Congress will investigate Obama-Clinton Uranium One deal

Washington Times:
The House intelligence and oversight committees will investigate the circumstances surrounding a 2010 Obama administration deal that allowed a Kremlin-backed company to gain control of a huge chunk of America’s uranium supply.

Rep. Devin Nunes, California Republican and chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, announced the probe Tuesday and said lawmakers hope to get to the bottom of whether U.S. authorities were investigating Russia’s atomic energy giant Rosatom at the time the U.S. government signed off on the deal.

“One of the things we are concerned about is whether or not there was an FBI investigation, was there a DOJ investigation and if so, why was Congress not informed of this matter?” Mr. Nunes said.

SEE ALSO: FBI informant’s testimony sought as Clinton-Russia uranium case re-emerges

Other congressional committees have already sought to learn more about the deal, with Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Charles E. Grassley last week calling on the Justice Department to lift a nondisclosure agreement that he said prevented a former FBI confidential informant from speaking to Congress about the handling of a criminal probe linked to the uranium deal.

Rep. Ronald DeSantis, a member of the House Oversight Committee, confirmed Tuesday that a confidential informant is trying to speak with his committee about the matter and that the committee is working with the Justice Department to try and release him from the nondisclosure agreement.

President Trump has previously sought to link Hillary Clinton to the uranium deal, in which the State Department and eight other U.S. agencies on the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States unanimously approved the partial sale of Canadian mining company Uranium One to Rosatom. Democrats contend Mr. Trump and his allies are seeking to deflect from the Russian meddling probe conducted by special counsel Robert Mueller.
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Hillary Clinton broke out her "old news" response to news of the investigation.  However, the recently released information about the bribery and corruption tied to the deal is "new" news.

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