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Wow! The Wall Street Journal in 2016: The Clinton Foundation, State and Kremlin Connections. Why did Hillary’s State Department urge U.S. investors to fund Russian research for military uses?

A program overseen by then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton as part of the “reset” with Russia wound up enhancing Russia’s military technology and funneling millions of dollars to the Clinton Foundation.

Both the U.S. Army and the FBI found that the program, intended to support Russia’s version of Silicon Valley, was exploited to improve Russia’s military capability. The FBI warned several American technology companies in 2014 that the city of Skolkovo, on the outskirts of Moscow, “may be a means for the Russian government to access United States sensitive or classified research development facilities and dual-use technologies with military and commercial application.” In reality, it was.

From the article:

Government Accountability Institute President Peter Schweizer on links between the Clinton Foundation, Putin’s regime and Hillary’s State Department.

Hillary Clinton touts her tenure as secretary of state as a time of hardheaded realism and “commercial diplomacy” that advanced American national and commercial interests. But her handling of a major technology transfer initiative at the heart of Washington’s effort to “reset” relations with Russia raises serious questions about her record. Far from enhancing American national interests, Mrs. Clinton’s efforts in this area may have substantially undermined U.S. national security.