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Title : Busting the Big Lie: NO URNANIUM WAS SOLD TO THE RUSSIANS!!!
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Busting the Big Lie: NO URNANIUM WAS SOLD TO THE RUSSIANS!!!
For more than a year, the Republicans -- desperate to divert attention away from the Trump/Russia scandal -- have been pushing an insane story that Hillary Clinton approved a sale of American uranium to Russia in exchange for a massive donation to the Clinton Foundation.This tale is a huge lie. The best, most measured, most detailed response I've seen so far was by Paul Rosenzweig, formerly of the Department of Homeland Security. Since that piece is long and filled with detail, I shall summarize. I shall also draw from FactCheck.Org and from Crooked.Com.
1. Uranium One was a Canadian firm. As you might have guessed, they were -- and are -- in the business of mining uranium, and they operate in many different countries. Subsidiaries mine in the U.S. -- specifically, in Wyoming, which produces a very small amount of the world's uranium. (Most of the stuff is found elsewhere.)
2. ARMZ, a subsidiary of a Russian firm called Rosatom (which is basically part of the Russian government) bought 51% of Uranium One in 2010.
3. The deal required approval from all countries in which Uranium One did business. Most of that business was outside the U.S.
4. CFIUS (Committee on Foreign Investments in the United States) is the inter-agency body that had to approve the deal; the purpose of this group is to protect our national security interests. CFUIS includes representative from the State Department, Treasury, DHS, Justice, the Department of Defense, and the intelligence community. For obvious reasons, this particular deal also went to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission for approval.
5. Civil servants from each department study these deals and hash out the details. The "big cheeses" who head up these departments rarely deal with this stuff. Ultimately, the president signs off on their work. The vast majority of these deals go through.
6. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission "took point" on the Uranium One deal. They looked carefully at it and didn't have a problem with it. The other departments followed the NRC's lead.
7. Why didn't the NRC have a problem with it? Simple: All mining licenses in the United States were held by U.S. subsidiary companies controlled by United States citizens.
Here is the key sentence from the NRC's review:
Neither Uranium One nor ARMZ holds an NRC export license, so no uranium produced at either facility may be exported.Repeat: NO URANIUM WAS SOLD TO RUSSIA.
The Republicans keep saying that Uranium was sold to Russia. The Republicans are filthy liars.
Has Trump changed the situation in Wyoming? No. Trump knows full well that no uranium ever went to Russia -- that this story told by his propagandists is a Big Lie.
8. Hillary had no part in this. Lower-level functionaries in the State Department (and in the other departments) signed off on the deal after the NRC gave its blessing. Nobody in the intelligence community had an issue with the deal either.
9. What about that big donation to the Clinton Foundation? Almost all of that money came from one man who was a partial owner of Uranium One. He parted ways from that company years before Rosatom decided to buy in. Need I add: The Clinton Foundation is not a slush fund -- it is a charity, and it is one of the most transparent, open, hyper-scrutinized, honest, efficient and beneficial charities in the history of the world.
10. Disgraced "reporter" John Solomon brought the story back into the news. Solomon formerly worked for Reverend Moon's propaganda sheet, the Washington Times. He has a history of pushing GOP-friendly tripe, and although his stories may look like real journalism at first, they tend to crash and crumble. Back in 2007, the Columbia Journalism Review compiled a hilarious review of Solomon's humiliating record.
And that's it.
The whole thing is just another Big Lie -- a lie designed to hornswoggle Disgruntled Loser Boys who, unable to take responsibilities for their own failures in life, seek solace in spewing hate at the Clintons, America's scapegoats. Did they repossess your car, Loser Boy? Blame Hillary. Evicted from your apartment? Blame Hillary. Wife left you? Definitely blame Hillary!
Wake up, Disgruntled Loser Boys. Aren't you sick of being lied to by Republican propagandists? They've been doing this shit for decades: Travelgate, Whitewater, Vince Foster, the Clinton "death list," Benghazi, the email server, on and on and on. These smears never survive examination from sites like FactCheck. Don't you ever get sick of being played for fools?
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