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Doj Finally Investigates Uranium One (Russian Collusion)

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Finally. I just wish he would resign and let someone up to the job (and not recused) take a look at this russian collusion.

In 2010, the Obama administration approved the sale of U.S. uranium mining facilities to a Russian state atomic energy company. Hillary Clinton was secretary of state at the time and her organization, the Clinton Foundation, received millions of dollars from people associated with the deal.

Clinton's State Department played a role in approving the Uranium One deal because it concluded it would not pose a threat to U.S. national security.

Critics say the process by which the U.S. government approved the sale may have been corrupt, though charges were never filed against American officials. Defenders point out that state was only one of nine federal agencies involved in approving the deal.
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http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/f...r-justice-department-scrutiny/article/2644130

Here is a sticky issue that needs some 'splaining.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/prosecutors-ask-fbi-agents-info-uranium-one-deal-n831436

On the orders of Attorney General Jeff Sessions, Justice Department prosecutors have begun asking FBI agents to explain the evidence they found in a now dormant criminal investigation into a controversial uranium deal that critics have linked to Bill and Hillary Clinton, multiple law enforcement officials told NBC News.

The interviews with FBI agents are part of the Justice Department's effort to fulfill a promise an assistant attorney general made to Congress last month to examine whether a special counsel was warranted to look into what has become known as the Uranium One deal, a senior Justice Department official said.

At issue is a 2010 transaction in which the Obama Administration allowed the sale of U.S. uranium mining facilities to Russia's state atomic energy company. Hillary Clinton was secretary of state at the time, and the State Department was one of nine agencies that agreed to approve the deal after finding no threat to U.S. national security.




A senior law enforcement official who was briefed on the initial FBI investigation told NBC News there were allegations of corruption surrounding the process under which the U.S. government approved the sale. But no charges were filed.



As the New York Times reported in April 2015, some of the people associated with the deal contributed millions of dollars to the Clinton Foundation. And Bill Clinton was paid $500,000 for a Moscow speech by a Russian investment bank with links to the transaction
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They sell our uranium to russians and made money off it. Ahh, that's no big deal! We need that Uranium for medicine. Why should we have to buy any of it from anyone?
 
Well. http://thehill.com/policy/national-...deal-led-to-some-exports-to-europe-memos-show

Yet NRC memos reviewed by The Hill shows 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.

NRC officials said they could not disclose the total amount of uranium that Uranium One exported because the information is proprietary. They did, however, say that the shipments only lasted from 2012 to 2014 and that they are unaware of any exports since then.

NRC officials told The Hill that Uranium One exports flowed from Wyoming to Canada and on to Europe between 2012 through 2014, and the approval involved a process with multiple agencies.
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I know, thehill.com as if.



Give it time, ABC will report it.

How about HRC's Clinton Foundation making kickbacks. Those guys don't deserve a tax cut...Glad they are in a high tax state and can't ask DC to write off the high state taxes anymore.

Did NYT really report on this years ago?

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/24/u...m-company.html

They sure did. Well, that was before "Russian Collusion" of course.


http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/h...n-from-the-trump-russia-story/article/2638425

History repeats itself. Hillary says it is just a right wing conspiracy.

Hillary says the Clinton Foundation-Russia-uranium-deal story is just a right-wing distraction from the Trump-Russia story


Hillary Clinton would be much obliged if you all stopped talking about the more than $2 million Russia poured into her family's foundation during the years Moscow lobbied the Clinton-led U.S. State Department for permission to acquire uranium mines in America.


"I would say it's the same baloney they've been peddling for years, and there's been no credible evidence by anyone. In fact, it's been debunked repeatedly and will continue to be debunked," Clinton claimed Monday.
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But the below says...

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/n...even-though-payments-happened/article/2638197

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Its most recent misstep occurred this week when its social media team tweeted this misleading headline: "Fact check: No, the Clintons were not paid millions by Russia."


The accompanying article proves nothing of the sort.

The supposed fact check comes in response to a tweet this week from President Trump that read, "Russia sent millions to Clinton Foundation."



He is not wrong, and the Newsweek article acknowledges as much.

It acknowledges that former President Bill Clinton received a generous $500,000 speaking fee in 2010 from a Kremlin-linked bank with ties to Uranium One, a Canadian uranium company that had mines in the U.S. The Newsweek article also acknowledges a separate New York Times report that showed Uranium One's chairman donated approximately $2.35 million to the Clinton Foundation in four separate installments as his company was being acquired by a Russian nuclear energy firm called Rosatom.

There's more from the Times report, and none of it reflects well on the Clintons:

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.

The only thing the Newsweek fact check disputes is whether the millions paid had anything to do with Rosatom's successful efforts to secure approval from the State Department to acquire Uranium One. The U.S. Committee on Foreign Investment gave the go-ahead in October 2010, handing the Russian state-owned nuclear agency control of 20 percent of the uranium in America.
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What is it a distraction from? Mueller took down some Trump has bins. ;)?


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Also...a NYT article that says it was exported.


https://www.nytimes.com/interactive...n-foundation-donations-uranium-investors.html
 
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This is one of those things that looks way worse than it actually is. In truth, hillary and the state department had very little to do with the deal, many other government departments were involved with the deal, at most hillary was a single person on a committee, so if theres to be an investigation it needs to involve all of them and everyone involved, otherwise its nothing more than a political witch hunt.
 
This is a nothingburger with mayo.

Obama lets Hezbollah go, and you all are like "BUT SOME PRIVATE CANADIAN COMPANY..." :\

Bad set up, and I don't get the joke.

Trump sexually assaults dozens of women, openly supports a pedophile...

Sessions was a senator busy jerking off to pics of seized weed by the cops. Maybe they should have done something about it back then.

tathra said:
This is one of those things that looks way worse than it actually is. In truth, hillary and the state department had very little to do with the deal, many other government departments were involved with the deal, at most hillary was a single person on a committee, so if theres to be an investigation it needs to involve all of them and everyone involved, otherwise its nothing more than a political witch hunt.
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I'm so glad we brought someone with two brain cells to rub together on staff in CEP.

Welcome back to the fold, Tathra. <3

Morninggloryseed said:
Well, that was before "Russian Collusion" of course.
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So basically until someone comes along and does Jeff Sessions' homework for him, he doesn't really care, and the whole world should stop, or time travel in reverse back a decade or two to deal with this.

#metoo much?

Why not wait another few decades and then start bitching about it? Oh, that's right, the Republican majority in the house, senate, and white house, which WILL SOON FALL APART IN 2018 MID-TERM ELECTIONS....

...how convenient.

We can all see through the Republicans' ruse here. I didn't vote for Crooked Hillary but I wasn't fucking born yesterday.
 
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tathra said:
This is one of those things that looks way worse than it actually is. In truth, hillary and the state department had very little to do with the deal, many other government departments were involved with the deal, at most hillary was a single person on a committee, so if theres to be an investigation it needs to involve all of them and everyone involved, otherwise its nothing more than a political witch hunt.
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Snopes says no but what of all the links I posted that says she did? Even NYT reports the Clinton Foundation received money in association. The links are just a few posts up...check them out.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kalevl...fact-checking-the-fact-checkers/#19a54299227f

http://jacksonville.com/news/metro/2012-09-28/story/fact-check-so-whos-checking-fact-finders-we-are

http://www.factcheck.org/2009/04/snopescom/

I think there could be a bias there. They are not always accurate...please refer to the posts I already posted.
 
Sessions is as deep state as they come. The Clinton's must have pics of him with a goat and a couple of sheep partying in the barn. What else could explain him giving the biggest crooks of the last 20 years a pass. That Trump hasn't fired him already makes me wonder if Trump wasn't in the barn too.
 
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