The Justice Department Is Officially Going After Trump’s Political Enemies
Jeff Sessions has asked the Justice Department to reopen the inquiry into Uranium One deal.
American Democracy has crossed a scary threshold.
The Department of Justice, at the behest of Attorney General Jeff Sessions, has reopened an inquiry into former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and the government’s approval of the Uranium One deal, NBC News reported on Thursday.
The original FBI investigation into whether Clinton had ties to the deal found there was no evidence of wrongdoing.
However, as NBC is now reporting citing “multiple law enforcement officials,” Attorney General Jeff Sessions in recent weeks directed Justice Department prosecutors to ask FBI agents to explain evidence uncovered in the probe.
The controversy around the so-called Uranium One deal has been stoked by conservative media who claim that because some of the people who benefited from the deal were donors to the Clinton Foundation and the State Department was one of nine U.S. government agencies that needed to give approval for the say, that Hillary Clinton is somehow corrupt.
But Clinton herself was not involved in the approval process.
However, after mounting pressure from President Donald Trump, congressional Republicans and conservative media, Jeff Sessions last month said he would consider appointing a new special counsel to look into Clinton and Uranium One.
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