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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSnopes finds the GOP's Clinton/Uranium conspiracy to be FALSE - worth sharing/spreading...
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Snopes finds the GOP's Clinton/Uranium conspiracy to be FALSE - worth sharing/spreading... (Original Post)
CousinIT
Oct 2017
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dalton99a
(81,590 posts)1. Kick
Atman
(31,464 posts)2. Doesn't matter. The Hillary-haters just consider fact-check sites "fake news."
Just dealing with this last night with a friend on FB. He considers Snopes and Politifact to be leftist propaganda sites. It's a religion...they have an answer for everything, and the answer is always "fake news."
Wwcd
(6,288 posts)3. Anybody can be President with image & message marketing & make-over
Its all in the marketing of the fake message.
Archae
(46,347 posts)4. This is the reason Snopes keeps getting attacked by RWNJ's.
They have this tendency to debunk the kooks' pet conspiracy theories.
So the kooks attack Snopes, calling them names and screaming about it being "funded by Soros."
CousinIT
(9,257 posts)5. USATODAY, too.
. . . The Committee on Foreign Investments has nine members, including the secretaries of the Treasury, State, Defense, Homeland Security, Commerce and Energy; the attorney general; and representatives from two White House offices (the United States Trade Representative and the Office of Science and Technology Policy).
The committee cant actually stop a sale from going through it can only approve a sale. The president is the only one who can stop a sale, if the committee or any one member recommends suspension or prohibition of the transaction, according to guidelines issued by the Treasury Department in December 2008 after the department adopted its final rule a month earlier.
For this and other reasons, we have written that Trump is wrong to claim that Clinton gave away 20% of the uranium in the United States to Russia. Clinton could have objected as could the eight other voting members but that objection alone wouldnt have stopped the sale of the stake of Uranium One to Rosatom.
. . .
We dont even know if Clinton was involved in the committees review and approval of the uranium deal. Jose Fernandez, a former assistant secretary of state, told The New York Times that he represented the department on the committee. Mrs. Clinton never intervened with me on any C.F.I.U.S. matter, he told the Times, referring to the committee by its acronym.
. . .
Please be assured that no Uranium One, Inc.-produced uranium has been shipped directly to Russia and the U.S. Government has not authorized any country to re-transfer U.S. uranium to Russia, the 2015 letter said.
That 2015 statement remains true today, David McIntyre, a spokesman for the NRC, told us in an email.
The committee cant actually stop a sale from going through it can only approve a sale. The president is the only one who can stop a sale, if the committee or any one member recommends suspension or prohibition of the transaction, according to guidelines issued by the Treasury Department in December 2008 after the department adopted its final rule a month earlier.
For this and other reasons, we have written that Trump is wrong to claim that Clinton gave away 20% of the uranium in the United States to Russia. Clinton could have objected as could the eight other voting members but that objection alone wouldnt have stopped the sale of the stake of Uranium One to Rosatom.
. . .
We dont even know if Clinton was involved in the committees review and approval of the uranium deal. Jose Fernandez, a former assistant secretary of state, told The New York Times that he represented the department on the committee. Mrs. Clinton never intervened with me on any C.F.I.U.S. matter, he told the Times, referring to the committee by its acronym.
. . .
Please be assured that no Uranium One, Inc.-produced uranium has been shipped directly to Russia and the U.S. Government has not authorized any country to re-transfer U.S. uranium to Russia, the 2015 letter said.
That 2015 statement remains true today, David McIntyre, a spokesman for the NRC, told us in an email.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2017/10/26/fact-check-what-we-know-uranium-one-deal/804753001/
coolsandy
(479 posts)6. They may be very surprised at what fish they catch in this snare.
There are many more GOPers with relationships with Russia than Democrats.
D_Master81
(1,822 posts)8. my RW friends
Say that snopes is a Soros funded left wing site. So they wouldn't care.