A top State Department adviser proposed in 2011 that then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton should announce the “Clinton doctrine” in the days after Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak stepped down from power.
Anne-Marie Slaughter said Clinton should deliver a “short, powerful speech” that outlines the proposed Clinton Doctrine, but proposed that she should not present it as the “Clinton Doctrine.”
“The press can do that,” she wrote.
The email was released Friday as part of the final tranche of emails that included some messages that Clinton had deleted from her server and had not been seen before. But the specific Clinton Doctrine email had already been released last year by State, and was marked “near duplicate” by the department in the Friday release.
According to Slaughter, the Clinton Doctrine would be a U.S. policy of supporting people around the world who seek a “transparent, accountable and participatory government.”
“We will work with governments around the world to meet these demands, even as we learn from other governments in meeting the same demands from our own people,” she suggested.
Slaughter said it should also be a push to ensure countries protect the rights and freedoms of their citizens, and levy enough taxes to provide basic services. The Clinton Doctrine would ensure the U.S. works with governments to achieve those goals.
She said the Truman Doctrine was about supporting people who were fighting against “attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures. And Slaughter said the Clinton Doctrine was similar because it supported people in the same way.
While some elements of the email are redacted, Clinton replied to the proposal on Feb. 12, 2011, by saying, “pls print.”
This story was corrected to note that the Clinton Doctrine email had already been released last year, and was re-released Friday along with other emails that had not been seen.
