A new report by the Government Accountability Institute, “From Russia With Money — Hillary Clinton, the Russian Reset and Cronyism,” points to serious ties between the Clintons, Russia, and those who participated in the State Department’s failed Russian reset.
The report begins:
- A major technology transfer component of the Russian reset overseen by Hillary Clinton substantially enhanced the Russian military’s technological capabilities, according to both the FBI and the U.S. Army.
- Russian government officials and American corporations participated in the technology transfer project overseen by Hillary Clinton’s State Department that funnelled tens of millions of dollars to the Clinton Foundation.
- A Putin-‐‑connected Russian government fund transferred $35 million to a small company with Hillary Clinton’s campaign chairman John Podesta on its executive board, which included senior Russian officials.
- John Podesta failed to reveal, as required by law on his federal financial disclosures, his membership on the board of this offshore company.
- Podesta also headed up a think tank which wrote favorably about the Russian reset while apparently receiving millions from Kremlin-‐‑linked Russian oligarchs via an offshore LLC.
John Podesta of course is Hillary’s campaign manager, a committed Socialist and a close ally and working partner of Socialist George Soros.
The Moscow-based IT technology company called Skolkovo, fashioned after Silicon Valley, poured tens of millions of dollars into the Clinton Foundation, the report alleges. This was supposed to be the earliest of foreign policy initiatives to reset our relationship with Russia.
Hillary Clinton was the point person.
Beginning in 2009, State Department officials under Clinton “played a substantial role in assisting Russian government entities in accessing U.S. capital and in seeking investments in U.S. high technology companies”.
Clinton was intimately involved and almost exclusively in charge.
The idea was to “encourage U.S. companies to invest in Russia to tap the country’s strengths in basic scientific talent while creating opportunities for Russian investment in U.S. tech companies”
A major part of this technological cooperation included Russian plans to create its own version of Silicon Valley at Skolkovo.
Specifically, they worked to support the efforts of the Russian State Investment Fund, Rusnano, to seek investment opportunities in the United States by arranging meetings with U.S. tech firms. Rusnano is Putin’s child and is completely governed by the State. Podesta sat on the board.
As Bloomberg reported, “Firms that accept Rusnano funds must transfer technologies to Russia, build laboratories there, train local scientist and, in some cases, give Russians patent rights for the products developed.”
Podesta and Clinton were extremely close personally and especially so during these dealings. Podesta also sat on the board of Joule Unlimited but did not disclose it as required by law. The Russian Chairman of Rusnano joined the board of Joule. Russians invested heavily in Joule.
“The FBI sent a letter to Boston-area companies and MIT in 2014 raising concerns about Russian-backed investment in U.S. high tech start-ups. Joule declined to comment on the letter.” Funds flooded in to Podesta’s Center for American Progress as well (CAP is funded by George Soros).
Ultimately dozens of U.S. tech firms including Cisco, Google, and Intel would make major financial contributions to the project.
Again – we have the evidence that shows obvious crimes and no report of DOJ involvement in investigating these crimes. And people wonder why I’m so cynical.