Judge Jeanine: Uranium One is Biggest Scandals of the Last Century and Is Far from a Distraction

[Billy_Bob]

Even if it WASN'T uranium and was instead some other resource, 20% of it was given

No resource was "given". You are peddling nonsense.

US simply approved as not-a-security-threat a PRIVATE sale of ore processing utilities that COULD POTENTIALLY make up 20% processing capacity in the states

How does going around the knowledge of Congress equate to approval? Approval from President Obama then?

Congress does not have the power to "approve" or "disprove" sales like this. Nor is it required that they "know" about it.

You men to tell me our government doesn’t need knowledge of large amounts of “yellow cake” being exported with Russian involvement as well as connections to financial contributions to the Clintons, a nation who has nuclear warheads pointed right after us, yet the greater concern is what meetings Trump may or may not have in Russia over information that was never received from an informant not tied to the Kremlin.

It’s rather interesting what progressives perceive as true Russian collusion, what is deemed to be a serious threat, and at what lengths they will try to defend the actions of someone within their own party based on documented evidence.

No, I "men" to tell you that Congress doesn't have a say in the matter. It's not their job.

Regulation of uranium mining and exporting is the purview of the CFIUS and the NRC - and both of those groups approved the sales in question.

And both are regulated by congress as well as being over seen... So Yes they would know..

 

[Billy_Bob]

Even if it WASN'T uranium and was instead some other resource, 20% of it was given

No resource was "given". You are peddling nonsense.

US simply approved as not-a-security-threat a PRIVATE sale of ore processing utilities that COULD POTENTIALLY make up 20% processing capacity in the states

How does going around the knowledge of Congress equate to approval? Approval from President Obama then?

Congress does not have the power to "approve" or "disprove" sales like this. Nor is it required that they "know" about it.

You men to tell me our government doesn’t need knowledge of large amounts of “yellow cake” being exported with Russian involvement as well as connections to financial contributions to the Clintons, a nation who has nuclear warheads pointed right after us, yet the greater concern is what meetings Trump may or may not have in Russia over information that was never received from an informant not tied to the Kremlin.

It’s rather interesting what progressives perceive as true Russian collusion, what is deemed to be a serious threat, and at what lengths they will try to defend the actions of someone within their own party based on documented evidence.

No, I "men" to tell you that Congress doesn't have a say in the matter. It's not their job.

Regulation of uranium mining and exporting is the purview of the CFIUS and the NRC - and both of those groups approved the sales in question.

It was a national security matter.. So yes congress did know and had to approve of it... Specifically the Science and Technology committee who is tasked with the NRC over sight.

 

[theDoctorisIn]

No resource was "given". You are peddling nonsense.

US simply approved as not-a-security-threat a PRIVATE sale of ore processing utilities that COULD POTENTIALLY make up 20% processing capacity in the states

How does going around the knowledge of Congress equate to approval? Approval from President Obama then?

Congress does not have the power to "approve" or "disprove" sales like this. Nor is it required that they "know" about it.

You men to tell me our government doesn’t need knowledge of large amounts of “yellow cake” being exported with Russian involvement as well as connections to financial contributions to the Clintons, a nation who has nuclear warheads pointed right after us, yet the greater concern is what meetings Trump may or may not have in Russia over information that was never received from an informant not tied to the Kremlin.

It’s rather interesting what progressives perceive as true Russian collusion, what is deemed to be a serious threat, and at what lengths they will try to defend the actions of someone within their own party based on documented evidence.

No, I "men" to tell you that Congress doesn't have a say in the matter. It's not their job.

Regulation of uranium mining and exporting is the purview of the CFIUS and the NRC - and both of those groups approved the sales in question.

And both are regulated by congress as well as being over seen... So Yes they would know..

Ok.

I'm not sure you're following the conversation.

 

[theDoctorisIn]

No resource was "given". You are peddling nonsense.

US simply approved as not-a-security-threat a PRIVATE sale of ore processing utilities that COULD POTENTIALLY make up 20% processing capacity in the states

How does going around the knowledge of Congress equate to approval? Approval from President Obama then?

Congress does not have the power to "approve" or "disprove" sales like this. Nor is it required that they "know" about it.

You men to tell me our government doesn’t need knowledge of large amounts of “yellow cake” being exported with Russian involvement as well as connections to financial contributions to the Clintons, a nation who has nuclear warheads pointed right after us, yet the greater concern is what meetings Trump may or may not have in Russia over information that was never received from an informant not tied to the Kremlin.

It’s rather interesting what progressives perceive as true Russian collusion, what is deemed to be a serious threat, and at what lengths they will try to defend the actions of someone within their own party based on documented evidence.

No, I "men" to tell you that Congress doesn't have a say in the matter. It's not their job.

Regulation of uranium mining and exporting is the purview of the CFIUS and the NRC - and both of those groups approved the sales in question.

It was a national security matter.. So yes congress did know and had to approve of it... Specifically the Science and Technology committee who is tasked with the NRC over sight.

Well, no. Congress did not have to approve the Uranium One sale. There's only so far you can spin that rhetoric.

 

[oreo]

This secret FBI informant will be the key of putting Hillary in the pen, a place she's deserved to be for a long time. This witness has tapes, audio, emails and documentation that is supposed to be devastating to her and Bill, plus other's who sold out our national security for personal gain.


Nuclear Official Says Hillary Clinton Engaged In Extortion – Secret FBI Informant Is Set To Blow Open Uranium-One Scandal (VIDEO)

You're desperation is showing.


Uranium One Story: 100% Fake News Weaponized Against Hillary Clinton | AM Joy | MSNBC

 

[Markle]

The US uranium is not even allowed to leave the country.

But it has. Legally it can ship uranium to Canada. From Canada it has been shipped to Europe but we don't know where it went from there.

 

[Snouter]

These investigative journalists need to get a Pulitzer Prize for journalistic excellence in exposing UraniumGate!

 

[Geaux4it]

^^^^ lol ^^^^^

Bimbo Eruptions

-Geaux

 

[Hutch Starskey]

No resource was "given". You are peddling nonsense.

US simply approved as not-a-security-threat a PRIVATE sale of ore processing utilities that COULD POTENTIALLY make up 20% processing capacity in the states

How does going around the knowledge of Congress equate to approval? Approval from President Obama then?

Congress does not have the power to "approve" or "disprove" sales like this. Nor is it required that they "know" about it.

You men to tell me our government doesn’t need knowledge of large amounts of “yellow cake” being exported with Russian involvement as well as connections to financial contributions to the Clintons, a nation who has nuclear warheads pointed right after us, yet the greater concern is what meetings Trump may or may not have in Russia over information that was never received from an informant not tied to the Kremlin.

It’s rather interesting what progressives perceive as true Russian collusion, what is deemed to be a serious threat, and at what lengths they will try to defend the actions of someone within their own party based on documented evidence.

No, I "men" to tell you that Congress doesn't have a say in the matter. It's not their job.

Regulation of uranium mining and exporting is the purview of the CFIUS and the NRC - and both of those groups approved the sales in question.

It was a national security matter.. So yes congress did know and had to approve of it... Specifically the Science and Technology committee who is tasked with the NRC over sight.

It was a national security matter.. So yes congress did know and had to approve of it... Specifically the Science and Technology committee who is tasked with the NRC over sight.

Not true in any way.
Congress had no approval authority in this deal.

 

[ShaklesOfBigGov]

Facts surrounding what is known as Uranium One



From the New York Times:
SOURCE:
Cash Flowed to Clinton Foundation Amid Russian Uranium Deal

The headline on the website Pravda trumpeted “Russian Nuclear Energy Conquers the World.”

The article, in January 2013, detailed how the Russian atomic energy agency, Rosatom, had taken over a Canadian company with uranium-mining stakes stretching from Central Asia to the American West. The deal made Rosatom one of the world’s largest uranium producers and brought Mr. Putin closer to his goal of controlling much of the global uranium supply chain.

Beyond mines in Kazakhstan that are among the most lucrative in the world, the sale gave the Russians control of one-fifth of all uranium production capacity in the United States. Since uranium is considered a strategic asset, with implications for national security, the deal had to be approved by a committee composed of representatives from a number of United States government agencies. Among the agencies that eventually signed off was the State Department, then headed by Mr. Clinton’s wife, Hillary Rodham Clinton.

As the Russians gradually assumed control of Uranium One in three separate transactions from 2009 to 2013, Canadian records show, a flow of cash made its way to the Clinton Foundation. Uranium One’s chairman used his family foundation to make four donations totaling $2.35 million. Those contributions were not publicly disclosed by the Clintons, despite an agreement Mrs. Clinton had struck with the Obama White House to publicly identify all donors. Other people with ties to the company made donations as well.

And shortly after the Russians announced their intention to acquire a majority stake in Uranium One, Mr. Clinton received $500,000 for a Moscow speech from a Russian investment bank with links to the Kremlin that was promoting Uranium One stock.

The path to a Russian acquisition of American uranium deposits began in 2005 in Kazakhstan, where the Canadian mining financier Frank Giustra orchestrated his first big uranium deal, with Mr. Clinton at his side.

The two men had flown aboard Mr. Giustra’s private jet to Almaty, Kazakhstan, where they dined with the authoritarian president, Nursultan A. Nazarbayev. Mr. Clinton handed the Kazakh president a propaganda coup when he expressed support for Mr. Nazarbayev’s bid to head an international elections monitoring group, undercutting American foreign policy and criticism of Kazakhstan’s poor human rights record by, among others, his wife, then a senator.

Within days of the visit, Mr. Giustra’s fledgling company, UrAsia Energy Ltd., signed a preliminary deal giving it stakes in three uranium mines controlled by the state-run uranium agency Kazatomprom.

( remember the name Kazatomprom )


When The Times published an article revealing the 2005 trip’s link to Mr. Giustra’s Kazakhstan mining deal. It also reported that several months later, Mr. Giustra had donated $31.3 million to Mr. Clinton’s foundation.

Soon, Uranium One began to snap up companies with assets in the United States. In April 2007, it announced the purchase of a uranium mill in Utah and more than 38,000 acres of uranium exploration properties in four Western states, followed quickly by the acquisition of the Energy Metals Corporation and its uranium holdings in Wyoming, Texas and Utah.

( remember the Uranium One purchase date April 2007 as it comes significnt later in this post )



SOURCE:
Uranium One deal led to some exports to Europe, memos show

One controversy that it showed up in The Washington Post's official fact-checker site this week. "We have noted repeatedly that extracted uranium could not beexported by Russia without a license, which Rosatom does not have," the Post reported on Monday, linking to the 2011 Barrasso letter.

Yet NRC memos reviewed by The Hill show that it did approve the shipment of yellowcake uranium - the raw material used to make nuclear fuel and weapons - from the Russian-owned mines in the United States to Canada in 2012 through a third party. Later, the Obama administration approved some of that uranium going all the way to Europe, government documents show.

Rather than give Rosatom a direct export license - which would have raised red flags inside a Congress already suspicious of the deal - the NRC in 2012 authorized an amendment to an existing export license for a Paducah, Ky.-based trucking firm called RSB Logistics Services Inc. to simply add Uranium One to the list of clients whose uranium it could move to Canada.

The license, reviewed by The Hill, is dated March 16, 2012, and it increased the amount of uranium ore concentrate that RSB Logistics could ship to the Cameco Corp. plant in Ontario from 7,500,000 kilograms to 12,000,000 kilograms and added Uranium One to the "other parties to Export."

The move escaped notice in Congress.

Uranium One's American arm, however, emailed a statement to The Hill on Wednesday evening confirming it did export uranium to Canada through the trucking firm and that 25 percent of that nuclear fuel eventually made its way outside North America to Europe and Asia, stressing all the exports complied with federal law.
"None of the US U308 product produced to date has been sold to non-US customers except for approximately 25% which was sold via book transfer at the conversion facilities to customers from Western Europe and Asia," executive Donna Wickers said. "Any physical export of the product from conversion facilities to non-US destinations is under the control of such customers and subject to NRC regulation."



SOURCE:
Cash Flowed to Clinton Foundation Amid Russian Uranium Deal

By June 2009, a little over a year after the star-studded evening in Toronto, Uranium One’s stock was in free-fall, down 40 percent. Mr. Dzhakishev, the head of Kazatomprom (there’s that name again) had just been arrested on charges that he ILLEGALLY SOLD uranium deposits to foreign companies, including at least some of those won by Mr. Giustra’s UrAsia and now owned by Uranium One.

 

[Faun]

Facts surrounding what is known as Uranium One



From the New York Times:
SOURCE:
Cash Flowed to Clinton Foundation Amid Russian Uranium Deal

The headline on the website Pravda trumpeted “Russian Nuclear Energy Conquers the World.”

The article, in January 2013, detailed how the Russian atomic energy agency, Rosatom, had taken over a Canadian company with uranium-mining stakes stretching from Central Asia to the American West. The deal made Rosatom one of the world’s largest uranium producers and brought Mr. Putin closer to his goal of controlling much of the global uranium supply chain.

Beyond mines in Kazakhstan that are among the most lucrative in the world, the sale gave the Russians control of one-fifth of all uranium production capacity in the United States. Since uranium is considered a strategic asset, with implications for national security, the deal had to be approved by a committee composed of representatives from a number of United States government agencies. Among the agencies that eventually signed off was the State Department, then headed by Mr. Clinton’s wife, Hillary Rodham Clinton.

As the Russians gradually assumed control of Uranium One in three separate transactions from 2009 to 2013, Canadian records show, a flow of cash made its way to the Clinton Foundation. Uranium One’s chairman used his family foundation to make four donations totaling $2.35 million. Those contributions were not publicly disclosed by the Clintons, despite an agreement Mrs. Clinton had struck with the Obama White House to publicly identify all donors. Other people with ties to the company made donations as well.

And shortly after the Russians announced their intention to acquire a majority stake in Uranium One, Mr. Clinton received $500,000 for a Moscow speech from a Russian investment bank with links to the Kremlin that was promoting Uranium One stock.

The path to a Russian acquisition of American uranium deposits began in 2005 in Kazakhstan, where the Canadian mining financier Frank Giustra orchestrated his first big uranium deal, with Mr. Clinton at his side.

The two men had flown aboard Mr. Giustra’s private jet to Almaty, Kazakhstan, where they dined with the authoritarian president, Nursultan A. Nazarbayev. Mr. Clinton handed the Kazakh president a propaganda coup when he expressed support for Mr. Nazarbayev’s bid to head an international elections monitoring group, undercutting American foreign policy and criticism of Kazakhstan’s poor human rights record by, among others, his wife, then a senator.

Within days of the visit, Mr. Giustra’s fledgling company, UrAsia Energy Ltd., signed a preliminary deal giving it stakes in three uranium mines controlled by the state-run uranium agency Kazatomprom.

( remember the name Kazatomprom )


When The Times published an article revealing the 2005 trip’s link to Mr. Giustra’s Kazakhstan mining deal. It also reported that several months later, Mr. Giustra had donated $31.3 million to Mr. Clinton’s foundation.

Soon, Uranium One began to snap up companies with assets in the United States. In April 2007, it announced the purchase of a uranium mill in Utah and more than 38,000 acres of uranium exploration properties in four Western states, followed quickly by the acquisition of the Energy Metals Corporation and its uranium holdings in Wyoming, Texas and Utah.

( remember the Uranium One purchase date April 2007 as it comes significnt later in this post )



SOURCE:
Uranium One deal led to some exports to Europe, memos show

One controversy that it showed up in The Washington Post's official fact-checker site this week. "We have noted repeatedly that extracted uranium could not beexported by Russia without a license, which Rosatom does not have," the Post reported on Monday, linking to the 2011 Barrasso letter.

Yet NRC memos reviewed by The Hill show that it did approve the shipment of yellowcake uranium - the raw material used to make nuclear fuel and weapons - from the Russian-owned mines in the United States to Canada in 2012 through a third party. Later, the Obama administration approved some of that uranium going all the way to Europe, government documents show.

Rather than give Rosatom a direct export license - which would have raised red flags inside a Congress already suspicious of the deal - the NRC in 2012 authorized an amendment to an existing export license for a Paducah, Ky.-based trucking firm called RSB Logistics Services Inc. to simply add Uranium One to the list of clients whose uranium it could move to Canada.

The license, reviewed by The Hill, is dated March 16, 2012, and it increased the amount of uranium ore concentrate that RSB Logistics could ship to the Cameco Corp. plant in Ontario from 7,500,000 kilograms to 12,000,000 kilograms and added Uranium One to the "other parties to Export."

The move escaped notice in Congress.

Uranium One's American arm, however, emailed a statement to The Hill on Wednesday evening confirming it did export uranium to Canada through the trucking firm and that 25 percent of that nuclear fuel eventually made its way outside North America to Europe and Asia, stressing all the exports complied with federal law.
"None of the US U308 product produced to date has been sold to non-US customers except for approximately 25% which was sold via book transfer at the conversion facilities to customers from Western Europe and Asia," executive Donna Wickers said. "Any physical export of the product from conversion facilities to non-US destinations is under the control of such customers and subject to NRC regulation."



SOURCE:
Cash Flowed to Clinton Foundation Amid Russian Uranium Deal

By June 2009, a little over a year after the star-studded evening in Toronto, Uranium One’s stock was in free-fall, down 40 percent. Mr. Dzhakishev, the head of Kazatomprom (there’s that name again) had just been arrested on charges that he ILLEGALLY SOLD uranium deposits to foreign companies, including at least some of those won by Mr. Giustra’s UrAsia and now owned by Uranium One.

Great... now prove those same Russians made contributions to the other 8 department heads who had to sign off on the deal or your conspiracy nonsense gets flushed down the toilet from whence it came.

 

[BlindBoo]

The US uranium is not even allowed to leave the country.

But it has. Legally it can ship uranium to Canada. From Canada it has been shipped to Europe but we don't know where it went from there.

Most of it came back here. Some went to our allies in Europe and some went to Japan.

"Asked about that, the commission confirmed that Uranium One has, in fact, shipped yellowcake to Canada even though it does not have an export license. Instead, the transport company doing the shipping, RSB Logistic Services, has the license. A commission spokesman said that “to the best of our knowledge” most of the uranium sent to Canada for processing was returned for use in the United States. A Uranium One spokeswoman, Donna Wichers, said 25 percent had gone to Western Europe and Japan. At the moment, with the uranium market in a downturn, nothing is being shipped from the Wyoming mines."

Cash Flowed to Clinton Foundation Amid Russian Uranium Deal

 

[Syriusly]

Why do Republicans keep running with failure.

Time for them to move on to the next failure.

Or how about going back to wire tapping?

Let a special counsel investigate with a broad scope where other crimes can be documented and prosecuted. Get someone to flip

And of course that is what the Right Wing nut jobs really are hoping.

You want a special counsel to go in there and find 'other crimes'- you don't know what- just find or invent some.

You know like White Water.

 

[Syriusly]

Facts surrounding what is known as Uranium One



From the New York Times:
SOURCE:
Cash Flowed to Clinton Foundation Amid Russian Uranium Deal

The headline on the website Pravda trumpeted “Russian Nuclear Energy Conquers the World.”

The article, in January 2013, detailed how the Russian atomic energy agency, Rosatom, had taken over a Canadian company with uranium-mining stakes stretching from Central Asia to the American West. The deal made Rosatom one of the world’s largest uranium producers and brought Mr. Putin closer to his goal of controlling much of the global uranium supply chain.

Beyond mines in Kazakhstan that are among the most lucrative in the world, the sale gave the Russians control of one-fifth of all uranium production capacity in the United States. Since uranium is considered a strategic asset, with implications for national security, the deal had to be approved by a committee composed of representatives from a number of United States government agencies. Among the agencies that eventually signed off was the State Department, then headed by Mr. Clinton’s wife, Hillary Rodham Clinton.

As the Russians gradually assumed control of Uranium One in three separate transactions from 2009 to 2013, Canadian records show, a flow of cash made its way to the Clinton Foundation. Uranium One’s chairman used his family foundation to make four donations totaling $2.35 million. Those contributions were not publicly disclosed by the Clintons, despite an agreement Mrs. Clinton had struck with the Obama White House to publicly identify all donors. Other people with ties to the company made donations as well.

And shortly after the Russians announced their intention to acquire a majority stake in Uranium One, Mr. Clinton received $500,000 for a Moscow speech from a Russian investment bank with links to the Kremlin that was promoting Uranium One stock.

The path to a Russian acquisition of American uranium deposits began in 2005 in Kazakhstan, where the Canadian mining financier Frank Giustra orchestrated his first big uranium deal, with Mr. Clinton at his side.

The two men had flown aboard Mr. Giustra’s private jet to Almaty, Kazakhstan, where they dined with the authoritarian president, Nursultan A. Nazarbayev. Mr. Clinton handed the Kazakh president a propaganda coup when he expressed support for Mr. Nazarbayev’s bid to head an international elections monitoring group, undercutting American foreign policy and criticism of Kazakhstan’s poor human rights record by, among others, his wife, then a senator.

Within days of the visit, Mr. Giustra’s fledgling company, UrAsia Energy Ltd., signed a preliminary deal giving it stakes in three uranium mines controlled by the state-run uranium agency Kazatomprom.

( remember the name Kazatomprom )


When The Times published an article revealing the 2005 trip’s link to Mr. Giustra’s Kazakhstan mining deal. It also reported that several months later, Mr. Giustra had donated $31.3 million to Mr. Clinton’s foundation.

Soon, Uranium One began to snap up companies with assets in the United States. In April 2007, it announced the purchase of a uranium mill in Utah and more than 38,000 acres of uranium exploration properties in four Western states, followed quickly by the acquisition of the Energy Metals Corporation and its uranium holdings in Wyoming, Texas and Utah.

( remember the Uranium One purchase date April 2007 as it comes significnt later in this post )



SOURCE:
Uranium One deal led to some exports to Europe, memos show

One controversy that it showed up in The Washington Post's official fact-checker site this week. "We have noted repeatedly that extracted uranium could not beexported by Russia without a license, which Rosatom does not have," the Post reported on Monday, linking to the 2011 Barrasso letter.

Yet NRC memos reviewed by The Hill show that it did approve the shipment of yellowcake uranium - the raw material used to make nuclear fuel and weapons - from the Russian-owned mines in the United States to Canada in 2012 through a third party. Later, the Obama administration approved some of that uranium going all the way to Europe, government documents show.

Rather than give Rosatom a direct export license - which would have raised red flags inside a Congress already suspicious of the deal - the NRC in 2012 authorized an amendment to an existing export license for a Paducah, Ky.-based trucking firm called RSB Logistics Services Inc. to simply add Uranium One to the list of clients whose uranium it could move to Canada.

The license, reviewed by The Hill, is dated March 16, 2012, and it increased the amount of uranium ore concentrate that RSB Logistics could ship to the Cameco Corp. plant in Ontario from 7,500,000 kilograms to 12,000,000 kilograms and added Uranium One to the "other parties to Export."

The move escaped notice in Congress.

Uranium One's American arm, however, emailed a statement to The Hill on Wednesday evening confirming it did export uranium to Canada through the trucking firm and that 25 percent of that nuclear fuel eventually made its way outside North America to Europe and Asia, stressing all the exports complied with federal law.
"None of the US U308 product produced to date has been sold to non-US customers except for approximately 25% which was sold via book transfer at the conversion facilities to customers from Western Europe and Asia," executive Donna Wickers said. "Any physical export of the product from conversion facilities to non-US destinations is under the control of such customers and subject to NRC regulation."



SOURCE:
Cash Flowed to Clinton Foundation Amid Russian Uranium Deal

By June 2009, a little over a year after the star-studded evening in Toronto, Uranium One’s stock was in free-fall, down 40 percent. Mr. Dzhakishev, the head of Kazatomprom (there’s that name again) had just been arrested on charges that he ILLEGALLY SOLD uranium deposits to foreign companies, including at least some of those won by Mr. Giustra’s UrAsia and now owned by Uranium One.

Great... now prove those same Russians made contributions to the other 8 department heads who had to sign off on the deal or your conspiracy nonsense gets flushed down the toilet from whence it came.

Yep- nothing embodies Fake News more than this manufactured scandal.

 

[Syriusly]

Facts surrounding what is known as Uranium One



From the New York Times:
SOURCE:
Cash Flowed to Clinton Foundation Amid Russian Uranium Deal

The headline on the website Pravda trumpeted “Russian Nuclear Energy Conquers the World.”

The article, in January 2013, detailed how the Russian atomic energy agency, Rosatom, had taken over a Canadian company with uranium-mining stakes stretching from Central Asia to the American West. The deal made Rosatom one of the world’s largest uranium producers and brought Mr. Putin closer to his goal of controlling much of the global uranium supply chain.

Beyond mines in Kazakhstan that are among the most lucrative in the world, the sale gave the Russians control of one-fifth of all uranium production capacity in the United States. Since uranium is considered a strategic asset, with implications for national security, the deal had to be approved by a committee composed of representatives from a number of United States government agencies. Among the agencies that eventually signed off was the State Department, then headed by Mr. Clinton’s wife, Hillary Rodham Clinton.

As the Russians gradually assumed control of Uranium One in three separate transactions from 2009 to 2013, Canadian records show, a flow of cash made its way to the Clinton Foundation. Uranium One’s chairman used his family foundation to make four donations totaling $2.35 million. Those contributions were not publicly disclosed by the Clintons, despite an agreement Mrs. Clinton had struck with the Obama White House to publicly identify all donors. Other people with ties to the company made donations as well.

And shortly after the Russians announced their intention to acquire a majority stake in Uranium One, Mr. Clinton received $500,000 for a Moscow speech from a Russian investment bank with links to the Kremlin that was promoting Uranium One stock.

The path to a Russian acquisition of American uranium deposits began in 2005 in Kazakhstan, where the Canadian mining financier Frank Giustra orchestrated his first big uranium deal, with Mr. Clinton at his side.

The two men had flown aboard Mr. Giustra’s private jet to Almaty, Kazakhstan, where they dined with the authoritarian president, Nursultan A. Nazarbayev. Mr. Clinton handed the Kazakh president a propaganda coup when he expressed support for Mr. Nazarbayev’s bid to head an international elections monitoring group, undercutting American foreign policy and criticism of Kazakhstan’s poor human rights record by, among others, his wife, then a senator.

Within days of the visit, Mr. Giustra’s fledgling company, UrAsia Energy Ltd., signed a preliminary deal giving it stakes in three uranium mines controlled by the state-run uranium agency Kazatomprom.

( remember the name Kazatomprom )


When The Times published an article revealing the 2005 trip’s link to Mr. Giustra’s Kazakhstan mining deal. It also reported that several months later, Mr. Giustra had donated $31.3 million to Mr. Clinton’s foundation.

Soon, Uranium One began to snap up companies with assets in the United States. In April 2007, it announced the purchase of a uranium mill in Utah and more than 38,000 acres of uranium exploration properties in four Western states, followed quickly by the acquisition of the Energy Metals Corporation and its uranium holdings in Wyoming, Texas and Utah.

( remember the Uranium One purchase date April 2007 as it comes significnt later in this post )



SOURCE:
Uranium One deal led to some exports to Europe, memos show

One controversy that it showed up in The Washington Post's official fact-checker site this week. "We have noted repeatedly that extracted uranium could not beexported by Russia without a license, which Rosatom does not have," the Post reported on Monday, linking to the 2011 Barrasso letter.

Yet NRC memos reviewed by The Hill show that it did approve the shipment of yellowcake uranium - the raw material used to make nuclear fuel and weapons - from the Russian-owned mines in the United States to Canada in 2012 through a third party. Later, the Obama administration approved some of that uranium going all the way to Europe, government documents show.

Rather than give Rosatom a direct export license - which would have raised red flags inside a Congress already suspicious of the deal - the NRC in 2012 authorized an amendment to an existing export license for a Paducah, Ky.-based trucking firm called RSB Logistics Services Inc. to simply add Uranium One to the list of clients whose uranium it could move to Canada.

The license, reviewed by The Hill, is dated March 16, 2012, and it increased the amount of uranium ore concentrate that RSB Logistics could ship to the Cameco Corp. plant in Ontario from 7,500,000 kilograms to 12,000,000 kilograms and added Uranium One to the "other parties to Export."

The move escaped notice in Congress.

Uranium One's American arm, however, emailed a statement to The Hill on Wednesday evening confirming it did export uranium to Canada through the trucking firm and that 25 percent of that nuclear fuel eventually made its way outside North America to Europe and Asia, stressing all the exports complied with federal law.
"None of the US U308 product produced to date has been sold to non-US customers except for approximately 25% which was sold via book transfer at the conversion facilities to customers from Western Europe and Asia," executive Donna Wickers said. "Any physical export of the product from conversion facilities to non-US destinations is under the control of such customers and subject to NRC regulation."



SOURCE:
Cash Flowed to Clinton Foundation Amid Russian Uranium Deal

By June 2009, a little over a year after the star-studded evening in Toronto, Uranium One’s stock was in free-fall, down 40 percent. Mr. Dzhakishev, the head of Kazatomprom (there’s that name again) had just been arrested on charges that he ILLEGALLY SOLD uranium deposits to foreign companies, including at least some of those won by Mr. Giustra’s UrAsia and now owned by Uranium One.

Clinton Uranium 'Scandal' Doesn't Have Much Fuel

Did Hillary Clinton cut a secret deal in 2010 to hand Russia 20 percent of the U.S.'s uranium deposits? Was Robert Mueller, then the FBI director and now running the investigation into Russian meddling in the presidential election, complicit? Has the New York Times confirmed it all?

Those questions were mostly just making the rounds of the right-wing media until this week, when the Justice Department announced it was going to "evaluate" requests by Republican members of Congress to investigate the woman President Donald Trump reflexively calls "Crooked Hillary."

But is there anything to the accusations? So far, there is little to back them up. And to understand it all, we'll have to take a brief dive into one of the clunkiest acronyms in bureaucratic history: CFIUS (pronounced sif-ee-us). Bear with me.

The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States has been around for decades, but took its current form in 2007, after an outcry in Congress over the planned takeover of several U.S. ports by a company owned by the government of the United Arab Emirates.

It was a fun to-do about pretty much nothing, pitting the Republican leadership against Republican President George W. Bush and former Republican presidential candidate Bob Dole, who was lobbying for the Arabs. And, of course, the Clintons were involved -- with then-Senator Hillary vigorously opposed to the deal and ex-President Bill advising the Emiratis. In the end, Congress prevailed, and 22 U.S. facilities stayed out of foreign hands. (In a delicious irony, they eventually ended up owned by AIG, the insurance giant that did its best to destroy the global economy a year later. You couldn't make this stuff up.)

The mandate of CFIUS, which consists of a bevy of U.S. agencies under the direction of the Treasury secretary, is to look into the national-security implications when a foreign government looks to take over an American company. It doesn't actually have the power to quash deals; it can only recommend that the president do so.

If the Dubai Ports World deal was a game of checkers, the Clinton-uranium matter is 3-D chess. And, like so many things involving the former first couple, it centers on a shady character: Frank Giustra, a Canadian businessman who, among other things, founded the movie studio behind that delightful romp "American Psycho" and Michael Moore's conspiracy-mongering "Fahrenheit 9/11."

But for the most part, Giustra has been involved with two erratic entities: the mining industry and Bill Clinton. In 2007, he and the former president created the Clinton Giustra Sustainable Growth Initiative, which self-avowedly "has extensive experience in projects that organize market-driven activities to meet the private sector’s requirements for optimization of local supply chains," whatever that means. By 2006, Giustra had donated more than $30 million to the Clintons' charitable endeavors and pledged $100 million more.

The next year[2007], Giustra sold his mining company, UrAsia, to a large Canadian uranium-mining firm called Uranium One. Soon after that, Russia's state-owned nuclear energy entity Rosatom began to swallow Uranium One piece by piece, and in 2010 proposed upping its stake to 51 percent. Because the company mines in the U.S., CFIUS got involved and gave the deal its blessing, as did the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. (Rosatom eventually bought the remaining 49 percent.)

As secretary of state, Hillary Clinton was officially part of the approval loop, but so far investigations by FactCheck.org and other media organizations have failed to discern whether she was personally involved, and during the presidential campaign a spokesman said she "never intervened" on any CFIUS matter (which, if true, actually seems oddly lax). In any case, what has ruffled feathers here is that by taking over Uranium One, the Russians took control of a substantial portion of America's proven uranium reserves -- 20 percent, according to Rosatom's chief executive.

And while this raises the specter of Russians making away with America's valuable and potentially apocalyptic uranium stores, consider a couple of facts: America accounts for a relative pittance of the world's uranium production, and it cannot be exported from the U.S. except under rare conditions and with a government-issued license. (It does appear that some of Uranium One's material may have been sent to Europe after being shipped to Canada and mixed with "yellowcake" uranium from other sources.)

The whole thing might easily have slipped under the radar were it not for another unlikely partnership, this one between a conservative muckraker named Peter Schweizer and the New York Times. In May 2015, days after Hillary Clinton made official her second attempt to win the presidency, Schweizer published "Clinton Cash," a brief book with lengthy imputations that the Clinton Foundation and the ex-president himself got rich by using Hillary Clinton's State Department to trade favors with foreign entities.

Given Schweizer's right-wing background -- he's now an editor at large for Breitbart News -- one might have expected the book to rile the Rush Limbaugh crowd but not crack mainstream consciousness. But the Times ensured that it did -- it got an advance copy of "Clinton Cash" and "scrutinized his information and built upon it with its own reporting." The result was a front-page story titled "Cash Flowed to Clinton Foundation Amid Russian Uranium Deal," and President Trump and his supporters are making hay of it to this very day.

 

[Syriusly]

Facts surrounding what is known as Uranium One



From the New York Times:
SOURCE:
Cash Flowed to Clinton Foundation Amid Russian Uranium Deal

The headline on the website Pravda trumpeted “Russian Nuclear Energy Conquers the World.”

The article, in January 2013, detailed how the Russian atomic energy agency, Rosatom, had taken over a Canadian company with uranium-mining stakes stretching from Central Asia to the American West. The deal made Rosatom one of the world’s largest uranium producers and brought Mr. Putin closer to his goal of controlling much of the global uranium supply chain.

Beyond mines in Kazakhstan that are among the most lucrative in the world, the sale gave the Russians control of one-fifth of all uranium production capacity in the United States. Since uranium is considered a strategic asset, with implications for national security, the deal had to be approved by a committee composed of representatives from a number of United States government agencies. Among the agencies that eventually signed off was the State Department, then headed by Mr. Clinton’s wife, Hillary Rodham Clinton.

As the Russians gradually assumed control of Uranium One in three separate transactions from 2009 to 2013, Canadian records show, a flow of cash made its way to the Clinton Foundation. Uranium One’s chairman used his family foundation to make four donations totaling $2.35 million. Those contributions were not publicly disclosed by the Clintons, despite an agreement Mrs. Clinton had struck with the Obama White House to publicly identify all donors. Other people with ties to the company made donations as well.

And shortly after the Russians announced their intention to acquire a majority stake in Uranium One, Mr. Clinton received $500,000 for a Moscow speech from a Russian investment bank with links to the Kremlin that was promoting Uranium One stock.

The path to a Russian acquisition of American uranium deposits began in 2005 in Kazakhstan, where the Canadian mining financier Frank Giustra orchestrated his first big uranium deal, with Mr. Clinton at his side.

The two men had flown aboard Mr. Giustra’s private jet to Almaty, Kazakhstan, where they dined with the authoritarian president, Nursultan A. Nazarbayev. Mr. Clinton handed the Kazakh president a propaganda coup when he expressed support for Mr. Nazarbayev’s bid to head an international elections monitoring group, undercutting American foreign policy and criticism of Kazakhstan’s poor human rights record by, among others, his wife, then a senator.

Within days of the visit, Mr. Giustra’s fledgling company, UrAsia Energy Ltd., signed a preliminary deal giving it stakes in three uranium mines controlled by the state-run uranium agency Kazatomprom.

( remember the name Kazatomprom )


When The Times published an article revealing the 2005 trip’s link to Mr. Giustra’s Kazakhstan mining deal. It also reported that several months later, Mr. Giustra had donated $31.3 million to Mr. Clinton’s foundation.

Soon, Uranium One began to snap up companies with assets in the United States. In April 2007, it announced the purchase of a uranium mill in Utah and more than 38,000 acres of uranium exploration properties in four Western states, followed quickly by the acquisition of the Energy Metals Corporation and its uranium holdings in Wyoming, Texas and Utah.

( remember the Uranium One purchase date April 2007 as it comes significnt later in this post )



SOURCE:
Uranium One deal led to some exports to Europe, memos show

One controversy that it showed up in The Washington Post's official fact-checker site this week. "We have noted repeatedly that extracted uranium could not beexported by Russia without a license, which Rosatom does not have," the Post reported on Monday, linking to the 2011 Barrasso letter.

Yet NRC memos reviewed by The Hill show that it did approve the shipment of yellowcake uranium - the raw material used to make nuclear fuel and weapons - from the Russian-owned mines in the United States to Canada in 2012 through a third party. Later, the Obama administration approved some of that uranium going all the way to Europe, government documents show.

Rather than give Rosatom a direct export license - which would have raised red flags inside a Congress already suspicious of the deal - the NRC in 2012 authorized an amendment to an existing export license for a Paducah, Ky.-based trucking firm called RSB Logistics Services Inc. to simply add Uranium One to the list of clients whose uranium it could move to Canada.

The license, reviewed by The Hill, is dated March 16, 2012, and it increased the amount of uranium ore concentrate that RSB Logistics could ship to the Cameco Corp. plant in Ontario from 7,500,000 kilograms to 12,000,000 kilograms and added Uranium One to the "other parties to Export."

The move escaped notice in Congress.

Uranium One's American arm, however, emailed a statement to The Hill on Wednesday evening confirming it did export uranium to Canada through the trucking firm and that 25 percent of that nuclear fuel eventually made its way outside North America to Europe and Asia, stressing all the exports complied with federal law.
"None of the US U308 product produced to date has been sold to non-US customers except for approximately 25% which was sold via book transfer at the conversion facilities to customers from Western Europe and Asia," executive Donna Wickers said. "Any physical export of the product from conversion facilities to non-US destinations is under the control of such customers and subject to NRC regulation."



SOURCE:
Cash Flowed to Clinton Foundation Amid Russian Uranium Deal

By June 2009, a little over a year after the star-studded evening in Toronto, Uranium One’s stock was in free-fall, down 40 percent. Mr. Dzhakishev, the head of Kazatomprom (there’s that name again) had just been arrested on charges that he ILLEGALLY SOLD uranium deposits to foreign companies, including at least some of those won by Mr. Giustra’s UrAsia and now owned by Uranium One.

Fox News anchor Shepard Smith debunked what his own network has called the Hillary Clinton uranium “scandal,” infuriating Fox viewers, some of whom suggested that he ought to work for CNN or MSNBC.


Smith’s critique, which called President Trump’s accusations against Clinton “inaccurate,” was triggered by renewed calls from Republicans on Capitol Hill for a special counsel to investigate Clinton.


Fox News, along with Trump and his allies, has been suggesting for months a link between donations to the Clinton Foundation and the approval of a deal by the State Department and the Obama administration allowing a Russian company to purchase a Canada-based mining group with operations in the United States.


Trump called it “Watergate, modern-age.” Former White House adviser Sebastian Gorka, speaking on Fox News last month, said it was “equivalent to” the Julius and Ethel Rosenberg spying case of the 1950s, in which the couple was charged with providing U.S. atomic secrets to the Soviet Union, noting that “those people got the chair.”

But Smith, in his broadcast, made many of the same points as the fact-checkers. “Now, here’s the accusation,” he said.

Nine people involved in the deal made donations to the Clinton Foundation totaling more than $140 million. In exchange, Secretary of State Clinton approved the sale to the Russians, a quid pro quo. The accusation [was] first made by Peter Schweizer, the senior editor-at-large of the website Breitbart in his 2015 book “Clinton Cash.” The next year, candidate Donald Trump cited the accusation as an example of Clinton corruption.

He then played a video of Trump’s version of the “scandal” in which he claimed:

Hillary Clinton’s State Department approved the transfer of 20 percent of America’s uranium holdings to Russia. Well, nine investors in the deal funneled $145 million to the Clinton Foundation.

Smith called the statement “inaccurate in a number of ways,” noting that “the Clinton State Department had no power to veto or approve that transaction.” Rather, it must be approved by an interagency committee of the government consisting of nine department heads, including the secretary of state.


Most of the Clinton Foundation donations in question, he pointed out, came from Frank Giustra, the founder of the uranium company in Canada. But Giustra, Smith noted, “says he sold his stake in the company back in 2007,” three years before the uranium/Russia deal and “a year and a half before Hillary Clinton became secretary of state.” He added:

. . . The accusation is predicated on the charge that Secretary Clinton approved the sale. She did not. A committee of nine evaluated the sale, the president approved the sale, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and others had to offer permits, and none of the uranium was exported for use by the U.S. to Russia.

Smith has deviated from the Fox and Trump line before, to the point that his Fox colleague Sean Hannity accused him of being “anti-Trump.”

 

[Geaux4it]

Why do Republicans keep running with failure.

Time for them to move on to the next failure.

Or how about going back to wire tapping?

Let a special counsel investigate with a broad scope where other crimes can be documented and prosecuted. Get someone to flip

And of course that is what the Right Wing nut jobs really are hoping.

You want a special counsel to go in there and find 'other crimes'- you don't know what- just find or invent some.

You know like White Water.

But nailing Manafort and the other scrub is good policing

What a joke Dems are

-Geaux

 

[Syriusly]

Why do Republicans keep running with failure.

Time for them to move on to the next failure.

Or how about going back to wire tapping?

Let a special counsel investigate with a broad scope where other crimes can be documented and prosecuted. Get someone to flip

And of course that is what the Right Wing nut jobs really are hoping.

You want a special counsel to go in there and find 'other crimes'- you don't know what- just find or invent some.

You know like White Water.

But nailing Manafort and the other scrub is good policing

So are you arguing that Manafort shouldn't have been prosecuted?

Or are you arguing that a special prosecutor shouldn't have been appointed to investigate Russia's attempt to influence our election- leaving it in the hands of the FBI?

 

[rightwinger]

Judge Jeanine is such a tool for the conservative interests

She knows where her bread and butter are coming from

 

[ShaklesOfBigGov]

Facts surrounding what is known as Uranium One



From the New York Times:
SOURCE:
Cash Flowed to Clinton Foundation Amid Russian Uranium Deal

The headline on the website Pravda trumpeted “Russian Nuclear Energy Conquers the World.”

The article, in January 2013, detailed how the Russian atomic energy agency, Rosatom, had taken over a Canadian company with uranium-mining stakes stretching from Central Asia to the American West. The deal made Rosatom one of the world’s largest uranium producers and brought Mr. Putin closer to his goal of controlling much of the global uranium supply chain.

Beyond mines in Kazakhstan that are among the most lucrative in the world, the sale gave the Russians control of one-fifth of all uranium production capacity in the United States. Since uranium is considered a strategic asset, with implications for national security, the deal had to be approved by a committee composed of representatives from a number of United States government agencies. Among the agencies that eventually signed off was the State Department, then headed by Mr. Clinton’s wife, Hillary Rodham Clinton.

As the Russians gradually assumed control of Uranium One in three separate transactions from 2009 to 2013, Canadian records show, a flow of cash made its way to the Clinton Foundation. Uranium One’s chairman used his family foundation to make four donations totaling $2.35 million. Those contributions were not publicly disclosed by the Clintons, despite an agreement Mrs. Clinton had struck with the Obama White House to publicly identify all donors. Other people with ties to the company made donations as well.

And shortly after the Russians announced their intention to acquire a majority stake in Uranium One, Mr. Clinton received $500,000 for a Moscow speech from a Russian investment bank with links to the Kremlin that was promoting Uranium One stock.

The path to a Russian acquisition of American uranium deposits began in 2005 in Kazakhstan, where the Canadian mining financier Frank Giustra orchestrated his first big uranium deal, with Mr. Clinton at his side.

The two men had flown aboard Mr. Giustra’s private jet to Almaty, Kazakhstan, where they dined with the authoritarian president, Nursultan A. Nazarbayev. Mr. Clinton handed the Kazakh president a propaganda coup when he expressed support for Mr. Nazarbayev’s bid to head an international elections monitoring group, undercutting American foreign policy and criticism of Kazakhstan’s poor human rights record by, among others, his wife, then a senator.

Within days of the visit, Mr. Giustra’s fledgling company, UrAsia Energy Ltd., signed a preliminary deal giving it stakes in three uranium mines controlled by the state-run uranium agency Kazatomprom.

( remember the name Kazatomprom )


When The Times published an article revealing the 2005 trip’s link to Mr. Giustra’s Kazakhstan mining deal. It also reported that several months later, Mr. Giustra had donated $31.3 million to Mr. Clinton’s foundation.

Soon, Uranium One began to snap up companies with assets in the United States. In April 2007, it announced the purchase of a uranium mill in Utah and more than 38,000 acres of uranium exploration properties in four Western states, followed quickly by the acquisition of the Energy Metals Corporation and its uranium holdings in Wyoming, Texas and Utah.

( remember the Uranium One purchase date April 2007 as it comes significnt later in this post )



SOURCE:
Uranium One deal led to some exports to Europe, memos show

One controversy that it showed up in The Washington Post's official fact-checker site this week. "We have noted repeatedly that extracted uranium could not beexported by Russia without a license, which Rosatom does not have," the Post reported on Monday, linking to the 2011 Barrasso letter.

Yet NRC memos reviewed by The Hill show that it did approve the shipment of yellowcake uranium - the raw material used to make nuclear fuel and weapons - from the Russian-owned mines in the United States to Canada in 2012 through a third party. Later, the Obama administration approved some of that uranium going all the way to Europe, government documents show.

Rather than give Rosatom a direct export license - which would have raised red flags inside a Congress already suspicious of the deal - the NRC in 2012 authorized an amendment to an existing export license for a Paducah, Ky.-based trucking firm called RSB Logistics Services Inc. to simply add Uranium One to the list of clients whose uranium it could move to Canada.

The license, reviewed by The Hill, is dated March 16, 2012, and it increased the amount of uranium ore concentrate that RSB Logistics could ship to the Cameco Corp. plant in Ontario from 7,500,000 kilograms to 12,000,000 kilograms and added Uranium One to the "other parties to Export."

The move escaped notice in Congress.

Uranium One's American arm, however, emailed a statement to The Hill on Wednesday evening confirming it did export uranium to Canada through the trucking firm and that 25 percent of that nuclear fuel eventually made its way outside North America to Europe and Asia, stressing all the exports complied with federal law.
"None of the US U308 product produced to date has been sold to non-US customers except for approximately 25% which was sold via book transfer at the conversion facilities to customers from Western Europe and Asia," executive Donna Wickers said. "Any physical export of the product from conversion facilities to non-US destinations is under the control of such customers and subject to NRC regulation."



SOURCE:
Cash Flowed to Clinton Foundation Amid Russian Uranium Deal

By June 2009, a little over a year after the star-studded evening in Toronto, Uranium One’s stock was in free-fall, down 40 percent. Mr. Dzhakishev, the head of Kazatomprom (there’s that name again) had just been arrested on charges that he ILLEGALLY SOLD uranium deposits to foreign companies, including at least some of those won by Mr. Giustra’s UrAsia and now owned by Uranium One.

Fox News anchor Shepard Smith debunked what his own network has called the Hillary Clinton uranium “scandal,” infuriating Fox viewers, some of whom suggested that he ought to work for CNN or MSNBC.


Smith’s critique, which called President Trump’s accusations against Clinton “inaccurate,” was triggered by renewed calls from Republicans on Capitol Hill for a special counsel to investigate Clinton.


Fox News, along with Trump and his allies, has been suggesting for months a link between donations to the Clinton Foundation and the approval of a deal by the State Department and the Obama administration allowing a Russian company to purchase a Canada-based mining group with operations in the United States.


Trump called it “Watergate, modern-age.” Former White House adviser Sebastian Gorka, speaking on Fox News last month, said it was “equivalent to” the Julius and Ethel Rosenberg spying case of the 1950s, in which the couple was charged with providing U.S. atomic secrets to the Soviet Union, noting that “those people got the chair.”

But Smith, in his broadcast, made many of the same points as the fact-checkers. “Now, here’s the accusation,” he said.

Nine people involved in the deal made donations to the Clinton Foundation totaling more than $140 million. In exchange, Secretary of State Clinton approved the sale to the Russians, a quid pro quo. The accusation [was] first made by Peter Schweizer, the senior editor-at-large of the website Breitbart in his 2015 book “Clinton Cash.” The next year, candidate Donald Trump cited the accusation as an example of Clinton corruption.

He then played a video of Trump’s version of the “scandal” in which he claimed:

Hillary Clinton’s State Department approved the transfer of 20 percent of America’s uranium holdings to Russia. Well, nine investors in the deal funneled $145 million to the Clinton Foundation.

Smith called the statement “inaccurate in a number of ways,” noting that “the Clinton State Department had no power to veto or approve that transaction.” Rather, it must be approved by an interagency committee of the government consisting of nine department heads, including the secretary of state.


Most of the Clinton Foundation donations in question, he pointed out, came from Frank Giustra, the founder of the uranium company in Canada. But Giustra, Smith noted, “says he sold his stake in the company back in 2007,” three years before the uranium/Russia deal and “a year and a half before Hillary Clinton became secretary of state.” He added:

. . . The accusation is predicated on the charge that Secretary Clinton approved the sale. She did not. A committee of nine evaluated the sale, the president approved the sale, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and others had to offer permits, and none of the uranium was exported for use by the U.S. to Russia.

Smith has deviated from the Fox and Trump line before, to the point that his Fox colleague Sean Hannity accused him of being “anti-Trump.”

I do go to a single source “opinion” piece in trying to debunk allegations that does not utilze any uncovered documentation to Back their view. This is why it’s important to utilize more than one source, that includes documentation and testimony that can be provided, which so happens the New York Times and the Hill articles both independently provided the same questions and similar allegations that need to be investigated.

Having several eyewitness accounts (reporting) utilizing uncovered revealed documents, named sources, NRC accounts will always Trump (no pun intended) one “opinion” piece without provided uncovered documents that can be provided as proof to counter the allegations. That’s what it meant by “doing your research” ... over simply referencing what amounts to just one opinion piece.