Sessions orders DOJ review after report Obama administration gave Hezbollah a pass
Attorney General Jeff Sessions is launching a review of a law enforcement initiative called Project Cassandra after an investigative report was published this week claiming the Obama administration gave a free pass to Hezbollah’s drug-trafficking and money-laundering operations to help ensure the Iran nuclear deal would stay on track.
The Justice Department said in a statement to Fox News that Sessions on Friday directed a review of prior Drug Enforcement Administration investigations “to evaluate allegations that certain matters were not properly prosecuted and to ensure all matters are appropriately handled.”
“While I am hopeful that there were no barriers constructed by the last administration to allowing DEA agents to fully bring all appropriate cases under Project Cassandra, this is a significant issue for the protection of Americans,” Sessions said in a written statement. “We will review these matters and give full support to investigations of violent drug trafficking organizations.”
According to a bombshell exposé in Politico on Sunday, an elaborate campaign led by the Drug Enforcement Administration, known as Project Cassandra, targeted the Lebanese militant group’s criminal activities.
“We will review these matters and give full support to investigations of violent drug trafficking organizations”
The Justice Department’s scrutiny of an Obama-era deal that gave Russia partial control of the U.S. uranium supply has opened the door to the possibility of a new investigation – egged on by the White House.
“If the attorney general feels there’s a need for that investigation, he should absolutely look into that – and obviously he sees cause for it,” White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders told reporters on Thursday.
She was reacting to a report that DOJ prosecutors are now pressing FBI agents about a prior probe related to the Uranium One deal which Republican critics have criticized over alleged links to the Clintons. NBC News reported that agents are being asked to explain the evidence they found and whether there was any “improper effort” to stop a prosecution.
Uranium One deal led to some exports to Europe, memos show
After the Obama administration approved the sale of a Canadian mining company with significant U.S. uranium reserves to a firm owned by Russia’s government, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission assured Congress and the public the new owners couldn’t export any raw nuclear fuel from America’s shores.
NRC officials told The Hill that Uranium One exports flowed from Wyoming to Canada and on to Europe between 2012 and 2014, and the approval involved a process with multiple agencies.
Rather than give Rosatom a direct export license — which would have raised red flags inside a Congress already suspicious of the deal — the NRC in 2012 authorized an amendment to an existing export license for a Paducah, Ky.-based trucking firm called RSB Logistics Services Inc. to simply add Uranium One to the list of clients whose uranium it could move to Canada.
The license, reviewed by The Hill, is dated March 16, 2012, and it increased the amount of uranium ore concentrate that RSB Logistics could ship to the Cameco Corp. plant in Ontario from 7,500,000 kilograms to 12,000,000 kilograms and added Uranium One to the “other parties to Export.”
The move escaped notice in Congress.
Senator Barrasso was all over this back in 2010. It apparently didn’t go anywhere, or at least not in the MSM, or we slept through it!
Fast forward,Dec 2017,
For once I feel pride in the majority of the Republicans, especially the Freedom Caucus. Without them….God help us!
the Dec 2017 update by
Barrasso.
Sessions refered to the confidential informant which is the FBI dude we’ve heard so much about. His attorney is Victoria Toensing.
Back mid-November he was set to testify to Congress with lots of details including video of briefcases of cash meant for Clinton bribes. This suggestion of Sessions appointing a SP must be the fruit of that testimony.
From last month:
An undercover FBI informant in the Russian nuclear industry who was made to sign an “illegal NDA” by former AG Loretta Lynch, claims to have video evidence showing Russian agents with briefcases full of bribe money related to the controversial Uranium One deal – according to The Hill investigative journalist John Solomon and Circa‘s Sara Carter.
The informant, whose identity was revealed by Reuters as William D. Campbell, will testify before congress next week after the NDA which carried the threat of prison time was lifted. Campbell, originally misidentifed by Reuters as a lobbyist is actually a nuclear industry consultant who is currently battling cancer.
h/t duFontaine.
Is this suppose to be earth shattering news, if even real, when the CIA is or has been the biggest illicit drug dealing organization in the world for decades?
So that makes it OK? Where do you stop the equivalency? Will you extend your pardon to the guy selling coke in your town?
Oh….look….another pro-LGBTQ liberal socialist America hater is attacking the CIA for not hiring more gays. You are a disgusting atheist.
What on earth is your point?
Yes this is why HRC made the “….Hanging from nooses if ths guy wins” statement
So, who is your candidate for the new Ollie North or G Gordon Liddy? At least Liddy got some props in prison for being a man of wealth, privilege and connections who gave it all up rather than rat. Cant think of anybody in the Bammy admin of such principles.
The Phamaceutical Companies, the CIA, and the BANKSTERS all get passes ……..
I don’t trust Sessions to run a fair, complete and impartial investigation! He is part of the swamp and part of the whole FBI/Clinton cabal!
He is only doing this now to try and prevent himself from being investigated and to prevent ANY investigation from going places the clintons and those others in power don’t want the investigation to go!
You’re just upset because this stuff coulf land Obama in jail.
You mean this could land obama, the sociopathic, lying, cheating, treasonous, hypocrite in jail?
Now that would be a well deserved turn of events!
See, I think it’s you Arthur that are an obama/clinton lover/supporter…especially if you are trying to make people believe that sessions, who has protected clinton/obama for years, is now suddenly going to turn around and prosecute them for their MANY crimes!
he is doing squat.
God help us if Hillary had won!!!! Never in their wildest did they EVER think that any of this would come to light! It’s obvious that her charge was to continue the Obama administration’s agenda for NWO promoting global corporatism and make as much $$$$ and seize as much power as one could possible have!!!! Never mind the consequences and the little people who pay for all of this.
Believe me….if HilLIARy won, none of this extreme anti-American corruption would see the light of day.
Arthur, I see you keep bashing anyone and everyone who sees Sessions for the swamp monster that he is, for the hillary/obama supporting and defending and protecting swamp monster that he is!
Why is that I wonder?
Whatever; Not sure what to make of your comment, You seem to agree, but disagree. …
The “export to Canada first” dodge has been in use for at least 50 years, so is anybody really surprised?
Did something happen?
NO
The only thing that happened is that all those Democrats who allowed HilLIARy to cheat Bernie out of being the Democratic nominee actually helped President Trump win.
So, thank you to all those leaders of the left for cheating Bernie. All of us TRUMP supporters could not have won without you. THANK YOU….THANK YOU….THANK YOU.
The more I observe Sessions the more I think he attached himself to the Trump campaign as an “insurance policy” in case Trump won and the Shadow Government needed one of their own as Attorney General.
I thought socialists were not allowed to have individual thoughts.
If you believe that, then I have a bridge I would like to sell you?
Lol, like that will accomplish anything. Remember Benghazi.
Yeah….Benghazi….investigated by the “I’m with Her” Democrats.
for years. Millions wasted. Seems every Hillary investigation over the past 20+ years have been a waste of money with no results.
Ohh…..look….this libtard is still “With Her”…..and you can go to hell with her you queerdo.
Oh…look….another “I’m with her” liberal socialist who doesn’t want to see his LGBTQ queen be held accountable for her evil actions.
I want Hillary in prison for war crimes, but people like her are above thew law. She has the blood of hundreds of thousands of innocent Muslims on her hands. Why make up phony scandals where there are dead bodies.
HRC: “I don’t recall”…….”I don’t remember”…. “I don’t recall”…..”I don’t…..
Sessions endorsed a mentally deranged neo-nazi for President.. he has zero credibility.
NAZIs were socialists, just like your favorite sorryass Obama.
You’te so dumb….your IQ actually increases from heavy drug use.
Maybe you should read a book. I would recommend Rise and Fall of the Third Reich (Shirer).
So you actually read books on topics other than Homosexuality?
You should check with your gay lovers about the NAZI socialism thing….or you could just read up on it in Wikipedia.
Again….NAZIs were Socialists, just like the Left. I’m going to keep saying it and Page Bezos is going to keep deleting it.
You should stick to your favorite genre as far as books go….Homoseksuality.
Say it all you want, it just shows your ignorance.
NAZIs were SOCIALISTS….just like Obama and the left.