Chuck Grassley Calls For Special Counsel To Investigate Russian Uranium Deal

Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley said on Tuesday that the Department of Justice (DOJ) needs to appoint a special counsel to investigate the Uranium One deal approved under the Obama administration.

In a tweet, Grassley wrote, “Whoever in DOJ is capable w authority to appoint a special counsel shld do so to investigate Uranium One ‘whoever’ means if u aren’t recused.”

Whoever in DOJ is capable w authority to appoint a special counsel shld do so to investigate Uranium One "whoever" means if u aren't recused

— ChuckGrassley (@ChuckGrassley) October 25, 2017

Grassley’s demand for a special counsel comes after multiple reports surfaced last week that claim the FBI knew that Russian officials were engaged in “bribery, kickbacks, extortion, and money laundering” before the Obama administration — including Hillary Clinton’s State Department — approved the sale of Uranium One to Russia’s Rosatom. The Obama administration, including Clinton, insisted that there was no such evidence of wrongdoing by the Russians at the time.

The Hill reports:

Federal agents used a confidential U.S. witness working inside the Russian nuclear industry to gather extensive financial records, make secret recordings and intercept emails as early as 2009 that showed Moscow had compromised an American uranium trucking firm with bribes and kickbacks in violation of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, FBI and court documents show.

They also obtained an eyewitness account — backed by documents — indicating Russian nuclear officials had routed millions of dollars to the U.S. designed to benefit former President Bill Clinton’s charitable foundation during the time Secretary of State Hillary Clinton served on a government body that provided a favorable decision to Moscow, sources told The Hill.

Grassley also called on the lawyer for the confidential informant to testify about what he knows to Congress after the Loretta Lynch Department of Justice allegedly threatened him to prevent disclosing what he knew. He was forced to sign an NDA.

The Hill, which has broken several stories related to Uranium One, reported last week that attorney Victoria Toensing said she possesses documents that show her client being threatened by the DOJ when he attempted to file a lawsuit that would have exposed the Russian corruption allegations in 2016.

Source: Daily Wire