Former White House advisor Sebastian Gorka suggested Thursday night that if the Obama administration’s Uranium One deal had taken place in the 1950s, those involved might have been executed.
“If this had happened in the 1950s, there would be people up on treason charges right now. The Rosenbergs, okay? This is equivalent to what the Rosenbergs did, and those people got the chair,” Gorka said on Fox News Thursday night.
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During the height of the Red Scare in the Cold War in 1953, U.S. citizens Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were convicted of espionage for the Soviet Union and executed. Gorka likened this historical case to the recent reports that prior to the Obama administration’s Uranium One deal the FBI had prior knowledge of Russian efforts to blackmail people in the U.S. in order to pursue atomic energy.
“Think about it. Giving away nuclear capability to our enemies, that’s what we’re talking about,” Gorka explained.
Some, including Trump, have questioned the role former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton played in the nuclear deal.
This week, the House Intelligence Committee announced it will launch a joint investigation with the House Oversight Committee into the 2010 deal.
