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Cash Flowed to Cliraon Foundation Amid Ressian Uraniam Dexi-N..Rop./xww.nytimes.com/z0is/0s/34/us/cash-fowed-to-clatontound.. biggest uranium producer in the United States. The deal was ultimately approved in October, following what two people involved in securing the approval said had been a relatvely smgoth process.. Not all of the committee's decisions are personally debated by the ageney beads themselves; in less controversial cases, deputy or assistant seeretaries may sign off. But experts and former eonmittee memhers say Russin's interest. in Uranrun One and is American uranium rexerves seemed to warrant attention at the highest levels. *This deal had generated press, it had captured the attention of Congress and it wns strategieally important." said Ricnard Russell, who served on the invariably any one of those conditions would cause this to get pushed way up the chain, and here you had all three.* And Mrs. Clinton brought a reputation for hawkishness to the process; as a senator, she was a vocel critic of the comnittee's approval of a deal that would have transferred the management of major American seaports to a company based in the United Arab Emirates, and as x presidential candkdate she had advocated legislation to strengthen the process. The Clinton eampaign spokesman, Mr. Fallon, said that in general, these. matters did not rise to the secretary's level.He would not comment on whether Mrs. Clinton had been brieted on the matter, but he gave The Times a statement comnnittee at the time, Jose Fernandez. While not addressing the specincs of the. Uranium One deal, Mr. Fernaxdez said,*Mrs.Chnton never intervened with me on any C.F.I.U.S.matter* Mr. Fallon also noted that if any agency had raised national security concems about the Wraninm One deal, it coudd baye taken them directly to the president. Anne-Marie Slaughter, the State Department's director of pohcy planning at the time,said she wssunaware ot the transaction -- or the extent to whichit made Kussia a dominant uranium supplier. But speaking generally, she urged "Russia was not a country we took lighuy at the tirne or thought was 110f13 S132027