Uranium 1
WSJ FEB 2018
The Nevada mine transfer would have been a lot more politically controversial at the time than it was.
President Obama’s Russia rapprochement might have run aground earlier than it eventually
did when Russia in 2014 seized Crimea.
Also, Mr. Obama might have come to see his secretary of state, Mrs. Clinton, as a political liability.
Which makes it interesting that the FBI, under its then-chief Robert Mueller, appears to have sat on the case—only getting around quietly to announcing a plea deal
with the Russian executive five years later, in 2015. It is not necessarily wrong for the FBI to consider the impact on national-security policy of any criminal case that it
intends nevertheless to pursue to conviction. But the fact remains: The FBI handled the Uranium One matter in a manner that avoided making immediate trouble for
the policy and political interests of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/uranium-one-is-a-curious-case-1518564360