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<\/a>AP\/J. Scott Applewhite<\/p><\/div>\n
by JOHN HAYWARD
\nBreitbart.com<\/p>\n
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<\/a>AP\/J. Scott Applewhite<\/p><\/div>\n
by JOHN HAYWARD
\nBreitbart.com<\/p>\n
Gaffney said the current news environment provided a \u201ctarget-rich environment\u201d for punditry, but was regrettably \u201chard on the country.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI particularly am thinking of this dossier business and the attacks on Donald Trump that have been relentlessly pursued,\u201d he said. \u201cInterestingly enough, with the help \u2013 in some cases more than just help, the active participation \u2013 of some people who have prominently featured in an\u00a0actual\u00a0<\/i>case of Russian collusion at the highest levels of the United States government.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou can\u2019t make this stuff up,\u201d he exclaimed. \u201cIt\u2019s an extraordinary tale. It\u2019s worth exploring.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThere now seems to be, at long last, a willingness on the part of congressional Republicans \u2013 amazingly! \u2013 to conduct the kinds of investigations into this\u00a0actual\u00a0<\/i>saga of collusion by Hillary Clinton, by Bill Clinton, apparently by the Democratic National Committee \u2013 and, by the way, by people like Robert Mueller, and James Comey, and Andrew McCabe, and Rod Rosenstein, and Eric Holder.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThese are people who have been prominently featured, either in condemning Donald Trump for the putative collusion of members of his campaign with the Russians, or are actively involved in the investigation thereof,\u201d Gaffney explained. \u201cThe trouble is, I don\u2019t see how a one of these people, if they\u2019re not actually going to be subject to criminal prosecution \u2013 and I say that advisedly \u2013 at the very least are now completely incapable of performing an independent and honest investigation into these so-called allegations against Donald Trump.\u201d<\/p>\n
Gaffney added that the latest developments in the story put another organization in the crosshairs: the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States or CFIUS.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is an inter-agency group that has a critically important responsibility. That responsibility is to try to make sure that we are not selling off assets of this country that will have grievous national security implications. It\u2019s got a whole cast of Cabinet officers as its members, including the Secretary of State, including the Secretary of the Treasury,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt turns out that as this so-called Uranium One transaction was being considered by CFIUS for approval \u2013 this was, of course, the transfer of 20 percent of America\u2019s uranium stocks to the Russians \u2013 and the voting on that idea was going to be conducted by, among others, Hillary Clinton and Eric Holder \u2013 then the Attorney General of the United States, she was the Secretary of State of course \u2013 Hillary Clinton was taking in, either personally or through her husband or through her foundation, $145 million dollars from Russian interests associated with this transaction,\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd Eric Holder knew that! The Mueller team knew it at the FBI, Comey, McCabe, others, and Rod Rosenstein. This is scandalous in the first order. They did nothing to prevent this transaction. It went through. The Clintons were enriched. We sold, I believe, national security assets in the form of this uranium to Russians,\u201d Gaffney charged.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd CFIUS \u2013 get this \u2013 at the same time this was going down, a guy who was the staff director in effect of this organization, a fellow by the name of Amin Mir, is a Pakistani expat with sharia supremacist ties both personal and familial, including to the Muslim Brotherhood,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
\u201cNow, you\u2019ve just got to ask yourself, as the Pakistanis are all over this saga with the Capitol Hill Democrats IT scandal, who is in charge of actually monitoring what\u2019s in the national security interests of the United States? Certainly not CFIUS. Certainly not the Attorney General, or the Secretary of State, or for that matter President Obama himself during this critical period of time,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Gaffney called for \u201cpublic hearings, as well as investigations,\u201d which he deemed likely to result in \u201ccriminal prosecution of at least some of these individuals.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAt the bare minimum, they cannot in good faith proceed with their own investigations now underway \u2013 again, without evidence of actual collusion by the Trump campaign with the Russians,\u201d he said. \u201cIt is high time that the\u00a0Washington Post\u00a0<\/i>get around to covering this. I\u2019m delighted that they are. But let\u2019s be honest, Raheem: this saga would not have gotten the attention that it has, finally, were it not for the work that you guys at Breitbart and the Daily Caller and others have been doing on it. It has to now go to the next step for sure on Capitol Hill.\u201d<\/p>\n
On the crucial question of whether special counsel Robert Mueller has been compromised by the latest revelations, Gaffney replied, \u201cAbsolutely. Indisputably.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHere\u2019s the charge: he knew that Hillary Clinton and her circle were involved in what can only be described as a pay-to-play scheme, and he did not bring that information forward at the time that the scheme was being essentially blessed by this organization, the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States. That\u2019s malfeasance, I believe. That is certainly incompatible with the kind of assignment and responsibilities he now has,\u201d Gaffney contended.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere are lots of good people in the FBI, thank God,\u201d he reflected. \u201cBut the leadership has been, I believe, corrupt for some time. Jim Comey, for example, has been called by many a \u2018dirty cop.\u2019 Bob Mueller has been shown now, I think, to be compromised. Andrew McCabe, for crying out loud, took money from Hillary Clinton\u2019s best friend \u2013 through his wife, of course \u2013 $750,000 while he\u2019s investigating Hillary Clinton. You just can\u2019t make this stuff up.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThe people in the bowels of that bureau are poorly served, as is the country, by this kind of leadership,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s high time that Donald Trump cleans the place out, I think.\u201d<\/p>\n
As another example of corruption, Gaffney cited the case of \u201cthis Pakistani national at the heart of the CFIUS process,\u201d linking it to how \u201cImran Awan and his family were deeply tied to a number of these members of Congress through IT services.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAt the very time that the FBI is telling us that they\u2019re satisfied \u2013 this is Jim Comey \u2013 that the Democratic National Committee\u2019s computer services were penetrated by the Russians, it turns out that Imran Awan, who may have ties to Pakistani intelligence, by the way, had the passwords for Debbie Wasserman Schultz\u2019s access to that system,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Gaffney cited Republican representatives in an informal meeting saying there is \u201cmuch more evidence of Pakistan\u2019s intelligence service being involved in the compromise of Debbie Wasserman Schultz and the DNC and so on than there is of the Russians.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd the FBI, under this corrupt leadership, claimed without actually investigating this computer system itself, the servers of the DNC itself \u2013 they took the word of, get this, a Russian-tied company that indeed it was Russian involvement, not somebody else\u2019s,\u201d he continued. \u201cWe\u2019ve got so many strings to pull. We need rigorous congressional oversight. I pray the logjam is finally broken, that Paul Ryan will let that kind of work be done on the Hill, as it should have been long before now.\u201d<\/p>\n
Kassam concluded by asking if it was time for Attorney General Jeff Sessions to \u201cun-recuse\u201d himself from matters related to the 2016 election.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think there\u2019s plenty of things that he can do, including getting into the issues that we\u2019ve just talked about now on Uranium One, for example, without un-recusing himself,\u201d Gaffney replied. \u201cWhether he can do that with respect to the rest of it, I just am not in a position to say.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWe need his leadership on certainly the evidence of Hillary Clinton\u2019s collusion, and Bill Clinton\u2019s and the Clinton team\u2019s, with the Russians on Uranium One and so much more,\u201d he added. \u201cSkolkovo is another story which we\u2019ll have to come back to some other day, I know. This is ripe for criminal investigation. We need it on the Hill, and probably in the Justice Department as well.\u201d<\/p>\n