It becomes clear, argue with me if I am wrong, that the plan was to attack first. So once Hillary knew she lost the election plans went live to pin this Russian thing on Trump. They all know about the Russian deal. McCain knows about the Russian deal. Many GOPe know about the Clintons and the Russian deal.
Agree that the Russian election collusion narrative was a distraction, but it was also used to monitor the Trump campaign and the transition team. The Steele dossier was used to get a FISA warrant in 2016 that launched the FBI collusion investigation in July 2016. At that time, no one gave Trump any shot at being elected. It was probably viewed as an insurance policy by Hillary or she could have been planning to destroy Trump once she got into the WH.
As McCarthy points out, the Uranium One deal was objected to by some Reps in Congress at the time.
As Peter Schweizer noted in his essential book, Clinton Cash: The Untold Story of How and Why Foreign Governments and Businesses Helped Make Bill and Hillary Rich, four senior House members steeped in national-security issues — Peter King (R., N.Y.), Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R., Fla.), Spencer Bachus (R., Ala.), and Howard McKeon (R. Calif.) — voiced grave concerns, pointing out that Rosatom had helped Iran, America’s sworn enemy, build its Bushehr nuclear reactor. The members concluded that “the take-over of essential US nuclear resources by a government-owned Russian agency . . . would not advance the national security interests of the United States.” Republican senator John Barrasso objected to Kremlin control of uranium assets in his state of Wyoming, warning of Russia’s “disturbing record of supporting nuclear programs in countries that are openly hostile to the United States, specifically Iran and Venezuela.” The House began moving a bill “expressing disfavor of the Congress” regarding Obama’s revival of the nuclear-cooperation agreement Bush had abandoned.
Clearly, in this atmosphere, disclosure of the racketeering enterprise that Rosatom’s American subsidiary was, at that very moment, carrying out would have been the death knell of the asset transfer to Russia. It would also likely have ended the “reset” initiative in which Obama and Clinton were deeply invested — an agenda that contemplated Kremlin-friendly deals on nuclear-arms control and accommodation of the nuclear program of Russia’s ally, Iran. That was not going to be allowed to happen. It appears that no disclosure of Russia’s racketeering and strong-arming was made to CFIUS or to Congress — not by Secretary Clinton, not by Attorney General Holder, and certainly not by President Obama. In October 2010, CFIUS gave its blessing to Rosatom’s acquisition of Uranium One.
IMO the Uranium One deal with Russia was part of the reset with Putin and Obama was courting him on the Iran Deal. People seem to forget that Russia and China are co-signers to the Iran Deal, which would never have come about without their participation and cooperation. When you take a look at the the timeline of the Iran Deal, you notice that as early as April 2009 the Obama Administration was intent on making a deal with Iran:
April 8, 2009: Following an Iran policy review by the new Obama administration, the United States announces that it would participate fully in the P5+1 talks with Iran, a departure from the previous administration’s policy requiring Iran to meet UN demands first.
And not long after that, the Obama Administration failed to support the Iranian Green movement against the regime:
June 12, 2009: Iran holds presidential elections. Incumbent Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is declared the winner amid many indications that the election was rigged. This sparks weeks of protests within Iran and delays diplomatic efforts to address Iran’s nuclear program.
IMO the Uranium One deal was just part of the overall effort of the Obama Administration to curry Russian support for the Iran deal, which became an obsession by Obama and his staff. They would even compromise national security to get that piece of paper. The Russians built the Iranian nuclear reactor and supplied them with uranium. The Chinese wanted the Iranian oil. The Europeans wanted the business, e.g., not longer after the deal, a contract was signed by Iran for 100 Airbus aircraft. What did the US get from the deal? The Clintons got lots of money for their foundation and some US businesses like Boeing got some contracts.
This is a huge scandal, but will it be exposed and will the Clintons and Obama be held accountable?
Yet one more indication that Obama was in essence a Russian mole.