Lawyer: Obama Admin Threatened FBI Informant's 'Reputation And Liberty' If He Talked During Election | Eastern North Carolina Now

"The Russians have threatened him, and up until just last night the U.S. government has threatened him."

    by  Ryan Saavedra

    The lawyer for the confidential FBI informant who exposed that Russian nuclear officials engaged in bribery, kickbacks, money laundering, and extortion in their attempts to corner the U.S. uranium market under the Obama administration revealed the threats her client received from the Obama administration if he didn't keep quiet during the 2016 presidential election.

    Victoria Toensing, the informant's attorney, told WMAL DC's "Mornings On The Mall" host Vince Coglianese on Thursday that under the Obama administration, lawyers from Loretta Lynch's Department of Justice (DOJ) coerced her client into dropping a lawsuit against the government last year.

    "The Russians have threatened him, and up until just last night the U.S. government has threatened him," Toensing said during the radio interview. "He was told that if he didn't dismiss the case his reputation and liberty were in jeopardy."

    On Wednesday, The Hill reported that Toensing has files which allegedly prove that the Obama administration wanted to keep her client quiet because the civil lawsuit would have taken place during the 2016 election, which could have had a major impact on the election:

    Toensing said she also possesses memos that recount how the Justice Department last year threatened her client when he attempted to file a lawsuit that could have drawn attention to the Russian corruption during the 2016 presidential race as well as helped him recover some of the money Russians stole from him through kickbacks during the FBI probe.

    Emails obtained by The Hill show that a civil attorney working with the former undercover witness described the pressure the Justice Department exerted to keep the client from disclosing to a federal court what he knew last summer.

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    Toensing's client was forced to sign a non-disclosure agreement which prevented him from testifying to congress what he knows about the case:

    When he tried to bring some of the allegations to light in the lawsuit last year, "the Obama Justice Department threatened him with loss of freedom. They said they would bring a criminal case against him for violating an NDA," she added.

    DOJ spokesperson Sarah Isgur Flores told The Hill yesterday that the department released the gag order on the informant - clearing the way for him to testify:

    As of tonight, the Department of Justice has authorized the informant to disclose to the Chairmen and Ranking Members of the Senate Committee on the Judiciary, the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, as well as one member of each of their staffs, any information or documents he has concerning alleged corruption or bribery involving transactions in the uranium market, including but not limited to anything related to Vadim Mikerin, Rosatom, Tenex, Uranium One, or the Clinton Foundation.

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Now that the Russia Collusion scandal has most completely boomeranged on core Democrats, the Democrat Media, and the Deep State, who have promoted this scandal for over one year: Should congress and Jeff Sessions's DOJ investigate the DNC, the Clintons, and, notably, the FBI /Obama DOJ with the same fervor that they have hounded all things connected to Candidate, then President Donald Trump?

  Yes, it is a necessity that we discover all that is corrupt, and stains the government of this land.

  No, investigate only everything connected to Donald Trump, as a candidate and then president.

  I generally don't pay attention to most things except what is normally pop culture.

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