WATCH: Shep Smith 'Destroys' The Uranium One Scandal. Except There's More To The Story.

WATCH: Shep Smith 'Destroys' The Uranium One Scandal. Except There's More To The Story.

By Ben Shapiro

@benshapiro

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On Tuesday evening, the media world went gaga over Fox News’ Shepard Smith “debunking” the so-called Uranium One scandal.

Smith went after President Trump’s characterization of the situation; Trump stated that Hillary Clinton’s State Department had approved “transfer of 20% of America’s uranium holdings to Russia. Well, nine investors in the deal funneled $145 million to the Clinton Foundation.” Smith stated that the Clinton State Department “had no power to approve or veto that transaction,” continuing:

The accusation is predicated on the charge that Secretary Clinton approved the sale. She did not. A committee of nine evaluated the sale, the president approved the sale, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and others had to offer permits, and none of the uranium was exported for use by the U.S. to Russia.

Smith also pointed out that most of the money supposedly funneled to the Clinton Foundation came from Frank Giustra, who had divested from the uranium company years before the sale.

So, here’s what’s true about the Uranium One deal.

Giustra owned a company called UrAsia, which was sold to Uranium One; Giustra then says he divested his personal stake in the company, though his shareholders still owned 60% of the company, and there is no way to confirm the truth of his claim. In 2009 and 2010, Rosatom, Russia’s atomic energy agency, was poised to buy a majority of the company. Rosatom was barred by law from exporting American uranium abroad, so Russia couldn’t exactly mine in Wyoming and build nukes in Moscow.

In 2013, Russia bought the rest of Uranium One with the approval of the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States, as well as the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission and Utah agencies. The CFIUS includes the State Department. Clinton claimed she had nothing to do with the greenlighting, and pointed to the fact that multiple agencies had approved the sale.

So, how much money actually flowed from Uranium One beneficiaries to the Clinton Foundation? If we don’t include Giustra, the amount drops from $145 million to $4 million.

But this is a bit too simplistic. The New York Times reported that the Uranium One acquisition actually began in 2005, while Giustra still owned the company, “with Mr. Clinton at his side.” According to the Times:

The two men had flown aboard Mr. Giustra’s private jet to Almaty, Kazakhstan, where they dined with the authoritarian president, Nursultan A. Nazarbayev. Mr. Clinton handed the Kazakh president a propaganda coup when he expressed support for Mr. Nazarbayev’s bid to head an international elections monitoring group, undercutting American foreign policy and criticism of Kazakhstan’s poor human rights record by, among others, his wife, then a senator.

Within days of the visit, Mr. Giustra’s fledgling company, UrAsia Energy Ltd., signed a preliminary deal giving it stakes in three uranium mines controlled by the state-run uranium agency Kazatomprom.

If the Kazakh deal was a major victory, UrAsia did not wait long before resuming the hunt. In 2007, it merged with Uranium One, a South African company with assets in Africa and Australia, in what was described as a $3.5 billion transaction. The new company, which kept the Uranium One name, was controlled by UrAsia investors including Ian Telfer, a Canadian who became chairman. Through a spokeswoman, Mr. Giustra, whose personal stake in the deal was estimated at about $45 million, said he sold his stake in 2007.

Soon, Uranium One began to snap up companies with assets in the United States. In April 2007, it announced the purchase of a uranium mill in Utah and more than 38,000 acres of uranium exploration properties in four Western states, followed quickly by the acquisition of the Energy Metals Corporation and its uranium holdings in Wyoming, Texas and Utah. That deal made clear that Uranium One was intent on becoming “a powerhouse in the United States uranium sector with the potential to become the domestic supplier of choice for U.S. utilities,” the company declared. … The Times published an article revealing the 2005 trip’s link to Mr. Giustra’s Kazakhstan mining deal. It also reported that several months later, Mr. Giustra had donated $31.3 million to Mr. Clinton’s foundation.

Furthermore, questions about Rosatom’s control of uranium isn’t about the Russians crafting nukes — they already have them. It’s about shortages of uranium in the United States, and dependence on foreign sources for that material. It was also about Rosatom purchasing a huge stake of nuclear material in Kazakhstan.

And the Clintons were still involved. Here’s the Times again:

Mr. Telfer’s undisclosed donations came in addition to between $1.3 million and $5.6 million in contributions, which were reported, from a constellation of people with ties to Uranium One or UrAsia, the company that originally acquired Uranium One’s most valuable asset: the Kazakh mines. Without those assets, the Russians would have had no interest in the deal: “It wasn’t the goal to buy the Wyoming mines. The goal was to acquire the Kazakh assets, which are very good,” Mr. Novikov, the Rosatom spokesman, said in an interview.

Amid this influx of Uranium One-connected money, Mr. Clinton was invited to speak in Moscow in June 2010, the same month Rosatom struck its deal for a majority stake in Uranium One.

The $500,000 fee — among Mr. Clinton’s highest — was paid by Renaissance Capital, a Russian investment bank with ties to the Kremlin that has invited world leaders, including Tony Blair, the former British prime minister, to speak at its investor conferences.

So no, it’s not at all unclear that the Clintons were unrelated to Uranium One. And it’s not unclear that they’d have no interest in pushing Uranium One — Giustra still had an interest in maintaining faith with his former shareholders, and the Clintons had intervened in the past to help out the company beyond Giustra’s involvement. That doesn't mean that Hillary signed off on the Uranium One sale. But to downplay the sale itself or the Clintons' interest in it would neglect facts in evidence.

Let’s connect the dots:

Clinton Foundation

Open Society Foundations was a funder for the Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank), and the Human Rights First.

Note: Patrick H. Gaspard is a VP for the Open Society Foundations, and was a U.S. ambassador for South Africa.

George Soros is the founder & chairman for the Open Society Foundations, a co-chair, national finance council for the Ready PAC (Ready For Hillary), a board member for the International Crisis Group, a friend of Michael Douglas, was the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society, and William D. Zabel was his divorce lawyer.     

Foundation to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Sundance Institute, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank), Media Matters for America, the Human Rights First, and the Brookings Institution (think tank).

Ready PAC (Ready For Hillary) supported the 2016 Hillary Rodham Clinton presidential campaign.

Leslie H. Gelb was a board member for the International Crisis Group, and a reporter, columnist & op-ed page editor for the New York Times.

Thomas R. Pickering is a co-chair for the International Crisis Group, was the chairman of review board that investigated the 2012 attack on U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya in 2013, and a U.S. ambassador for Russia.

Yegor Gaidar was a board member for the International Crisis Group, and a prime minister for Russia.

Igor S. Ivanov was a board member for the International Crisis Group, a minister of foreign affairs for Russia, and is a director at the Nuclear Threat Initiative (think tank).

Michael Douglas is a director at the Nuclear Threat Initiative (think tank), and a friend of George Soros.

Ted Turner is a co-chairman for the Nuclear Threat Initiative (think tank), the founder of the Turner Broadcasting System Inc., the founder of CNN, and an honorary board member for the Green Cross International (USA).

Green Cross International- Sourcewatch

https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Green_Cross_International#Honorary_Board

Ted Turner (USA) is an honorary board member for the Green Cross International (USA).

Pat Mitchell (USA) is an honorary board member for the Green Cross International (USA).

Robert Redford (USA) is an honorary board member for the Green Cross International (USA).

Vivian Schiller was a Russian interpreter for the Turner Broadcasting System Inc, and an SVP for the CNN Productions.

Patricia E. Mitchell was an executive in charge of original productions for the Turner Broadcasting System Inc., the president of CNN Productions, a board member for the Global Green USA, is an honorary board member for the Green Cross International (USA), and is the vice chair for the Sundance Institute.

Global Green USA is a US affiliate of Green Cross International.

Mikhail Gorbachev is the founder of Green Cross International, and was the president of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR).

Russia was a republic of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR).

Robert Redford is the founder & president of the Sundance Institute, and an honorary board member for the Green Cross International (USA).

Ted Turner is an honorary board member for the Green Cross International (USA), the founder of the Turner Broadcasting System Inc., the founder of CNN, and a co-chairman for the Nuclear Threat Initiative (think tank).

Michael Douglas is a director at the Nuclear Threat Initiative (think tank), and a friend of George Soros.

Igor S. Ivanov is a director at the Nuclear Threat Initiative (think tank), was a minister of foreign affairs for Russia, and a board member for the International Crisis Group.

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank) was a funder for the Nuclear Threat Initiative (think tank). 

Jon M. Huntsman Jr. was a trustee at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank), a Utah state government governor, is a fellow at the Brookings Institution (think tank), and a U.S. ambassador for Russia.

James F. Collins is a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank), and was a U.S. ambassador for Russia.

Jessica Tuchman Mathews is a director at the Nuclear Threat Initiative (think tank), a director at the American Friends of Bilderberg (think tank), was the president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank), a board member for the International Crisis Group, an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank), and a 2008 Bilderberg conference participant (think tank). 

Ed Griffin’s interview with Norman Dodd in 1982

(The investigation into the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace uncovered the plans for population control by involving the United States in war)

http://www.illuminati-news.com/110106a.htm

Frank Giustra is a board member for the International Crisis Group, a director & funder for the Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation, a friend of William J. Clinton, a friend of Ian W. Telfer, and was the founder of UrAsia Energy Ltd.

Uranium One acquired UrAsia Energy Ltd.

Paul D. Reynolds was an adviser on UrAsia-Uranium One merger for Uranium One, and a funder for the Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation.

Ian W. Telfer was the chairman for Uranium One, a funder for the Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation, is a friend of Frank Giustra, and the chairman & CEO for the North American Metals Corp.

Renaissance Capital promoted stock for Uranium One.

William J. Clinton was paid $500,000 for speech from the Renaissance Capital, and is the founder of the Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation.

Credit Suisse Group was a funder for the Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation, and Credit Suisse First Boston was its former name.

Richard A. Deitz was a unit managing director for the Credit Suisse First Boston, and a founding partner at Renaissance Capital.

William J. Clinton was paid $500,000 for speech from the Renaissance Capital, and is the founder of the Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation.

Renaissance Capital promoted stock for Uranium One.

Rosatom acquired Uranium One, and is a Russia’s state-owned company.

Russia was a republic of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR).

Mikhail Gorbachev was the president of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), and is the founder of Green Cross International.

Ted Turner is an honorary board member for the Green Cross International (USA), the founder of the Turner Broadcasting System Inc., the founder of CNN, and a co-chairman for the Nuclear Threat Initiative (think tank).

Michael Douglas is a director at the Nuclear Threat Initiative (think tank), and a friend of George Soros.

Igor S. Ivanov is a director at the Nuclear Threat Initiative (think tank), was a minister of foreign affairs for Russia, and a board member for the International Crisis Group.

Yegor Gaidar was a board member for the International Crisis Group, and a prime minister for Russia.

Thomas R. Pickering is a co-chair for the International Crisis Group, was the chairman of review board that investigated the 2012 attack on U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya in 2013, and a U.S. ambassador for Russia.

J. Christopher Stevens was killed in the 2012 attack on U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, and was the U.S. ambassador for Libya.

Michael G. Mullen was a vice chairman of review board that investigated the 2012 attack on U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya in 2013, is a director at the Bloomberg Family Foundation, and an advisory board member for Everytown for Gun Safety.

Michael R. Bloomberg is the founder of the Bloomberg Family Foundation, and the founder of Everytown for Gun Safety.

Bloomberg Family Foundation was a funder for the Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation.

Everytown for Gun Safety is a “Gun Safety, Gun Control” group for guns.

John J. Mack is a director at the Bloomberg Family Foundation, an advisory board member for Everytown for Gun Safety, was a co-CEO for the Credit Suisse Group, and the president & CEO for Credit Suisse First Boston. 

Credit Suisse Group was a funder for the Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation, and Credit Suisse First Boston was its former name.

Richard A. Deitz was a unit managing director for the Credit Suisse First Boston, and a founding partner at Renaissance Capital.

William J. Clinton was paid $500,000 for speech from the Renaissance Capital, and is the founder of the Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation.

Renaissance Capital promoted stock for Uranium One.

Rosatom acquired Uranium One, and is a Russia’s state-owned company.

Susie Tompkins Buell was a funder for the Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation, a fundraiser for the 2016 Hillary Rodham Clinton presidential campaign, is a national finance council member for the Ready PAC (Ready For Hillary), Hillary Rodham Clinton’s friend, and a director at the Media Matters for America.

David Brock is an adviser for the Ready PAC (Ready For Hillary), and the founder of the Media Matters for America.

Ready PAC (Ready For Hillary) supported the 2016 Hillary Rodham Clinton presidential campaign.

Zac Petkanas was a director of rapid response for the 2016 Hillary Rodham Clinton presidential campaign, and a communications director for the Media Matters for America.

Sidney Blumenthal was a consultant for the Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation, is Hillary Rodham Clinton’s friend & confidant, and a consultant for Media Matters for America.

Media Matters for America monitors Fox News.

Gail Furman was a donor for Media Matters for America, is a director at the Human Rights First, and Jason L. Furman’s mother.

Richard R. Verma was a director at the Human Rights First, and a director at the Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation.

William D. Zabel is the chair for the Human Rights First, was a trustee at the Foundation to Promote Open Society, and George Soros’s divorce lawyer.

Jason L. Furman is Gail Furman’s son, and was a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution (think tank).

Vernon E. Jordan Jr. is an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank), a director at the American Friends of Bilderberg (think tank), was a member of the Iraq Study Group, and a 2008 Bilderberg conference participant (think tank).

Alan K. Simpson was member of the Iraq Study Group, and Milward Lee Simpson’s son.

Milward Lee Simpson was Alan K. Simpson’s father, and was the Wyoming state government governor.

Lee H. Hamilton was a co-chair for the Iraq Study Group, is a board member emeritus for Global Green USA, and an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank).

Global Green USA is a US affiliate of Green Cross International.

Mikhail Gorbachev is the founder of Green Cross International, and was the president of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR).

Russia was a republic of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR).

Shirley Ann Jackson is a trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank), and was the chairman for the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

Julia Gillard is a distinguished fellow at the Brookings Institution (think tank), and was the prime minister of Australia.

Thomas R. Pickering is a distinguished fellow at the Brookings Institution (think tank), a co-chair for the International Crisis Group, was the chairman of review board that investigated the 2012 attack on U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya in 2013, and a U.S. ambassador for Russia.

Yegor Gaidar was a board member for the International Crisis Group, and a prime minister for Russia.

Igor S. Ivanov was a board member for the International Crisis Group, a minister of foreign affairs for Russia, and is a director at the Nuclear Threat Initiative (think tank).

Gareth Evans was the president of the International Crisis Group, a co-chair for the International Commission on Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament, and the resources & energy minister for Australia.

Michael Douglas is a director at the Nuclear Threat Initiative (think tank), and a friend of George Soros.

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank) was a funder for the Nuclear Threat Initiative (think tank).

Chas. W. Freeman Jr. is a trustee at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank), and was the president of the Middle East Policy Council (think tank).

Richard H. Jones is a director at the Middle East Policy Council (think tank), and was a U.S. ambassador for Kazakhstan.

Edward Gnehm was a director at the Middle East Policy Council (think tank), and a U.S. ambassador for Australia.

Jessica Tuchman Mathews is a director at the Nuclear Threat Initiative (think tank), a director at the American Friends of Bilderberg (think tank), was the president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank), a board member for the International Crisis Group, an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank), and a 2008 Bilderberg conference participant (think tank). 

Ed Griffin’s interview with Norman Dodd in 1982

(The investigation into the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace uncovered the plans for population control by involving the United States in war)

http://www.illuminati-news.com/110106a.htm

Frank Giustra is a board member for the International Crisis Group, a director & funder for the Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation, a friend of William J. Clinton, a friend of Ian W. Telfer, and was the founder of UrAsia Energy Ltd.

Uranium One acquired UrAsia Energy Ltd.

Paul D. Reynolds was an adviser on UrAsia-Uranium One merger for Uranium One, and a funder for the Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation.

Ian W. Telfer was the chairman for Uranium One, a funder for the Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation, is a friend of Frank Giustra, and the chairman & CEO for the North American Metals Corp.

Renaissance Capital promoted stock for Uranium One.

William J. Clinton was paid $500,000 for speech from the Renaissance Capital, and is the founder of the Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation.

Credit Suisse Group was a funder for the Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation, and Credit Suisse First Boston was its former name.

Richard A. Deitz was a unit managing director for the Credit Suisse First Boston, an advisory board member for the Yale School of Management, and a founding partner at Renaissance Capital.

Wendi Deng was an advisory board member for the Yale School of Management, and is a friend of Tony Blair.

Tony Blair is a friend of Wendi Deng, a friend of Lynn Forester de Rothschild, and was the United Kingdom prime minister.

Lynn Forester de Rothschild is a friend of Tony Blair & Hillary Rodham Clinton, was a participant in the Bill Clinton trip to Africa, 2015, and a funder for the Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation.

William J. Clinton was the leader for the Bill Clinton trip to Africa, 2015, paid $500,000 for speech from the Renaissance Capital, and is the founder of the Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation.

Renaissance Capital promoted stock for Uranium One.

Rosatom acquired Uranium One, and is a Russia’s state-owned company.

Russia was a republic of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR).

Mikhail Gorbachev was the president of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), and is the founder of Green Cross International.

Ted Turner is an honorary board member for the Green Cross International (USA), the founder of the Turner Broadcasting System Inc., the founder of CNN, and a co-chairman for the Nuclear Threat Initiative (think tank).

Michael Douglas is a director at the Nuclear Threat Initiative (think tank), and a friend of George Soros.

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank) was a funder for the Nuclear Threat Initiative (think tank).

Chas. W. Freeman Jr. is a trustee at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank), and was the president of the Middle East Policy Council (think tank).

Richard H. Jones is a director at the Middle East Policy Council (think tank), and was a U.S. ambassador for Kazakhstan.

Edward Gnehm was a director at the Middle East Policy Council (think tank), and a U.S. ambassador for Australia.