Pirate's Cove

No, not that record regarding her email shenanigans, what with the private server and sending/receiving confidential/sensitive/Secret material. The one where she supposedly Did Something

(The Hill) Hillary Clinton’s Iran speech on Wednesday isn’t a one-time event timed for votes this week on Capitol Hill, the Democratic presidential candidate’s senior aides say.

The speech, in which she outlined a five-point plan on Iran, is part of a larger strategy to use the deal — and the upcoming vote — as a window for telling her story of her four-year tenure as Secretary of State.

But those big meanie Republicans are out their exposing her true record

But Clinton is “eager” to have the debate, according to Jake Sullivan, a foreign policy adviser on the Clinton campaign who worked for her as a senior aide at the State Department.

“Every time she mixes it up with Republicans on these issues, she supplies further evidence of why she stands to prevail in that debate,” he said in an email to The Hill on Wednesday.

OK?

In her speech at the Brookings Institution, Clinton offered support for the Iran deal but also talked about how she would take a tough line with Tehran in a new Clinton administration.

Her message leaned heavily on her tenure at State, and she highlighted how she was a key player for Obama in the negotiations.

“President Obama and I pursued a two-prong strategy” of engagement and pressure, to “significantly raise the cost of Iranian defiance,” she said in the speech. “Meanwhile I traveled the world … twisting arms to help build the global coalition.”

Does it need mentioning that she and Obama completely blew off the Iranian Green Revolution? But, hey, if she wants to take some credit for the horrendous Iran deal, which the majority of Americans are against, go for it!

Clinton also offered comments about how she would offer strenuous military support to Israel, where the government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has loudly criticized the deal. This offered Clinton a chance to stand apart from Obama.

So, something she says she will do, which she didn’t do while Obama was president.

In a conference call after the speech on Wednesday, Team Clinton, former State Department colleagues, and foreign policy experts aimed to further break down the former secretary of State’s involvement in the deal, discussing her first trip to Moscow in 2009 and how she and her team persuaded the Russians to get “on board” with sanctions against Iran.

Sanctions Russia failed to implement themselves. More on that in a minute.

And, that’s pretty much it. Maybe she has more information at her website? Well, no. One would think she would be pimping her vast experience as Secretary of State and her time as a Senator. Negative.

In fact, Hillary and her State Dept advocated heavily against many of the sanction placed on Iran. When the sanctions were passed, State used lots of waivers to exempt many countries. Her Pacific reboot was a failure, as was her Russian reboot. Our European allies have lost quite a bit of trust in the U.S. We’ve isolated many allies, including Israel and Poland (missile shield). The Arab Spring was mostly blown off. The uprising in Egypt highlighted just how discombobulated the foreign policy was under Obama/Clinton.

She has no signature doctrine, strategy, or diplomatic triumph. She was super enthused to start a war in Libya, and then ignored what happened after, including the Benghazi fiasco. Iraq has turned into a cesspool, though that is more Obama’s fault. Syria is beyond a mess. Remember when she called Assad a “reformer”? What, exactly, can she look to as a real success? Her supporters can’t name one. Seemingly, neither can she.

Crossed at Right Wing News.

Read: Hillary Clinton Totally Eager To Defend Her Record At State »

And she totally wants you to hear it from her! In a focus group, very legalistic sort of manner, posted to Facebook

I wanted you to hear this directly from me:

Yes, I should have used two email addresses, one for personal matters and one for my work at the State Department. Not doing so was a mistake. I’m sorry about it, and I take full responsibility.

But, that’s not the problem. The problem is that she used a private email address via an insecure, offsite, unaccountable server to conduct official business, which included sensitive, confidential, and secret material. It was a violation of policy and federal laws.

What’s also a mistake was using devices not approved by State Department IT.

It’s important for you to know a few key facts. My use of a personal email account was aboveboard and allowed under the State Department’s rules. Everyone I communicated with in government was aware of it. And nothing I ever sent or received was marked classified at the time.

Alas, that’s a falsehood, except in terms of her using a personal email account to send her personal email and non-sensitive/classified/confidential contacts. The “everyone: part is about throwing a blame-net out into the waters to snare others in her problems, and could be a veiled threat to, among others, Team Obama that she could drag them in if they don’t play ball with her.

As this process proceeds, I want to be as transparent as possible. That’s why I’ve provided all of my work emails to the government to be released to the public, and why I’ll be testifying in public in front of the Benghazi Committee later next month.

A goodly chunk of what we know has been pulled like stuck teeth via Freedom Of Information requests, usually followed by taking State to court, which, even then, finds State in non-compliance and/or slow walking the release.

Since she also deleted tens of thousands of emails, which she claims are “personal”, then attempted to wipe the server, how do we know she was transparent?

I know this is a complex story. I could have—and should have—done a better job answering questions earlier. I’m grateful for your support, and I’m not taking anything for granted.

“Complex”. In other words, she’s saying it’s too big for you peons to understand why she’s allowed to do all she did in contradiction to federal policy and law, which would have seen you, at a minimum, fired from your job, and mostly likely prosecuted.

Read: Hillary: You Know, This Email Thing Is Complex »