Giustra denies reporting by The New York Times that he and Clinton traveled together to Almaty. President Bill Clinton where they met with Nursultan Nazarbayev, the leader of Kazakhstan. UrAsia has interests in rich uranium operations in Kazakhstan, and UrAsia Energy's acquisition of its Kazakhstan uranium interests from Kazatomprom followed a trip to Almaty in 2005 by Giustra and former U.S. Having severed ties with UrAsia Energy and Uranium One in 2007, Giustra had no evident beneficial interest in the subsequent sale of Uranium One to Rosatom in 2010. On April 20, 2007, Uranium One, a Canadian mining company with headquarters in Toronto, acquired UrAsia Energy, a Canadian firm with headquarters in Vancouver, from Frank Giustra, who then resigned from the UrAsia Energy Board of Directors. 2007: Uranium One acquired UrAsia Energy These amounts constituted the bulk of the $145 million in supposed bribes paid to the Clinton Foundation. Timeline of events 2005: $145 million alleged bribes to Clinton Foundation įrank Giustra donated $31.3 million to the Clinton Foundation, to be followed in 2007 with a pledge of at least $100 million. The Washington Post reported in January 2020 that an additional Justice Department investigation into the matter, initiated after Donald Trump took office in 2017, was winding down after finding nothing worth pursuing. Numerous Republican politicians and pundits, including President Donald Trump, insisted that the Clinton-Uranium One story was the "real" Russian scandal, rather than the matters for which the Trump administration was investigated.
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ĭespite four years of discussion and analysis of the matter-as well as an FBI investigation -no evidence of any quid pro quo or other wrong-doing surfaced. Fox News host Sean Hannity characterized it as "the biggest scandal - or, at least, one of them - in American history," while his frequent guest and former Trump advisor Seb Gorka equated it with treason worthy of a death sentence. Since the 2015 publication of the book Clinton Cash by Breitbart News editor and Steve Bannon collaborator Peter Schweizer, as well as a 2015 New York Times article that used some of Schweizer's raw research, allegations of a bribery scheme involving Hillary Clinton, the Clinton Foundation and the 2010 sale of Uranium One persisted, primarily in conservative media. No evidence of wrongdoing was ever found. The new official was met with the same excuse - the president is very busy, but takes the codes very seriously and has them on hand.The Uranium One controversy involves various theories promoted by conservative media, politicians, and commentators that characterized the sale of the uranium mining company Uranium One to the Russian state-owned corporation Rosatom as a $145 million bribery scandal involving Hillary Clinton and the Clinton Foundation. When the next inspection took place the following month, that official was on vacation, according to Shelton, and another official was dispatched to the White House. The official was dismayed, but he accepted the excuse and left. The aide assured the official that Clinton took the codes seriously and had them close by. That official was told by a presidential aide that President Bill Clinton did have the codes, but was in an important meeting and could not be disturbed. (The set of codes was to be replaced entirely every four months.) However, around 2000, according to Shelton, a member of the department within the Pentagon that is responsible for all pieces of the nuclear process was dispatched to the White House to physically look at the codes and ensure they were correct - a procedure required to happen every 30 days. Henry "Hugh" Shelton, in Washington, DC, September 15, 1998. President Bill Clinton, with Defense Secretary William Cohen, left, and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen.
The codes are on a card called the " biscuit" carried within the "football," a briefcase that is officially known as the " president's emergency satchel." That element, the president's authorization codes, is supposed to remain in close proximity to the president at all times, carried by one of five military aides, representing each branch of the military. Hugh Shelton, who was chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff from October 1997 to September 2001, the number of redundancies in the nuclear-launch process "is staggering." All of steps are "dependent on one vital element without which there can be no launch," he wrote in his 2010 autobiography, "Without Hesitation: The Odyssey of an American Warrior." The process the president has to go through to launch the US's nuclear weapons isn't as simple as pressing a button, but the key component of that process - the codes needed to authorize the launch - are never far from the president.Īccording to Gen.
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