Turns Out, Hillary Really Didn’t Do Much With National Security As First Lady

One of Hillary’s biggest lies selling points that she’s been using to convince people to vote for her (other than inviting makeup and fashion YouTubers to her events, that is) is to tout how much “experience” she has being in office. See, since she was once the First Lady, she supposedly had ALL kinds of access to important foreign national security information that only the POTUS gets to see (how it’s okay that Bill showed his wife this information… well, I’m sure SOMEONE is looking into that. Wouldn’t they? Anyone? Bueller?) The point being that she TOTALLY knows how to handle national security. Which is why she set up an unsecure email server in her basement when she was Secretary of State.

Yep. She sure knows how to do the job.

According to this, however, her “experience” from her time as FLOTUS is likely a load of crap (surprise, surprise…). The article at the sourcelink says that Hillary really didn’t have a whole lot to do with national security. In fact, contrary to what she’s said in the past, she didn’t have ANYTHING to do with national security during her husband’s administration –

William Cohen, who served as secretary of defense under President Bill Clinton for several years, said in 2007 that Hillary Clinton “was not involved in national security issues” as first lady, according to a transcript of an interview with the defense secretary’s historical office obtained by the Washington Free Beacon.

 

Cohen, who was appointed by Bill Clinton in 1996, spoke about his experience as defense secretary during the interview, highlighting his positive relationship with the former president. When asked by interviewers whether Hillary Clinton “play[ed] any kind of part” in national security and Pentagon matters, he replied, “No, not really.”

 

“She was not involved in national security issues,” Cohen said in the transcript, which was included in the William S. Cohen papers archive housed at the University of Maine.

Kind of comes at odds with things she’s said about her national security experience before –

Clinton said on the 2008 campaign trail that she had access to key decision-makers and classified information as first lady, though she had no security clearance and did not attend National Security Council meetings. She cited trips to Bosnia, Kosovo, Northern Ireland, and other areas as evidence of her experience in foreign policy.

 

“I had direct access to all of the decision-makers. I was briefed on a range of issues, often provided classified information,” Clinton told ABC News anchor George Stephanopoulos in 2007. “And often when I traveled on behalf of our country, I traveled with representatives from the DoD, the CIA, the State Department.”

 

Clinton came under fire when she claimed repeatedly and falsely during the 2008 campaign that she had touched down in Bosnia on March 25, 1996, “under sniper fire.”

 

“I remember landing under sniper fire. There was supposed to be some kind of a greeting ceremony at the airport, but instead we just ran with our heads down to get into the vehicles to get to our base,” Clinton said during a foreign policy address at George Washington University in 2008.

Why does this matter? Why does anything that the Clintons do matter? To show that, yet again, Hillary Clinton will say and do whatever it takes to become president. She’s made national security part of her current campaign and it’s only fair that those statements be examined closely –

Clinton has again made her foreign policy experience a core component of her 2016 presidential campaign, though she has largely focused on her tenure as secretary of state during the Obama administration. Some of Clinton’s moves at the State Department, however, have been viewed as liabilities, including the failed reset with Russia and the bungled military intervention in Libya.

Here’s the thing about Hillary – The woman needs power like an addict needs another hit. But like an addict, Hillary getting even more power isn’t only going to affect her, it’s going to affect the people around her. In this case, her addiction to power is going to affect an entire COUNTRY. And not for the better.

Hillary lies, she lies about lying, and she lies even more.