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And be able to shoot down those pesky nukes.

Companies from the US's allies are entirely possible to be allowed mining rights, nations like China and Russia not so much unless global geopolitics change a lot by the time the topic of this thread is revelant

any government willingly giving up something that will likely add trillions of dollars worth of economic growth to their nation is rather unlikely to say the least. Especially when it removes a critical strategic weakness as related to rare earth minerals.

And the navy can hit stuff in low earth orbit as well.

Why our glorious array of sea based SM-3 missiles that can hit targets in orbit. That and the fact that the US will pretty much own the orbital launch field for at least the next couple decades.

Basic orbital geometry should do the trick. Besides unless they've gone stark raving mad the asteroid won't go anywhere near Earth until the final correctional burns

And of course its equally plausible that the US government paid for hauling said asteroid to Earth orbit and then leased it to be mined since the benefits to the economy and thus tax revenue far outweigh the costs of moving the thing by a probably ridiculous amount