Mikerin — the main Russian overseeing Putin’s nuclear expansion inside the United States — was engaged in wrongdoing starting in 2009."
However, rather than bringing immediate charges in 2010, the article said, the Justice Department "continued investigating the matter for nearly four more years, essentially leaving the American public and Congress in the dark about Russian nuclear corruption on U.S. soil during a period when the Obama administration made two major decisions benefiting Putin’s commercial nuclear ambitions."
What remains unclear after the newest report?
The relevance of the Hill report for Clinton’s role would be whether she knew anything about this investigation at a time when she could have used her role in CFIUS to block the Russian deal. (It could also be relevant for the actions by then-Attorney General Eric Holder, whose department has a seat on CFIUS.)
For now at least, we aren’t aware of any evidence that Clinton knew anything about the FBI investigation. If anything, the Hill’s reporting suggests the opposite.
The Hill article quoted Ronald Hosko, who served as the assistant FBI director in charge of criminal cases when the investigation was underway, saying that he did not recall ever being briefed about Mikerin’s case.
" ‘I had no idea this case was being conducted,’ a surprised Hosko said in an interview," the Hill article reported.
At least one key lawmaker -- then-Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Mich., who chaired the House Intelligence Committee at the time -- also said he did not know about the investigation.
If the assistant FBI director at the time knew nothing of the investigation, then Clinton -- someone in a different department and several rungs higher in the organizational chart -- might not have known about it.
Stewart A. Baker, a partner at the law firm Steptoe & Johnson, was skeptical that such information would have reached the Secretary of State -- "at least not until she was asked to weigh in on the transaction, and that would only happen if it were deeply controversial, which it was not. In my experience, the State Department was always one of the quickest agencies to urge approval of a deal, and they did that without checking with the Secretary."
The vast majority of cases that CFIUS reviews are handled by lower-ranking staffers and appointees, added Stephen Heifetz, a partner at the law firm Steptoe & Johnson who specializes in CFIUS law.
"Even though the heads of the CFIUS agencies comprise CFIUS as a matter of law," he said, "it is relatively rare to have a cabinet secretary directly involved in a CFIUS case."
That said, several experts said they were surprised that word had not filtered up from the FBI.
The FBI "is well represented as part of the Justice Department’s CFIUS team," Baker said. "It would be somewhat surprising to me if a company was under scrutiny as a buyer in CFIUS and simultaneously under investigation for criminal behavior by the FBI, but the criminal investigation was not known to the FBI’s representatives on CFIUS."
In addition, it’s Justice Department policy to consolidate all Foreign Corrupt Practices Act inquiries within department headquarters in Washington, said Michael Koehler, a professor at Southern Illinois University School of Law and an expert on the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. This makes word of those cases more likely to reach top officials than other types of investigations.
And the fact that the Mikerin case included a confidential informant makes it "more likely than not that top Justice Department or FBI officials either knew of the inquiry or should have known of the inquiry," Koehler said.
Even if word had filtered up to CFIUS this way, it might not have been enough to scuttle the deal, Heifetz added.
"CFIUS often has cleared transactions when there is adverse information about foreign investors but no apparent risk to national security," he said.
Ultimately, we don’t know enough to be able to say whether the apparent lack of information about the FBI investigation among higher ups was due to internal reporting failures or the more mundane reality that ground-level FBI investigations take time to mature and solidify.
But for now, there isn’t enough evidence to suggest that Clinton’s actions -- ill-advised as they might have been -- were any more problematic than it seemed they were a year ago.
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"Uranium deal to Russia, with Clinton help and Obama Administration knowledge, is the biggest story that Fake Media doesn't want to follow!"
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Now my friend why don't you look up who mitch mcconnell and paul ryans biggest contributers. The russians! So in the end clinton will get off and mcconnell and ryan will have some explaining to do.
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Curious. Some of you think that the Clinton's never put a penny from their foundation into their bank account?Comment -
just as i could care less that you do alcohol,gamble or go to the strip bar with your money; I could care less what they do. ?The didn't use my tax dollar to do whatever they did. Put it this way, If brooks 85 corn holes his dog in his house (I would be disgusted) but not my concern. I worry about my tax dollars and I'm not fan of clinton. The economy did well but he tore down the projects and my house value went down when they migrated to my neighborhood. Some of the famous people that grew up in my neighborhood were pete rose, don zimmer,doris day,rosemary clooney,andy williams,kyle rudolph,bill hemner , my friends father and the 3rd youngest player in mlb ron moeller and my drinking buddy jimmy boyle pittsburg steelers. It was a great neighborhood until bill clinton tore down the projects. Also skyline chili started here.Comment -
You couldn't* care less, but thanks for the response. Like I said, was just curious. It wasn't directed at you to the point of writing an essay, and making it fckin personal again. God damn.
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cuse those were my vices when I was your age. It Was meant to say anyone. Sorry you took it personal or i gave the appearance of pointing the finger at you. Once again sorry.Comment -
That "splains" a lot. Citizens united, doesn't matter which citizens or from what country.Now my friend why don't you look up who mitch mcconnell and paul ryans biggest contributers. The russians! So in the end clinton will get off and mcconnell and ryan will have some explaining to do.
nice op ed
No wonder the Repubs are staying silent on the Russian investigation.
Anyone surprised the Repub party is having trouble doing stuff for the little man?
How can they come up with a health care bill when they were against one in the 1st place?
How can they do tax cuts for the working man when they are paid by corporations/ rich?
How can they get together for DACA when they want them deported?
They look like a pack of monkeys trying to fuk a football. They are out of their element.Comment -
^lol hilarious when an idiot like chico gets an idiot like rkelly going.Comment -
^^^ speaking of a monkey.Comment -
^lol shaking his single brain cell around a lot this morningComment -
your dad must of screwed you mom a lot when she was pregnant with you. BRAIN DAMAGED AT BIRTH BROOKSComment -
Funny how republicans grow a set of balls when they are not thinking about running for reelection. They all of a sudden seem to take a dose of truth serum. What a bunch of pathetic draft dodging pussies. Of course their deplorable ,disgusting ,base will believe anything Trump say's about these two, because stupidly runs thru their veins.Comment -
How great would it have been if Corker went up to Trump during their lunch yesterday and popped Trump in his big
pie hole. While he's reeling, put forks through both hands.
Wonder what kind of trouble he would've gotten into. I know the country would cheer.
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More Gold Star widows from Niger deaths coming out and saying Trump called them and couldn't have been more gracious. No MSM coverage for them, of course. More fake news and fake racism.Comment -
Lots of fake news junkies hereComment -
the whole world is laughing... it's like a circus...
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here's some of the endless lies said by trump
I've known people like him, he is a compulsive liar, every time he opens his mouth not only do I cringe by the apparent lack of intellect revealed by his choice of words, but I also cant believe the nonsense he is inarticulately trying to communicate. even worse is that people take it as gospelComment -
yes people are turning on trump, and more will turn on him indeed only when they feel the effects themselves, like when their health insurance becomes unaffordable, or when a corporation steals their money or private data and they realize they no longer have any method of recourseComment -
fake news. Even a 10 year old can see ithere's some of the endless lies said by trump
I've known people like him, he is a compulsive liar, every time he opens his mouth not only do I cringe by the apparent lack of intellect revealed by his choice of words, but I also cant believe the nonsense he is inarticulately trying to communicate. even worse is that people take it as gospelComment -
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what a racist clown that rep wilson is but that is obvious . what we know now is sounds like when fight broke out that la david ran and hid , ran so far took 2 days to find him . anyway now that news is out , you dont hear nothing out of that racist hant ...Comment -
Can we all focus on what really matters right now
The gov't is gonna fukk up a good thing and make my opioids harder to get
Every time I look at a magazine, a newspaper or even a website, it's about opioid addiction. Fukk em if they OD, they're weak.Comment -
Urianium one deal about to get blown open and exposed now.. This is getting good... THE REAL RUSSIAN COLLUSION STORY!!!!
Someone or people might get prosecuted in the FBI and or in Clinton clan on this one... Gag order lifted, watch em sing like canaries now...http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017...-congress.htmlComment -
fox news...
HOW IS THAT BENGHAZI ARREST THAT FOX PROMISED.
Not a clinton fan but you guys are like the dogs chasing the coon. Or better yet wiley coyote chasing the road runner.Comment -
MI’ve never diverted meds nor would I. To be completely honest, the main motivating factor is a selfish one, I support my family with my job and would never risk that to get a quick high, especially when I have so many other sources. To a lesser degree, I am empathetic and would hate for anyone to hurt because I gave a placebo.
As for nurses hating their jobs, it’s not an easy job. Hospitals, like all other big businesses, are up against decreasing reimbursements and higher costs, so they save money where they can which is usually lowering payroll, fewer employees is cheaper. So nurses end up working more overtime and with higher workloads, families are demanding, doctors are dicks, mistakes are unacceptable and there is an enormous amount of pressure to be perfect. And in general, the money isn’t great unless you’re in a highly specialized sub-specialty
With all that said, I’m one of the few that probably likes my job as a nurse and makes great money.Comment
