Mar 11, 2008

Hillary's Claim Knocked Down

Greg Craig, former director of the Policy Planning Office, U.S. State Department, penned a memo knocking down Hillary Clinton's self-proclaimed national security and foreign policy experience.

See Greg Craig on Hillary Clinton.

Among the highlights:

There is no reason to believe, however, that she was a key player in foreign policy at any time during the Clinton Administration. She did not sit in on National Security Council meetings. She did not have a security clearance. She did not attend meetings in the Situation Room. She did not manage any part of the national security bureaucracy, nor did she have her own national security staff. She did not do any heavy-lifting with foreign governments, whether they were friendly or not. She never managed a foreign policy crisis, and there is no evidence to suggest that she participated in the decision-making that occurred in connection with any such crisis.

As far as the record shows, Senator Clinton never answered the phone either to make a decision on any pressing national security issue – not at 3 AM or at any other time of day.

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