Bcon wrote:
If the sale of uranium is not true, tell me, did the Russians give all that money to Hillary and the half million for Bills speech out of their extreme generosity? Talk about simple minds. Your simplicity is legendary. Also, what happened to the six billion that disappeared during Hillary’s time as Sec. of State? Probably an accounting error, I guess.
June 2010, when Russia’s nuclear agency, Rosatom, completed purchase of a 51 percent stake.
But the deal had to be approved by multiple U.S. agencies first, including the Committee on Foreign Investments in the United States, or CFIUS — on which the U.S. Secretary of State sits.
The committee approved the proposal, and in 2013, Russia assumed 100 percent ownership of the company and renamed it Uranium One Holding.
The deal, however, was not Clinton’s to approve alone. The CFIUS panel also includes the attorney general and the secretaries of the Treasury, Defense, Commerce, Energy and Homeland Security, as well as the heads of the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative and the Office of Science and Technology Policy.
The claim makes it seem like Clinton had the power of vetoing or approving the deal, which she did not.
Clinton has said that she was not personally involved and, in a New York Times article, then-Assistant Secretary of State Jose Fernandez, who represented the State Department on the panel, said Clinton "never intervened" in CFIUS matters.
The Clinton Foundation donations
It is accurate that nine individuals related to the company donated to the Clinton Foundation but the bulk of the money —$131 million — came from Giustra.
And Giustra said he sold off his entire stake in the company in 2007, three years before the Russia deal and about 18 months before Clinton became secretary of state.
We couldn’t independently verify Giustra’s claim, but if he is telling the truth, the donation amount to the Clinton Foundation from Uranium One investors drops significantly — from $145 million to $4 million.
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Forbes
The State Department and several government agencies on the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States first unanimously approved the 2010 partial sale of Canadian mining company Uranium One to the Russian nuclear giant Rosatom, supposedly giving Moscow control of more than 20% of America’s uranium supply.
And by 20%, we really mean almost zero.
Those U.S. facilities obtained by Russia produced almost nothing for years before this sale. Uranium One couldn’t give these facilities away. But they do have good milling capacity to process ore, if anyone gives it to them, which hadn’t happened in years. Theoretically, they could process 20% of our ore, but that has never happened.