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So [Hunter Biden’s firm] get this $1.5 billion to invest, and what they are supposed to do is basically invest in companies that benefit the Chinese government,” stated Schweizer. “So just think about this for a second. This is the vice president of the United States whose father is supposed to be commanding American presence and power in the Pacific to deal with the rising challenge from China, and his son is investing $1.5 billion of Chinese government money. 

So what do they do? They invest in an American high-precision tools company called Henniges, which used to be owned by Rocket Company, but they produce anti-vibration technologies which have a dual-use application, so this transaction actually requires the approval of the federal government, as it has national security implications. So again, the vice president’s son is helping the Chinese government take over a dual-use military technology-related company called Henniges.”

Trumps Dating and Mating Habits - She gets $5,000 a night - Park Avenue New York City - You can buy pussy all over New York City, from the back seat public performance of a whore in a taxi cab to the upper levels of the TRUMP tower with one of the Zesty Girls which Sadie was a member. With a great deal of sophistication and secrecy the Zesty Girls had cleverly created the most expensive brothel in the city, maybe the world.

It was a champagne cafe on the ground floor of the Park Avenue apartment building where she would meet her date for the evening - much like a slave auction Sadie had been selected from a photographic line up displayed on her managers i-phone.

Sadie was smartly dressed as she sat alone at a corner table and listened to the low pitched laughter offered up by the bartender, a reasonably handsome man always ready to be the playboy with Sadie and others, without invitation.

The man standing at the far left of the liquor bar looked annoyed which made Sadie wonder if he was some kind of undercover cop working the "Society Cafe" tonight when she noticed the bartender named "Charlie" serve him a glass of beer and a sizzling plate of something to eat.

Sadie with her soft and seductive feminine voice answered her cell phone "yes, thank you" and that was all she said and stood up at her table.  Sadie really didn't care if they looked but she only surrenders her body for cash money and she decided to stop and tease the staring man at the left side of the bar and whisper to him "you wouldn't respect me if you knew the price" with enough passion in her voice to make him stop and pay attention.

She had left a fifty dollar bill on the table and got up and walked through the cafe doorway to the main lobby of the Park Avenue apartment building, built in 1922 it was bigger than most small town malls and her red high heels tick-clacked on the polished marble floors.  Sadie also noticed the wide smiles as the men played their eyes all over her as she walked past them with her high school firm body at twenty seven years old.

In the street trade Sadie was known as a "best seller" and she had a clean medical record and no criminal record and she had been smuggled into some of the best addresses in New York City.

You can buy pussy all over New York City, from the back seat public performance of a whore in a taxi cab to the upper levels of the TRUMP tower with one of the Zesty Girls which Sadie was a member.  With a great deal of sophistication and secrecy the Zesty Girls had cleverly created the most expensive brothel in the city, maybe the world.

Sadie started the whole thing as a college girl when she discovered uptown girls had more cash and a lot more fun.  One of her friends "Billy" owned and operated a downtown burlesque show right off Time Square in New York City in the 1980's which was bawdy  - coarse and vulgar and way before Sadie's time but she was fascinated and spellbound by the stories of boxes filled with cash and expensive dinners and world travel.

Billy had told Sadie with some remodeling she had the perfect bones to drive men sexually crazy with her honest zest for life and fun.  The Zesty Girls promised lively enjoyment with enthusiasm and have been delivering their promise for almost five years.

Sadie had made the older Billy the so-called manager which meant he talked to certain people about art, never about sex.

You could not just call Billy and start enjoying the art you had to be recommended by another art lover customer and wait your turn.  Billy made it clear that he was a art dealer and the art was dangerously close to smutty and sexually risque verging on indecency and very expensive.

The customer would purchase a "Art Book" album which was legal in every way which Sadie and Billy called platters.  The art book album of undressed woman was very expensive and the lowest cost platter album was ten thousand dollars - cash.

The Platters were full color nude pictures of young women in racy poses and sexually charged but legal.  The platter was really a crude catalog of girls that you could greet and meet and no cash would change hands.  The client bought the art platter which is a legal purchase of zesty nude pictures that would ignite a falling off the bed date.

The platter was great for the imagination - it was great for business-

Billy had told the new customer "shouters are down the street" as Billy talked to the new customer code named "Uncle Harry" over the phone "if you've got the idea now you can wander up to room 4256, she'll be waiting"

Uncle Harry stood up straight at the "Society Cafe" bar and pushed back his beer and left Charlie the bartender a ten dollar tip.

Sadie had very good instincts, he wasn't a cop, he was a John.

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The headline on the website Pravda trumpeted President Vladimir V. Putin’s latest coup, its nationalistic fervor recalling an era when its precursor served as the official mouthpiece of the Kremlin: “Russian Nuclear Energy Conquers the World.”

The article, in January 2013, detailed how the Russian atomic energy agency, Rosatom, had taken over a Canadian company with uranium-mining stakes stretching from Central Asia to the American West. The deal made Rosatom one of the world’s largest uranium producers and brought Mr. Putin closer to his goal of controlling much of the global uranium supply chain.

But the untold story behind that story is one that involves not just the Russian president, but also a former American president and a woman who would like to be the next one.

At the heart of the tale are several men, leaders of the Canadian mining industry, who have been major donors to the charitable endeavors of former President Bill Clinton and his family. Members of that group built, financed and eventually sold off to the Russians a company that would become known as Uranium One.

Beyond mines in Kazakhstan that are among the most lucrative in the world, the sale gave the Russians control of one-fifth of all uranium production capacity in the United States. Since uranium is considered a strategic asset, with implications for national security, the deal had to be approved by a committee composed of representatives from a number of United States government agencies. Among the agencies that eventually signed off was the State Department, then headed by Mr. Clinton’s wife, Hillary Rodham Clinton.

As the Russians gradually assumed control of Uranium One in three separate transactions from 2009 to 2013, Canadian records show, a flow of cash made its way to the Clinton Foundation. Uranium One’s chairman used his family foundation to make four donations totaling $2.35 million. Those contributions were not publicly disclosed by the Clintons, despite an agreement Mrs. Clinton had struck with the Obama White House to publicly identify all donors. Other people with ties to the company made donations as well.

And shortly after the Russians announced their intention to acquire a majority stake in Uranium One, Mr. Clinton received $500,000 for a Moscow speech from a Russian investment bank with links to the Kremlin that was promoting Uranium One stock.

Frank Giustra, right, a mining financier, has donated $31.3 million to the foundation run by former President Bill Clinton, 

At the time, both Rosatom and the United States government made promises intended to ease concerns about ceding control of the company’s assets to the Russians. Those promises have been repeatedly broken, records show.

The New York Times’s examination of the Uranium One deal is based on dozens of interviews, as well as a review of public records and securities filings in Canada, Russia and the United States. Some of the connections between Uranium One and the Clinton Foundation were unearthed by Peter Schweizer, a former fellow at the right-leaning Hoover Institution and author of the forthcoming book “Clinton Cash.” Mr. Schweizer provided a preview of material in the book to The Times, which scrutinized his information and built upon it with its own reporting.

Whether the donations played any role in the approval of the uranium deal is unknown. But the episode underscores the special ethical challenges presented by the Clinton Foundation, headed by a former president who relied heavily on foreign cash to accumulate $250 million in assets even as his wife helped steer American foreign policy as secretary of state, presiding over decisions with the potential to benefit the foundation’s donors.

In a statement, Brian Fallon, a spokesman for Mrs. Clinton’s presidential campaign, said no one “has ever produced a shred of evidence supporting the theory that Hillary Clinton ever took action as secretary of state to support the interests of donors to the Clinton Foundation.” He emphasized that multiple United States agencies, as well as the Canadian government, had signed off on the deal and that, in general, such matters were handled at a level below the secretary. “To suggest the State Department, under then-Secretary Clinton, exerted undue influence in the U.S. government’s review of the sale of Uranium One is utterly baseless,” he added.

American political campaigns are barred from accepting foreign donations. But foreigners may give to foundations in the United States. In the days since Mrs. Clinton announced her candidacy for president, the Clinton Foundation has announced changes meant to quell longstanding concerns about potential conflicts of interest in such donations; it has limited donations from foreign governments, with many, like Russia’s, barred from giving to all but its health care initiatives. That policy stops short of a more stringent agreement between Mrs. Clinton and the Obama administration that was in effect while she was secretary of state.

Either way, the Uranium One deal highlights the limits of such prohibitions. The foundation will continue to accept contributions from foreign sources whose interests, like Uranium One’s, may overlap with those of foreign governments, some of which may be at odds with the United States.

When the Uranium One deal was approved, the geopolitical backdrop was far different from today’s. The Obama administration was seeking to “reset” strained relations with Russia. The deal was strategically important to Mr. Putin, who shortly after the Americans gave their blessing sat down for a staged interview with Rosatom’s chief executive, Sergei Kiriyenko. “Few could have imagined in the past that we would own 20 percent of U.S. reserves,” Mr. Kiriyenko told Mr. Putin.

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Donations to the Clinton Foundation, and a Russian Uranium Takeover

Uranium investors gave millions to the Clinton Foundation while Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton’s office was involved in approving a Russian bid for mining assets in Kazakhstan and the United States.

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Now, after Russia’s annexation of Crimea and aggression in Ukraine, the Moscow-Washington relationship is devolving toward Cold War levels, a point several experts made in evaluating a deal so beneficial to Mr. Putin, a man known to use energy resources to project power around the world.

“Should we be concerned? Absolutely,” said Michael McFaul, who served under Mrs. Clinton as the American ambassador to Russia but said he had been unaware of the Uranium One deal until asked about it. “Do we want Putin to have a monopoly on this? Of course we don’t. We don’t want to be dependent on Putin for anything in this climate.”

A Seat at the Table

The path to a Russian acquisition of American uranium deposits began in 2005 in Kazakhstan, where the Canadian mining financier Frank Giustra orchestrated his first big uranium deal, with Mr. Clinton at his side.

The two men had flown aboard Mr. Giustra’s private jet to Almaty, Kazakhstan, where they dined with the authoritarian president, Nursultan A. Nazarbayev. Mr. Clinton handed the Kazakh president a propaganda coup when he expressed support for Mr. Nazarbayev’s bid to head an international elections monitoring group, undercutting American foreign policy and criticism of Kazakhstan’s poor human rights record by, among others, his wife, then a senator.

Within days of the visit, Mr. Giustra’s fledgling company, UrAsia Energy Ltd., signed a preliminary deal giving it stakes in three uranium mines controlled by the state-run uranium agency Kazatomprom.

If the Kazakh deal was a major victory, UrAsia did not wait long before resuming the hunt. In 2007, it merged with Uranium One, a South African company with assets in Africa and Australia, in what was described as a $3.5 billion transaction. The new company, which kept the Uranium One name, was controlled by UrAsia investors including Ian Telfer, a Canadian who became chairman. Through a spokeswoman, Mr. Giustra, whose personal stake in the deal was estimated at about $45 million, said he sold his stake in 2007.

Soon, Uranium One began to snap up companies with assets in the United States. In April 2007, it announced the purchase of a uranium mill in Utah and more than 38,000 acres of uranium exploration properties in four Western states, followed quickly by the acquisition of the Energy Metals Corporation and its uranium holdings in Wyoming, Texas and Utah. That deal made clear that Uranium One was intent on becoming “a powerhouse in the United States uranium sector with the potential to become the domestic supplier of choice for U.S. utilities,” the company declared.

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Ian Telfer was chairman of Uranium One and made large donations to the Clinton Foundation. Credit Galit Rodan/Bloomberg, via Getty Images

Still, the company’s story was hardly front-page news in the United States — until early 2008, in the midst of Mrs. Clinton’s failed presidential campaign, when The Times published an article revealing the 2005 trip’s link to Mr. Giustra’s Kazakhstan mining deal. It also reported that several months later, Mr. Giustra had donated $31.3 million to Mr. Clinton’s foundation.

(In a statement issued after this article appeared online, Mr. Giustra said he was “extremely proud” of his charitable work with Mr. Clinton, and he urged the media to focus on poverty, health care and “the real challenges of the world.”)

Though the 2008 article quoted the former head of Kazatomprom, Moukhtar Dzhakishev, as saying that the deal required government approval and was discussed at a dinner with the president, Mr. Giustra insisted that it was a private transaction, with no need for Mr. Clinton’s influence with Kazakh officials. He described his relationship with Mr. Clinton as motivated solely by a shared interest in philanthropy.

As if to underscore the point, five months later Mr. Giustra held a fund-raiser for the Clinton Giustra Sustainable Growth Initiative, a project aimed at fostering progressive environmental and labor practices in the natural resources industry, to which he had pledged $100 million. The star-studded gala, at a conference center in Toronto, featured performances by Elton John and Shakira and celebrities like Tom Cruise, John Travolta and Robin Williams encouraging contributions from the many so-called F.O.F.s — Friends of Frank — in attendance, among them Mr. Telfer. In all, the evening generated $16 million in pledges, according to an article in The Globe and Mail.

“None of this would have been possible if Frank Giustra didn’t have a remarkable combination of caring and modesty, of vision and energy and iron determination,” Mr. Clinton told those gathered, adding: “I love this guy, and you should, too.”

But what had been a string of successes was about to hit a speed bump.

Arrest and Progress

By June 2009, a little over a year after the star-studded evening in Toronto, Uranium One’s stock was in free-fall, down 40 percent. Mr. Dzhakishev, the head of Kazatomprom, had just been arrested on charges that he illegally sold uranium deposits to foreign companies, including at least some of those won by Mr. Giustra’s UrAsia and now owned by Uranium One.

Publicly, the company tried to reassure shareholders. Its chief executive, Jean Nortier, issued a confident statement calling the situation a “complete misunderstanding.” He also contradicted Mr. Giustra’s contention that the uranium deal had not required government blessing. “When you do a transaction in Kazakhstan, you need the government’s approval,” he said, adding that UrAsia had indeed received that approval.

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Bill Clinton met with Vladimir V. Putin in Moscow in 2010. Credit Mikhail Metzel/Associated Press

But privately, Uranium One officials were worried they could lose their joint mining ventures. American diplomatic cables made public by WikiLeaks also reflect concerns that Mr. Dzhakishev’s arrest was part of a Russian power play for control of Kazakh uranium assets.

At the time, Russia was already eying a stake in Uranium One, Rosatom company documents show. Rosatom officials say they were seeking to acquire mines around the world because Russia lacks sufficient domestic reserves to meet its own industry needs.

It was against this backdrop that the Vancouver-based Uranium One pressed the American Embassy in Kazakhstan, as well as Canadian diplomats, to take up its cause with Kazakh officials, according to the American cables.

“We want more than a statement to the press,” Paul Clarke, a Uranium One executive vice president, told the embassy’s energy officer on June 10, the officer reported in a cable. “That is simply chitchat.” What the company needed, Mr. Clarke said, was official written confirmation that the licenses were valid.

The American Embassy ultimately reported to the secretary of state, Mrs. Clinton. Though the Clarke cable was copied to her, it was given wide circulation, and it is unclear if she would have read it; the Clinton campaign did not address questions about the cable.

What is clear is that the embassy acted, with the cables showing that the energy officer met with Kazakh officials to discuss the issue on June 10 and 11.

Three days later, a wholly owned subsidiary of Rosatom completed a deal for 17 percent of Uranium One. And within a year, the Russian government substantially upped the ante, with a generous offer to shareholders that would give it a 51 percent controlling stake. But first, Uranium One had to get the American government to sign off on the deal.

Among the Donors to the Clinton Foundation

Frank Giustra

$31.3 million and a pledge for $100 million more

He built a company that later merged with Uranium One.

Ian Telfer

$2.35 million

Mining investor who was chairman of Uranium One when an arm of the Russian government, Rosatom, acquired it.

Paul Reynolds

$1 million to $5 million

Adviser on 2007 UrAsia-Uranium One merger. Later helped raise $260 million for the company.

Frank Holmes

$250,000 to $500,000

Chief Executive of U.S. Global Investors Inc., which held $4.7 million in Uranium One shares in the first quarter of 2011.

Neil Woodyer

$50,000 to $100,000

Adviser to Uranium One. Founded Endeavour Mining with Mr. Giustra.

GMP Securities Ltd.

Donating portion of profits

Worked on debt issue that raised $260 million for Uranium One.

The Power to Say No

When a company controlled by the Chinese government sought a 51 percent stake in a tiny Nevada gold mining operation in 2009, it set off a secretive review process in Washington, where officials raised concerns primarily about the mine’s proximity to a military installation, but also about the potential for minerals at the site, including uranium, to come under Chinese control. The officials killed the deal.

Such is the power of the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States. The committee comprises some of the most powerful members of the cabinet, including the attorney general, the secretaries of the Treasury, Defense, Homeland Security, Commerce and Energy, and the secretary of state. They are charged with reviewing any deal that could result in foreign control of an American business or asset deemed important to national security.

The national security issue at stake in the Uranium One deal was not primarily about nuclear weapons proliferation; the United States and Russia had for years cooperated on that front, with Russia sending enriched fuel from decommissioned warheads to be used in American nuclear power plants in return for raw uranium.

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Instead, it concerned American dependence on foreign uranium sources. While the United States gets one-fifth of its electrical power from nuclear plants, it produces only around 20 percent of the uranium it needs, and most plants have only 18 to 36 months of reserves, according to Marin Katusa, author of “The Colder War: How the Global Energy Trade Slipped From America’s Grasp.”

“The Russians are easily winning the uranium war, and nobody’s talking about it,” said Mr. Katusa, who explores the implications of the Uranium One deal in his book. “It’s not just a domestic issue but a foreign policy issue, too.”

When ARMZ, an arm of Rosatom, took its first 17 percent stake in Uranium One in 2009, the two parties signed an agreement, found in securities filings, to seek the foreign investment committee’s review. But it was the 2010 deal, giving the Russians a controlling 51 percent stake, that set off alarm bells. Four members of the House of Representatives signed a letter expressing concern. Two more began pushing legislation to kill the deal.

Senator John Barrasso, a Republican from Wyoming, where Uranium One’s largest American operation was, wrote to President Obama, saying the deal “would give the Russian government control over a sizable portion of America’s uranium production capacity.”

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President Putin during a meeting with Rosatom’s chief executive, Sergei Kiriyenko, in December 2007. Credit Dmitry Astakhov/Ria Novosti, via Agence France-Presse — Getty Images

“Equally alarming,” Mr. Barrasso added, “this sale gives ARMZ a significant stake in uranium mines in Kazakhstan.”

Uranium One’s shareholders were also alarmed, and were “afraid of Rosatom as a Russian state giant,” Sergei Novikov, a company spokesman, recalled in an interview. He said Rosatom’s chief, Mr. Kiriyenko, sought to reassure Uranium One investors, promising that Rosatom would not break up the company and would keep the same management, including Mr. Telfer, the chairman. Another Rosatom official said publicly that it did not intend to increase its investment beyond 51 percent, and that it envisioned keeping Uranium One a public company

American nuclear officials, too, seemed eager to assuage fears. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission wrote to Mr. Barrasso assuring him that American uranium would be preserved for domestic use, regardless of who owned it.

“In order to export uranium from the United States, Uranium One Inc. or ARMZ would need to apply for and obtain a specific NRC license authorizing the export of uranium for use as reactor fuel,” the letter said.

Still, the ultimate authority to approve or reject the Russian acquisition rested with the cabinet officials on the foreign investment committee, including Mrs. Clinton — whose husband was collecting millions in donations from people associated with Uranium One.

Undisclosed Donations

Before Mrs. Clinton could assume her post as secretary of state, the White House demanded that she sign a memorandum of understanding placing limits on the activities of her husband’s foundation. To avoid the perception of conflicts of interest, beyond the ban on foreign government donations, the foundation was required to publicly disclose all contributors.

To judge from those disclosures — which list the contributions in ranges rather than precise amounts — the only Uranium One official to give to the Clinton Foundation was Mr. Telfer, the chairman, and the amount was relatively small: no more than $250,000, and that was in 2007, before talk of a Rosatom deal began percolating.

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Uranium One’s Russian takeover was approved by the United States while Hillary Rodham Clinton was secretary of state. Credit Doug Mills/The New York Times

But a review of tax records in Canada, where Mr. Telfer has a family charity called the Fernwood Foundation, shows that he donated millions of dollars more, during and after the critical time when the foreign investment committee was reviewing his deal with the Russians. With the Russians offering a special dividend, shareholders like Mr. Telfer stood to profit.

His donations through the Fernwood Foundation included $1 million reported in 2009, the year his company appealed to the American Embassy to help it keep its mines in Kazakhstan; $250,000 in 2010, the year the Russians sought majority control; as well as $600,000 in 2011 and $500,000 in 2012. Mr. Telfer said that his donations had nothing to do with his business dealings, and that he had never discussed Uranium One with Mr. or Mrs. Clinton. He said he had given the money because he wanted to support Mr. Giustra’s charitable endeavors with Mr. Clinton. “Frank and I have been friends and business partners for almost 20 years,” he said.

The Clinton campaign left it to the foundation to reply to questions about the Fernwood donations; the foundation did not provide a response.

Mr. Telfer’s undisclosed donations came in addition to between $1.3 million and $5.6 million in contributions, which were reported, from a constellation of people with ties to Uranium One or UrAsia, the company that originally acquired Uranium One’s most valuable asset: the Kazakh mines. Without those assets, the Russians would have had no interest in the deal: “It wasn’t the goal to buy the Wyoming mines. The goal was to acquire the Kazakh assets, which are very good,” Mr. Novikov, the Rosatom spokesman, said in an interview.

Amid this influx of Uranium One-connected money, Mr. Clinton was invited to speak in Moscow in June 2010, the same month Rosatom struck its deal for a majority stake in Uranium One.

The $500,000 fee — among Mr. Clinton’s highest — was paid by Renaissance Capital, a Russian investment bank with ties to the Kremlin that has invited world leaders, including Tony Blair, the former British prime minister, to speak at its investor conferences.

Renaissance Capital analysts talked up Uranium One’s stock, assigning it a “buy” rating and saying in a July 2010 research report that it was “the best play” in the uranium markets. In addition, Renaissance Capital turned up that same year as a major donor, along with Mr. Giustra and several companies linked to Uranium One or UrAsia, to a small medical charity in Colorado run by a friend of Mr. Giustra’s. In a newsletter to supporters, the friend credited Mr. Giustra with helping get donations from “businesses around the world.”

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John Christensen sold the mining rights on his ranch in Wyoming to Uranium One. Credit Matthew Staver for The New York Times

Renaissance Capital would not comment on the genesis of Mr. Clinton’s speech to an audience that included leading Russian officials, or on whether it was connected to the Rosatom deal. According to a Russian government news service, Mr. Putin personally thanked Mr. Clinton for speaking.

A person with knowledge of the Clinton Foundation’s fund-raising operation, who requested anonymity to speak candidly about it, said that for many people, the hope is that money will in fact buy influence: “Why do you think they are doing it — because they love them?” But whether it actually does is another question. And in this case, there were broader geopolitical pressures that likely came into play as the United States considered whether to approve the Rosatom-Uranium One deal.

Diplomatic Considerations

If doing business with Rosatom was good for those in the Uranium One deal, engaging with Russia was also a priority of the incoming Obama administration, which was hoping for a new era of cooperation as Mr. Putin relinquished the presidency — if only for a term — to Dmitri A. Medvedev.

“The assumption was we could engage Russia to further core U.S. national security interests,” said Mr. McFaul, the former ambassador.

It started out well. The two countries made progress on nuclear proliferation issues, and expanded use of Russian territory to resupply American forces in Afghanistan. Keeping Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon was among the United States’ top priorities, and in June 2010 Russia signed off on a United Nations resolution imposing tough new sanctions on that country.

Two months later, the deal giving ARMZ a controlling stake in Uranium One was submitted to the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States for review. Because of the secrecy surrounding the process, it is hard to know whether the participants weighed the desire to improve bilateral relations against the potential risks of allowing the Russian government control over the biggest uranium producer in the United States. The deal was ultimately approved in October, following what two people involved in securing the approval said had been a relatively smooth process.

Not all of the committee’s decisions are personally debated by the agency heads themselves; in less controversial cases, deputy or assistant secretaries may sign off. But experts and former committee members say Russia’s interest in Uranium One and its American uranium reserves seemed to warrant attention at the highest levels.

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Moukhtar Dzhakishev was arrested in 2009 while the chief of Kazatomprom. Credit Daniel Acker/Bloomberg, via Getty Images

“This deal had generated press, it had captured the attention of Congress and it was strategically important,” said Richard Russell, who served on the committee during the George W. Bush administration. “When I was there invariably any one of those conditions would cause this to get pushed way up the chain, and here you had all three.”

And Mrs. Clinton brought a reputation for hawkishness to the process; as a senator, she was a vocal critic of the committee’s approval of a deal that would have transferred the management of major American seaports to a company based in the United Arab Emirates, and as a presidential candidate she had advocated legislation to strengthen the process.

The Clinton campaign spokesman, Mr. Fallon, said that in general, these matters did not rise to the secretary’s level. He would not comment on whether Mrs. Clinton had been briefed on the matter, but he gave The Times a statement from the former assistant secretary assigned to the foreign investment committee at the time, Jose Fernandez. While not addressing the specifics of the Uranium One deal, Mr. Fernandez said, “Mrs. Clinton never intervened with me on any C.F.I.U.S. matter.”

Mr. Fallon also noted that if any agency had raised national security concerns about the Uranium One deal, it could have taken them directly to the president.

Anne-Marie Slaughter, the State Department’s director of policy planning at the time, said she was unaware of the transaction — or the extent to which it made Russia a dominant uranium supplier. But speaking generally, she urged caution in evaluating its wisdom in hindsight.

“Russia was not a country we took lightly at the time or thought was cuddly,” she said. “But it wasn’t the adversary it is today.”

That renewed adversarial relationship has raised concerns about European dependency on Russian energy resources, including nuclear fuel. The unease reaches beyond diplomatic circles. In Wyoming, where Uranium One equipment is scattered across his 35,000-acre ranch, John Christensen is frustrated that repeated changes in corporate ownership over the years led to French, South African, Canadian and, finally, Russian control over mining rights on his property.

“I hate to see a foreign government own mining rights here in the United States,” he said. “I don’t think that should happen.”

Mr. Christensen, 65, noted that despite assurances by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission that uranium could not leave the country without Uranium One or ARMZ obtaining an export license — which they do not have — yellowcake from his property was routinely packed into drums and trucked off to a processing plant in Canada.

Asked about that, the commission confirmed that Uranium One has, in fact, shipped yellowcake to Canada even though it does not have an export license. Instead, the transport company doing the shipping, RSB Logistic Services, has the license. A commission spokesman said that “to the best of our knowledge” most of the uranium sent to Canada for processing was returned for use in the United States. A Uranium One spokeswoman, Donna Wichers, said 25 percent had gone to Western Europe and Japan. At the moment, with the uranium market in a downturn, nothing is being shipped from the Wyoming mines.

The “no export” assurance given at the time of the Rosatom deal is not the only one that turned out to be less than it seemed. Despite pledges to the contrary, Uranium One was delisted from the Toronto Stock Exchange and taken private. As of 2013, Rosatom’s subsidiary, ARMZ, owned 100 percent of it.

On Jan. 3, outgoing Attorney General Loretta Lynch secretly signed an order directing the National Security Agency -- America’s 60,000-person-strong domestic spying apparatus

On Jan. 3, outgoing Attorney General Loretta Lynch secretly signed an order directing the National Security Agency -- America’s 60,000-person-strong domestic spying apparatus -- to make available raw spying data to all other federal intelligence agencies, which then can pass it on to their counterparts in foreign countries and in the 50 states upon request. She did so, she claimed, for administrative convenience. Yet in doing this, she violated basic constitutional principles that were erected centuries ago to prevent just what she did.

Here is the back story.

In the aftermath of former President Richard Nixon’s abusive utilization of the FBI and CIA to spy on his domestic political opponents in the 1960s and '70s -- and after Nixon had resigned from office in the wake of all that -- Congress passed the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, which created a secret court that was charged with being the sole authority in America that can authorize domestic spying for non-law enforcement purposes.

The standard for a FISA court authorization was that the subject of the spying needed to be a foreign person in the United States who was an agent of a foreign power. It could be a foreign janitor in a foreign embassy, a foreign spy masquerading as a diplomat, even a foreign journalist working for a media outlet owned by a foreign government.

The American spies needed a search warrant from the FISA court. Contrary to the Constitution, the search warrant was given based not on probable cause of crime but rather on probable cause of the status of the person as an agent of a foreign power. This slight change from “probable cause of crime” to “probable cause of foreign agency” began the slippery slope that brought us to Lynch’s terrible order of Jan. 3.

After the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, numerous other statutes were enacted that made spying easier and that continued to erode the right to be left alone guaranteed by the Fourth Amendment.

The Patriot Act permitted FBI agents to write their own search warrants for business records (including medical, legal, postal and banking records), and amendments to FISA itself changed the wording from probable cause “of foreign agency” to probable cause of being “a foreign person” to all Americans who may “communicate with a foreign person.”

As if Americans were children, Congress made those sleight-of-hand changes with no hoopla and little serious debate. Our very elected representatives -- who took an oath to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution -- instead perverted it.

It gets worse.

The recent USA Freedom Act permits the NSA to ask the FISA court for a search warrant for any person -- named or unnamed -- based on the standard of “governmental need.” One FISA court-issued warrant I saw authorized the surveillance of all 115 million domestic customers of Verizon. The governmental need standard is no standard at all, as the government will always claim that what it wants, it needs.

All these statutes and unauthorized spying practices have brought us to where we were on Jan. 2 -- namely, with the NSA having a standard operating procedure of capturing every keystroke on every computer and mobile device, every telephone conversation on every landline and cellphone, and all domestic electronic traffic -- including medical, legal and banking records -- of every person in America 24/7, without knowing of or showing any wrongdoing on the part of those spied upon.

The NSA can use data from your cellphone to learn where you are, and it can utilize your cellphone as a listening device to hear your in-person conversations, even if you have turned it off -- that is, if you still have one of the older phones that can be turned off.

Notwithstanding all of the above gross violations of personal liberty and constitutional norms, the NSA traditionally kept its data -- if printed, enough to fill the Library of Congress every year -- to itself. So if an agency such as the FBI or the DEA or the New Jersey State Police, for example, wanted any of the data acquired by the NSA for law enforcement purposes, it needed to get a search warrant from a federal judge based on the constitutional standard of “probable cause of crime.”

Until now.

Now, because of the Lynch secret order, revealed by The New York Times late last week, the NSA may share any of its data with any other intelligence agency or law enforcement agency that has an intelligence arm based on -- you guessed it -- the non-standard of governmental need.

So President Barack Obama, in the death throes of his time in the White House, has delivered perhaps his harshest blow to constitutional freedom by permitting his attorney general to circumvent the Fourth Amendment, thereby enabling people in law enforcement to get whatever they want about whomever they wish without a showing of probable cause of crime as the Fourth Amendment requires. That amendment expressly forbids the use of general warrants -- search where you wish and seize what you find -- and they had never been a lawful tool of law enforcement until Lynch's order.

Down the slope we have come, with the destruction of liberty in the name of safety by elected and appointed government officials. At a time when the constitutionally recognized right to privacy was in its infancy, Justice Louis Brandeis warned all who love freedom about its slow demise. He wrote: “Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the Government's purposes are beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded rulers. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding.”

Someday we will learn why Obama did this. I hope that when we do, it is at a time when we still have personal liberty in a free society.

Andrew P. Napolitano, a former judge of the Superior Court of New Jersey, is the senior judicial analyst at Fox News Channel. 

Not A Joke, 200,000 Soldiers Gone - Really A.W.O.L. Soldiers - The 200,000 soldiers, still on the payroll, 70 Billion Dollars Gone Barack Obama John Kerry Hillary Cllinton

200,000 Soldiers, will never fight, the Ghost Army but the Real Payroll of Barack Obama, John Kerry and Hillary Clinton.  U.S. Forces-Afghanistan maintained in June 2016 that Afghan troop end strength stood at 319,595 troops, a figure which doesn’t even include civilians, but an Afghan official has contradicted that number, saying instead that “the best internal estimate put the number around 120,000, less than a third of what is needed to secure the country.”    http://www.ClintonTarium.Com  

Who's getting all the cash money?

The enemies of America are being funded by Barack Obama.

The cash money moves to Afghanistan, some $80 Billion Dollars and then goes missing.  Some say the cash circles around the world.. Clinton Foundation, Islamic Radicals. 

U.S. Forces-Afghanistan maintained in June 2016 that Afghan troop end strength stood at 319,595 troops, a figure which doesn’t even include civilians, but an Afghan official has contradicted that number, saying instead that “the best internal estimate put the number around 120,000, less than a third of what is needed to secure the country.”

To prevent exposure of that secret supply line, and collateral damage to Hillary Clinton – who joined Lafarge board in 1990,

La Farge helped funnel weapons to Saddam Hussein during Clinton’s tenure:

“provided key services for the covert arms export network that supplied Saddam Hussein. To prevent exposure of that secret supply line, and collateral damage to Hillary Clinton – who joined Lafarge board in 1990, just as the arms pipeline was being shut down… the Justice Department was told to bury the investigation… But investigators from other US government agencies who worked on the case say they were ‘waved off’ whenever they got too close to exposing the direct involvement of the intelligence community in the arms export scheme.”

Deep inside the secret basement of the Federal Court House in Minneapolis Doris Olson tried her best to spin the tumbler in the right order this time that would override the time lock.

It was a vault, the kind you would see in an old time bank on main street America in the 1920's.  It had the giant polished round vault door with huge hinges that a grown man could walk through without bending over, and the many dials on the front controlling the time locking mechanism.

The hapless Secretary of State employee heard the commands but she could hardly breathe let alone stop looking at the muzzle of the revolver pointed right between her eyes.

It was old time terror of being shot in the face that kept her froze as the gunman ordered her again to override the vault timing system and open the giant vault door.

Deep inside the secret basement of the Federal Court House in Minneapolis Doris Olson tried her best to spin the tumbler in the right order this time that would override the time lock.

If Doris got the combination right this time the locking mechanisms inside the vault would release the giant steel locking bars thus bypassing the time lock.

Doris Olson was the under Secretary of State for Hillary Rodham Clinton and she was equipped with a quick mind and the thirty seven year old had a lean fit body but the revolver stopped her cold.

The basement was like a steel and concrete prison deep underground and the gunmen had entered the Federal Court House through the back doors and had killed the one armed security guard.

They pointed their pistols and shouted their commands and now Doris Olson and the leader of the bastards were standing in front of the Secret State Department Vault in Minneapolis that only a few in the Barack Obama government knew existed.

When Doris Olson dialed in the wrong combination the basement vault room silently started to fill with carbon dioxide that would in time force any living person to faint first and then die for the lack of breathable oxygen without any ill effects, it was the silent killer that protected the vault and its secrets.

Doris Olson was a patent attorney that had bundled big donor dollars for Barack Obama so the White House had forced Hillary Clinton to hire her at the State Department claiming Doris was practical and efficient. Hillary Clinton, Secretary of State, knew that President Barack Obama had placed dozens of human insurance policies inside the State Department to keep a sharp eye on Hillary Clinton, Bill Clinton and the Clinton Foundation.

Hillary Clinton didn't care about practical and efficient she didn't want Doris Olson around her husband with those long slender legs and short dresses.  Hillary decided that Doris Olson would be the perfect vault manager in Minneapolis so Doris received three days of orientation in Washington D.C. and was flown off to the Federal Court House Vault deep in the basement.

Hillary Clinton had made many grave mistakes as Secretary of State for Barack Obama and the American voters were taking their revenge concerning the Benghazi Libya massacre and Hillary's secret home based computer email server that had been hacked by Russia and China and maybe Iran.

But Hillary Clinton's biggest mistake was to transfer Doris Olson to Minneapolis and give her the combinations to the State Department Vault buried deep underground in the basement of the Federal Court House.

Doris could hear the ventilator cut off above her but she was sure nobody else would notice.  She also knew that the room was filling with carbon dioxide and no fresh air was being pumped into the room, it was just a matter of time she would feel sleepy, then faint away and in ten minutes be dead.

She also heard the electric motors inside the vault activate which meant she activated the locking mechanism to open the door and she could hear the steel rods move firmly into their new open position.

The burglary proof vault was now wide open and the leader of the bastards sent in three men with burlap bags as the hermetically sealed vault pushed out the last pure air into the outer room.

The men inserted their key-rods into very specific inner vault doors like giant safety deposit boxes and started tossing the aged paper files into their bags.  Doris could not see their faces as they all wore black military uniforms and full face masks so she could only see their eyes.

Doris Olsen was shocked to see all the bastards take out their self contained breathing apparatus masks and tanks and start taking big breaths on fresh air out of their portable tanks.

Doris knew the exact files they were stealing and she could also feel the physical torment of her lungs as breathing was starting to be difficult.

Doris knew she only had minutes before the confusion would become pain and then death. Doris watched the bastards open up all the "Incendiary" inner vaults and load up the hundreds of paper files when she became convinced that this was a political hit job and not just murder and robbery.

She saw the bastards open up the most sensitive inner vaults but when they opened up the "Whitewashed" steel vault within the giant outer vault it stopped her faster than the revolver that was still pointed at her.

Doris Olsen a Harvard educated lawyer had been reading all the Incendiary and Whitewashed files for several months and had even managed to create her own private file scanned copies that she held for her own insurance policy. 

The Incendiary Files were about the Clinton's so Doris was just about sure that Hillary Clinton had sent in her own squad to capture and destroy the files, but the Whitewashed files were about Barack Obama and his real life story and mission as President of the United States so these two martyrs "Clinton" and  "Obama" was really a story like the Hatfield's and the McCoy's. They lived on the same mountain but they would put a bullet in your head if you crossed the line.

Doris knew that Hillary Clinton was a sadist and she loved to inflict pain on her enemies and she had thousands.  The Incendiary files on the Clinton's would ruin any chance of her becoming president as American society could not handle the truth.

Doris Olsen was better off a thousand miles from Washington D.C. as remotely she had created her own files that could bury the Clinton's and the Obama's so she had comfort thinking about her future and restoring her own self-respect after the humiliations Bill Clinton had offered her with his pants down on her second day of orientation after the White House luncheon.

He had degraded her and showed his true racism when he told Doris "you black honey's like this." as his longing was Doris's suffering as she offered him real sex which would be something more worthwhile than her mouth.

She knew the Clinton's believed in Sanger's racism against Negroes and unfortunately Doris had to sexually service Bill and unfortunately he often flew to Minneapolis with little notice.

Bill liked to offer up pain during sex with his biting and pushing so Doris would feel guilty for days as he liked the idea of whipping during sex which really made Doris feel like a slave as she escaped within her own mind during their love making.

What loomed larger was that Hillary Clinton would find out and offer Doris that personal touch which might mean a bullet with a pillow over her face.

Doris would completely submit her body to Bill and at times with great difficulty pretend to enjoy his insistence that she take a long bath with him to purify her body of sin and offer him a sense of cleanness which turned him on.  Doris also knew that a bath afterward would eliminate all the DNA  sperm evidence of his visits, something he learned from Monica.

Cruelly she was the slave of Bill and since the ancient times the black women would lay down and the white owner would enter her and be used without any responsibility. The worse he treated Doris the more he enjoyed it and in all fairness to him she knew he was a criminal.

Her mind was civilized and intelligent but she felt her mussels tighten reverting to that old jungle training she had received in the Army for six years before college.  Doris Olsen was not violent and loved animals and children but deep down she knew she might fall unconscious in the next few minutes and die in this hole the government called a basement.

The pleasant and kindly Doris Olsen was about to kill the bastard with the revolver and just like her marriage it would be intense and over very quickly.

The need for survival and life itself was moving her and she could feel the violence and training move through her body deferring to the guidance of her wise hand to hand Army combat mentor all those years ago.

He taught her to start with total violence and never play with your target, that was just for Hollywood.  Hit the throat she thought and then again and hurt him, kill him and get the gun.

It started well enough as Doris Olsen chopped his throat several times but his breathing hose took away some of the force but the bastard with the gun was fully surprised and was not ready for the absolute violence.

The bastard was in pain and his grim future helped him fight back but the pain Doris was giving him forced him to obey the violent blows being applied against him and he fell to the floor and dropped the pistol that Doris reached for and controlled.

The bastard was down and battered and Doris had the gun and she fired three shots into her tormentor and turned the pistol on the men inside the vault.

The men inside the vault were like prisoners with no room to hide so they were forced to obey Doris and her commands as it occurred to her to push the blue button on the far wall to release fresh air into the room.

She held her aim against the men in the vault and almost crawled to the blue button and pushed it, but it was too late.

Her lungs were asking for more and more oxygen but when Doris woke up she was in an ambulance being taken to the hospital in a caravan of police cars and black government S.U.V.'s, but she was alive.

She was also bruised and battered as the men inside the vault almost beat her to death as she fainted after she pressed the blue fresh air button and dropped her pistol.

..

Doris Olsen was unhappy, frustrated and tormented eight days later answering her home phone as she took the personal call from Hillary Clinton and with some satisfaction spoke on equal terms.  Hillary wished her a speedy recovery and swore she would find the men that had done this to her and that she was very proud of her for refusing to bow down to the bastards.

Doris received another call from the Start Department that day confirming her appointment with a psychiatrist that could help her with the unraveling and the intricacies of her deadly experience in the basement. 

Doris knew that she was in for a series of doctor-patient sessions with some government psychiatrist to help her probe the dark regions of her mind that killed the bastard with the gun.

They would want to talk about the little Doris Olsen that grew up outside of Atlanta Georgia on the wrong side of the railroad tracks and her stern father that not only instilled Army Sergeant fear inside his little girl but also love.  They would want to learn all about her repression by the White Man that might leave her unable to cope with the White Man's world.

The would want to dig around her marriage and her fear of sex that caused her not to have normal relations with her husband for several years and at last all about killing the bastard with the gun.

Doris held a strange fantasy about her life and career but when she got the job at the State Department her strange fantasy started to come true.  Her pre college Army life, her college years, her Harvard degree and then the State Department job was very real so as her father had taught her, it was about results not effort.

Her father's puritanical teachings mixed with his military gusto gave her courage and now she had the real life experience of life and death, it was a bit overwhelming. She could remember her father barking at her which seemed violent at the time but she also remembers him whispering to her mother about how proud he was of his little baby, she was a daddy's girl.

The government would dive deep into her subconscious mind but only her father could reach that deep and he was sleeping on the couch in the living room this very moment, looking like he had a god-like right to guard his daughter and he wasn't planning on leaving any time soon.

..

Andy Ledger, FBI Special Agent was assigned the task of investigating the Federal Court Building Vault Robbery directly by the FBI Director James Comey. 

The policies that governed these secret investigations were very clear in that Andy Ledger FBI was to investigate and only report his findings to the Director of the FBI in Washington D.C.

After all these years with the FBI Andy Ledger knew the Director in a professional sense but the Director was also the same person that could make or break you in five minutes or less so being called to his office was somewhat unnerving.

As soon as Doris Olsen got her freedom from the State Department psychiatrists Andy Ledger could spend some time with her and write his reports.