Russia’s Millions to Clinton’s Charitable Foundation?

Former presidents traditionally try not to criticize or comment on their successors. President Obama stated that, after leaving office, he would only address “core values.” Which brings up the question, by not commenting on the allegations that Russia was involved in rigging the 2016 presidential election, does that mean President Obama does not think there is anything to it? Surely involvement by a foreign government into our election process would fall into the “core values” camp.

Or as James Freeman writes in the WSJ, perhaps close inspection of U.S.-Russian relations would not “be kind to the Obama Administration—and especially to its State Department during the early years of his presidency.”

Mr. Freeman quotes from The Hill report by John Solomon and Alison Spann:

Before the Obama administration approved a controversial deal in 2010 giving Moscow control of a large swath of American uranium, the FBI had gathered substantial evidence that Russian nuclear industry officials were engaged in bribery, kickbacks, extortion and money laundering designed to grow Vladimir Putin’s atomic energy business inside the United States, according to government documents and interviews.

Federal agents used a confidential U.S. witness working inside the Russian nuclear industry to gather extensive financial records, make secret recordings and intercept emails as early as 2009 that showed Moscow had compromised an American uranium trucking firm with bribes and kickbacks in violation of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, FBI and court documents show.

They also obtained an eyewitness account — backed by documents — indicating Russian nuclear officials had routed millions of dollars to the U.S. designed to benefit former President Bill Clinton’s charitable foundation during the time Secretary of State Hillary Clinton served on a government body that provided a favorable decision to Moscow, sources told The Hill.

Read more here from James Freeman.