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Kissinger met regularly with Secretary Clinton, and applauded her hawkish foreign policy in a handwritten message
Salon.com by Ben Norton and Jared Flanery Jan 12, 2016
I greatly admire the skill and aplomb with which you conduct our foreign policy, wrote Henry Kissinger in a 2012 letter to the Honorable Hillary Rodham Clinton. The compliment was included as a handwritten postscript added to the printed letter.
The Feb. 7 letter, which was released in a batch of emails from former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, is a request that she help declassify documents from Kissingers time as secretary of state, which he says constitute a unique record of a critical period in American foreign policy.
(A scanned copy of Kissingers printed message to Clinton)
Critics say Kissinger helped carry out egregious war crimes in this critical period, during which he served as secretary of state under presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford.
The late journalist Christopher Hitchens devoted an entire book to detailing the war crimes overseen by Kissinger, who infamously declared The illegal we do immediately; the unconstitutional takes a little longer....snip
...In a June 2009 email titled Startegy memo, Clinton mentions an upcoming dinner she will be having with Kissinger along with Cold War-era statesman and National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski, who pushed for the U.S. to arm Islamic extremist mujahideen militants in Afghanistan in order to fight the Soviet Union, giving rise to al-Qaeda and the Taliban....snip more- http://www.salon.com/2016/01/12/emails_expose_close_ties_between_hillary_clinton_and_accused_war_criminal_henry_kissinger/
Related: Hillary Clinton reviews Henry Kissingers World Order
By Hillary Clinton, WaPo
...Kissinger is a friend, and I relied on his counsel when I served as secretary of state. He checked in with me regularly, sharing astute observations about foreign leaders and sending me written reports on his travels. Though we have often seen the world and some of our challenges quite differently, and advocated different responses now and in the past, what comes through clearly in this new book is a conviction that we, and President Obama, share: a belief in the indispensability of continued American leadership in service of a just and liberal order...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/hillary-clinton-reviews-henry-kissingers-world-order/2014/09/04/b280c654-31ea-11e4-8f02-03c644b2d7d0_story.html