Hillary Clinton has spent much of herpresidential campaign running away fromher responsibility for the United States’ disastrous 2011 intervention in Libya. The February 19 release of more emails from her private server may make it harder for her to do so.
In an email with the subject ‘bravo!’ sent on March 19, 2011 – the day the United States and its allies began bombing Libya – Clinton confidant and former employee Anne-Marie Slaughter appears to praise then-Secretary of State Clinton for convincing a reluctant President Obama to take military action in Libya.
‘I cannot imagine how exhausted you must be after this week, but I have NEVER been prouder of having worked for you,’ writes Slaughter, who worked as an advisor to Clinton in the State Department from 2009 to February 3, 2011, and then remained a consultant to the policy planning bureau. ‘Turning POTUS around on this is a major win for everything we have worked for.’ An earlier email release, which I reported on previously, showed that Slaughter had spent February 2011 imploring Clinton to involve the United States militarily in Libya, insisting that it would ‘change the image of the United States overnight.’
‘Keep your fingers crossed and pray for a soft landing for everyone’s sake,’ Clinton replies.
This post was published at David Stockmans Contra Corner on February 29, 2016.
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