TerryM, to be honest I'm not very interested in this, which appears to have been a mistake. I was interested in the means of attack, because it is meant to distract from Trump's multiple criminal activities. I just wanted to be clear who knew what when, and WaPo seems like a good source, fairly progressive and with a reputation for honesty. To me, the enemy is anyone who enables Republicans while the rest of us are under attack, including undermining our trust in each other.
Nothing wrong with the WaPo story.
It is consistent with the other fact-checking sources (some of which I mentioned above) which label this Uranium One - Clinton connection as FALSE.
It seems to me that some posters here still have a hard time separating fact from propaganda.
So here are the facts in the Uranium One case :
- the Uranium mined would stay in the US, regardless who owned the company (Russians or other).
- The decision to approve the majority Russian share of Uranium One was in the hands of a committee of 9 (NINE!) different government agencies, of which the State Department was only one. Not to mention that the Canadian Government had to sign off too, since Uranium One is a Canadian company.
- Clinton was NOT on that committee. A different State Department official was.
- The $145 million donated to the Clinton Foundation were almost entirely from an investor who sold all his shares in Uranium One in 2007 ! That's three years before this deal, and a year before Clinton even became Secretary of State !!
- Clinton does not benefit from the Clinton Foundation. All the money goes to the amazing projects this A+ rated charity sponsors. (As opposed to Trump who used Trump Foundation money to settle lawsuits against Trump. Among other very questionable sponsoring).
To suggest that there is some relation between Uranium One and these donations to the Clinton Foundation by this investor that had no interest in the deal is still preposterous and a non-story.
As it was already debunked as such 2 years ago by many fact checkers.
The question is WHY is the right wing propaganda machine resurrecting this zombie story from the dead now ? Why the continued smearing using a story that's already been debunked so many times ?
Personally, with the recent twist of getting an at that point (2010) preliminary FBI investigation involved, I think they are after Mueller.
Mark my words.