This post provides additional proof the mainstream media reports supposed wrongdoings by a politician only when it involves a Republican.

According to a report by Peter Schweizer presented in a Wall Street Journal piece published on July 31, 2016 (and released in a report called “From Russia With Money,”, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton oversaw “a major technology transfer initiative” that “may have substantially undermined U.S. national security.” At the time the program was being implemented, the FBI warned that Russia purpose’s in participating in the initiative was to gain access to classified, sensitive, and emerging technology from the U.S. In fact the U.S. Army said the project was simply a “vehicle for world-wide technology transfer to Russia.”

Coincidentally (if you believe in coincidences) the Clinton Family enriched themselves out of the deal.

In his July 2016 report Schweitzer explained that a key aspect of the “reset” was to help Russia develop its own version of Silicon Valley. Called “Skolkovo” and located near Moscow, it housed technology for developing bio-med, space, nuclear and IT technologies.

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On first glance, the project itself seems benign and possibly a good deal for both sides. The Russians get access to American cash and some of the country’s best technology, and U.S.-based companies get access to Russian markets, receive special tax status and, “special access to research in Russia. For example, one investment firm received “priority access to the database of the Skolkovo Foundation projects and companies, enabling it to select the most promising projects early in their development.”

[H]owever, the state-of-the-art technological research coming out of Skolkovo raised alarms among U.S. military experts and federal law-enforcement officials.Research conducted in 2012 on Skolkovo by the U.S. Army Foreign Military Studies Program at Fort Leavenworth declared that the purpose of Skolkovo was to serve as a “vehicle for world-wide technology transfer to Russia in the areas of information technology, biomedicine, energy, satellite and space technology, and nuclear technology.”

That’s right, the Army called Hillary’s project a way for Russia to get the best of world technology. And while I am not an expert I suspect that some of that technology seems military in nature, technology like satellite and nuclear technology. Happily, the project was designed not to include or lead to military technology. Or did it?

Moreover, the report said: “the Skolkovo Foundation has, in fact, been involved in defense-related activities since December 2011, when it approved the first weapons-related project — the development of a hypersonic cruise missile engine…. Not all of the center’s efforts are civilian in nature.”

So Clinton’s Skolkovo project helped to develop military technology for the same country that the mainstream media and Chuck Schumer’s Democratic Party lemmings believe that President Trump and his team colluded with, and with whom anonymous Washington Post sources claim the president shared Israeli intelligence. That same country that Mitt Romney once famously (and correctly) called America’s number one geopolitical foe.

But more than that, Skolkovo may have created a legal way for Russia to gain access to America’s classified technology, the kind of access they used to use espionage to access:

Technology can have multiple uses — civilian and military. But in 2014 the Boston Business Journal ran an op-ed placed by the FBI, and noted that the agency had sent warnings to technology and other companies approached by Russian venture-capital firms. The op-ed — under the byline of Lucia Ziobro, an assistant special agent at the FBI’s Boston office — said that “The FBI believes the true motives of the Russian partners, who are often funded by their government, is to gain access to classified, sensitive, and emerging technology from the companies.” Ms. Ziobro also wrote that “The [Skolkovo] foundation may be a means for the Russian government to access our nation’s sensitive or classified research development facilities and dual-use technologies with military and commercial application.”

The military use of the Skolkovo developed technology should not be a surprise to Mrs. Clinton:

A State Department cable sent to then-Secretary Clinton (and obtained via WikiLeaks) mentioned possible “dual use and export control concerns” related to research and development technology ventures with Moscow. And in its own promotional literature Skolkovo heralded the success of its development of the Atlant hybrid airship. “Particularly noteworthy is Atlant’s ability to deliver military cargoes,” boasts the Made in Skolkovo publication: “The introduction of this unique vehicle is fully consistent with the concept of creating a mobile army and opens up new possibilities for mobile use of the means of radar surveillance, air and missile defense, and delivery of airborne troops.”

While Mrs.Clinton was helping Russia develop new military technology with the Skolkovo deal, she and her ex-president hubby found a way to use Skolkovo to enrich themselves:

In 2012 Skolkovo released its first annual report which identified the “key partner service”. Key Partners are entities who have made substantial commitments to develop the Skolkovo research facility. Conor Lenihan, vice president of the Skolkovo Foundation, who had previously partnered with the Clinton Foundation, released a PowerPoint presentation that included a list of 28 Russian, American, and European Key Partners. Of those 28, 17 of them, or 60 percent, have made financial commitments to the Clinton Foundation or sponsored speeches by Bill. The Clinton Foundation only discloses donations in ranges, so it is impossible to determine the precise amount of money the Skolkovo benefactors gave to the Clinton Foundation, but based on those disclosures, the money ranges from $6.5 to $23.5 million. However, keep in mind that the Clinton Foundation has admitted that it has failed to release the names of all of its contributors, so the amount could be substantially higher.

As Schweitzer told the New York Post, “It raises the question — do you need to pay money to sit at the table?”

We don’t have an email or a pirated voice mail message saying ‘We’ll give you money if you help us with Skokovo. But what we do have is a pattern that shows a high percentage of participants in Skolkovo who happen to be Clinton Foundation donors.

When Schweizer published his important report, and followed up in the Wall Street Journal, the only thing one could hear from most of the mainstream media was the sound of crickets.

Compare that reaction with this week’s Washington Post reported that President Trump shared intelligence with Russia about a possible ISIS threat to passenger airlines using computers as suicide bombs. The Post claimed that the President presented the information in a way that could have outed the source of the information which wasn’t U.S. intelligence. The other three Americans in the room disputed the report, saying that nothing was shared that could have revealed the source or the methods of the intelligence or even lead the Russians to figure it out themselves.

One of the participants in the president’s meeting with the Russians was National Security Advisor H.R. McMaster, who claimed that anything that was said in the room could be figured out with an internet search (something my colleague J.E. Dyer proved and wrote about in a recent post, requiring less than an hour to find the information).

While the initial reports didn’t mention who U.S. intelligence got the information from, the media figured it out themselves. The day after the Post report, the New York Times and Wall Street Journal used anonymous sources to announce it was Israel who supplied the intelligence.

This became a major media story dominating newspapers and TV with banner headlines and almost continual cable news coverage.

Double standard much?

Cross-posted at The Lid