hudson and leidl then look at the foreign policy of the barack obama administration and hillary clinton's tenure as secretary of state to see whether their actions reflected commitment to the hillary doctrine. in many cases, they found that it did, such as appointing many women to positions of power, increasing funding for the office of global women's issues by a factor of ten, heavy use of social media, and clinton's local visits to women's groups. indeed, clinton made the empowerment of women worldwide the signature issue of her time as secretary of state. but they also note a number of occasions where clinton and the administration were silent about abuses of women or girls due to strategic needs of the u.s., most of all in the "conspicuous silence" about saudi arabia's treatment of its female population. finally, they look at implementation, and find that during the period in question much was done to implement the hillary doctrine in washington by means of setting up a regulatory and legal framework for it, but that there was a more mixed record past that point, with omissions and weaknesses occurring in the program development, contracting, and local implementation phases.