The Uranium One deal. Smoke? Fire?
Posted: Sun Oct 29, 2017 4:22 pm
The Uranium One deal
The Russian atomic energy agency, Rosatom, took control of the Canadian company Uranium One, which had uranium-mining stakes that stretched from Central Asia to the American West. The deal made Rosatom one of the world's largest uranium producers, per NYT, and brought Vladimir Putin closer to his goal of becoming one of the world's major atomic energy players.
Where things get complicated
The Clintons' involvement
A 2015 story by the New York Times' Jo Becker and Mike McIntire revealed that leaders of the Canadian mining industry that built, financed, and eventually made the sale of what would become Uranium One to Russia have been major donors to the Clinton Foundation.
And since uranium is considered a "strategic asset with implications for national security," the deal needed approval from several U.S. government agencies. Becker and McIntire note that the State Department, then run by Hillary Clinton, was among the agencies that signed off on the sale.
Canadian records show that as Moscow gradually took over Uranium One from 2009-2013, Uranium One's chairman, among others with ties to the company, used his family foundation to make a series of donations to the Clinton Foundation, totaling $2.35 million. Those contributions were not publicly disclosed by the Clintons, despite Hillary Clinton being under a White House agreement to publicly identify all donors.
In June 2010, Bill Clinton was paid $500,000 to speak in Moscow, the same month the Rosatom deal went through. The money came from a Russian investment bank with ties to the Kremlin.
https://www.axios.com/russia-uranium-2498148483.html
So, the U.S. Secretary of State had to sign off on a deal that would make a lot of money for the Clinton Foundation. The Secretary of State at the time was Hillary Clinton (no relation to George Clinton, of Parliament Funkadelic). Hillary Clinton was connected to the Clinton Foundation, was she not?
Some people are downright upset over Ms Clinton's behavior.
Judge Jeanine: Time to shut it down and lock her up
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nttf0S1yDBw
And some people just wanna funk:
George Clinton - Atomic Dog
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szkmivRWegU
The Russian atomic energy agency, Rosatom, took control of the Canadian company Uranium One, which had uranium-mining stakes that stretched from Central Asia to the American West. The deal made Rosatom one of the world's largest uranium producers, per NYT, and brought Vladimir Putin closer to his goal of becoming one of the world's major atomic energy players.
Where things get complicated
The Clintons' involvement
A 2015 story by the New York Times' Jo Becker and Mike McIntire revealed that leaders of the Canadian mining industry that built, financed, and eventually made the sale of what would become Uranium One to Russia have been major donors to the Clinton Foundation.
And since uranium is considered a "strategic asset with implications for national security," the deal needed approval from several U.S. government agencies. Becker and McIntire note that the State Department, then run by Hillary Clinton, was among the agencies that signed off on the sale.
Canadian records show that as Moscow gradually took over Uranium One from 2009-2013, Uranium One's chairman, among others with ties to the company, used his family foundation to make a series of donations to the Clinton Foundation, totaling $2.35 million. Those contributions were not publicly disclosed by the Clintons, despite Hillary Clinton being under a White House agreement to publicly identify all donors.
In June 2010, Bill Clinton was paid $500,000 to speak in Moscow, the same month the Rosatom deal went through. The money came from a Russian investment bank with ties to the Kremlin.
https://www.axios.com/russia-uranium-2498148483.html
So, the U.S. Secretary of State had to sign off on a deal that would make a lot of money for the Clinton Foundation. The Secretary of State at the time was Hillary Clinton (no relation to George Clinton, of Parliament Funkadelic). Hillary Clinton was connected to the Clinton Foundation, was she not?
Some people are downright upset over Ms Clinton's behavior.
Judge Jeanine: Time to shut it down and lock her up
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nttf0S1yDBw
And some people just wanna funk:
George Clinton - Atomic Dog
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szkmivRWegU