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 can’t 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.
Clinton could have objected — as could the eight other voting members — but that objection alone wouldn’t have stopped the sale of the stake of Uranium One to Rosatom.
“Only the President has the authority to suspend or prohibit a covered transaction,” the federal guidelines say.
The buck stops at the WH. And if the rumors are correct, the Uranium One investigations were included in the President's daily intel briefing. Obama could have stopped the sale regardless of what CFIS had recommended.
Sessions has not officially recused himself from the Uranium One investigation. DOJ can't confirm or deny such an investigation is underway.
Justice Department spokeswoman Sarah Isgur Flores said others in the room do not remember Sessions saying anything like that and that the subject was “discussed.” She would not comment on whether Sessions has recused himself.
“I’ve talked to people who were in the room and they don’t remember him saying anything like this. The subject was discussed so maybe someone misconstrued what he said. I can’t comment on recusal issues though because to do so would confirm or deny the existence of an investigation,” she said in a statement to Breitbart News.
I applaud your efforts to ‘educate’... I have no cause to believe you will change minds... I do not understand what part of DOJ will not ‘confirm or deny investigations’ people cannot understand.
Okay, so then you think Sessions lied to Congress. What a great move that would be. What could go wrong.
Justice Department spokeswoman Sarah Isgur Flores said others in the room do not remember Sessions saying anything like that and that the subject was “discussed.” She would not comment on whether Sessions has recused himself.
I already posted a part of the transcript where he said that he is recusing himself.