Hillary Clinton has known since at least 2014 the governments of Saudi Arabia and Qatar provide "clandestine financial and logistic support" to the Islamic State and other radical Islamic groups — but, rather than call for a halt of arms sales and support, Clinton only heralded the need to "bring pressure" on the Saudi government.

Wikileaks has now disclosed an August 17, 2014 email from Clinton to her campaign chair John Podesta, then serving as counselor to President Obama, an eight-point plan to combat the growing threat of the Islamic State (ISIS, ISIL, Daesh) in Iraq and Syria, noting under the first point, with all emphasis added:

"With all of its tragic aspects, the advance of ISIL through Iraq gives the U.S. Government an opportunity to change the way it deals with the chaotic security situation in North Africa and the Middle East. The most important factor in this matter is to make use of intelligence resources and Special Operations troops in an aggressive manner, while avoiding the old school solution, which calls for more traditional military operations."

Clinton cites the need for the United States to work in concert with Peshmerga fighters of the Kurdish Regional Government, as the "commanders are aggressive hard fighting troops, who have long standing relationships with CIA officers and Special Forces operators."

She continues:

"At the same time we should return to plans to provide the FSA, or some group of moderate forces, with equipment that will allow them to deal with a weakened ISIL, and stepped up operations against the Syrian regime […]

"While this military/para-military operation is moving forward, we need to use our diplomatic and more traditional intelligence assets to bring pressure on the governments of Qatar and Saudi Arabia, which are providing clandestine financial and logistic support to ISIL and other radical Sunni groups in the region."

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Through this coordination, Clinton adds, "The Qataris and Saudis will be put in a position of balancing policy between their ongoing competition to dominate the Sunni world and the consequences of serious U.S. pressure."

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