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That said, the possibility that a foreign entity would take a majority stake in the uranium operation meant that the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States, or CFIUS, had to approve the deal. So did the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission and Utah’s nuclear regulator.
The membership of CFIUS includes the State Department, meaning that the Secretary of State would have had a voice. The panel also includes the attorney general and the secretaries of the Treasury (who chairs the committee), 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.
CFIUS did approve the proposal, and in 2013, Russia assumed 100 percent ownership of Uranium One and renamed the company Uranium One Holding.
Why would the United States allow the transfer of a uranium company?
As others, including a New York Times’ investigation, have suggested, the United States was still seeking to "reset" its relationship with Russia and trying to get the Kremlin on board with its Iran nuclear deal. But another factor may have been that, at the end of the day, the Russian deal wasn’t that big.
Russia’s purchase of the company "had as much of an impact on national security as it would have if they set the money on fire," said Jeffrey Lewis, a nuclear nonproliferation expert at the Middlebury Institute and former director at the New America Foundation, in an interview with PolitiFact last year. "That’s probably why (CFIUS and the NRC) approved it."
originally posted by: Xcathdra
a reply to: dfnj2015
If I am not mistaken that is in his theory. It goes along with the preservation orders for documents to the very departments involved in approving the deal.
Did you read the info provided?
In 2005, Bill Clinton and Frank Giustra visited Kazakhstan. Giustra is a massive donor to the Clinton Foundation.
Giustra’s goal was to buy uranium mines in Kazakhstan. To this end, he and Bill Clinton met with leaders of the Kazakhstan government.
As a result of the visit, Giustra got major mining concessions, which were approved by the Kazakhstan government. Kazakhstan got Bill Clinton publicly to praise its alleged progress in democracy and human rights. The Clintons received a $31 million donation to their Foundation from Giustra, along with a pledge to donate $100 million more.
originally posted by: proximo
a reply to: Xcathdra
I want to believe this theory, but honestly it seems to good to be true.
We shall find out soon, maybe as early as tomorrow once some of these sealed indictments are revealed.
Interesting you bring up Feinstein. Recently she has found herself in the position of defending Trump. She pissed of Democrats at one of her functions in California recently where she stated Trump needs to be given a chance.
originally posted by: JinMI
a reply to: Xcathdra
Honestly X, it sounds like a wet dream. I'll dig through the evidence however for a more educated opinion.
originally posted by: butcherguy
a reply to: Xcathdra
Interesting you bring up Feinstein. Recently she has found herself in the position of defending Trump. She pissed of Democrats at one of her functions in California recently where she stated Trump needs to be given a chance.
Thanks.
I had forgotten about this. So, even more than being quiet, she talked in favor of Trump... that does work with the OP theory, if she knows how this is going to play out in the end.
I too feel that we are going to hear much more coming out. Brazile partially throwing Hillary under the bus is telling.
The United States’ Uranium Supply and Energy Independence:
Generating 20 percent of the U.S.’s electricity, the U.S.’s 104 reactors consume 55 million pounds of uranium each year, a full 25 percent of the global supply. However, the U.S. produces less than 5 percent of the global supply and imports over 90 percent of the uranium it uses.
The U.S. supply comes from various foreign countries, which may be seen in the chart below.
Under the megatons-to-megawatts agreement, the U.S.’s uranium purchases from Russia have consisted entirely of uranium recycled from decommissioned Soviet warheads. This agreement did serve U.S. national security interests for nuclear non-proliferation. However, that agreement expires in 2013, at which time U.S. utilities will purchase Russian uranium from the country’s state-run nuclear company, Rosatom, and its affiliates. This uranium will be sourced from mines, not decommissioned warheads, and will therefore cease to serve any national security interest.
Reliance on the Russian state-run nuclear company for U.S. nuclear fuel supply poses serious challenges in terms of U.S. energy security. For instance, in the winter of 2008-09, the Russian state-run natural gas company, Gazprom, suddenly cut off all natural gas exports to Eastern Europe for more than a month, leaving millions of homes without heat or electricity in the middle of one of the harshest winters in recent history.
The 1970s OPEC oil embargo is another cautionary example of the inherent risks associated with overreliance on energy imports from foreign state-run energy companies.
The potential dangers of overreliance on foreign supplies in an increasingly competitive global market are also highlighted by China’s possession of the global supply of rare earth metals. China has spent the past few decades seeking to monopolize control of these vital materials and now controls 97 percent of the world’s supply. Embargoes of these metals to Japan and Western countries in late 2010 caused severe disruptions in several major industries, including the manufacturing of solar technologies and most high-tech electronic devices.
Given the growing demand for electricity and the number of new reactor builds planned, it is likely that the markets for uranium will only grow fiercer, placing the U.S. in a precarious position indeed if it does not develop domestic uranium deposits.