I am, not surprised; but, somewhat dismayed with ...

[Jim Lane]

139. She "started" it - sort of yes, sort of no; cheerleading for it is clear.

TPP had its origins in a smaller trade agreement, the Trans-Pacific Strategic Economic Partnership agreement (colloquially, the Pacific-4). It took effect in 2006 and did not include the United States. In September 2008, the Bush Administration announced that the U.S. would enter negotiations to expand the Pacific 4 into the TPP. You could date the "start" of TPP to either of those events, which preceded Clinton's stint as Secretary of State.

The actual TPP negotiations, however, didn't begin until March of 2010. On the one hand, Clinton was then the Secretary of State. On the other hand, the lead role in the negotiations was taken by the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative rather than by the Department of State. On the other other hand, it's certain that lengthy negotiations for a major international agreement would have involved the Secretary of State in a significant role. Clinton has pointed to the TPP in describing her tenure at State:

"One of our most important tools for engaging with Vietnam was a proposed new trade agreement called the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), which would link markets throughout Asia and the Americas, lowering trade barriers while raising standards on labor, the environment, and intellectual property," Clinton wrote in her 2014 memoir "Hard Choices."

(from "Can Hillary Clinton step out of Bill's NAFTA shadow?" on CNN's website)

I'd say that "started it" is an overstatement but "played an important role from the beginning" would be justified.

Regardless of how you parse that point, it's clear that she was strongly supportive of the TPP. A recent Associated Press story reported:

A week into her campaign for the 2016 Democratic president nomination, Clinton took a different stand on trade than she did as President Barack Obama's secretary of state, when she called the Trans-Pacific Partnership being fast-tracked by Congress "the gold standard in trade agreements to open free, transparent, fair trade, the kind of environment that has the rule of law and a level playing field."

(from "Campaigning Clinton has qualms about trade deal")

That "gold standard" quotation has been widely reported but it's easy enough to find other words of praise from her pre-campaign phase.

Evidently she doesn't read DU, or she would know that no one can possibly say anything remotely informative about the TPP until all the negotiations are concluded and a final agreement has been made public. At least, that's what we're told, often by Clinton supporters, whenever anyone here criticizes the TPP. Doubtless those posters will now all "trickle in" to denounce Clinton for praising an agreement that hadn't yet been finalized.

Then again, maybe they won't.