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What are Hillary's Sec of State Accomplishments?????

Tam

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5 Top Highlights in Hillary Clinton’s Secretary of State Tenure
By Eli Sugarman January 2, 2013

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Hillary Clinton is widely admired for her intelligence, drive, and success as secretary of state. Her four years in office have been marked by a series of noteworthy accomplishments and near lack of serious missteps. Replacing her is a daunting task even for someone with Senator Kerry’s impressive foreign policy credentials. Below are 5 highlights from Clinton’s tenure:

1. People-to-People Diplomacy

Clinton understands the importance of strengthening ties with friends and allies while simultaneously engaging adversaries. Through intensive personal interaction, she has deftly built new relationships and managed old ones in a way that advance U.S. interests. In her own words, she has endeavored to ensure that the U.S. has “…a seat at every table that has the potential for being a partnership to solve problems.” For example, she expertly led efforts to rescue Chen Guangcheng, the dissident who took refuge in the U.S. Embassy in Beijing in May 2012, without crippling U.S.-China relations. Clinton has been the most active secretary of state in history, as a result. She has traveled more frequently and visited more countries than any of her predecessors; to date, her travels have spanned nearly 1 million miles and 112 countries.

2. The Importance of Economics

Clinton articulated a new vision of Economic Statecraft that made domestic economic growth – e.g. helping U.S. companies win business overseas – a key pillar of U.S. foreign policy. She made foreign policy relevant to the broader economic conversation, taking place in the U.S. in a show of political savvy few previous secretaries could match. And Clinton appointed the State Department’s first ever-chief economist to help implement Clinton’s vision. She also supported the more traditional economic aspects of foreign policy – such as sanctions – including those that crippled the Iranian government – and free trade – including Free Trade Agreements with allies Panama, Colombia, and South Korea.

3. Restoring American Credibility

Building on people-to-people diplomacy, Clinton has promoted U.S. values in a firm but respectful way that restored international faith in the U.S. that eroded during the Bush administration. Her outreach to Burma balances unwavering support for human rights with the promise of support to a previously suspicious regime and has opened that country to the world for the first time in decades. Aung San Suu Kyi is now free and her party actively participating in the governance reform effort in Burma. Clinton also rejuvenated U.S. engagement in the Middle East by brokering a ceasefire between Hamas and Israel earlier this year. Her shuttle diplomacy and coordination with Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi will likely give the U.S. greater leverage to pursue a robust peace process in 2013.

4. Diplomacy is National Security

The now iconic picture of senior officials gathered in the Situation Room during the Osama Bin Laden raid will forever memorialize one of the principal national security achievements of the first Obama administration. Clinton supported the raid and was a key player in adjusting U.S.-Pakistan relations afterwards. She was also a strong proponent of NATO airstrikes in Libya that eventually led to Muammar Gaddafi’s ouster. Her active diplomacy was critical to securing United Nations Security Council authorization of the Libya mission and maintaining strong European and regional support for it. Without such robust diplomatic effort, the use of military force – in Pakistan and Libya – would not have been nearly as effective. Clinton’s role in these two military campaigns highlights the central role foreign policy plays in U.S. national security in the 21st century.

5. Texts From Hillary

In 2012, Clinton became an internet sensation because of a series of memes depicting her having fictitious, comical text exchanges with other celebrities while wearing her trademark sunglasses. Texts from Hillary became so popular that Clinton herself submitted her own caption to the website and invited its creators to meet with her at the State Department. Her star power and ability to capture the imagination of individuals around the world is one noteworthy aspect of her success.

Senator Kerry will likely succeed Hillary Clinton in early 2013. Her tenure as secretary of state is filled with accomplishments that taken together demonstrate the resurgence of U.S. diplomacy and restoration of American credibility. Her specific successes – such as Burma’s opening to the world or crippling effect of Iran sanctions – are important, but so too are her focus on people-to-people diplomacy and economics. Senator Kerry would do well to build upon Clinton’s impressive record once he moves over to Foggy Bottom.


Eli Sugarman is Senior Director at Gryphon Partners LLC, an advisory and investment firm that counsels leading international businesses and non-profit organizations on market entry, dispute avoidance, and strategic communications in emerging markets....


After reading this crap from Eli Sugarman would any of you take his advice when it comes to your investments?

Benghazi Libya was such a Clinton Success story that it lead to the deaths of 4 Americans that could have been prevented, according to the Democrat lead Senate investigation, if Sec of State CLINTON had been paying attention to her duties and had provided SECURITY. YEP that was a raging success. :roll: As I see it the only accomplishment Hillary has made as Sec of State is making a very large carbon footprint on the world with her jet setting it around on the tax payers dime. :roll:


For a Party that is so concerned about green house gases and carbon foot prints you would think they would limit theirs a bit more than they do, BUT NOPE THEY ALL FLY AROUND THE WORLD LIKE FAIRIES IN CHILDRENS DREAMS. :roll:

As for raising the US's reputation, what a JOKE :lol: they are now considered a laughing stock thanks to Obama/Hillary's foreign policies. Even Canada their closest friendliest neighbor has been shafted by Obama over the Pipeline and are looking to China to go around them. :roll: Oh and let's not forget Hillary's restart button with Russia, that worked out so well that Russia took in Snowen and thumbed their noses at the US with Syria and Iran. :roll:
Yep she has big shoes to fill :roll: PANTIES MAYBE BUT SHOES NOT SO MUCH. :wink:
 

Steve

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this is fluff..

all air and no substance..

so I read it.. really.. what ware her accomplishments?


on Egypt..

Her shuttle diplomacy and coordination with Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi will likely give the U.S. greater leverage to pursue a robust peace process in 2013.

gee that didn't work out to well did it?

and about Burma...
Bill Clinton urges reconciliation in surprise trip to Myanmar
November 14, 2013

In a surprise visit to Myanmar Thursday, former US President Bill Clinton urged national leaders to defuse the ethnic and religious divisions that have roiled the country, two years into a transition away from military rule.

maybe he just forgot who wears the pant suit in that family and got the Clinton's mixed up



I could go through it point by point but really there isn't even enough to argue against.. total fluff. Pffffftttt

so liberals.. what did she "accomplish"?.. nothing by the looks of it, other then getting four people killed..
 

Tam

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Oh come on she did log more miles on a jet than any other Sec of State but I'm not sure that record is going to stand if Kerry keeps flying to Israel for Peace talks. :wink:
 

Steve

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Tam said:
Oh come on she did log more miles on a jet than any other Sec of State but I'm not sure that record is going to stand if Kerry keeps flying to Israel for Peace talks. :wink:

is flying around with her head up her @$$ really an accomplishment?



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Nancy was right, it is easier to get drunk on a taxpayers dime...
 

Tam

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Let us not forget about this event under Hillary's steller watch at the State Department


State Department memo reveals possible cover-ups, halted investigations


(CBS News) CBS News has uncovered documents that show the State Department may have covered up allegations of illegal and inappropriate behavior within their ranks.

The Diplomatic Security Service, or the DSS, is the State Department's security force, charged with protecting the secretary of state and U.S. ambassadors overseas and with investigating any cases of misconduct on the part of the 70,000 State Department employees worldwide.

CBS News' John Miller reports that according to an internal State Department Inspector General's memo, several recent investigations were influenced, manipulated, or simply called off. The memo obtained by CBS News cited eight specific examples. Among them: allegations that a State Department security official in Beirut "engaged in sexual assaults" on foreign nationals hired as embassy guards and the charge and that members of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's security detail "engaged prostitutes while on official trips in foreign countries" -- a problem the report says was "endemic."

The memo also reveals details about an "underground drug ring" was operating near the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad and supplied State Department security contractors with drugs.

Aurelia Fedenisn, a former investigator with the State Department's internal watchdog agency, the Inspector General, told Miller, "We also uncovered several allegations of criminal wrongdoing in cases, some of which never became cases."

In such cases, DSS agents told the Inspector General's investigators that senior State Department officials told them to back off, a charge that Fedenisn says is "very" upsetting.

"We were very upset. We expect to see influence, but the degree to which that influence existed and how high up it went, was very disturbing," she said.

In one specific and striking cover-up, State Department agents told the Inspector General they were told to stop investigating the case of a U.S. Ambassador who held a sensitive diplomatic post and was suspected of patronizing prostitutes in a public park.

The State Department Inspector General's memo refers to the 2011 investigation into an ambassador who "routinely ditched ... his protective security detai" and inspectors suspect this was in order to "solicit sexual favors from prostitutes."

Sources told CBS News that after the allegations surfaced, the ambassador was called to Washington, D.C. to meet with Undersecretary of State for Management Patrick Kennedy, but was permitted to return to his post.

Fedenisn says "hostile intelligence services" allow such behavior to continue. "I would be very surprised if some of those entities were not aware of the activities," she said. "So yes, it presents a serious risk to the United States government."

A draft of the Inspector General's report on the performance of the DSS, obtained by CBS News, states, "Hindering such cases calls into question the integrity of the investigative process, can result in counterintelligence vulnerabilities and can allow criminal behavior to continue."

John Miller spoke with Mike Pohelitz, a retired Senior Agent at the DSS who was involved in one of the cases listed in the Inspector General's memo. Pohelitz said he was told to stop investigating one of the cases and that the order likely came from the upper ranks of the DSS.

"I got the information through my DS channel," he told Miller. "But it had to come from somebody higher than DS, I'm sure."

According to Fedenisn, when a high-ranking State Department security officials was shown a draft of their findings that investigations were being interfered with by State Department higher-ups, he said, "This is going to kill us." In the final report however, all references to specific cases had been removed.

"I mean my heart really went out to the agents in that office, because they really want to do the right thing, they want to investigate the cases fully, correctly, accurately ... and they can't," Fedenisn said.

Fedenisn, a DSS agent for 26 years, was a part of the team that prepared the draft report and is now a whistleblower who has taken her concerns to Congress.

Two hours after CBS News made inquiries to the State Department about these charges, investigators from the State Department's Inspector General showed up at her door.

Speaking at a press briefing Monday, State Department spokesperson Jen Psaki said: "We hold all employees to the highest standards. We take allegations of misconduct seriously and we investigate thoroughly. All cases mentioned in the CBS report were thoroughly investigated or under investigation, and the -- the department continues to take action. Finally, the department has responded to the recommendations in the OIG report regarding the Bureau of Diplomatic Security's of Investigations and counter-intelligence. Diplomatic Security has taken the further step of requesting additional review by outside experience law enforcement officers on top of the OIG inspection so that officers with law enforcement experience can make expert assessments about our current procedures."


Psaki went on to say the "notion that we would not vigorously pursue criminal misconduct in a case, any case, is preposterous ... ambassadors would be no exception." Without speaking about specific cases, Psaki described any misconduct as "hardly endemic."

A statement provided to CBS News by the Inspector General's office said:

OIG does not comment on drafts of reports.

On its own initiative, OIG Office of Investigations has been conducting its own independent review of the allegations made. This is our standard procedure.

We staffed it independently and appropriately and they were people hired specific for this review at the end of 2012. They are on staff. We staffed it with the best people we can find at hand to do the job.

DS does not speak for us.

Yep the State Department takes these investigations of wrong doing SERIOUSLY. :wink: :roll: Tell me again who was fired after the Ambassador was slaughtered under Hillary's watch? Who was it that made up the LIE that Hillary, Obama and Susan Rice spewed for weeks afterwards about a VIDEO? Who really denied the Ambassador the extra Security he REPEATEDLY REQUESTED?

Will Kerry allow an true internal investigation to happen if the results lead to Clinton knowing everything and it takes her out of the running for President, clearing the way for him? :? Or will he hide the truth too so not to show just how corrupt the Democrat party is when it comes to running Government?
 

Tam

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Even the writers over at the Huffington Post think Hillary was a failure as Sec of State. :wink:

.......Many commentators have mentioned that Hillary Clinton left behind no major achievement as the U.S. Secretary of State, but that isn't true: the reality is that she did, several - and all of them are harms to the U.S., especially regarding two countries. They are Honduras and Afghanistan.

The central-American nation of Honduras is now ruled by an extremist far-right government today, a fascist junta-imposed government, because of Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. The lives of all but the top 0.001% of the population there are hell because of this. Those people now have good reason to hate America. The reputation of the United States has gone down under President Obama, throughout almost all countries, and this hell in Central America is a significant part of the reason for that, but the U.S. news media have paid pathetically little attention to this U.S.-caused hell there, and so most Americans don't even know about it.

Furthermore, under President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, failures at the U.S. Department of State have also caused the basis for a hatred of the United States to soar in Afghanistan after the U.S. will have drawn down its troops there. This failure, too, has received pathetically little coverage in the U.S. press, but our nation will pay heavily for that later on.......

It was no surprise that the comment section to this post about Hillary's 2016 chances was SHUT DOWN. :wink:
 

Tam

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GEE, In 27 hours I see not one Liberal lurker has stuck their head out and provided us with even ONE Hillary accomplishment that she can run on in 2016 , but yet they will vote for her to "make history", as they did with Obama in 2008. :roll:
 

Tam

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gmacbeef said:
4 dead Americans in Bengazi. :(

Somehow I doubt she will be running any campaign ads on that accomplishment. Or the fact she blamed their deaths on a protest over a video. :wink:

Can you think of anything that she might use as I sure can't. :?
 
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