Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and former President Bill Clinton in Las Vegas on Feb. 19, 2016 (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

The Uranium One Scandal Explained

How President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton aided Russia’s quest for global nuclear dominance

By Jasper Fakkert and Joshua Philipp

February 9, 2018 Updated: May 9, 2019

In 2010, the Obama administration granted approval to Russia’s atomic agency, Rosatom, to acquire a majority stake in Uranium One. The deal was controversial because the Canadian mining company at the time controlled 20 percent of all uranium mining capacity in the United States.

Given the national security implications, the deal required approval by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS), which included the State Department, then headed by Hillary Clinton.

Russia had well announced its plans to corner the global uranium market as a way to exert political control over other countries. As early as 2006, Russia announced it would spend $10 billion to grow Russia’s global uranium production capacity by 600 percent.

Uranium is a key component for nuclear weapons as well as nuclear energy. A July 2011 report from the U.S. Energy Information Administration revealed that American nuclear power plants relied on imports for 92 percent of their uranium supply. Twenty-three percent was imported from Russia.

So why did President Barack Obama and the State Department headed by Hillary Clinton approve the deal that weakened America’s security and energy independence?

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Poster Comment:

This crime is one that Hillary expected to keep covered up when she was in the Oval Office. It is more evidence of the Clinton Crime Cult in action. We need to keep hitting them hard.