Obama-era Russian Uranium One deal: What to know
What is the Russia-Clinton uranium deal?
What’s the latest on a controversial uranium deal with Russia that was brokered during Hillary Clinton’s tenure as
Secretary of State?
As federal investigators continue to look into Russian interference in the 2016
presidential election, prosecutors are also probing an Obama-era sale of a uranium
mining company.
Attorney General Jeff Sessions last year directed federal prosecutors to look into the
sale of Uranium One to a Russian company – a transaction that President Trump has
called the “real Russia story.”
The Hill reported that Russian officials engaged in a “racketeering scheme” to further
its energy goals in the U.S. And an FBI informant recently told congressional
committees that Russia paid millions to a U.S. lobbying firm in an effort to influence
then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to make sure the deal was successful.
What was the Uranium One deal?
In 2013, Rosatom, backed by the Russian state, acquired a Canadian uranium mining
company, now called Uranium One, which has assets in the U.S. Uranium is a key
material for making nuclear weapons.
Through the deal, Russia is able to own about 20 percent of U.S. uranium production
capacity. However, Colin Chilcoat, an energy affairs specialist who has written
extensively about Russia's energy deals, said that the company only extracts about 11
percent of uranium in the U.S.
The deal also “doesn’t allow for that uranium to be exported at all,” Chilcoat told Fox
News. “It’s not like it’s leaving the U.S. or somehow finding its way to more insidious
players.”
The agreement was approved by nine government agencies with the Committee on
Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS), an inter-agency group that reviews
how certain foreign investments can impact national security. The State Department
under Clinton was one of those agencies, though Clinton told WMUR-TV in 2015 that
she was not “personally involved” in the agreement.
https://www.congress.gov/116/meeting/house/109694/documents/HHRG-116-II06-20190625-SD004.pdf
Obama-era Russian Uranium One deal: What to know
https://www.congress.gov/116/meeting/house/109694/documents/HHRG-116-II06-20190625-SD004.pdf
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Memo undercuts Hillary story on controversial Russian uranium deal, Clinton Foundation
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Senate records show that The Podesta Group has lobbied the State Department on behalf of Uranium One — once in 2012, when Hillary Clinton was secretary of state, and once in 2015.
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