A FB friend recently asked me what I thought of the most recent revelations surrounding the Russian investigation, and all its many tentacles into into our current politic. This was my response:

Mueller has steadfastly tried to ignore or downplay (through carefully worded leaks) the 2010 bribery investigation surrounding the Uranium One deal which Mueller oversaw as the then FBI Director with Rod Rosenstein as the US Attorney supervising the investigation. Then in 2017 Rosenstein, now the Deputy Attorney General and acting Attorney General for the Russia investigations, appoints Mueller as Special Counsel over the investigation. ( Recall that Attorney General Jeff Session recused himself from the Russian investigation over having had conversations at a dinner reception and in a Senate office meeting with the Russian ambassador when he was a senior member of the Senate Armed Services Committee.) Also curious is that Mueller’s appointment by Rosenstein came on the heels of Mueller’s failed attempt to be rehired as the FBI chief following Rosenstein’s review of Comey's employment and Rosenstein’s recommendation that Comey be fired.

It now appears that either Obama knew of the ongoing Uranium One bribery investigation and sat on the information to get the deal approved over Republican opposition which was near unanimous against giving Putin control of 20% of America’s uranium, or Obama told his department heads to approve it anyway. Why? Did Clinton promise Obama that part of the Russian money from Uranium One backers that was pouring into the Clinton Foundation would be used to support the non-profit groups Obama was planning to create and head up as paid administrator after leaving the Oval Office? How did the Uranium One deal get through the approval process, supposedly without the agencies that had to sign off on it knowing of the ongoing bribery investigations? Did the State Department ask Holder’s Justice Department and Mueller’s FBI to keep a public disclosure lid on the investigation?

Then in 2011, Obama goes to Congress and gets a highly unusual 2-year extension to Mueller’s contract to head the FBI, effectively an extension to see Obama through his 2012 reelection campaign. Was that so Mueller could keep the bribery investigation under wraps until after Obama was reelected and Clinton had left office? Doesn’t it strain credulence to believe that the investors in the Uranium One Deal didn’t expect something for their tens of $millions donated to the Clinton Foundation in 2010 and 2011? Doesn’t it strain credulence to believe that more than a speech was expected from Bill Clinton’s half $million Russian speaking fee?

Now we come to Hillary’s 2016 campaign and the discovery that she and the Democratic National Committee paid $millions from their campaign war chest to fund a former British spy who, using purchased Russian disinformation, created the now completely discredited anti-Trump dossier. Was that also part of the Uranium One deal that Russia would help Hillary win the election? Was the anti-Trump research effort to find possible U.S. misdealings started and ended by the conservative Washington Free Beacon (and its billionaire anti-Trumper Paul Singer) just a convenient starting point for Hillary to expand the investigation into Russia? And after its authors leaked it as “an independent inquiry by a former British MI6 boss” and it was pretty quickly judged worthless except to the anti-Trump Russian conspiracy supporters, why did the FBI initially agree to take it up and continue funding it? Was it because after Obama’s operatives left office and the FBI could no longer use Obama’s personnel to end-around the FISA courts, that they needed the discredited dossier as an excuse to tap the phones of Trump and his associates? And after that exercise didn’t produce what they were looking for, is that why the FBI decided to abandon the dossier and not make the promised payments to its authors for its use?

So if Russia was Obama and Hillary’s friend, why did they supposedly turn against her with their social media campaign that is now believed to have helped Trump? Recall the Putin sees himself as the unquestioned ruler of the world’s second most powerful country. He chaffs that he and his cohorts are called corrupt and mafia by U.S. politicians, particularly when he sees those politicians as hypocritical and equally as corrupt and scandalous. He has given clear signals that while he doesn’t particularly care for any American leader, including now Trump, he has a special disdain for Hillary because she’s a woman who he thinks isn’t worthy of leading our country, and his ego is fed by disrupting her ability to win. And while he probably would not think of any woman being capable, it is certain that he has had a particular distain for Hillary after being obviously disrespected when presented with a big red toy reset button as if his officials were children in a kindergarten class. Further, if Hillary and the Clinton Foundation were involved with the Uranium One deal, he now no longer suspects, he knows she’s corrupt, and further he probably thinks he and his cronies paid too much to get it approved. While Hillary now claims publicly that the State Department was just another cog in the Uranium One approval process, maybe just the opposite was said to the Uranium One backers. Putin’s social media campaign may have been just his way of some pay back for being dissed with the red button and then misled about Hillary's authority and overcharged for Uranium One. So then why the anti-Trump dossier? Putin had to be laughing out loud that his agents would be paid $millions for disinformation that he would have happily provided for free, and was probably overjoyed to get paid to throw another crank into the U.S. electoral system. Besides, he thought that the fix was in for Clinton to win the election anyway. Why wouldn’t he? She spent twice as much, had held the highest appointed office in our government, was part of a family political machine rarely rivaled in U.S. political history, had all the “vote-for-her-because-she’s-a-woman vote”, had all the electronic and print media supporting her plus was way ahead in the polls. Assuming she won, he’d already paid her foundation and her husband a lot of money. And if she lost, at least he had a worldly rich anti-establishment businessman who already said that while you may not like Putin, you have to respect Putin. (In the business world, if you have big money, you have respect.)

And finally, isn’t it odd that the one former FBI agent who knows all about the bribery and the Uranium One deal was required by the FBI and former Obama Justice Department to sign a non-disclosure agreement prohibiting him from revealing what he knows about the deal even to Congressional investigators? Well, he’s now been released from that pledge. So the barn door is open, and all this is about to see the glaring light of day. Finally. And when it does, the Clinton, Obama, Holder, Mueller, Rosenstein, Comey, Podesta, Democratic Party, anti-Trump barn may very well implode.