SCANDAL, SCANDAL – AT 10:37 A.M. ET:  Let's see if the GOP can hang onto this for more than two days.  If what's reported is true, this is a giant Obama-era scandal.  From the New York Post: 

The Obama administration knew that Russia had used bribery, kickbacks and extortion to get a stake in the US atomic energy industry — but cut deals giving Moscow control of a large chunk of the US uranium supply anyway, according to a report Tuesday.

The FBI used a confidential US witness working inside the Russian nuclear industry to gather records, make secret recordings and intercept emails as early as 2009 that showed the Kremlin had compromised an American uranium trucking company, The Hill reported.

Executives at the company, Transport Logistics International, kicked back about $2 million to the Russians in exchange for lucrative no-bid contracts — a scheme that violated the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, the report said.

The feds also learned that Russian nuclear officials had gotten millions of dollars into the US designed to benefit the Clinton Foundation at the same time then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton served on a government committee that signed off on the deals, sources told The Hill.

The racketeering operation was conducted “with the consent of higher-level officials” in Russia who “shared the proceeds” from the kickbacks, an agent later stated in an affidavit.

But the Justice Department under Attorney General Eric Holder did not bring charges in the case prior to the deals being cut.

COMMENT:  Well of course Holder didn't bring charges.  The Justice Department under Eric Holder was entirely politicized.

This is worthy of a major Congressional investigation, with Holder and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton testifying.  Even Barack Obama could be called to testify.

In any decent legal universe, criminal charges might be involved.

That is, if the Republicans have the stomach for real political combat.  Remains to be seen.

October 18,  2017