{"id":1657,"date":"2017-11-04T15:08:22","date_gmt":"2017-11-04T20:08:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/?p=1657"},"modified":"2017-11-04T15:08:22","modified_gmt":"2017-11-04T20:08:22","slug":"congressman-calls-for-muellers-resignation-over-uranium-one-scandal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/congressman-calls-for-muellers-resignation-over-uranium-one-scandal\/","title":{"rendered":"Congressman Calls For Mueller’s Resignation Over Uranium One Scandal."},"content":{"rendered":"

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Zero Hedge<\/a>\u00a0–\u00a0<\/span>NOVEMBER 4, 2017<\/span><\/p>\n

Source: ‘Hopelessly Compromised’: Congressman Calls For Mueller’s Resignation Over Uranium One Scandal \u00bb Alex Jones’ Infowars: There’s a war on for your mind!<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Earlier this morning House Judiciary Committee representative Matt Gaetz (R-FL) submitted a resolution calling for Robert Mueller to resign as special counsel overseeing the FBI investigation of possible collusion between the Trump campaign and the Russian government saying, among other things, that the former FBI director is \u201chopelessly compromised\u201d as a result of his failed oversight of the controversial Uranium One transaction.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Here is an excerpt from a press release posted to Gaetz\u2019s website earlier today:<\/p>\n

\u201cEvidence has emerged that the FBI withheld information from Congress and from the American people about Russian corruption of American uranium companies. A confidential U.S. witness, working in the Russian nuclear industry, revealed that Russia had deeply compromised an American uranium trucking firm through bribery and financial kickbacks.<\/p>\n

Although federal agents possessed this information in 2010, the Department of Justice continued investigating this \u201cmatter\u201d for over four years. The FBI, led at the time by Robert Mueller, required the confidential witness to sign a non-disclosure agreement. When the witness attempted to contact Congress and federal courts about the bribery and corruption he saw, he was threatened with legal action. By silencing him, Obama\u2019s Justice Department and Mueller\u2019s FBI knowingly kept Congress in the dark about Russia\u2019s significant and illegal involvement with American uranium companies.<\/p>\n

These deeply troubling events took place when Mr. Mueller was the Director of the FBI. As such, his impartiality is hopelessly compromised. He must step down immediately,\u201d Rep. Gaetz said in a statement.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Gaetz\u2019s resolution currently has two cosponsors, both of whom are members of the House Freedom Caucus: Representatives Andy Biggs (R-AZ) and Louie Gohmert (R-TX).<\/p>\n

Of course, pressure has been growing on Mueller for the past couple of weeks and reached a fevered pitch when the The Hill recently reported the sordid tale of \u201cConfidential Source 1,\u201d a man that the FBI used as an informant back in 2009 and who says he was silenced by the FBI and Obama administration when he attempted to come forward with information that linked the Clinton Foundation directly to the Uranium One scandal.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Zero Hedge\u00a0–\u00a0NOVEMBER 4, 2017 Source: ‘Hopelessly Compromised’: Congressman Calls For Mueller’s Resignation Over Uranium One Scandal \u00bb Alex Jones’ Infowars: There’s a war on for your mind! Earlier this morning House Judiciary Committee representative Matt Gaetz (R-FL) submitted a resolution calling for Robert Mueller to resign as special counsel overseeing the FBI investigation of possible … Continue reading Congressman Calls For Mueller’s Resignation Over Uranium One Scandal.<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15,23,20,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1657"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1657"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1659,"href":"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1657\/revisions\/1659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}