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Trump's use of unsecured phones....against our national security

llovejim

Current Champion
On June 8, 2010, Uranium One announced it had signed an agreement that would give “not less than 51%” of the company to JSC Atomredmetzoloto, or ARMZ, the mining arm of Rosatom, the Russian nuclear energy agency.

At the time, Uranium One’s two licensed mining operations in Wyoming amounted to about “20 percent of the currently licensed uranium in-situ recovery production capacity in the U.S.,” according to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. In-situ recovery is the extraction method currently used by 10 of the 11 licensed U.S. uranium producers.

Uranium One also has exploration projects in Arizona, Colorado and Utah.

But the deal required multiple approvals by the U.S., beginning with the Committee on Foreign Investments in the United States. Under federal law, the committee reviews foreign investments that raise potential national security concerns.

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.

For this and other reasons, we have written that Trump is wrong to claim that Clinton “gave away 20 percent of the uranium in the United States” to Russia. 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 Nuclear Regulatory Commission
It is also important to note that other federal approvals were needed to complete the deal, and even still more approvals would be needed to export the uranium.

First, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission had to approve the transfer of two uranium recovery licenses in Wyoming from Uranium One to the Russian company. The NRC announced it approved the transfer on Nov. 24, 2010. But, as the NRC explained at the time, “no uranium produced at either facility may be exported.”

As NRC explained in a March 2011 letter to Republican Sen. John Barrasso of Wyoming, the Russian company would have to apply for and obtain an export license and “commit to use the material only for peaceful purposes” in accordance with “the U.S.-Russia Atomic Energy Act Section 123 agreement for peaceful nuclear cooperation.”

In a June 2015 letter to Rep. Peter Visclosky, the NRC said it granted RSB Logistics Services an amendment to its export license in 2012 to allow the Kentucky shipping company to export uranium to Canada from various sources — including from a Uranium One site in Wyoming. The NRC said that the export license allowed RSB to ship uranium to a conversion plant in Canada and then back to the United States for further processing.

Canada must obtain U.S. approval to transfer any U.S. uranium to any country other than the United States, the letter says.

“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.factcheck.org/2017/10/facts-uranium-one/
 

now_what

Governor
Supporting Member
Trump is NOT doing what Hillary did. Hillary should have been in trouble for her attempt to hide what she did as well as for what she did.
So using an unsecured phone is no problem for you? Interesting.
 

sensible don

Governor
Supporting Member
Hillary set the precedence that it's okay to put top secret stuff on a personal phone. Everyone.........said it was no big deal when she did it so it's no big deal IF Trump did it.
(added to help those who are inept at discernment)

Government issue secure phones are iPhones, btw.
Hillary, Hillary, Hillary would you people get over the fact she lost and no one cares about Hillary - geezus just hurry up and lock her up - it has been 3.5 years already damnit !
 

now_what

Governor
Supporting Member
It's called "setting precedence". Hillary should never have been allowed to set that one.
But I thought the concern was for the safety of Americans, here and abroad. Seems that you don’t care about that anymore. Your only argument is “but but but Hillary”. If your ilk really cared about the safety of Americans, it wouldn’t matter who the person was that did it.
 

llovejim

Current Champion
Hillary set the precedence that it's okay to put top secret stuff on a personal phone. Everyone.........said it was no big deal when she did it so it's no big deal IF Trump did it.
(added to help those who are inept at discernment)

Government issue secure phones are iPhones, btw.
you are lying. why do you lie so much? just because trump does? do you also believe windmills cause cancer? just how far will you go to emulate dishonest piece of shit trump?

Washington (CNN)Colin Powell and top staffers for Condoleezza Rice received classified information through personal email accounts, according to a new report from State Department investigators.

Hillary Clinton has received severe criticism -- particularly from Republicans and computer security experts -- for using her personal email account while serving as the nation's top diplomat under President Barack Obama. Thursday's revelation about the two secretaries of state under former President George W. Bush gave her supporters an opportunity to claim the Democratic presidential candidate was being singled out over the practice.

The emails were discovered during a State Department review of the email practices of the past five secretaries of state. It found that Powell received two emails that were classified and that the "immediate staff" working for Rice received 10 emails that were classified.

The information was deemed either "secret" or "confidential," according to the report.

"Based on the department's responses and findings to date, additional potential classified material and/or highly sensitive information not intended for distribution may reside in the Department's unclassified paper and electronic archives associated with Secretaries Powell and Rice and their respective staff," a memo about the report said.
In all the cases, however -- as well as Clinton's -- the information was not marked "classified" at the time the emails were sent, according to State Department investigators.

Powell noted that point in a statement on Thursday.

"The State Department cannot now say they were classified then because they weren't," Powell said. "If the Department wishes to say a dozen years later they should have been classified that is an opinion of the Department that I do not share."

"I have reviewed the messages and I do not see what makes them classified," Powell said.
Clinton has argued that the messages from her email have since been deemed classified by the intelligence community as part of an "inter-agency dispute" between the intelligence community and the State Department over whether the information should have been classified years after she first received them.

https://www.cnn.com/2016/02/04/politics/hillary-clinton-email-classified-colin-powell-condoleezza-rice/index.html
 

now_what

Governor
Supporting Member
It wasn't an issue for you during the Obama regime. Now it is. Interesting.
Never said that. Never said I cared trump is doing it. You’re again just pointing fingers, but refusing to take accountability for your guy doing the same as the people you’re accusing.
 

Jen

Senator
Hillary, Hillary, Hillary would you people get over the fact she lost and no one cares about Hillary - geezus just hurry up and lock her up - it has been 3.5 years already damnit !
Hun, I didn't mention the election.......... obviously you aren't over it yet. I hope you feel better soon.:cool:
 

sensible don

Governor
Supporting Member
Trump is NOT doing what Hillary did. Hillary should have been in trouble for her attempt to hide what she did as well as for what she did.
And you are right, Trump doesn't hide what he does, I mean the tweet pretty much says it all..........except for that pesky line at the bottom - in the red circle - I bet someone put that there didn't they - you see it right or do the blinders block that too?
 

sensible don

Governor
Supporting Member
How about Trump talking loudly to Sondland via phone in a public restaurant in Ukraine within earshot of others?

Team Trump’s idea of secure communications.

;-)
Maybe he should have just used the state department OFFICIAL sharpie and wrote the message to Sondland, then the base would have screamed with delight like they did with his recent no QPQ hand written message for reporters, remember that?
 

Bugsy McGurk

President
Maybe he should have just used the state department OFFICIAL sharpie and wrote the message to Sondland, then the base would have screamed with delight like they did with his recent no QPQ hand written message for reporters, remember that?
Ah yes, when Trump had to refer to Sharpie notes to know what he supposedly said.

Don’t you need to refer to notes to know what you said?

;-)
 

llovejim

Current Champion
Trump is NOT doing what Hillary did. Hillary should have been in trouble for her attempt to hide what she did as well as for what she did.
what are you babbling about? been in trouble for not having classified emails on her server? being in trouble for not making any decisions in Benghazi, especially the non-existent "stand down orders" Fox lied about so often? what the hell are you babbling about?
 

JuliefromOhio

President
Supporting Member
Jeez, Trump directly gave senior Russian officials ultra sensitive intel in the Oval Office. We sure can’t expect him to care about using unsecured phones.
Apparently Trump has this need to check in regularly with Putin....and what's easier than an unsecure phone?
 
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