It turns out the Libya fiasco was considered a Hillary Clinton accomplishment
James Taranto:
Veni, Vidi, Benghazi
Mrs. Clinton only wishes she had no accomplishments.
...They seem to have changed their minds about the a"accomplishment" after the Benghazi attack. The situation in Libya has only gotten worse since that attack. It has turned into a huge embarrassment that she can't blame on George Bush or an intelligence failure.
A rebuttal of sorts comes from last week’s tranche of emails released by the State Department. “A top State Department official boasted of Hillary Clinton’s ‘leadership/ownership/stewardship of this country’s Libya policy from start to finish,’ ” Vox.com’s Jonathan Allen reports. The sender of that August 2011 email was Jake Sullivan, Secretary Clinton’s deputy chief of staff; the recipients were State Department aides Cheryl Mills and Victoria Nuland, the former a longtime Clinton loyalist.
“HRC has been a critical voice on Libya in administration deliberations, at NATO, and in contact group meetings,” Sullivan wrote. “She was instrumental in securing the authorization, building the coalition, and tightening the noose around [Moammar] Qadhafi and his regime.” There follows a timeline that runs from Feb. 25, 2011, when “HRC announces the suspension of operations of the Libyan embassy in Washington” through “early August,” when “HRC works to construct a $1.5 billion assets package” of international aid to the new Libyan regime.
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