The Uranium One scandal is about President Obama approving a deal that handed a Russian-controlled corporation 20% of America's uranium reserves.
That deal was done in spite of the fact that the US has to import unranium.
That deal was done despite an FBI investigation into ongoing illegal bribery, extortion and money laundering schemes, concerning the US uranium industry, that started at least 18 months before the deal was approved.
Assurances that US uranium would not be exported to foreign countries was a key sticking point when Congress reviewed the deal back in 2010.
“No uranium produced at either facility may be exported,” the NRC declared in a November 2010 press release.
That press release announced that ARMZ, a subsidiary of the Russian-owned Rosatom, had been approved to take majority ownership of the Uranium One mining firm and its American assets.
New memos obtained by The Hill now confirm that Uranium One yellowcake uranium did escape U.S. shores repeatedly between 2012 - 2014.
Obama had signed a waiver allowing a Kentucky trucking company to carry uranium across the Canadian border and then approved export from Canada to Europe.
Rather than give Rosatom a direct export license, the the NRC in 2012 authorized an amendment to an existing export license for a Paducah, Ky.,-based trucking firm called RSB Logistics Services Inc.
The amendment simply added Uranium One to the list of clients whose uranium the trucking form could move to Canada.
The license, dated March 16, 2012, increased the amount of uranium ore concentrate that RSB Logistics could ship to the Cameco Corp. plant in Ontario from 7,500,000 kilograms to 12,000,000 kilograms and added Uranium One to the “other parties to Export.”
The move escaped notice in Congress.
US uranium did move overseas as a part of the Uranium One deal.
Where it ended up, no one seems to know.
The FBI withheld information from Congress and the American people about Russian corruption involving American uranium companies.
A confidential US witness, working in the Russian nuclear industry, revealed that Russia had deeply compromised an American uranium trucking firm through bribery and financial kickbacks.
The Department of Justice continued investigating this “matter” for over four years.
The FBI, led by Robert Mueller, required the confidential witness to sign a non-disclosure agreement.
When the witness attempted to contact Congress and federal courts about the bribery and corruption he saw, he was threatened with legal action.
By silencing him, Obama’s Justice Department and Mueller’s FBI kept Congress in the dark about Russia’s significant and illegal involvement with American uranium companies.
These troubling events took place when Mr. Mueller was the Director of the FBI.
"Confidential Source 1" says he was silenced by the FBI and Obama administration when he attempted to come forward with information that linked the Clinton Foundation directly to the Uranium One scandal.
Confidential Source 1's lawyer claim's his client had documented specific allegations that Russian executives made to him about how they facilitated the Obama administration's 2010 approval of the Uranium One deal ... and sent millions of dollars in Russian nuclear funds to the U.S. to an entity assisting Bill Clinton's foundation.
At the time, Hillary Clinton was serving as Secretary of State, and was one member on the government panel that failed to object to the Uranium One deal.
Bill Clinton accepted $500,000 in Russian speaking fees in 2010 and collected millions more in donations for his foundation from parties with a stake in the Uranium One deal.
Confidential Source 1" has recently been cleared by the DOJ to meet with Congress to tell his tale.
New memos obtained by The Hill confirmed that Uranium One yellowcake was exported from U.S. shores repeatedly between 2012 - 2014.
NRC memos reviewed by The Hill shows that it did approve the shipment of yellowcake uranium — the raw material used to make nuclear fuel and weapons — from the Russian-owned mines in the United States to Canada in 2012 through a third party.
Later the Obama administration approved some of that uranium going all the way to Europe, government documents show.
NRC officials said the shipments only lasted from 2012 to 2014 and that they are unaware of any exports since then.
NRC officials told The Hill that Uranium One exports flowed from Wyoming to Canada and on to Europe between 2012 through 2014, and the approval involved a process with multiple agencies.
From 2001–2013, Robert Mueller served as Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation;
As early as 2009, the FBI discovered that Russian officials were engaging in bribery and extortion, tainting the American uranium industry in violation of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act to strengthen their own nuclear program.
Investigations into Russia’s corruption of American uranium-related businesses were supervised by then-United States Attorney Rod Rosenstein, currently serving as Deputy Attorney General, and then-Assistant FBI Director Andrew McCabe, currently serving as Deputy Director of the FBI;
Members of Congress have raised objections to, and concerns with, the sale of American uranium assets to Russian companies, and raised these concerns in official correspondence to then-President Obama as early as 2010.
In 2010, when the Russian Federation needed American approval of uranium sales, former President Bill Clinton received hundreds of thousands of dollars in speaking fees from Kremlin-linked institutions.
Clinton also requested approval from the State Department to meet with central figures in Russia’s nuclear industry, and eventually met with Russian leader Vladimir V. Putin at Mr. Putin’s private residence.
The FBI was investigating the Uranium One deal back in 2015 – months after the Peter Schweizer book Clinton Cash exposed the scheme, along with an article in the New York Times which laid out allegations of criminal malfeasance by the Clintons, their charitable foundation, and several associates.
Twitter user Katica@GOPPollAnalys previously discovered Hillary Clinton’s IT guy ‘Stonetear’ asking Reddit users how to strip Clinton’s name from archived emails).
Katica later discovered several Preservation and Records requests sent by an FBI special agent to various agencies involved in the approval of the Uranium One deal on August 28th, 2015, as first published by The Conservative Treehouse.
Katica found the requests buried in an FBI file released via the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).
The Clinton email investigation was launched in March of 2015 after it was revealed that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton used a personal server and non-approved email accounts to conduct government business.
Reports from August, 2015 revealed that the FBI investigation was actually a criminal probe – though most people assumed it was simply covering Clinton’s mishandling of classified information and not the content of her emails.
Katica discovered that weeks after the criminal probe began, the FBI sent notices to every agency involved in the Uranium One approval process to preserve records.
The agencies which received the request included the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, the U.S. Dept. of Treasury, the Office of Director of National Intelligence (James Clapper), The National Counter Terrorism Center, and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE).
Five days after the initial request, the same FBI agent sent another round of notifications to the same agencies, adding the National Security Agency (NSA) and the U.S. Secret Service (USSS).
The next day, September 3rd, 2015, three more agencies were added to the preservation request: The CIA, the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) and the Department of Defense (DOD).
At this point, every single member of the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) which signed off on the Uranium One deal, had been served with a notice to preserve records.
Tony Podesta and Uranium One
In late 2013 or early 2014, Tony Podesta and a representative for the Clinton Foundation met to discuss how to help Uranium One – the Russian owned company that controls 20% of American Uranium Production – and whose board members gave over $100 million to the Clinton Foundation.
In 2013, John Podesta recommended that Tony hire David Adams, Hillary Clinton’s chief adviser at the State Department, giving them a “direct liaison” between the group’s Russian clients and Hillary Clinton’s State Department.
Tony Podesta was basically part of the Clinton Foundation.
The FBI set their sights on the Uranium One scandal weeks after they began looking into Hillary Clinton’s emails.
Hillary Clinton is back in the crosshairs of Congressional investigators after two House committees launched investigations into the circumstances surrounding the Obama-era Uranium One deal more than a year after suspicions of a quid-pro-quo were first raised by Peter Schweizer in his infamous “Clinton Cash” expose.
The Hill breathed new life into those allegations last week when it reported on an FBI investigation into attempts by Russian nuclear industry officials at the US-based subsidiary of Rosatom (the Russian nuclear agency) to bribe and extort their way into control of Canada-based Uranium One - and by extension, the 20% of US uranium assets it controls.
If Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein felt comfortable appointing a prosecutor to dig into collusion between Russia and the Trump campaign, with no evidence, he should be comfortable appointing a prosecutor to investigate these serious Uranium One allegations from the Obama era.
