Was Hillary Clinton personally involved in approving the Uranium One purchase? In 2013, a Russian company bought a Canadian company called Uranium One which owns a uranium mine in the United States. This purchase was approved by the US government through an interagency review process which included State Department. In any case, here is what former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told WMUR in 2015, in response to Republican allegations that she approved the purchase due to donations the Clinton Foundation had received: > There's no basis for any of that. The timing doesn't work. It happened in terms of the work for the foundation before I was secretary of state. There were nine government agencies that that had to sign off on that deal. **I was not personally involved because that’s not something (the) secretary of state did.** My question is, is Secretary Clinton right that she was not personally involved in the approval of the purchase of Uranium One?

**No, she was not involved.**. The purchase of Uranium One was approved by an interagency panel called the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States. Here is what former Assistant Secretary of State Jose Fernandez, who was the State Department representative on this committee at the time of the Uranium One purchase approval, told the New York Times in 2015:

> Mrs. Clinton never intervened with me on any C.F.I.U.S. matter.

It follows that she did not intervene with him on approving the purchase of Uranium One.