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JimLur, No, Hillary Clinton did not "give Russia 20 percent of the uranium” in the US

Trump is misleading the public on her Russia policy because he’s afraid of looking like Putin’s stooge.

Updated by Zeeshan [e-mail] Feb 17, 2017, 4:20pm EST

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The very first part of what Trump said, about it being desirable to get along with Russia, makes sense. It might seem counterintuitive during a time when much of the American public is enraged at Russia for allegedly engaging in election-related cyberattacks and finds the idea of cooperating with its authoritarian government to be distasteful. But powerful countries getting along as well as they can with their powerful rivals can be a good thing, as it makes it less likely that they'll end up in costly conflict with each other, even if their interests are at odds on many matters. And that is indeed why, as he points out, the Obama administration made serious attempts to try to improve US-Russian ties.

But the claim that Clinton gave 20 percent of America’s uranium to Russia is incorrect and clearly misleading. Trump is referring to Russia’s nuclear power agency purchasing a majority stake in a Toronto-based energy company between 2009 and 2013. The company had mines and land in a number of US states with huge uranium production capacity — a move the US State Department signed off on. But PolitiFact did a thorough fact-check of the claim last year when Trump first made it on the campaign trail, and found the following faults with it:

1. The mines, mills, and land the company holds in the US account for 20 percent of the US’s uranium production capacity, not actual produced uranium.

2. The State Department was one of nine federal agencies and a number of additional independent federal and state regulators that signed off on the deal.

3. President Obama, not Secretary Clinton, was the only person who could’ve vetoed the deal.

4. Since Russia doesn’t have the legal right to export uranium out of the US, its main goal was likely to gain access to the company’s uranium assets in Kazakhstan.

5. Crucially, the main national security concern was not about nuclear weapons proliferation, as Trump suggests, but actually ensuring the US doesn’t have to depend too much on uranium sources from abroad, as the US only makes about 20 percent of the uranium it needs. An advantage in making nuclear weapons wasn’t the main issue because, as PolitiFact notes, “the United States and Russia had for years cooperated on that front, with Russia sending enriched fuel from decommissioned warheads to be used in American nuclear power plants in return for raw uranium.”

Trump is desperate to repudiate claims that he’s Putin’s stooge

http://www.vox.com/world/2017/2/17/14649980/trump-clinton-russia-uranium

.. after 3 ads that article was the first web result when i opened your Yahoo search link
http://au.search.yahoo.com/search?ei=utf-8&fr=tightropetb&p=hillary+uranium+deal&type=44141_122216

you might get the blaze .. Breitbart .. Wash. Examiner .. et al when you open it .. i don't think they come up the same ..

Now you know .. still, you'll probably use that bullshit talking point again ..