Hillary Clinton's resume from her time in the White House during her husband's administration lacks some of the hallmarks of someone who was intimately involved in foreign policy matters, a new report suggests.

The current Democratic presidential candidate had no security clearance, and does not recall having attended National Security Council meetings. She also did not regularly receive classified reports in the president's daily intelligence briefing, although she was less than candid when asked by The New York Times whether she had seen any of the reports.

"I would put that in the category of I-never-talk-about-what-I-talk-to-my-husband-about," Clinton told the newspaper.

Still, Clinton appears to have had some input in most major decisions -- except probably one -- through the informal "soft power" of being a sounding board, and having access to key White House officials, the newspaper reported Wednesday.

Click here to read the full report in The New York Times.

Campaign rivals, chiefly Barack Obama, have been seeking to diminish the importance of Clinton's role in foreign policy matters as the primary elections near.  But even as Clinton's record on foreign policy is somewhat murky, her supporters painted her as one of the most important voices in the two terms of Bill Clinton's administration.

"In the end, she was the last court of appeal for him when he was making a decision," Clinton friend and former commerce secretary Mickey Kantor told the paper.

Documents that could shed light on her foreign policy role remain under seal at the National Archives, but in one of the most important foreign policy decisions, Clinton appeared to have been silent.

In 1998, days after President Clinton testified that he had had "an improper physical relationship" with former White House intern Monica Lewinsky, he authorized missile strikes on Afghanistan and Sudan in retaliation against Al Qaeda bombings earlier in the year on U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania.

"It was the height of Monica, and they were barely talking to each other if at all," one unnamed national security official said.