AP Explains: What's the Deal with the Uranium One Deal?

Uranium (Nuclear Minerals) / Exploration, Mining, Marketing, & Acquisitions

Associated Press summarized the Uranium One deal...

1. The Rosatom-Uranium One deal did not sell 20 percent of America's uranium to Russia. The 20 percent figure cited by critics reflects only licensed uranium mining capacity in the U.S. at the time of the sale, not total uranium reserves or even actual production. And without a specific license to export uranium from Uranium One's mines, which it did not have at the time, Rosatom would not be able to send it to Russia or elsewhere.
2. In terms of the CFIUS approval, Clinton has said she had nothing to do with it. As secretary of state, she technically had a seat on the panel. But most other Cabinet-level members historically have delegated such responsibilities to less senior officials.
3. The alleged relationship between the approval of the sale and the Clinton Foundation was first raised in 2015 by conservative author Peter Schweizer. He and others have pointed to some of the investors in the deal and their ties to former President Bill Clinton and his foundation.
4. In April 2015, The New York Times published an article echoing much of the Schweizer book, including one sensational contention that not long after the Russians said they wanted to acquire a majority stake in Uranium One, Bill Clinton received $500,000 for a speech in Moscow. The speech was paid for by a Russian investment bank with links to the Kremlin as it promoted Uranium One stock.
5. Canadian financier Frank Giustra, a top Clinton Foundation donor, sold his company, UrAsia, to Uranium One, which was chaired by Ian Telfer, also a Clinton Foundation donor. Giustra has said he sold his stake in the deal in 2007, while Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama were vying for the Democratic presidential nomination. PolitiFact found that the majority of the donations from individuals related to Uranium One and UrAsia were made before and during Clinton's 2008 presidential campaign, but before she became secretary of state.

By the way, up to 2013, Russia had been sending their weapons-grade uranium (and plutonium?) contained in their nuclear devices to the U.S. for down-grading and re-processing into fuel for nuclear power plants. This was during a period that the the U.S. and Russia were playing nice (with much improved relationships that also involved cooperating on space projects)... until Putin decided to play KGB once again and Hillary caught him at it... things when south from there.