Hilary’s Five-Point Plans
Last Monday, the State Department released roughly 3,900 pages said to be the last of Hillary Clinton’s work-related e-mails. The messages were reviewed in full by this reporter.
Last week The New York Times reported that Democratic groups supporting Hillary Clinton are preparing a five-point plan to defeat Donald Trump’s presidential ambitions.
The concept of Clinton utilizing five-point plans may have been laid out in a September 14, 2009 e-mail sent to Clinton by Neera Tanden, president of the highly influential Center for American Progress, or CAP.
The dispatch, titled “Media Attention,” was sent directly by Tanden to Clinton’s private email address, evidencing the close relationship between Clinton and the CAP.
Tanden complains that many political reporters “have very little understanding of international relations and foreign policy.” To rectify the supposed problem and ensure positive coverage, Tanden recommends that Clinton “overwhelm people with solutions: 5 point plans; 10 point plans.”
Tanden recommends “solutions communicated in a way so that all reporters, even the laziest, would understand them.”
She continues:
“Therefore, in order to reach those political reporters and others, an approach to this problem could be to overwhelm people with solutions: 5 point plans; 10 point plans (You came up with ‘point plan’ approach on our campaign, and I didn’t at first understand its merit, but soon saw it — it shorthanded the solutions so that even when reporters couldn’t go through all the details, they would at least write that you had a 5 point plan to solve the problem.)”
During her tenure as secretary of state and beyond, Clinton would go on to enumerate numerous five-point plans.
Just last month, Clinton outlined a five-point plan to combat Islamic State.
Speaking at the Brookings Institute last September, Clinton presented a five-point plan regarding U.S. strategy toward Iran. The plan maintains the current nuclear deal while increasing sanctions targeting the Tehran regime.
Calling The Kettle Black
In perhaps one of the most ironic Hillary Clinton e-mails to be publicly released, Clinton expressed surprise that a State Department employee used a personal e-mail account for work-related correspondence.
On Feb 27, 2011, Clinton was forwarded a message from a State Department employee named John Godfrey, described in an e-mail from career Foreign Service Officer Alice Wells as “one of our most knowledgeable officers on Libya.”
Wells had forwarded Godfrey’s analysis to top Clinton deputy Jake Sullivan, who sent the correspondence directly to Clinton.
“Who does he work for now?” Clinton replied.
“Us,” Sullivan responded.
Clinton then answered, “Is he in NEA currently? Or was he in Embassy? I was surprised that he used personal email account if he is at State.”
Evidence Of Possible Security Breach On Clinton’s Server
An alarming exchange between Clinton and one of her top deputies reveals Clinton’s private e-mail server may have had significant technical or security-related issues.
The exchange with former U.S. Under-Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs Judith McHale finds that McHale’s e-mails sent directly to Clinton over the prior two months were not received at Clinton’s private address, according to Clinton herself. The e-mails also were not searchable in Clinton’s email archive, Clinton reveals.
McHale wrote to her boss that she was concerned her messages “may be hitting some tech glitch.”
In another instance that may be evidence of a possible security or technical issue, Clinton informed McHale that it took four minutes to receive an e-mail that was marked with a timestamp from four minutes earlier.
There has been some concern that Clinton’s private e-mail system was vulnerable to hacking.
In October 2015, the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee revealed that it had found evidence of attempted intrusions into Clinton’s private server in 2013 and 2014.