Although the Clintons have been at the center of pay-for-play questions surrounding the sale of 20% of America's uranium reserves to Russia, the Obama administration played the key role in advancing the deal and covering up the illegal activity that threatened it, Andrew McCarthy reports in a detailed examination in the National Review.
McCarthy writes:
Read Full Article »The Clintons were just doing what the Clintons do: cashing in on their “public service.” The Obama administration, with Secretary Clinton at the forefront but hardly alone, was knowingly compromising American national-security interests. The administration green-lighted the transfer of control over one-fifth of American uranium-mining capacity to Russia, a hostile regime — and specifically to Russia's state-controlled nuclear-energy conglomerate, Rosatom. Worse, at the time the administration approved the transfer, it knew that Rosatom's American subsidiary was engaged in a lucrative racketeering enterprise that had already committed felony extortion, fraud, and money-laundering offenses.
