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Cash Flowed to Clinton Foundation as Russians Pressed for Control of Uranium Company

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This is the second story like this I've come across this morning... At this rate, I don't think Hillary will ever make it to election day.


Cash Flowed to Clinton Foundation as Russians Pressed for Control of Uranium Company
By JO BECKER and MIKE McINTIRE APRIL 23, 2015
The New York Times

Excerpt


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.


Frank Giustra, left, with former President Bill Clinton at a Clinton Foundation news conference in 2007. Credit Shannon Stapleton/Reuters
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.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/24/u....html?partner=socialflow&smid=tw-nytimes&_r=2
 
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This is the second story like this I've come across this morning... At this rate, I don't think Hillary will ever make it to election day.

The most significant part of that story is that it is printed in the New York Times. Hillary's defenders have abandoned her.
 
Re: Cash Flowed to Clinton Foundation as Russians Pressed for Control of Uranium Comp

The most significant part of that story is that it is printed in the New York Times. Hillary's defenders have abandoned her.

The other one was from Newsweek... That's sure going to make it difficult for Hillary and those on the left to write these scandals off as right-wing attacks.
 
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The other one was from Newsweek... That's sure going to make it difficult for Hillary and those on the left to write these scandals off as right-wing attacks.

:shrug: it didn't stop them before, claiming that the servergate story was right-wing-rubbish coming from.... the WaPo and NYTimes.....

The willingness to be blinded is strong in those who feel that they have no choice but Hillary. I just hope that OMalley doesn't win without coming out too scarred.
 
Re: Cash Flowed to Clinton Foundation as Russians Pressed for Control of Uranium Comp

More from the story:

Whether the donations played any role in the approval of the uranium deal is unknown.​

And if it did what difference does it make.
 
Re: Cash Flowed to Clinton Foundation as Russians Pressed for Control of Uranium Comp

This is the second story like this I've come across this morning... At this rate, I don't think Hillary will ever make it to election day.


http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/24/u....html?partner=socialflow&smid=tw-nytimes&_r=2

I just wanted to add this article to yours:

"....What's more troubling about the situation is that Clinton failed to disclose, as she had promised to do when she joined the State Department, a number of big contributions to Bill Clinton's foundation. New York Times reporters Jo Becker and Mike McIntire had to go through Canadian tax records to track down these donations from a number of Uranium One investors.

One can only guess at the reasons the contributions, totaling millions of dollars, were kept quiet, but perhaps the idea was to avoid precisely the kind of story the New York Times produced, hinting at a Clinton family interest in helping a businessman friend. Frank Giustra, a founder of the company that became Uranium One and a big donor to the foundation, is indeed friendly with Bill Clinton. They even traveled to Kazakhstan together when Giustra's company acquired its interest in uranium mines there. And Rosatom did pay a 30 percent premium to the market price of Uranium One shares....."

Hillary Did Nothing Wrong, Tried to Hide It - Bloomberg View

I would advise reading the whole article.
 
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And if it did what difference does it make.

The major problem to me is the failure to be open and transparent. We do not need a cover-up President and that is how the Missus has acted since she was a lawyer back home on the range.
 
Re: Cash Flowed to Clinton Foundation as Russians Pressed for Control of Uranium Comp

And if it did what difference does it make.

Boy are you clever.:lamo
 
Re: Cash Flowed to Clinton Foundation as Russians Pressed for Control of Uranium Comp

This is the second story like this I've come across this morning... At this rate, I don't think Hillary will ever make it to election day.




http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/24/u....html?partner=socialflow&smid=tw-nytimes&_r=2

ah, NOW such contributions are seen as bribes

when the supreme court took up the citizens united case your side found contributions to be a form of free speech

what changed
 
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Boy are you clever.:lamo

I have said before, Hillery is her worst enemy. And she and her campaign will not survive.
 
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Hillary and Bill should be arrested and their foundation should be confiscated and the assets rolled into our defense department.

The punishment for this treason should be that they spent the rest of their lives in the same cell.
 
Re: Cash Flowed to Clinton Foundation as Russians Pressed for Control of Uranium Comp

I have said before, Hillery is her worst enemy. And she and her campaign will not survive.
Yes I know, it will be just like Bill Clinton not winning in 1996.
 
Re: Cash Flowed to Clinton Foundation as Russians Pressed for Control of Uranium Comp

I just wanted to add this article to yours:

"....What's more troubling about the situation is that Clinton failed to disclose, as she had promised to do when she joined the State Department, a number of big contributions to Bill Clinton's foundation. New York Times reporters Jo Becker and Mike McIntire had to go through Canadian tax records to track down these donations from a number of Uranium One investors.

One can only guess at the reasons the contributions, totaling millions of dollars, were kept quiet, but perhaps the idea was to avoid precisely the kind of story the New York Times produced, hinting at a Clinton family interest in helping a businessman friend. Frank Giustra, a founder of the company that became Uranium One and a big donor to the foundation, is indeed friendly with Bill Clinton. They even traveled to Kazakhstan together when Giustra's company acquired its interest in uranium mines there. And Rosatom did pay a 30 percent premium to the market price of Uranium One shares....."

Hillary Did Nothing Wrong, Tried to Hide It - Bloomberg View

I would advise reading the whole article.



That's not all they did over there. Bilbo even undercut US Policy.



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.....snip~

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/24/u...ssed-for-control-of-uranium-company.html?_r=1
 
Re: Cash Flowed to Clinton Foundation as Russians Pressed for Control of Uranium Comp

The most significant part of that story is that it is printed in the New York Times. Hillary's defenders have abandoned her.

They're giving her the Old Yeller treatment. It's not that they don't love her, it's just her time.
 
Re: Cash Flowed to Clinton Foundation as Russians Pressed for Control of Uranium Comp

ah, NOW such contributions are seen as bribes

when the supreme court took up the citizens united case your side found contributions to be a form of free speech

what changed

LMAO... I can't believe you are actually going to pretend that donations to political campaigns by American companies, is the same as money given directly to the Clinton's (which was never disclosed), by foreign business owners who both wanted favorable treatment from the State Department... Which coincidently, they both apparently got.

If that's the talking point you all have decided to go with on this, I really hope you have a set of ear plugs, or a good pair of those noise cancelling headphones, because the spontaneous laughter that's going to break out from every corner of the country is going to be deafening.
 
Re: Cash Flowed to Clinton Foundation as Russians Pressed for Control of Uranium Comp

ah, NOW such contributions are seen as bribes

when the supreme court took up the citizens united case your side found contributions to be a form of free speech

what changed

Americans exercising free speech =/= abusing power to take bribes from foreign countries.
 
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Americans exercising free speech =/= abusing power to take bribes from foreign countries.

why were those contributions not like contributions to candidates for public office, viewed as an exercise of free speech?
 
Re: Cash Flowed to Clinton Foundation as Russians Pressed for Control of Uranium Comp

Yes I know, it will be just like Bill Clinton not winning in 1996.

Your comparing Hillery today with all her baggage against Bill in 1996, she is no Bill :doh
 
Re: Cash Flowed to Clinton Foundation as Russians Pressed for Control of Uranium Comp

Americans exercising free speech =/= abusing power to take bribes from foreign countries.

The SCOTUS Citizens United decision and the fact the Republicans didn't support the Disclose Act makes easy for foreign contries to make donations.
 
Re: Cash Flowed to Clinton Foundation as Russians Pressed for Control of Uranium Comp

The most significant part of that story is that it is printed in the New York Times. Hillary's defenders have abandoned her.

Every day we flip flop between "LIBRULS MSM hiding the truth" and "MSM is turning on LIBRULS"

I love it. Always entertaining.
 
Re: Cash Flowed to Clinton Foundation as Russians Pressed for Control of Uranium Comp

The SCOTUS Citizens United decision and the fact the Republicans didn't support the Disclose Act makes easy for foreign contries to make donations.

..... Llama's being larger than vampire bats makes it difficult for them to be carried off to be formed into nests. This results in a small percentage of accidental llama-bat crossbreeds.
 
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..... Llama's being larger than vampire bats makes it difficult for them to be carried off to be formed into nests. This results in a small percentage of accidental llama-bat crossbreeds.

Are they foreign Llama's?
 
Re: Cash Flowed to Clinton Foundation as Russians Pressed for Control of Uranium Comp

Here's a more detailed report on the Clinton's involvement in this particular incident.

 
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