Hillary’s Russia Connection

Published October 9, 2016 9:00am ET



Hillary Clinton’s campaign has been critical of Donald Trump’s alleged coziness with Russia. This could boomerang on Clinton, however, and not just because of her own lead role in the Obama administration’s failed attempt at a Russian “reset.” Perhaps because it hit the newsstands before the presidential campaign hit full stride, many seem to have forgotten a New York Times report that ran last spring. That report discussed the key roles apparently played by both the Clinton Foundation and then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in Russia’s successful acquisition of 20 percent of United States uranium reserves.

In a piece entitled, “Cash Flowed to Clinton Foundation Amid Russian Uranium Deal” (or, in the print version, “The Clintons, The Russians, and Uranium”), the Times wrote of events that “brought Mr. Putin closer to his goal of controlling much of the global uranium supply chain”:

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