When A Story Is Not A Story

The Uranium One story is a big one.  A few days ago, a member in good standing of the mainstream media, The Hill, broke the news that prior to the approval of the sale of a company named Uranium One to Russian interests, the FBI investigated major cash flows (over 150 million dollars) to Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton and the Clinton Foundation.  The FBI also investigated the use of strong arm tactics and bribery to silence critics of the deal, again before the approval of that deal.  And, of course, who was it who approved the deal?  The State Department then led by Hillary Clinton, and some other agencies in the Obama administration.  Then comes the key point here:  although the FBI investigated and found the cash flows and the bribery and the threats to opponents, nothing was said to Congress, to the public, or even to the people considering whether or not to approve the deal.  We know that the director of the FBI knew of these investigations; that means Robert Muller and Jim Comey.  We also know that the assistant director of the FBI, McCabe, led the investigations (and that his wife somehow got $750,000 from Clinton related sources for a race for the state legislature in Virginia.  It was probably the biggest supposed political contribution for a state legislative race in American history.  We don't know for sure if President Obama knew of the investigation, but Attorney General Eric Holder must have known, and yet Congress and the people making the decision were kept in the dark.  As I said above, this is a big story, particularly since it let the Russians gain control of nearly half of all American uranium production.

So here's the question:  what sort of coverage is being given to this story.  The answer is next to nothing.  As a test this morning, I searched for the term "uranium one" on the ABC News site.  The only stories that came up are at least six months old.  In other words, ABC News has not mentioned the hushed up FBI investigation prior to the approval of the sale.  I decided to then try CBS News.  I searched that site and found no discussion of the Uranium One story either.  There is a line in an article about President Trump that mentions that he criticized the media for not covering the story, but that's near the end of a long piece and it never explains what the story is.

How can it be that this major story gets no coverage?  It's not old news.  We just learned that the FBI thought the matter serious enough to conduct a major investigation about the Russians buying influence with the Clintons and others.  We also just learned that the Obama administration -- in the person of Attorney General Holder -- covered up that investigation so as to let the deal go through.  America deserves to know this, even if the news media doesn't like reporting news that makes Obama look bad.  I'm actually not sure if the scandal of not reporting the news is worse than the scandal of the Russians allegedly paying off the Clintons to get Hillary to approve the transaction.  They're both terrible.