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2025-12-17 Home Front: Politix
Hillary Clinton's own Russia scandal: FBI memos detail how Uranium One probe thwarted
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[JustTheNews] Running out the clock: The FBI and DOJ slow-walked their investigation into the Clinton Foundation and the sale of Uranium One to Russia-backed interests. As a result of roadblocks, the statute of limitations was allowed to lapse on any prosecution.

Federal investigators believed there was significant evidence worth pursuing related to possible criminality involving the Clinton Foundation and the State Department’s approval of the sale of Uranium One to Russian state-owned interests, but delays by the Justice Department and FBI led the inquiry to whither and die because of statute of limitations issues.
Both the Clintons are in increasingly poor health, disconnected from centers of power, and with no hope of returning from either situation. As a result, their value as elder statespeople must be rapidly declining, with income in hot, downward pursuit. It’s a good thing their daughter married money.
The sale of the Canada-based Uranium One to the Russian state-owned Rosatom was the focus of great controversy and scrutiny from Republicans and others who argued that then-Secretary of State Clinton helped approve the deal and that the Clinton Foundation may have stood to benefit from it.

Career agents and line prosecutors at the FBI and DOJ also believed the saga may have been a criminal one, but orders from DOJ leaders such as then-Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates and then-FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe slow-walked and stonewalled the inquiry to the point where it could no longer be pursued.

FBI agents and DOJ prosecutors in Little Rock, Arkansas and elsewhere closely scrutinized the scandal — but were largely blocked from serious investigative action due to leadership delays and, following those delays, arguments that the statute of limitations had run out.

Jonathan Ross, then the First Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, argued in a 2018 email that “there is no legal barrier in continuing the present investigation” into the Clinton Foundation and Uranium One. Ross has served as U.S. Attorney in Arkansas since 2022, including during Trump’s second term.

Then-U.S. Attorney Cody Hiland of Arkansas also sent a 2018 email to then-U.S. Attorney John Huber of Utah, largely summarizing Ross’s arguments, stressing that “we do not believe the prosecution is time-barred by a statute of limitations” in part “because payments from the subjects of the investigation to the Foundation were made continuously from 2007 through 2014.”

A newly-declassified internal FBI investigative timeline also argued that claims that the statute of limitations had run out on the Uranium One inquiry “failed to include whether Acts of Concealment such as deleting emails in 2015 and making additional statements and representations about those deletions would have extended the statute of limitations” and also pointed to possible federal criminal statutes such as the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act, major fraud against the United States, and bank fraud.

The timeline also argued that 18 U.S. Code § 3287 — Wartime Suspension of Statute of Limitations Act — should have extended the statute of limitations for this alleged criminality as well.

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, made the records produced to him by FBI Director Kash Patel and Attorney General Pam Bondi available to Just the News this past weekend.
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Posted by Skidmark 2025-12-17 00:00|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [1849 views ]  Top

1 Ok! A long known basket of $$$ ilegality.

SO!!! when will we see finally arrests?
Posted by NN2N1 2025-12-17 02:59||   2025-12-17 02:59|| Front Page Top

2 This sort of goes against the argument that the FBI can be reformed.
Posted by Super Hose 2025-12-17 06:00||   2025-12-17 06:00|| Front Page Top

3 Hillary's and Obama's "Reset Button" was a retraction of the Bush administration's condemnation of Russia's intervention in Georgia in 2008.

Greenlighting a cautious and methodical exploratory aggressor's aggression did lead to more aggression.

The "Russiagate" accusations against Trump were projection.
Posted by Elmerert Hupens2660 2025-12-17 08:57||   2025-12-17 08:57|| Front Page Top

4 Elmer, you're reading more and more like a feed from Claude.ai
Posted by Skidmark 2025-12-17 11:08||   2025-12-17 11:08|| Front Page Top

5 It saddens me, but doesnt surprise me.

Renegade Govt
Posted by mossomo 2025-12-17 14:34||   2025-12-17 14:34|| Front Page Top

6 Is there a time limit on flat out treason? For the Clintons, Bill Barr and FBI/DOJ staff? Asking for a tree that wants rope.
Posted by Woodrow 2025-12-17 21:47||   2025-12-17 21:47|| Front Page Top

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