ttystikk
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http://www.newsweek.com/hillary-clinton-uranium-conspiracy-theory-distraction-trump-russia-694525
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“For this conspiracy theory to be true, she would have to twist the arms of all these other eight Cabinet secretaries, which is completely absurd and completely implausible,” said Max Bergmann, a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress who specializes in U.S.-Russia relations and who worked at the State Department under both Clinton and her successor, John Kerry.
The claim that Clinton received big money for the Clinton Foundation from those tied to the Tenex–Uranium One deal is also tenuous. PolitiFact reviewed that claim, which was floated in a book by an editor at the far-right media outlet Breitbart, and found that almost all the money came from Frank Giustra, who sold his stake in Uranium One before Clinton became secretary of state.
Bergmann said the claim “just doesn’t make any sense. It’s just frankly a vehicle for distraction.”
According to the experts, even if Clinton had somehow managed to tilt the CFIUS decision in favor of Russian buyers, it wouldn’t matter: The mine isn’t very important.
The Russian-owned company does not have a license to export the uranium, and the actual mining process is not sensitive at all.
“It’s just a mine,” Lewis said. “There’s no technology that’s special. There’s no shortage of uranium around the world.”
Lewis said that even if he were asked to review the sale today, his security assessment would not change.
“We might refuse it to be bloody minded because we wouldn’t want to engage in any economic action, but it’s not a national security issue,” he said. “The uranium, it’s harmless.”
With all the real shit going on, this is a silly ass distraction. Chromium is a more strategically important material and we buy most of our supplies from the Russians. Is that a conspiracy theory, too?
