During his first TV interview as the new President of the United States, Donald Trump told Fox News’ Sean Hannity that the Russian Federation had been “stealing” hypersonic weapons research and development from the United States during the Obama administration. This point went viral. But the story is murkier than that.
Certainly, Russia did acquire key components from the United States during the Obama administration. But they did not steal it. They purchased it. And the person who authorized the sale was none other than then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. It's important to first understand what transpired, and put a few key caveats in place. Clinton did not approve the sale of hypersonic weapons research to Russia. She did, however, allow for dual-use hypersonic technology to be sold to a purportedly civilian research project in the country.
All this goes back to 2009, when then-President Barack Obama announced his ill-fated “reset” with Russia. The world was in the midst of the Great Recession, Americans were tired of foreign entanglements, and Europe was fearful that, after the Russian invasion of Georgia, they would soon turn their ire to Ukraine or elsewhere in Eastern Europe.
To head these problems off, Obama sought to restore ties and work together to enhance economic relations between the two powers. Thus, the U.S.-Russia Bilateral Presidential Commission was created, with then-Secretary of State Clinton serving as a leader for the American side in that group. Around this time, Russia announced the creation of its version of Silicon Valley known as “Skolkovo,” which the Russian government dubbed as an “innovation city” of 30,000 high-tech workers just outside of Moscow. Clinton believed that the Americans could help Russia develop Skolkovo, and economic success there would ameliorate the bad blood between Moscow and Washington. In fact, Clinton and her team running the State Department coordinated with the Russian State Investment Fund (Rusnano) to identify American tech firms that would help Russia develop Skolkovo!
According to investigative journalist Peter Schweizer, Clinton used her pull and personal ties with major U.S. tech companies, such as Google, Intel, and Cisco, to encourage them to invest in the development of Skolkovo. And, as Schweizer pointed out in his investigation of the matter more than a decade ago, these were the same donors behind the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI), the non-profit run by former President Bill Clinton and his wife, that became the source of much controversy during the 2016 presidential election.
But by 2012, U.S. intelligence had changed its view on the joint-American and Russian Skolkovo Project. That’s because—surprise!—the U.S. Army had determined that Skolkovo “was a vehicle for world-wide technology transfer to Russia in the areas of information, technology, biomedicine, energy, satellite and space technology, and nuclear technology.” A year earlier, in 2011, U.S. military intelligence assessed that Skolkovo approved the development of a hypersonic cruise missile engine.
And Russia’s Skolkovo Foundation, with Clinton’s copious help, was the source of Russia’s incredible hypersonic weapons technology. In 2014, the then-FBI assistant special agent in charge (ASAC) of the Boston Field Office took the stunning move of writing an op-ed explicitly warning that American hypersonic weapons technology was being sold to Skolkovo, thereby giving an advantage to the Russians that even the Americans still lack. No one in the Obama administration listened.
Russian social media bot farms and propagandists dutifully decried the claims by President Trump that the genesis of Russia’s potent hypersonic weapons arsenal would not have been possible had it not been for the “theft” of that baseline technology from the Americans during the Obama administration. But what if it was even worse than simple espionage and American complacency at the security level that allowed for that technology transfer? It looks an awful lot like Secretary Clinton simply sold dual-use hypersonic technology to Russia—despite repeated warnings from both the FBI and US military intelligence that such a sale would, in fact, damage U.S. national security. Russia didn’t steal our hypersonic weapons tech, because they didn’t need to—the Obama administration gave it to them! That’s the real controversy here.
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Certainly, Russia did acquire key components from the United States during the Obama administration. But they did not steal it. They purchased it. And the person who authorized the sale was none other than then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. It's important to first understand what transpired, and put a few key caveats in place. Clinton did not approve the sale of hypersonic weapons research to Russia. She did, however, allow for dual-use hypersonic technology to be sold to a purportedly civilian research project in the country.
All this goes back to 2009, when then-President Barack Obama announced his ill-fated “reset” with Russia. The world was in the midst of the Great Recession, Americans were tired of foreign entanglements, and Europe was fearful that, after the Russian invasion of Georgia, they would soon turn their ire to Ukraine or elsewhere in Eastern Europe.
To head these problems off, Obama sought to restore ties and work together to enhance economic relations between the two powers. Thus, the U.S.-Russia Bilateral Presidential Commission was created, with then-Secretary of State Clinton serving as a leader for the American side in that group. Around this time, Russia announced the creation of its version of Silicon Valley known as “Skolkovo,” which the Russian government dubbed as an “innovation city” of 30,000 high-tech workers just outside of Moscow. Clinton believed that the Americans could help Russia develop Skolkovo, and economic success there would ameliorate the bad blood between Moscow and Washington. In fact, Clinton and her team running the State Department coordinated with the Russian State Investment Fund (Rusnano) to identify American tech firms that would help Russia develop Skolkovo!
According to investigative journalist Peter Schweizer, Clinton used her pull and personal ties with major U.S. tech companies, such as Google, Intel, and Cisco, to encourage them to invest in the development of Skolkovo. And, as Schweizer pointed out in his investigation of the matter more than a decade ago, these were the same donors behind the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI), the non-profit run by former President Bill Clinton and his wife, that became the source of much controversy during the 2016 presidential election.
But by 2012, U.S. intelligence had changed its view on the joint-American and Russian Skolkovo Project. That’s because—surprise!—the U.S. Army had determined that Skolkovo “was a vehicle for world-wide technology transfer to Russia in the areas of information, technology, biomedicine, energy, satellite and space technology, and nuclear technology.” A year earlier, in 2011, U.S. military intelligence assessed that Skolkovo approved the development of a hypersonic cruise missile engine.
And Russia’s Skolkovo Foundation, with Clinton’s copious help, was the source of Russia’s incredible hypersonic weapons technology. In 2014, the then-FBI assistant special agent in charge (ASAC) of the Boston Field Office took the stunning move of writing an op-ed explicitly warning that American hypersonic weapons technology was being sold to Skolkovo, thereby giving an advantage to the Russians that even the Americans still lack. No one in the Obama administration listened.
Russian social media bot farms and propagandists dutifully decried the claims by President Trump that the genesis of Russia’s potent hypersonic weapons arsenal would not have been possible had it not been for the “theft” of that baseline technology from the Americans during the Obama administration. But what if it was even worse than simple espionage and American complacency at the security level that allowed for that technology transfer? It looks an awful lot like Secretary Clinton simply sold dual-use hypersonic technology to Russia—despite repeated warnings from both the FBI and US military intelligence that such a sale would, in fact, damage U.S. national security. Russia didn’t steal our hypersonic weapons tech, because they didn’t need to—the Obama administration gave it to them! That’s the real controversy here.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/donald-trump-is-right-hillary-clinton-s-state-department-sold-hypersonic-tech-to-russia/ar-AA1y78Rn?ocid=entnewsntp&pc=LCTS&cvid=9e0e2e75b363434995c6a16c94ad5e6a&ei=18
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