Will Barr pursue the Uranium One case?
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It was FBI “private contractors” that were conducting the unauthorized FISA-702 Queries via access to information on FBI storage systems.
One of the FBI contractors in question was, unbelievably, Fusion GPS.
This early-2016 series of FISA-702 compliance violations was the origin of NSA Director Admiral Mike Rogers concerns.
This discovery became the impetus for him to request the 2016 full NSA compliance audit of FISA-702 use. Fusion GPS was the FBI contracted user identified in the final FISA court opinion/ruling on page 83.
Note the dates from the FISC opinion (https://www.scribd.com/document/349...r-President-Obama-Spying-on-Political-Enemies).
As soon as the FBI discovered Mike Rogers of NSA was looking at the searches, the FBI discontinued allowing their sub-contractor access to the raw FISA information. Effective April 18th, 2016.
On April 19th, 2016, the day after the FBI stopped allowing access to the FISA database, the wife of Fusion GPS founder Glenn Simpson, Mary B Jacoby, went to the Obama White House.
One of the FBI contractors in question was, unbelievably, Fusion GPS.
This early-2016 series of FISA-702 compliance violations was the origin of NSA Director Admiral Mike Rogers concerns.
This discovery became the impetus for him to request the 2016 full NSA compliance audit of FISA-702 use. Fusion GPS was the FBI contracted user identified in the final FISA court opinion/ruling on page 83.
Note the dates from the FISC opinion (https://www.scribd.com/document/349...r-President-Obama-Spying-on-Political-Enemies).
As soon as the FBI discovered Mike Rogers of NSA was looking at the searches, the FBI discontinued allowing their sub-contractor access to the raw FISA information. Effective April 18th, 2016.
On April 19th, 2016, the day after the FBI stopped allowing access to the FISA database, the wife of Fusion GPS founder Glenn Simpson, Mary B Jacoby, went to the Obama White House.
Obama administration approved exports of US-mined uranium
“No uranium produced at either facility may be exported,” the NRC declared in a November 2010 press release that announced that ARMZ, a subsidiary of the Russian state-owned Rosatom, had been approved to take ownership of the Uranium One mining firm and its American assets.
The NRC never issued an export license to the Russian firm, a fact so ingrained in the narrative of the Uranium One controversy that it showed up in The Washington Post’s official fact-checker site. “We have noted repeatedly that extracted uranium could not be exported by Russia without a license, which Rosatom does not have,” the Post reported.
Yet NRC memos show that it did approve the shipment of yellowcake uranium — the raw material used to make nuclear fuel and weapons — from the Russian-owned mines in the United States to Canada in 2012 through a third party.
The Obama administration approved some of that uranium going all the way to Europe, government documents show.
NRC officials said they could not disclose the total amount of uranium that Uranium One exported because the information is proprietary. They did, however, say that the shipments only lasted from 2012 to 2014.
NRC officials said 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.”
http://thehill.com/policy/national-security/358339-uranium-one-deal-led-to-some-exports-to-europe-memos-show
“No uranium produced at either facility may be exported,” the NRC declared in a November 2010 press release that announced that ARMZ, a subsidiary of the Russian state-owned Rosatom, had been approved to take ownership of the Uranium One mining firm and its American assets.
The NRC never issued an export license to the Russian firm, a fact so ingrained in the narrative of the Uranium One controversy that it showed up in The Washington Post’s official fact-checker site. “We have noted repeatedly that extracted uranium could not be exported by Russia without a license, which Rosatom does not have,” the Post reported.
Yet NRC memos show that it did approve the shipment of yellowcake uranium — the raw material used to make nuclear fuel and weapons — from the Russian-owned mines in the United States to Canada in 2012 through a third party.
The Obama administration approved some of that uranium going all the way to Europe, government documents show.
NRC officials said they could not disclose the total amount of uranium that Uranium One exported because the information is proprietary. They did, however, say that the shipments only lasted from 2012 to 2014.
NRC officials said 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.”
http://thehill.com/policy/national-security/358339-uranium-one-deal-led-to-some-exports-to-europe-memos-show