Well, well, well … today we learned that it was Hillary Clinton who opened the door to accepting a change in U.S. policy that would allow Iran to continue to produce nuclear fuel.
Hillary Clinton and her foreign policy aide Jake Sullivan photographed during a White House visit. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)
After an unproductive secret meeting between Clinton’s foreign policy aide Jake Sullivan and Iranian diplomats in Oman in July 2012, and in a series of meetings in Washington over the following six months, Clinton and Obama concluded that we would have to let Iran continue to enrich uranium at small levels if an agreement was to succeed.
Very interesting, since it was Clinton who, during the 2008 campaign, called Obama naïve for believing he could directly negotiate with Iran’s regime.
“She recognized the difficulty of reaching a solution with zero enrichment,” said Sullivan as it was revealed for the first time that Clinton played a role in the early stages of the talks. The Obama administration, led by Clinton’s predecessor at State John Kerry, later agreed to continue down the “some enrichment” road while insisting all along the Iran would not be permitted to build a bomb.
Despite six UN resolutions demanding that Tehran suspend its enrichment program, citing Non-proliferation Treaty violations beginning in 2006, followed by firm positions by former President George W. Bush and President Obama, the Clinton-Obama team caved in the end.
With clear sailing ahead for the Obama administration on the Iran deal, Clinton in a speech today to a Brookings Institution audience that it will be up to the next president to keep an eye on Iran. If elected, she said her policy would be “distrust and verify.” You just know she knows it’s a bad deal.
Isn’t it ironic that the woman who will distrust our enemy is considered untrustworthy by 57 percent of respondents to a recent CNN/ORC poll?
“I think the American people are going to want a president who supports diplomacy … but who will also get up every day and enforce the agreement,” Clinton said.
Hillary Clinton blames Benghazi attack on a video producer when the bodies of our ambassador and three other brave Americans were returned. (dailymail.co.uk/Getty Images)
She needs to be reminded that she was already up (4 p.m. Washington time) when her (our) Benghazi consulate was attacked by terrorists on Sept. 11, 2012, and she did nothing. And when the bodies of our ambassador and three other brave Americans were returned to the United States, she blamed a video producer. This, after cutting security in Libya even after five months of warnings.
Four months later, she made her now infamous statement, “What difference does it make, ” during questioning on the attack by Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI).
