What would a Hillary Clinton foreign policy look like? The gushing letter from one of her top aides to Communist loving actor Sean Penn pretty much says it all:
Hillary Clinton’s top State Department aides gushed over actor Sean Penn in an April 2012 email, State Department records show.
“I am just so friggin proud of you,” Clinton’s chief of staff, Cheryl Mills, wrote in an April 26, 2012 email seemingly sent to Penn’s account. The email address is redacted but is listed as “CIA.”
“Do we call you mr ambassador laureate now?” Mills’ senior advisor, Caitlin Klevorick, wrote to Penn.
“Heartfelt congrats. We couldn’t be prouder!” she added.
The pair heaped praise on the small-statured Penn, who had just been awarded the 2012 Peace Summit Award from former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev for his work in Haiti following a disastrous 2010 earthquake.
The email traffic has taken on new significance in light of news that Penn, a two-time Oscar winner, traveled to Mexico in October to meet with and interview Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, the notorious boss of the brutal Sinaloa drug cartel. Penn published a laudatory article about the visit for Rolling Stone. The piece, in which Penn calls Guzman “Robin Hood,” was published online late Saturday.
In the past, Penn has been a major apologist for a slew of Latin American thugs. During the Cold War, people like Penn were referred to as “useful idiots,” in that they advanced the interests of Communist regimes by apologizing for them. Today, they’re celebrated as heroes by those who would be in charge of keeping America safe.