justin_o_guy2 wrote on 02/05/18 at 21:27:59:You do realize that Someone helped sell twenty percent of our uranium to Russia, right? We IMPORT uranium, because WE DON'T HAVE ENOUGH.
So, CLEARLY sell it to Russia is good, right?
so Russia has thousands of nuclear weapons already right? More than enough to destroy the world a bunch of times. The Uranium that is of concern in the Uranium One deal is fuel/power grade, not nuclear weapon grade. We don't use nuclear power as much as we used to, the demand for us to keep that Uranium is down. oh, and Uranium One is/was a Canadian company with mines in the USA. and just like with oil, uranium is a worldwide marketplace, so us keeping "our" oil/uranium, kinda just a numbers game.
now was their some maybe inappropriate @ss kissery with the Clinton Foundation and speeches and what not, maybe, but that's mostly circumstantial and as of yet, no hard evidence of wrong doing. Is is fishy, yes, illegal, idk, probably not, maybe, idk. because when it comes down to it, they'd have had to do the same for the other 8 voting members and the President, just to ensure the approval of the sale. and there's no evidence, not even circumstantial that they did any of that. And Clinton, herself, had no direct intervention in this decision, she didn't even personally vote for it.
Read the fact check, there's enough there to at least put some pause on all the right wing paranoia over this. was it a good deal, maybe not, but it wasn't within Clinton's power to stop or force it to go through. She , herself or by proxy, could have voted against it and it could have still gone through.
most important part of the fact check to me:
"First, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission had to approve the transfer of two uranium recovery licenses in Wyoming from Uranium One to the Russian company. The NRC announced it approved the transfer on Nov. 24, 2010. But, as the NRC explained at the time, “no uranium produced at either facility may be exported.”
As NRC explained in a March 2011 letter to Republican Sen. John Barrasso of Wyoming, the Russian company would have to apply for and obtain an export license and “commit to use the material only for peaceful purposes” in accordance with “the U.S.-Russia Atomic Energy Act Section 123 agreement for peaceful nuclear cooperation.”
In a June 2015 letter to Rep. Peter Visclosky, the NRC said it granted RSB Logistics Services an amendment to its export license in 2012 to allow the Kentucky shipping company to export uranium to Canada from various sources — including from a Uranium One site in Wyoming. The NRC said that the export license allowed RSB to ship uranium to a conversion plant in Canada and then back to the United States for further processing.
Canada must obtain U.S. approval to transfer any U.S. uranium to any country other than the United States, the letter says.
“Please be assured that no Uranium One, Inc.-produced uranium has been shipped directly to Russia and the U.S. Government has not authorized any country to re-transfer U.S. uranium to Russia,” the 2015 letter said."
https://www.factcheck.org/2017/10/facts-uranium-one/this is an example of SPIN. Conservative media spins this by using just the base facts to justify the worst possible (most fearful) possibility. in my experience, conservatives, don't like and don't perceive nuance well, so when things get really complicated, they have to simplify things down in their heads to keep track of how bad or scary it is, even if procedures and rules were put in place to alleviate those concerns, which is a big part of why I don't trust the Nunes memo