Shep Smith’s Humiliating Uranium One ‘Debunking’ Draws Harsh Rebuke From Angry Viewers
by ZeroPointNow
Nov 16, 2017 1:42 PM
The
nuclear deal, which ultimately resulted in the transfer of 20 percent
of American Uranium to Russia so they could sell it back to US nuclear
plants at an enormous profit, was approved by the Obama administration
after significant donations in excess of $140 million were made to the
Clinton Foundation by Uranium One affiliates.
Unlike Sean Hannity – Ol’ Shep clearly hadn’t done his homework –
consistently mispronouncing the names of people involved in the case,
telling viewers that Canada-based Uranium One is a South African
company, and spewing inaccurate and misleading facts regarding the CFIUS
(Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States) which approved
the deal.
Shep’s selective timeline
While
Smith claimed that the majority of donations to the Clinton Foundation
were from Frank Giustra – a mining financier who sold his stake in
Uranium One before it was acquired by Russia, and before Clinton was
Secretary of State – he fails to mention the history between Giustra and
the Clintons.
As Breitbart reports: “it is Smith who is being inaccurate. As noted in Clinton Cash and the New York Times, the Clintons helped Giustra acquire Kazakh uranium assets in 2005. Mukhtar Dzhakishev, then head of the Kazakh state nuclear agency, who met with the Clintons in Chappaqua, declared in 2010 that Hillary Clinton extorted and pressured Kazakh officials to grant those uranium concessions to Giustra.Shortly after they granted those concessions, $30 million was dropped into Clinton Foundation coffers by Giustra. Smith never mentions any of this.”
Smith also misled viewers over
the fact that while while nine agencies which comprise the CFIUS, the
decision to approve the Uranium One deal was ultimately Obama’s. This
is incorrect, as any one of the nine agencies involved had the power to veto the deal.
Another key
fact omitted by Smith was the timing of funds flowing to the Clintons –
including the $500,000 speaking fee Bill Clinton was paid by a Russian
bank which issued a “buy” rating to Uranium One during the CFIUS review
process.
Notably, Bill Clinton was at Vladimir Putin’s HOUSE the same day he gave the speech. Maybe he was checking out Vlad’s Russian tie collection?
Shep’s lies continue
Smith, in his crappy debunking, declared that “no uranium from Uranium One’s US mines has left the country.”
FALSE
Reports from both the New York Times and The Hill reveal
that yes – uranium left the US on multiple occasions. In fact, the
Obama administration approved its export through a Uranium trucking firm
based in Canada.
Shep fails to mention the FBI’s involvement
An October 17 article in The Hill reveals that Obama’s FBI, headed by Robert Mueller, discovered that “Russian nuclear officials had routed millions of dollars to the U.S. designed to benefit former President Bill Clinton’s charitable foundation during the time Secretary of State Hillary Clinton served on a government body that provided a favorable decision to Moscow”
No mention by Smith, of course.
The Hill also reported that an FBI mole embedded in the Russian nuclear industry gathered extensive evidence that Moscow had compromised an American uranium trucking firm in violation of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act –
a scheme of bribes and kickbacks to the company which would ostensibly
transport the U.S. uranium sold in the ’20 percent’ deal.
“The
Russians were compromising American contractors in the nuclear industry
with kickbacks and extortion threats, all of which raised legitimate
national security concerns. And none of that evidence got aired before
the Obama administration made those decisions,” a person who worked on
the case told The Hill, speaking on condition of anonymity for fear of
retribution by U.S. or Russian officials. –The Hill
Smith also leaves out a new report that the FBI scrambled to issue records-retention requests to all 9 member agencies of the CFIUS weeks after they cracked into Hillary Clinton’s email investigation.
No mention of the Podesta Group
Shep also fails to mention that the Podesta Group received $180,000 to lobby for Uranium One during the same period that the Clinton Foundation was receiving millions from U1 interests, and after Russia took majority ownership in the “20 percent” deal (source – you have to add up the years).
Moreover, a former executive of the Podesta Group told Fox’s Tucker Carlson that Tony Podesta regularly met with the Clinton Foundation to coordinate the Uranium One deal,
and was “basically part of the Clinton Foundation.” Moreover, the
former exec claims that John Podesta – Clinton’s Campaign manager and
long time DNC operative, recommended David Adams, Hillary Clinton’s
chief adviser at the State Department, giving them a “direct liaison” between the group’s Russian clients and Hillary Clinton’s State Department.
Let’s review the timeline:
Between 2008 – 2010, parties involved with Uranium One donated $145 Million to the Clinton Foundation. You can read more about the parties here.
June 2009, Russian State Nuclear Agency Rosatom (through a subsidiary) takes a 17% stake in Uranium One.
June 2010, Rosatom takes majority (51%) ownership of Uranium One, granting the Kremlin control over 20 percent of U.S. uranium – which Hillary Clinton’s State Department signed off on. The FBI uncovers massive bribery scheme before CFIUS approves deal.
June 29th, 2010, Bill Clinton meets with Vladimir Putin at
his home in Russia. Later that day Clinton earns $500,000 for a speech
in Moscow to Kremlin-linked investment bank Renaissance Capital, which
assigned a “buy” rating to Uranium One stock.
January 2013, Rosatom State Nuclear Agency acquires the remainder of Uranium one and takes it private.
Watch Shep Smith fumble the ball and cover for Hillary Clinton, horribly
Sitting down with Mother Jones, Hillary Clinton called any investigation into the Uranium One deal “an abuse of power” – of course.
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