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Saturday, July 25, 2009 11:07 AM
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'abedinh@state.gov'
Ok. Is Kristy in town? If so, can I see her tomorrow?

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From: Abedin, Huma <AbedinH@state.gov>
To: H
Sent: Sat Jul 25 11:06:20 2009
Subject: Re: Angela
Philippe got final edits
You will have no later than 11:30
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From: H <HDR22@clintonemail.com>
To: Abedin, Huma
Sent: Sat Jul 25 10:58:05 2009
Subject: Re: Angela
I still don't have my MTP briefing.
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To: H
Sent: Sat Jul 25 09:52:51 2009
Subject: Angela
Jim just called me.
Angela has some thing you need to see before tomorrow that she cannot leave.
She's scheduled to be there at 10.
Marina knows.
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Sunday, July 26, 2009 1:52 PM
'SBerger
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Thx so much for all of your help.

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From: Berger, Samuel R.
To: H
Sent: Sun Jul 26 11:29:01 2009
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Couldn't have been better!
This is written from my BlackBerry.
ri-ux
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Sunday, July 26, 2009 1:55 PM
'stalbott
Re: Brava!
Thx for all of your help. And I'd love to talk soon. I'll start trying to find a time.
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From: Strobe Talbott
To: H
Sent: Sun Jul 26 12:26:04 2009
Subject: Brava!
Fabulous. Couldn't have been better
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Friday, July 31, 2009 6:16 AM

'ValmoroU@state.gov'
Fw: Schedule
Subject:
Sorry I hit send too soon!

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From: H
To: Hume Abedin; 'abedinh@state.gov' <abedinh@state.gov>
Sent: Fri Jul 31 06:13:25 2009
Subject: Schedule
Can we start Saud 15 minutes later so I don't have to leave the WH early?
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Friday, July 31, 2009 6:18 PM
'wsherman
Re: Superb
Thanks so much. But all the positive feedback is worrying! Loved seeing you the other night.
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From: Wendy Sherman
To: H2
Sent: Sun Jul 26 11:23:41 2009
Subject: Superb
Madame SecretaryA first rate job on Meet the Press. Your experience, your skill, your competency and humor all on strong display.
Wendy
Wendy R. Sherman
Albright Stonebridge Group*
1101 New York Avenue, NW
Suite 900
Washington, DC 20005
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* On June 25, 2009, Stonebridge International and The Albright Group announced their merger, creating the Albright
Stonebridge Group. For the time being, all contact information remains the same. Once we complete the transition, we
will inform you of our new contact details. We ap.preciate your patience and look forward to continuing our work with
you.
sent from Blackberry
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Saturday, August 1, 2009 4:22 PM

'abedinh@state.gov'
Re: Calls
Let Jim know about Lavrov and I can't talk w Feingold now. What about tomorrow morning?
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To: H
Sent: Sat Aug 01 16:12:30 2009
Subject: Calls
Russians saying lavrov unavailable and they don't know when he will call back.
Also, feingold called asking if u can talk before 6:30.
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Lavrov
Russians are saying he is unavailable and don't know when or if he will call in. What's next step?
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Re: Tonite
Ok.
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To: H
Cc: Oscar Flores
Sent: Sun Aug 02 12:49:38 2009
Subject: Tonite
Plane is preparing for a 6pm wheels up. Is that ok? Earlier? Later?
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Tomorrow
Charles Rivkin, the new Amb is being sworn in tomorrow, and asked me to please come. Is there any way I could be
there at all?
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Kuwait
Tom--Jeff Feltmann will call to disuss issue w Puneet. Thx.
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Sorry but I can't get you back. I'll try later.
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Monday, September 14, 2009 7:09 AM
'millscd@state.gov'
Re: for S
Ok.
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From: Mills, Cheryl D <MillsCD@state.gov>
To: H
Sent: Mon Sep 14 06:50:53 2009
Subject: FW: for S
I have comments on this so don't want to accept as final until giving them to her and you.
cdm
From: Slaughter, Anne-Marie

To: Mills, Cheryl D
Cc: Abed in, Huma
Sent: Sat Sep 12 16:56:33 2009
Subject: for S
Attached and below is my memo just outlining what I am prepared to give up in order to be able to spend the majority
of my time on 00 DR.
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'ValmoroU@state.gov'; Huma Abedin
Fw: Sheikha Mosa of Qatar
I'd like to see her. Can we work it out?

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From: Cherie Blair
To: H; hr15@mycingular.blackberry.net <hr15@mycingular.blackberry.net>
Cc: psolisdoyle
Sent: Mon Sep 14 12:01:37 2009
Subject: Sheikha Mosa of Qatar
She is available to see you on 24th September either morning or afternoon? Alternatively 28th or 29th September Does
that work for you
Cherie Blair
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Tuesday, September 15, 2009 6:13 AM
'millscd@state.gov'
Re: Since the Secretary likes to track such things - The Associated Press: Rocker Juanes'
wife gives birth to son in Miami
??????????????????????????
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To: H
Sent: Tue Sep 15 05:18:23 2009
Subject: Fw: Since the Secretary likes to track such things - The Associated Press: Rocker Juanes' wife gives birth to son in
Miami
Not sure why jim mcgovern wants you to know this but fyi
From: Buhl, Cindy <Cindy.Buhl@mail.house.gov>

To: Mills, Cheryl D
Cc: Buhl, Cindy <Cindy.Buhl@mail.house.gov>
Sent: Tue Sep 15 00:37:40 2009
Subject: Since the Secretary likes to track such things - The Associated Press: Rocker Juanes' wife gives birth to son in
Miami
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/AleqM5i0gPtcVQYpRav9SbVPG3q591mvpgD9AN67501,
Jim tells me the Secretary likes to be aware of such things - in case you haven't already heard - FYI - Cindy
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image001.jpg
Pis call and ask what he wants and put on my call list.
Ortainal-russage
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To. H
Sent: Mon Sep 14 15:08:50 2009
Subject: Fwd: Left at the Gate - blog
Hi Mrs. Secretary,
I am chairman of AEG. I need your advice on a few matters. Is there a time that would be convenient for me to call or
visit you? I shall be in DC Thursday evening through Monday. Please let me know if anything works. Thanks.
Richard Mays
Mays, Byrd & Associates, P.A.
415 Main Street
Little Rock, AR 72201
fax - 501-399-9280
toll free 1-800-227-1529
Sent: 9/14/2009 10:57:14 A.M. Central Daylight Time

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Monday, September 14, 2009
Odds On the Big A <http://leftatthegate.blogspot.com/2009/09/odds-on-big.html>

Even as Governor Paterson reportedly has his recommendation on the Aqueduct racino in hand (this reader says
that he actually has two to consider <http://leftatthegate.blogspot.com/2009/09/sunday-morning-notes-andnuts.html#comment-1156672372250588546> ), at least one of the bidders is still taking its case to the local community
around the track. The Queens Chronicle reported last week
<http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=20368289&BRD=2731&PAG=461&dept_id=574908&rfi=6> that SL
Green/Hard Rock made a presentation on Thursday.
"Hard Rock is the right balance," [Pres/CEO Marc] Holliday said. "Its recognized brand and quality entertainment
will attract younger and older players across the stratum. People flying in from JFK will say, 'I hear there's a Hard Rock, I
want to see it."
One of this group's big pitches is that they'll be the first to generate a revenue stream ("shovel-ready, in the
ground, the day after the award.")
And thanks to the reader who alerted us to this article in Crain's
<http://www.crainsnewyork.com/article/20090913/FREE/309139964> which, more importantly than comprising yet
another virtual press release for Steve Wynn, contains, towards the bottom, a handy pocket guide to the six bidders, the
financial portion of their bids (or at least what is known about them), and the ups and downs of their proposals.
This is a tough call; handicapping without the Form as I said before. I can't say I have a favorite; neither a
particular personal preference, nor a clue as to the most likely winner. But I'll give it a shot and take the Crain's piece
one step further by coming up with a morning line.
<http://1.bp.blogspot.com/yiJ1ri4LCfk/Sq2_nTNU jI/AAAAAAAABHM/UucITWnkilM/s1600h/dont_bother.jpg> Aqueduct Entertainment Group <http://www.aqueductentertainment.comk (3-1): Competitive bid
of $251 million (contingent on 7,650 machines; $301 million with 10,000), a plethora of local connections on the real
estate/construction side, and approval by local unions could compensate for the lack of brand name recognition of
gaming partner The Navegante Group. Presence of Senator Malcolm Smith's longtime confidante Rev. Floyd Flake
doesn't hurt either.
SL Green/Hard Rock (4-1) - Boosted its bid to $275 million, and has the Hard Rock brand name as mentioned
above. Manhattan-based realtor SL Green has been endorsed by several local unions
<http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m3601/is_43_54/ai_n27894917/> . But, as mentioned by Crain's, they were
passed over in favor of Delaware North the first time around.
Aqueduct Gaming (6-1), Buffalo-based Delaware North's group, has rallied late with a stepped-up publicity effort
and a major community initiative <http://leftatthegate.blogspot.com/2009/08/back-in-game.html> after appearing
indifferent early on (though it's original $100 million upfront offer remains intact with an additional $200 million to
follow). The addition of Harrah's <http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Aqueduct-Gaming-L1c-1034906.html>
adds an experienced operator and an interesting cross-marketing twist which is probably not allowed under the nowdisappeared MOU. And, like the two bidders above, Aqueduct Gaming has been reported to have reached
accommodations with the unions. So I listed them as the third choice on these merits. However, a part of me wants to
list them as the rank outsider - I'd be pretty damn shocked if the state goes back to the company which dropped out
after failing to raise the money last time. And, as I've mentioned several times, given the reports of an investigation
<http://www.nydailynews.com/news/2009/05/01/2009-0501_attorney_general_andrew_cuomo_subpoenas_contracts_won_by_clients_offirm_tied_to.html> by Attorney
General Andrew Cuomo into lobbyist Patricia Lynch's dealings with the Assembly Speaker, I don't know if her
involvement here is going to help or hurt.
Steve Wynn (8-1) has offered $300 million, but he was the only bidder of the six contenders to receive a bad
grade from the hotel unions <http://www.timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?storylD=838256&category=STATE> as
reported by Jim Odato in the Times Union last week. Whatsmore, the scale of his building proposal
<http://www.queenstribune.com/news/1250798405.html> is laughably ridiculous, and it wouldn't be ready until 2011.
He'd be the favorite if the decision is based on the number of newspaper and online articles
<http://leftatthegate.blogspot.com/2009/08/all-wynn-all-of-time.html> each bidder has been featured in. But, quite
simply, he sometimes comes off as a nut
<http://www.nypost.com/p/pagesix/cindy_adams/wynn_hopes_to_win_racefor_race_hzqJ384wLxUSxFKsUWiSyM > .
Penn National (12-1) might be worth a ducat at long odds. No local connection here makes them a dark horse.
But a $250 million bid (as reported elsewhere <http://blog.timesunion.com/capitol/archives/17717/penn-nationallobbies-up/> though not in the Crain's piece) puts them in the ballgame, and the company is an experienced gaming
operator with a solid balance sheet
<http://www.businessweek.com/investor/content/aug2009/pi20090814_742719.htm> which would probably do as
competent a job as anyone else.
R. Donahue Peebles/MGM Mirage (20-1) didn't increase its $150 million bid, and doesn't have a lobbyist; good
luck with that. Whatsmore, no local flavor and MGM Mirage has had some well-publicized financial woes (though things
have been looking up of late <http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125212120561188377.html> ). Would be a major
surprise.
Andrew Frank
Managing Partner New York
Kreab Gavin Anderson
515 Madison Avenue, 18th floor, New York, NY 10022, United States
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Huma Abedin
Lona--have we worked this out?

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To: H; hr15@mycingular.blackberry.net <hr15@mycingularblackberry.net>
Cc: psolisdoyle
Sent: Mon Sep 14 12:01:37 2009
that work for you
Cherie Blair
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My one reaction is that I want Derek to handle India dialogue.

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To: H
Sent: Mon Sep 14 06:50:53 2009
Subject: FW: for S
I have comments on this so don't want to accept as final until giving them to her and you.
cdm

To: Mills, Cheryl D
Cc: Abedin, Huma
Sent: Sat Sep 12 16:56:33 2009
Subject: for S
Attached and below is my memo just outlining what I am prepared to give up in order to be able to spend the majority
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Re: Branch Summary
Pls give me printed copy today.

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From: Cheryl Mills
To: H
Sent: Wed Sep 09 21:23:22 2009
Subject: Branch Summary
See below. Will send PIR comments shortly.
To: CDM
Fr:
Caitlin
Re: Branch Book
Overview:
There are few surprises in this book. The "surprises" that might exist are buried and took a close reading to pick up on
the two main ones are about the terror clause of WJC's crime bill and why he hadn't disclosed information about
Lewinsky (because he hadn't wanted to become a witness against her). There are a lot of things that have been covered
in My Life and other publications. Quite honestly the book was pretty boring and much more focused on Branch than I
had anticipated. While not as "and this day, and the next day" as My Life, it does share many of the same elements that
would engage only a true Clinton fanatic or historian. The fact that there appears to be no index also makes it difficult
for anyone looking for a quick hit to get one. Furthermore, WIC's words are so interlaced with Branch's recollection
through his dictations, that the number of direct WJC quotes was far fewer than I had expected.
HRC was not as much of a player as one might imagine. Her role is largely seen through her interactions with Branch
when he is recording WJC. Her statements were consistent with the past, with the exception of the Gephardt comment,
and didn't grab much attention at all.[1] (Others included HRC's devotion to CVC, thought that there should not be a
special prosecutor and images of her returning from meetings. They were pretty much aligned with her interactions with
Branch.) Surprisingly, or not surprisingly, many of the problems discussed in the book are those, which face the current
AdministrationMiddle East peace, North Korea, China, etc...
Branch repeatedly injects his feelings on specific subjects and seems to use the book to voice his own opinion of the
Administration and events of the time. He clearly has topics he prefers over others (for example his connection with the
events in Haiti result in a lot of discussion about it), but there are some subjects that are strikingly sparsely discussed
such as Rwanda. Its absence from long discussions was surprising, but it did not appear as thought WJC ever-dodged
questions about the topic, they just weren't addressed. Much like My Life, one theme that repeated itself was WJC's
conflict with and disdain for the media, especially long passages about NYT and Washington Post. There are a few
instances where gives them credit on their reporting, but you would be hard-pressed to find them. Additionally, there
are numerous mentions of WJC's acute allergies and his chronic fatigue, with imagery of him falling asleep in sessions on
more than a couple occasions.
The book has quite a bit on Whitewater, but given the dearth of public documentation there is little that Branch could
write that hadn't been said. One thing I had not recalled was the D'Amato's subpoena of CVC's friends, later quashed,
who slept over while NBC's Rose Law Firm records were in the White House. Branch does portray a helpful distinction in
how WJC looked at Whitewater and other scandals. While WJC attacks Whitewater as a political hunt, Branch does have
him WJC saying that Filegate needed to be separated from Whitewater, because this was a legitimate inquiry. There are
some quips that could catch someone's eye, such as WJC referring to Paula Jones as "a 'new bimbo' he [WJC] didn't
even recognize."
Branch does not dwell on Lewinsky or the impeachment. With the exception of Bruce, Bennett and Kendall, no other
lawyers are mentioned. There is one passage that I am looking into, in which WJC says part of the reason he didn't
mention his relationship with Lewinsky at first was because she was being threatened with jail time if she was found to
be lying under oath and had he told the truth he could become a witness against her. This is a very small passage that
could easily be missed, but one that it is important to note as I don't recall hearing this before. (This is addressed more
fully below.)
There are a few relationships that track through the book more than others. They include WJC's relationship with Gore,
which maps in part because it is not a focal point until the end, and his contentious relationship with Janet Reno. The
one Senator that appears to be most discussed negatively is Moynihan. All three of these issues are discussed in turn
below. WJC is portrayed as an extremely loving and attentive father and HRC is portrayed in a much more human light
than other books/articles covering this time period, with ample mention of her relationship with CVC and images of
affection between her and WJC, both pre- and post-impeachment.
On foreign relations there is a lot of time spent discussing the Middle East, Northern Ireland, the Balkans, China, Russia,
Pakistan/India and in the beginning of the book, Haiti. (Note: Much of what is written about Haiti is about Branch's own
experience there and on the subject.) There is also a fair amount of discussion about North Korea, but nothing that has
not been discussed in the past few weeks. Bin Laden is discussed in what seems to track mention of him in My Life,
which seems to have more detail and background than this book.
In certain cases there is more detail here than in My Life, for example on his trip to Pakistan WJC wrote that the USSS
cancelled one stop because they would be "defenseless" flying in, whereas Brach writes that the streets would be lined
with "assassins." There are candid looks at WIC's take on certain people and the relationship between some, such as
Albright and Berger's dislike of Holbrooke, and a more detailed depiction of Yeltsin's drinking, such as yelling outside of
Blair House for a cab to get pizza.
One thing to note, is that often times WJC seems to be speaking to Branch intentionally without the recorders going, but
Branch writes about those interactions and exchanges nonetheless. Such is the case with HRC's Gephardt comment.
The following items are addressed in the memo:
Wen Ho Lee and Terror Clause of Crime Bill

WJC and Lewinsky's Silence
HRC and Kissinger

HRC and gay/lesbian
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Tension with Moynihan
HRC as World Player
Jesse Jackson
Tension with Janet Reno
Portrayal of Carter
Relationship with Gore
Other (This includes: Maggie recommending Panetta, HRC and Haiti Invasion, ITAV co-author flap, Subpoenas of CVC's
Friends, Vernon Jordan on Extramarital Sex, Gore/HRC ticket, WJC suggesting Rubin run for Senate, Trip to South Asia)
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Wen Ho Lee and Terror Clause of Crime Bill
In discussing Wen Ho Lee's release Branch characterizes WJC's lack of knowledge about the strained interpretation of
the anti-terrorist provisions in the crime bill and arbitrary detentions as a "confession." My Life only mentions Lee's
accusation in passing and does not again discuss Lee. Below are two passages from Branch's book the first giving context
and the second about the Terror Clause of the Crime Bill.
0 The year closed on spies and terrorism. The Justice Department, after fierce debate among the security agencies,
indicted nuclear scientist Wen Ho Lee on fifty-nine counts of copying classified material to his personal computer. Lee
was being handled like a radioactive espionage defendantno bail, lockdown, solitary confinementeven though the
long dragnet had produced no evidence that he offered secrets to China or anyone else. The president said experts were
telling him the worst spies sometimes stored their treason for a rainy day. This sounded fishy to me. Clinton shrugged.
Nothing would please him more than to establish Lee's innocence. [Branch, 577]
While Lee was indicted, Branch writes that WJC noted that others "were being held in secret, uncharged and
untried...He [WIC] was embarrassed not to have sponsored this measure into law without foreseeing such arbitrary
detentions...Under the terrorist act, any prosecutor should decide within the legal limit...whether to bring charges on the
testimony of a secret informant or otherwise. To his dismay, Clinton had learned of defendants held incommunicado for
more than six months. One extreme detention had last three years. 'I think it's wrong,' he [WJC] said. 'It's not American.
We accept guilty people on the street to enjoy and protect our freedom." [Branch, 629]
WJC and Lewinsky's Silence
Branch writes that part of WJC's motive for not discussing what had happened with Lewinsky was that it could send her
to jail, as she had denied it.
"Also, he pointed out that Starr had been threatening to jail Lewinsky all year over her sworn denial of the affair. If
Clinton had come forward with anything at all about their relationship, he said Starr could have turned him into a
witness against Lewinsky, betraying her discreet silence. Such subtleties, while original, struck me as tendentious. The
president never claimed chivalry as the real motive for his steadfast denial, nor did he dispute the essential truth of
Lewinsky's account." [Branch, 511]
HRC and Kissinger

The following could be fodder for people who want to continue to string along the notion of channeling Eleanor
Roosevelt.
0 There is a passage in which HRC describes an exchange she had with Kissinger at a dinner where he complained that
if the health care bill passed he wouldn't be able to see his own doctor. She continued to say "it was interesting, in fact,
that she had dreamed about Kissinger only a few nights before. His visage turned suddenly effervescent at a banquet,
announcing gladly that his worries were over because the Clinton health care bill was dying. 'Oh, no, Dr. Kissinger,' she
replied coolly. 'Don't be sure that it's dead. We'll keep fighting, and there's always light at the end of the tunnel.' She
said Kissing blanched, speechless at her deft reminder of the Vietnam War...Now at last, in Hillary's dream, it registered
that his strategic designs had spewed carnage and venom for seven needless years...'That's what I dreamed,' Hillary
repeated, lost in thought. 'You know, I always get my revenge in dreams, but never in real life." [Branch, 179]
HRC and gay/lesbian
Writing about a call with HRC from NYS, Branch recalls how W1C's counsel got very "exercised." WJC left the room. "He
was subdued on his return. 'You know, I've had a lot more contact with gay people in my life than Hillary.' He sighed. Her
temperament had a conservative, religious core, formed before homosexual issues were even mentionable. New York
politics was a tough crucible, and she was unsure what heat she could take. On the other hand, personal experience
could speed adaptation." [Branch, 551]
Tension with Moynihan
There are several occasions throughout the book that Branch recalls WJC's grievances and frustration with Moynihan.
For example:
0 When Moynihan called for the international arms embargo to be unilaterally lifted so that Bosnia could fight for
themselves, Branch writes, "The president flinched when I mentioned [it]...'That's just a freebie for him,' snapped
Clinton, 'and he knows it." [p.140]
In regard to health care: "Echoing comments by Hillary at dinner, he [WIC] faulted Senator Moynihan for aimless
hearings conducted without a strategy or theme." [p.170]
0 Discussing Independent Counsel: "She [HRC] was especially scornful of the Democrats, and quoted a number of
them. Senator Moynihan, for instance, publicly said the Clintons were nice people and he was sure they had nothing to
hide. 'Why not have an investigation?' he often asked. She said Moynihan skated blithely on the surface, never
produced results in Congress, and could not withstand such scrutiny himself for five minutes, living in an apartment
secured through his chairmanship of the Pennsylvania Avenue Development Corporation." [Brach, 182]
0 "Donnybrook" argument in which Moynihan said of a fundraising speech WJC gave citing a regretted hypothetical
about a controversial decision. Moynihan told the press, "He doesn't understand...that he's conceding the principles."
WJC confronted him about lack of context given to the statement to the press and said that Moynihan knew what he
was doing by "feeding the beast of hostile presumption about Clinton's motives." [Branch, 299]
HRC as World Player
There are several images as HRC as a player on the world stage, both with WJC and on her own. Several examples
follow:
0 Middle East: Discussing peace with King Hussein: "They had retreated for lunch as two couplesthe Clintons, with
the king and his wife, Queen Noorin the family dining room...Their agenda was a delicate race between Hussein's
failing health and his desire to make peace with Israel. The president said he and Hillary pounded away on symptoms of
national estrangement: closed boarders, water disputes, travel barriers, war grievances, contested airspace, sealed
electrical grids, and so on. Hussein gave them a feast of goodwill without commitment on any point." [Branch, 170]
0 South Asia: Regarding her trip to South Asia with CVC in 1995, "Her [HRC's] schedule was far more demanding than
ceremonial, pushing both conflict resolution and civic empowerment for downtrodden women." [Branch, 236] Later
Branch tells of Benazir Bhutto praising CVC and HRC. "By contrast with a superficial American press, which portrayed
Hillary as a demure tourist of no policy significance in exotic Asia, Bhutto said she had touched essential political chords
with whirlwind encouragements for citizenship groups and small-scale economic development." (The note contrasting
Bhutto corresponds to a NYT article which Branch quotes in the footer saying, "she [HRC] played the traditional role of
First Lady as wife and mother...") [Branch, 246]
0 China Speech: Branch outlines how HRC felt the speech needed to be bigger than China and how she depicted the
"harsh reality everywhere" from China to Africa. He then cites WJC commenting on the rave reviews of HRC's speech.
[Branch, 289]
0 Regarding the Russian financial system meltdown, Branch writes "Yeltsin seemed so removed from urgent political
tasks that both Clintons counseled him directly." [Branch, 512-513]
Jesse Jackson
Branch writes about Jesse Jackson calling CVC after the Lewinsky story broke and having continued contact with her
throughout the period. WJC thanks him for his support of CVC. This goes into some detail about WJCs gratitude, but the
fact that Jackson "counseled" CVC has been public knowledge dating back to at least 1999.
0 "But now Jesse had done something he would not forget. When the Lewinsky news broke, he called Chelsea at
Stanford. Jesse was the only nonfamily adult with her cell phone number. How he got it was another story. Jesse said he
knew this was terrible for her. Nothing like it had ever happened in American politics. He did not know everything
involved, but he wanted to remind Chelsea how much her parents loved her. Their family needed to stick together now
above all, and if she needed to counsel, rage, or pray, he was always available." [Branch, 497]
Tension with Janet Reno
Throughout the book, from his nomination of her, WJC is portrayed as having no opinion to having a negative opinion of
Janet Reno.
0 "He complained about Janet Renomade it clear, in fact, that he felt alienated from his own attorney general. If he
removed her, however, the pending decision on yet another special prosecutor [for 1996 campaign finance] would fall
to Reno's deputy, Jamie Gorelick, who, Clinton feared, may share Reno's wholesale devotion to outside control for any
case in which the president himself may become a target...lf he removed both Reno and Gorelick, to start fresh, it would
touch off a firestorm of protest like Nixon's Saturday Night Massacre of the Justice Department officials during the
Watergate scandal. That was not an option." [Branch, 388-389]
Branch writes about WJC talking about Reno and Louis Freeh disregarding a letter from D'Amato and continuing to
allow independent counsel to go after Ciseneros. The same held true for Mike Espy. Branch then outlines a meeting
between WJC and Reno. Reno had made public statements about her "desire to stay on the job. 'I told her I didn't like
that one damn bit,' the president said tersely. 'I didn't hire her to work for the New York Times and Washington Post. I
hired her to work for me." [Branch, 398] He continues to outline that Clinton did give Reno credit for some good
achievements including coordination with U.S. attorneys and that he didn't blame her for the special prosecutor on
Whitewater, but that "he did blame her for abdicating responsibility to supervise the investigations ever since, letting
mandates multiply almost at will. She accepted criteria that were ludicrous and crassly partisan. Reno had failed to
defend the presidency itselfnot Clinton personally, but the institutionand by extension the entire executive
branch...He told me she had no clue what he meant. His advisers considered her more nave than upright, and the
fuzziness of the distinction seemed to save her." [Branch, 399] He cites that Clinton warned her that she should prepare
herself for not staying in the job for the entire second term.
Portrayal of Jimmy Carter
There are parallels that could be drawn between WJC/BHO and Carter/WJC both in terms of Carter's trip to North Korea
and the mission he went on to Haiti. WJC clearly was frustrated by Carter's seeming desire to be on the front lines.
North Korea:
0 "On North Korea, he [WJC] said Jimmy Carter had initiated his own recent trip with a call to Al Gore, and Clinton had
approved the volunteer mission to break through North Korea's extreme isolation...Sure enough, Carter did reach North
Korean dictator Kim II-sung, who proposed to allow inspection of North Korea's nuclear facilities in exchange for relief
from the harsh economic sanctions. The only hitch was that Carter announced the terms on CNN before they became
official, adding gratuitously that he never had agreed with sanctions in the first place. News stories had the White House
seething, but Clinton made light of the spat. He said the deal was since ratified by an exchange of letters, and he did not
believe Carter would criticize official policy 'if the game were still in doubt." [Branch, 1621
Haiti:
0 After pushing to be sent to Haiti and enlisting Colin Powell and Sam Nunn to get WJC to break with Gore (who said
Carter shouldn't be trusted a second time) and Christopher and approve the mission to Haiti to seek a truce with the
junta, Carter is portrayed as acting stubbornly and having 'clientitis' (arguing for acceptance of Haitian generals versus
what was in the United States' best interest). He didn't want to leave and WJC told him he had to. Like after North
Korea, Carter again, Carter went to the press first. "The three negotiators flew back to Washington late Sunday, and
Carter, invited to stay over at the White House, called CNN's Judy Woodruff after midnight to arrange an interview the
next morning before he reported to Clinton on his mission. This conduct, the president said tersely, was not right...The
press was full of retrospective stories about friction between him and his three prominent negotiators... He said the
current newsweeklies lapped up criticism by Carter as an embarrassment to Clinton...Many of his advisers griped that
Jimmy Carter thought he was still president, but Clinton found this criticism too jaundiced. Carter had spoken with
restraint at their joint press conference, he allowed, exhibiting a keen political ear...To Clinton, Carter simply felt that he
had earned the right to speak his mind as an international statesman, even about a mission he had accepted for the
United States government complete with an Air Force jet. This sense of entitlement could make Carter a thorn, but
Clinton thought his value far outweighed the political annoyance. He considered Carter a sterling ex-resident." [Branch,
200-201]
Dispatch of Bombers Near Iraq

0 "He expected military strikes to win bipartisan assent, including former presidents Ford, Reagan and Bush. 'Dole will
support me,' he said. 'Carter will probably criticize me. Carter always criticizes, but he doesn't have much positive to
say." [Branch, 518]
Gore
For the majority of the book, there is little discussion of WJC and Gore's relationship. There are few places where he is
briefly mentioned and a couple of scenes with some levity. The end, however, describes the seemingly brutally candid
conversation between the two about the 2000 election and the impeachment.
0 On page 92 Branch writes, "No, he [Clinton] did not ask Gore to take over a failed foreign policy, as alleged, but to
improve public presentations by his troika of 'bad talkers': shy National Security Adviser Tony Lake, boring Secretary of
State Warren Christopher, and disorganized Defense Secretary Les Aspin." [Branch, 92]
0 In one-passage WJC talks about asking Gore to lead the independent review of Hazel O'Leary and also having Gore
substitute for him at an economic conference in Japan. The latter did not fare well as other nations were offended that
Gore, not WJC attended. Gore insisted that WJC needed to go to Japan to redeem himself and the administration for his
absence. Gore pointed to a few days in January, but WJC "pronounced them vital to Chelsea's schoolwork. Gore blinked.
So what?...Mutual exasperation spiked. 'Al,' Clinton told him, 'I am not going to Japan and leave Chelsea by herself to
take these exams.' Gore erupted. He thought Clinton had lost his bearing. They had a big fight, said the president, and
were still wrangling about dates for Japan." Branch states that this fight wound up being around the time WJC saw
Lewinsky. [Branch, 316-317]
0 On page 396-397 there is a scene, which shows Gore's sense of humor and Gore, WJC, et al working as a team to
secure the Cabinet for the second term.
0 Later there is a passage about an exchange between WJC and HRC about Gore trying to hire a second criminal
lawyer. HRC already knew he was paying the first one $30,000 per month. The conversation is about a leak of an offer
from Jim Neal of TN, the former Watergate prosecutor to defend Gore for free. The exchange is more on ethics of the
offer and its leak to the press than about Gore.
0 On Gore's announcing his campaign. "The president had called twice to congratulate Gore for his kickoff events
once from Geneva, hours later from Paris. Clinton thought the only glitches were technical...But Gore got all the big
things right. His twofold message was perfect: distinguish himself from Clinton's personal flaws, and tell voters exactly
what he would do for them in the White House. The president said it was fine for Gore to call Clinton's affair with
Monica Lewinsky 'inexcusable.' First, it was true. Second, it showed a necessary strength to criticized the boss. Third,
Gore would be badgered to death until he did. 'Al,' Clinton told him, 'if you thought it would help in the campaign, I
would let you flog me at noon right on the doorstep of the Washington Post." [Branch, 553-554] Branch continues that
WJC told Gore to ignore reporting that he was offended or critical of his campaign. "On tape, the president said he
confided his chief strategic worry only to Gore himself and to Gore's pollster, Mark Penn. The vice president must
project his platformwhere he stood, precisely how and where he would lead the countrybecause the Republicans
would try to knock him off substance." [Branch, 554]
0 WJC offered critiques of Gore's campaign throughout, but it was always framed as his fear of Gore not succeeding
him. For example, "Clinton still thought Gore could win. Most people considered him smart, experience, and motivated.
He examined the pitfalls for Gore in a campaign showcasing presidential character over detailed agendas for the
country. Reporters called Gore "stiff," but Clinton discounted this liability. He thought Gore's droll sense of humor would
wear well over time. Gore also was perceived to be too conventional a Democrat, therefore lacking independence,
which called for Gore to emphasize more his own passion and initiatives. Then the president said Gore could have a
brooding quality about him, not worrisome or off-putting in itself, but potentially damaging if his serious nature failed to
give voters a lifted. Clinton isolated the word "sunny." Gore needed more of it." [Branch, 599]
0 He also complimented Gore's knowledge of government workings. "Gore knew Washington. Believe me, said the
president, his administration would have made many more errors in the first two years had it not been for the vice
president." He then goes on to say that WJC suggested Gore find someone who would be a bright spot to run with,
perhaps Durbin or Bradley or Kerrey, although he also goes into great detail about the virtues of Mikulski, even though
she would never get chosen. How much of this was WJC's emphasis versus Branch's focus on his home state senator is
unclear. [Branch, 599, 618-19]
0 WJC criticized Gore for not running on the successes of the administration. "They should be running essentially for a
third term, said the president, but they were afraid the Clinton-Gore record would tarnish them with Clinton's
character." [Branch, 623] Branch gives WJC's critique of Gore in debate that had been heard beforethat Gore lacked
style and a light touch.
0 Branch has WJC recalling a conversation between WJC and Gore where "Gore had bared himself in one of their
stressful consultations by insisting that he, Gore, was a good politician, elaborating that he meant good on the policy,
and also good on the politics, but admitted that he did not instinctively blend the two. Gore said he had to think about
it, and Clinton thought this was pretty close to the bone...He had the stuff to be a great president, and this was the
message that Clinton must convey somehow without seeming to brag on his own record." [Branch, 623-624]
0 The big passage about Gore begins on page 641 and extends to 645. Branch notes that WJC was unsure at first
about recording the details. At the outset it says, "For his own part, Gore was not angry, nor did he blame Clinton for his
defeat, but he wanted to acknowledge forthrightly that some people around him did." [Branch, 642] It has WJC
acknowledging that Gore's use of him was properhe was best in the White House. Then he says, "I think you made a
mistake not to use me more in the last ten days," Clinton told Gore, 'but otherwise that was not a big deal. I was much
more upset about your message, now that we're being honest." [Branch, 642] Branch recalls WJC saying Gore fought
bag saying that "Clinton's drag plagued every direction." Clinton then said that Gore was better at governance than
Clinton, and Gore would be better for the nation than Bush, and that he was an "unparalleled" vice president, but that
he had "blind spots." Branch writes that WJC kept saying their confrontation was "surreal."
o
Gore had a "fresh grievance...he wanted Clinton to know that the Buddhist temple fund-raising scandal had been
the worst experience of his life. No one had ever questioned his personal integrity, but corrosive publicity and whispers
had tormented him now for four years. Gore said he had not been disposed to blame Clinton. However, he remembered
telling the president that he found himself the only English-speaking person at one of those Asian fund-raisers. And the
president was in charge of the party apparatus that was supposed to screen all the donations for trouble. So he did
blame Clinton in a way. The president told me he could scarcely believe the ensuing tales of suspicion. Gore must still be
in shock from the election, or unhinged. 'I thought he was in Neverland,' he said." [Branch, 643-644]
o
Branch continues: "The vice president asked Clinton about Monica Lewinsky. He had supported Clinton all through
the impeachment, publicly and privately, while declaring himself disappointed. Yes, said the president. He appreciated
that. However, persisted Gore, Clinton did not confide any personal feelings. He never explained exactly what happened.
There was little to say, Clinton replied, beyond failure and regret. He was humiliated and angry, had made mistake. He
had misled the American people, and he was sorry. Gore closed his point with emphasis. Well, he said, this is the first
time you have apologized to me personally. Clinton did a double take...Gore treated the confession as a watershed.
Their colliding perspectives made both of them angry. Clinton exploded that Gore's reaction was phony. What was so
significant here?...Gore exploded back. He was feeling a stubborn repeat of the defensiveness and delayed honesty that
somehow cost the election. Clinton's character was at the root of it..." [Branch, 644-45]
Other
0 Maggie as Person Recommending Panetta: Unlike in My Life, in Branch's book, it has WJC asking Maggie to compile
confidential suggestions for McLarty's replacement. "Williams was shrewd, discreet, and efficient." [Branch, 161]
HRC and Haiti Invasion: Branch asked WJC what HRC thought about his foreign policy team's suggestion to invade
Haiti. "He said the pell-mell rush to invade was crazy to her. Reacting against the pressure, the lack of options, and his
sense of being trapped, she said he was badly served by his foreign policy staff. He said she observed with some
suspicion that the chief sponsors of the invasionLake, Berger, and Talbottwere the same people who had pushed
the ill-fated appointment of Bobby Ray Inman as defense secretary." [Branch, 189]
0 ITAV: ITAV co-author flap in which Sally Quinn spread rumors that HRC had not written the book. Quinn said that
HRC had denied credit to the book's collaborator, Barbara Feinman, a friend of Quinn. HRC said Feinman had withdrawn
from the project. Branch notes that the White House had draft chapters in HRC's handwriting. (Branch turned this to be
about him and how it affected him as a ghostwriter.) From this HRC said that Quinn and her friends launched a rumor
that HRC and a female veterinarian of Socks' were "discovered...in flagrante on a bedroom floor in the White House."
[Branch, 342-343]
0 Subpoenas of CVC's Friends: Branch tells of how D'Amato, as Chair of the Banking Committee, had subpoenaed all
those who might have been in the White House when HRC's Rose firm records were there. This included "some two
dozen of Chelsea's sleepovers." Senator Sarbanes quashed the subpoenas for the sleepovers. [Branch, 362]
0 Vernon Jordan Extramarital Sex: In the context of Lewinsky, Branch says of Vernon Jordan, "In our glancing
associations, I had picked up from Vernon an attitude toward extramarital sex best described as lighthearted or
recreational." [Branch, 495]
0 Gore/HRC ticket: "By the numbers, and Clinton's gut, a Gore-Hillary ticket would give Democrats their best chance
to defeat Bush for the White House. 'Hands down,' he [WJC] said, 'but I don't think Al would ever do it." [Branch, 540]
WJC suggesting Rubin run for NY Senate seat: The passage comes after WJC talks about supporting HRC if she
decided to run, which raises a question of whether he had preferred Rubin or whether the two events are unconnected.
"When the president had urged him [Rubin] to run for and easily win the New York Senate seat, Rubin recoiled...He .
could not fathom why Hillary wanted to run now..." [Branch, 557]
On trip to South Asia: Branch says that WJC agreed to cancel a stop in Bangladesh, because "of hard intelligence
that Osama bin Laden had lined the route with assassins." [Branch, 594] My Life discusses the cancelled trip but does
not specify it was because of bin Laden or assassins.
[1] "Gephardt is an asshole," Hillary commented. The president, pointing to my recorders, advised gently that the tapes
were on. She winced but shrugged with a smile. "Well, he is," she insisted. In an awkward silence, I backed up both
machines to erase the first lady's epithet." [Branch, 263]
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Congrats to Jackie!! Will she have a swearing in ceremony? Is Max still rising up the best seller list?
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Thanks, Hillary. I don't know about details of Obama's plan, but you looked terrific at the speech. (Lincoln, in 1864, on
Obama's plan: "The difficulty is not in stating the principle, it is in applying it.") Too bad Rep. Wilson didn't wear a red
pantsuit.
Max continues to rocket--up to #8 overall this am, #1 in every nonfiction category except cookbooks. And last night in an
special election Jackie was elected Advisory Neighborhood Commissioner in DC. It was a hard fought race, in fact, and
her opponent ran a negative campaign against her on email with the slogan: "She's Not Jackie."
Here's the draft of the article Max has written on the bad Joe Wilson (membership in racist organization) and that will be
published today. This should do it.
Let's speak when you have time.
Rep. Joe Wilson's Rebel Yell

Inside the racist klavern that Joe Wilson joined By Max Blumenthal
Since Republican Rep. Joe Wilson of South Carolina bellowed at President Barack Obama, "You lie!" during the
president's nationally televised speech on healthcare, the fourth term backbencher has emerged as a hero among the
conservative grassroots. One of the most enthusiastic endorsements of Wilson's histrionics came from the Sons of
Confederate Veterans (SCV), a group that Wilson has <a href=http://crooksandliars.com/david-neiwert/obama-hecklerjoe-wilson-member-neo>belonged to</a> for several years.
"Mr. Wilson, never apologize for allowing your love of truth to overrun your desire to be polite," the SCV Tea Party <a
href=http://scvteaparty.com/?p=165>declared</a> on its website. "It is the liar who must apologize, not the one who
identifies the liar!"
Who are the SCV? A once-proud organization of Confederate history buffs and re-enactors who spent their
organization's money to restore Civil War-era battlefields and Confederate cemeteries, by 2006 the SCV was
substantially <a href=http://www.spIcenter.org/intel/intelreport/article.jsp?pid=1027 >taken over</a> by an organized
cadre of white supremacist radicals (read <a href=http://www.spIcenter.org/intel/intelreport/article.jsp?pid=154
>here</a> for more background) who sought to turn the nation's oldest Southern historical society into what the
veteran white supremacist activist Kirk Lyons called "a modern, 21st century Christian war machine capable of uniting
the Confederate community and leading it to ultimate victory." When the racist junta had seized much of the SCV's
leadership positions, the Southern Poverty Law Center released an <a
href=http://www.spIcenter.org/intel/intelreport/article.jsp?sid=90 >extensive list</a> of SCV officials who belonged to

"hate groups."
Lyons, a key leader of the white supremacists who took over the SCV, had <a
href=http://www.thenation.com/doc/20050829/blumenthal/single >harbored dreams</a> of creating a seemingly
benign front group for a more sophisticated version of the Ku Klux Klan. "I have great respect for the Klan historically,
but, sadly the Klan today is ineffective and sometimes even destructive," Lyons told a German neo-Nazi magazine in
1992. "It would be good if the Klan followed the advice of former Klansman Robert Miles: 'Become invisible. Hang the
robes and hoods in the cupboard and become an underground org anization." With the SCV, Lyons discovered he didn't
have to go underground after all.
Once Lyons helped install his close friend, Ron Wilson, as president of the SCV, the organization's political newsletter, <a
href=http://fpacscv.org/southernmercury/ >The Southern Mercury</a> (where Wilson served as senior editor),
transformed into a propaganda mill for crude white supremacist cant. Mailed to all dues-paying members of the SCV
presumably including Rep. Joe Wilson until it went defunct in 2008, the Mercury has published articles describing
blacks as genetically inferior to whites, calling African-Americans as "a childlike people," and warned that if Obama runs
for re-election, race riots of an "exceedingly violent nature" would immediately ensure, leaving "entire sections of some
of our cities in ruins."
Here are a few highlights from the Southern Mercury:
"After the turn of the 20th century, the white Southerners had disfranchised and segregated the blacks, in perhaps the
mildest reaction possible at=2 Othat time to the blacks' transgressions. The blacks then a childlike people had been
selling their votes to the Democrats en masse for $.25 apiece in national elections."
"Where We Stand Now, And How We Got Here," by Frank Conner, Southern Mercury, September/October 2003
"Previously, anthropologists had routinely recorded the notable differences in IQ among the races; but at Columbia, a
liberal cultural anthropologist named Franz Boas...decreed that there were no differences in IQ among the races, and the
only biological differences between the blacks and whites were of superficial nature... Meanwhile, the liberals in the
media heaped special praise upon black athletes, musicians, singers, and writers and treated them as typical of the
black race. The liberals were creating a false image of the blacks in America as a highly competent people who were
being held back by the prejudiced white Southerners."
--Conner, September/October 2003
"It is very clear to me that if Barack Obama should be elected President, he would be extremely anti-white and would
demand reparations for slavery and press hard for affirmative action to the degree that it would hurt young whites who
were seeking jobs or admission to College and Graduate Schools."
"Americans Face The Worst Presidential Candidates In History," by Robert Slimp, Southern Mercury, May/June 2008
"I believe that [Obama's] rhetoric and anti-white legislative proposals would stir up racial riots. If he were running for reelection, these riots would turn into an exceedingly violent nature that would seriously damage race relations in
America, and leave entire sections of some of our cities in ruins."
--Slimp, May/June 2008
Rep. Joe Wilson could have resigned from the SCV as soon as the organization's takeover by open white supremacists
began. But he didn't. Or he could have withdrawn his membership when the SCV's flagship journal turned into a racist
rag. But he didn't. Instead, while serving as a state senator, Wilson led an SCV-inspired campaign in 2000 to keep the
Confederate flag flying above South Carolina's state capitol. "The Southern heritage, the Confederate heritage, is very
honorable," Wilson <a href=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/503579.stm >proclaimed</a> at the time, responding
to critics of the Confederate flag.
Wilson's rebel yell at Obama has electrified the Republican grassroots, filling his campaign coffers with donations <a
href=http://www.freep.com/article/20090910/BLOG36/90910072/Wilson-takes-case-online pleads-for-donations>he is
soliciting<A> from conservatives across the country and earning the undistinguished, previously unknown backbencher
primetime appearances on right-wing talk shows. Wilson has become the new voice of the Republican opposition,
reigniting the Lost Cause as a raucous crusade to sabotage healthcare reform.
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Saw you from afar at Capricia's event but had to make a quick exit.
Randi and I would like to visit with you re: child labor issues - if that's possible, whom should I contact to schedule?
Thanks. Hope to see you soon and hope you're well.
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That makes sense so go ahead. Thx.

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DecIan spoke with WJC tonight. We also talked with a few other folks on the ground and in the Republic.
Wanted to check back in with you.

Also, I will be writing up our collective thoughts on the latest state of play to give to you this week.
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Pls print for my mtg.

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See below
Yunus still very concerned about future of Grameen
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Issue I earlier mentioned to you about Mohammad Yunus.
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Subject: Meeting With Bangladesh Foreign Minister on Sept 16
Dear Melanne:
Greetings from Bangladesh!!!
Bangladesh Foreign Minister Ms Dipu Moni will call on Secretary Clinton

on September 16 to discuss the details of the visit of Bangladesh Prime
Minister Ms Hasina Wazed to the USA during the UN General Assembly
meeting. Please see if the issues of Grameen Bank can be raised in a

friendly way.
I sought an appointment with the Prime Minister to brief her on our problems,
at the advice of the US ambassador in Dhaka. But it is now over six weeks,
her office never responded.
Almost every important person in Bangladesh congratulated me for receiving

the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Prime Minister and her party said not
a word about it.
So you can see the depth of the problem.
I thought I should keep you briefed and let you figure out what to be done.
Thanks for your help. Give my regards to H.
See you in CGI and Hilton event soon. Best.
Yunus
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Also give a copy to EAP rep who will be at mtg.

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From: Jiloty, Lauren C <JilotyLC@state.gov>
To: H
Sent: Wed Sep 16 11:25:16 2009
Subject: RE: Meeting With Bangladesh Foreign Minister on Sept 16
Done - I put one copy on your desk and will give a spare copy to Claire.
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Sent: Wednesday, September 16, 2009 11:14 AM
To: Jiloty, Lauren C
Pls print for my mtg.
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Sent: Wed Sep 16 10:34:49 2009
See below
Yunus still very concerned about future of Grameen

To: Blake, Robert 0
Sent: Wed Sep 09 23:04:57 2009
Subject: FW: Meeting With Bangladesh Foreign Minister on Sept 16
Issue I earlier mentioned to you about Mohammad Yunus.
From:
Subject: Meeting With Bangladesh Foreign Minister on Sept 16
Dear Melanne:
Greetings from Bangladesh!!!
Bangladesh Foreign Minister Ms Dipu Moni will call on Secretary Clinton

on September 16 to discuss the details of the visit of Bangladesh Prime
Minister Ms Hasina Wazed to the USA during the UN General Assembly
meeting. Please see if the issues of Grameen Bank can be raised in a
friendly way.
I sought an appointment with the Prime Minister to brief her on our problems,
at the advice of the US ambassador in Dhaka. But it is now over six weeks,
her office never responded.
Almost every important person in Bangladesh congratulated me for receiving

the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Prime Minister and her party said not
a word about it.
So you can see the depth of the problem.
I thought I should keep you briefed and let you figure out what to be done.
Thanks for your help. Give my regards to H.
See you in CGI and Hilton event soon. Best.
Yunus
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Where are we lunching?

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Subject: on way back
The photog will shoot you when you return and are getting out of car.
Come up to 7, not straight to 8.
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Help guide me where to get something good to eat!

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Subject: RE: on way back
The cafeteria, sitting in the outside courtyard Hes excited about that
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Where are we lunching?
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The photog will shoot you when you return and are getting out of car.
Come up to 7, not straight to 8.
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Ok. Did Dan redraft?

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Subject: FW: Revised Op-Ed
See below - are you fine with this revised draft?
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From: Schwerin, Dan B (PACE) [mailto:SchwerinDB2@state.gov]
To: Sullivan, Jacob J; Muscatine, Lissa; Crowley, Philip 1; Reines, Philippe I; Mills, Cheryl D
Cc: Rose, Frank A
Subject: Revised Op-Ed
P1 ask me to pass along this revised draft of the missile defense op-ed. Its attached and pasted below for your review.
Thanks
Dan
A New Approach for Missile Defense
By Hillary Clinton
Iran's development of short- and medium-range ballistic missiles poses a clear and growing threat to the security of our
European allies and our own forces stationed in the region. That is why President Obama announced yesterday that the
United States is ready to deploy missile defenses in Europe specifically geared toward stopping these missiles. This is a
threat we cannot ignore.
Previous missile defense efforts have focused on protecting against intercontinental ballistic missiles capable of reaching
the United States, but our intelligence now shows that the threat from these long-range weapons has not progressed as
quickly as had been feared. In contrast, evidence indicates that Iran is developing short- and medium- range missiles
that will eventually enable it to target most of Europe, the Caucuses and the Middle East, including U.S. and NATO
forces.
We deeply appreciate the willingness of the Czech and Polish Governments to host the original missile defense
architecture on their soil, and the decision to deploy other systems to better meet this growing threat came as a result
of a long and careful review of our policies, capabilities, and requirements. This decision does not alter the unshakeable
commitment of the United States to the security of these vital NATO allies. Rather, it reflects our determination to
jointly meet the threats that endanger us all.
The old focus on long-range missile defense systems left significant gaps in our ability to defend against shorter-range
threats, exposing our allies and our forces stationed in Europe. Many experts have also expressed concerns about the
testing record and effectiveness of the long-range interceptors that were to be deployed in Poland.
Our new approach is different in a number of ways.
First, we will use well-tested missile defense systems, such as the Standard Missile-3, against the current threats. And
unlike the old fixed, silo-based interceptors, they will be mobile and able to shift as threats evolve.
Second, while previous efforts sought to by-pass NATO in favor of bilateral agreements, the Obama Administration plans
to make coordination with NATO a central element of our approach. By working with our allies to build a workable and
cost-effective missile defense system in Europe, we can better contribute to the protection of our NATO allies and
increase regional stability.
For 60 years, the NATO alliance has been a force for peace, prosperity and security in Europe and around the world
because of its commitment to collective security: an attack on one ally is an attack on all. An attack on London or
Warsaw is an attack on New York or Washington. NATO demonstrated this commitment after the September 11
terrorist attacks, when for the first time, the alliance invoked Article V and NATO sent assets to the United States to help
protect us from additional terrorist attacks.
Unfortunately, the old long-range defense plan created the impression of "two-tiers" of security within the alliance by
focusing only on theoretical threats that could one day affect the mainland United States, while leaving our European
allies vulnerable to very real short- and medium-range missiles.
Our new plan corrects this imbalance. We will continue to monitor and counter longer-term threats, but we will work
with our allies to protect all NATO territory. We will focus on the most imminent threat, while also developing the
capacity to adjust quickly if the threat evolves.
Finally, we will engage with Russia as part of our new approach. Russia is also vulnerable to Iran's short- and mediumrange missiles and we will seek to cooperate to address this common threat. I am pleased that the Russians agreed at
the Moscow Summit to a joint threat assessment of the ballistic missile challenges of the 21st century, including from
Iran. This is a positive first step and I look forward to future progress.
In short, this new missile defense plan is more realistic about the threats we face, more reliable in the tools we will use,
and more inclusive of the allies we are pledged to protect.
While we pursue this new path, we will also redouble our diplomatic efforts to engage Iran and focus its leaders on a
clear choice: whether to join the international community as a responsible member or to continue down a path to
further isolation.
But the security of our allies and our forces cannot wait. That is why we are moving ahead with a new approach for
missile defense.
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Saturday
Could I leave earlier on Sat--btw 8-9am since the mtg is Fri night?
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'cb
Re: Sheikha Mosa of Qatar
Thanks for the help. We're working to schedule a time, and I'm looking forward to seeing her. Will you be in NY next
week?
,
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To: H; hr15@mycingular.blackberry.net <hr15@mycingularblackberry.net>
Cc: psolisdoyle
Sent: Mon Sep 14 12:01:37 2009
that work for you
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Can I see Kristy just for hands this am, tonight or tomorrow am?
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Sent: Thu Sep 17 05:52:30 2009
Subject: Fw: (WSJ) U.S. to Shelve Nuclear Missile Shield
From: McNeil, Matthew C

To: NEWS-Mahogany; NEWS-EUR; NEWS-ISN; NEWS-PM; NEWS-VCI
Sent: Thu Sep 17 01:57:03 2009
Subject: (WSJ) U.S. to Shelve Nuclear Missile Shield
WASHINGTON (Wall Street Journal) - The White House will shelve Bush administration plans to build a missile-defense
system in Poland and the Czech Republic, according to people familiar with the matter, a move likely to cheer Moscow
and roil the security debate in Europe. The U.S. will base its decision on a determination that Iran's long-range missile
program has not progressed as rapidly as previously estimated, reducing the threat to the continental U.S. and major
European capitals, according to current and former U.S. officials.
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What about leaving late Friday after the WH mtg?

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From: Valmoro, Lona J <ValmoroU@state.gov>
To: H; Huma Abedin
Sent: Thu Sep 17 06:26:17 2009
Subject: Re: Saturday
The small issue with Saturday (which I found out late yesterday) is that they are doing construction at Andrews and have
asked that no flights depart before 12:15pm. But let me see what the update is this morning.
Lona Valmoro
Special Assistant to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
(202) 647-9071
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Subject: Saturday
Could I leave earlier on Sat--btw 8-9am since the mtg is Fri night?
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Calls
As I now understand it, I'm supposed to talk to the Turkish FM at 7:15, the Polish FM at 7:30 (which I just found out
about) and then Kerry, Lugar and Berman btw 8-10. What about the calls to Mubarak and King Abdullah? Do you know
of any other calls?
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Turkish FM call
I need to see merncon for followup. He covered so many subjects and I didn't have time to respond so I will need to talk
w him again this weekend.
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'pverveer
Are you seeing Cherie Blair as she requests below?

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To: H
Cc: Angela Goodchild
Sent: Thu Sep 17 06:03:43 2009
Subject: RE: Sheikha Mosa of Qatar
Henriette Kolb
I am and would love to see you and/or melanne. We arrive on19th leave 25th
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Subject: Re: Sheikha Mosa of Qatar
Thanks for the help. We're working to schedule a time, and I'm looking forward to seeing her. Will you be in NY next
week?
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Sent: Mon Sep 14 12:01:37 2009
that work for you
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I know more about this if you wish to discuss.

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To: H
Sent: Thu Sep 17 21:30:42 2009
Subject: FW: Packer Article
FYI see original message
From: Crowley, Philip J

To: Mills, Cheryl D; Sullivan, Jacob J; Abedin, Huma
Cc: Reines, Philippe I
Subject: FW: Packer Article
Importance: High
Heads up. Richard invited George to go on one of his recent AfPak. I endorsed it as did the White House because George
is a first-rate journalist. Obviously Richard strayed shall we say from discussion of our strategy. It ends up being a semiprofile on Richard. I'll alert the WH. I don't see anything here that is problematic for the Secretary, but I don't know that
every detail here is correct.
PJ
From: Jennifer Stahl (mailto

To: Crowley, Philip J
Subject: Packer Article
Importance: High
Dear Mr. Crowley,

The New Yorker Magazine is going to press with George Packer's article on Richard Holbrooke. George briefly mentions
Secretary Clinton in the piece. I am fact-checking the piece and want to make sure our information is accurate. If you
could let me know if you have any comments or corrections by the end of the day, I would greatly appreciate it. I
apologize for the short notice.
Best,
Jennifer
1.
Secretary Clinton told George Packer that the Administration was coordinating diplomatic and development and
defense efforts much more closely than it had before.
2.
In 1996, Secretary Clinton encouraged her husband to name the first female Secretary of State.
3.
Last year at the transition headquarters at the Hilton Hotel in Chicago, Obama asked Hillary Clinton about
possible candidates for the the position of Secretary of State.
4.
Clinton recommend Holbrooke to Obama.
5.
A few days after Obama offered Clinton the position of Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton called Holbrooke to
offer him the job that is now called Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan.
6.
In late November, HRC and Holbrooke talked for three hours at Essex House, in New York, about the job.
7.
Early on, Clinton told Holbrooke that he would be the civilian counterpart to General David Petraeus.
8.
Clinton introduced Holbrooke to Petaeus.
9.
Holbrooke initially told Clinton that he would need around 15 staff members in his department.
10.
Holbrooke told HRC last fall that he would prefer the title Special Representative to Special Envoy.
11.
Holbrooke and Clinton often speak several times a day.
12.
On April 23rd at 4 pm, Clinton, Donilon and Holbrooke met the President at the Oval Office.
13.
In the hallway, fifteen minutes before the meeting began, Holbrooke gave Clinton and Donilon a memo written
by his staff member, Vali Nasr.
14.
Clinton read the memo in the hallway.
15.
Clinton gave a copy to the President after they walked into the Oval Office.
16.
Holbrooke has praised Clinton's idea of tapping the Pakistani diaspora. She has urged Pakistani-American
doctors, especially women, to volunteer in the refugee areas.
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What time is the plane tomorrow night?

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Subject: Re: Notes
My email is being strange, sorry
Speech has been faxed
For tomorrow:
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Ok
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Subject: Re: Notes
9pm.
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Sent: Thu Sep 17 21:46:38 2009
Subject: Re: Notes
What time is the plane tomorrow night?
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My email is being strange, sorry
Speech has been faxed
For tomorrow:
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Suggested Points for S Speech on Development:
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Re: Mini Schedule 9/18/09 Friday
Pls tell Lona and Huma I will return to State from FSI. Also could Jim and I meet in room w buffet on 8th floor for lunch.
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Cc: Abedin, Huma <AbedinH@state.gov>
Sent: Fri Sep 18 09:31:57 2009
Subject: Mini Schedule 9/18/09 Friday
10:10 am DEPART Private Residence *En route Brookings Institution
10:20 am ARRIVE Brookings Institution
10:25 am SPEECH AT THE BROOKINGS INSTITUTION

11:30 am Location: Falk Auditorium *Approx. 110 ppl expected. You take Q&A.
11:35 am DEPART Brookings Institution *En route State Department
11:35 am (t) PHONE CALL w/QUARTET ENVOY TONY BLAIR (T) * En route State
Department
11:50 am ARRIVE State Department
12:00 pm SWEARING IN CEREMONY FOR NANCY POWELL,

12:20 pm DIRECTOR GENERAL OF THE FOREIGN SERVICE AND
DIRECTOR OF HUMAN RESOURCES
Benjamin Franklin Room, 8th Floor Approx. 175 ppl expected.
12:30 pm LUNCH w/JIM STEINBERG

1:30 pm James Madison Room, 8th Floor
1:30 pm PHOTOS
1:35 pm Secretary's Office
1:35 pm PHOTO OP w/DEMOCRACY VIDEO CHALLENGE WINNERS

1:45 pm Treaty Room *Open Press.
1:45 pm CLASSIFIED BRIEFING w/DANIEL BENJAMIN

2:40 pm DEPART State Department *En route Foreign Service Institute
2:55 pm ARRIVE Foreign Service Institute
3:00 pm VISIT TO THE FOREIGN SERVICE INSTITUTE (FSI)

4:45 pm George P. Shultz National Foreign Affairs Training Center *Open press.
5:00 pm DEPART Foreign Service Institute *En route Tbd
5:00 pm TBD
8:30pm Location: Tbd
8:30 pm DEPART Tbd *En route Andrews AFB
8:55pam ARRIVE Andrews AFB
9:00 pm DEPART Andrews AFB via G-5 Air Force Aircraft Tail #90404
En route Westchester County Airport
9:50 pm ARRIVE Westchester County Airport

FBO Net Jets Office 914-287-6760
10:05 pm ARRIVE Private Residence
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Re: Negotiations with Iran
Also I should mention the G-20.

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To: H
Sent: Fri Sep 18 09:55:40 2009
Subject: Negotiations with Iran
After much back and forth, the speech does not affirmatively indicate our willingness/openness to explore talking about
other issues with Iran. Bill's recommendation is that if you are asked about it, you should say we are open to exploring
other subjects in addition to the nuclear file, but that you should not state that affirmatively.
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Goldstone
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Re: Nalbandian statement/S Calls
Yes--after 12:30.
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Subject: Fw: Nalbandian statement/S Calls
Are you willing to call nalbandian today? See phils note below and we also have a call sheet coming your way.
From: Gordon, Philip H

To: Abedin, Huma
Sent: Sat Sep 19 08:56:35 2009
Huma: will she be able to call Sargsian? Highly recommend given ongoing. Thanks.

To: Steinberg, James B; Burns, William J; Abedin, Huma; Sullivan, Jacob J
Cc: Fitzpatrick, Kathleen M
Sent: Sat Sep 19 05:57:33 2009
Subject: Nalbandian statement/S Calls
Nalbandian statement: "The Turkish side is informed and we are confident that they realize that we exclude the
conditioning of the normalization of Turkish-Armenian relations on steps toward the settlement of the Karabakh
conflict. Trying to link these two processes could lead to the failure of both. A number of countries, including those of
the Minsk Group Co-Chairs, have the same position. They have said many times that the normalization of relations
between Turkey and Armenia must be without preconditions. With this mutual understanding, we have started and
conducted negotiations and come to agreements that are reflected in the initialed protocols. If the Turkish leadership
has problems with the signing of these documents, they should not try to solve them by distorting the spirit, essence,
and goals of the initialed documents. The signing and implementation of the agreed documents is a process that is full
of difficulties. Nevertheless, Armenia is ready to respect the agreements and move forward. If the current authorities in
Turkey are not ready to accept the fact of the genocide perpetrated in the Ottoman Empire, then they are at least
obliged to show respect toward the survivors of the Armenian genocide and their descendants."
Huma can you make sure S sees this before calls.L
Erdogan quote: "Until the Karabakh issue is solved we cannot open the border. We have told them that already. We
cannot open the border until the Azerbaijani-Armenian conflict is overcome. There are frequent meetings of AliyevMedvedev-Sargsian. We are much closer to a Karabakh solution. Without that issue being resolved, it is impossible for
our side to take this step. Armenia must free itself of being led by the diaspora. Armenia doesn't get any benefit from
the diaspora. The diaspora scores points by using Armenia. That's what it does. The diaspora in the U.S. and France
does this."
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Also can you email copy of my speech yesterday to Oscar to print for me?
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Sent: Sat Sep 19 09:10:17 2009
Are you willing to call nalbandian today? See phils note below and we also have a call sheet coming your way.

To: Abedin, Huma
Sent: Sat Sep 19 08:56:35 2009
Huma: will she be able to call Sargsian? Highly recommend given ongoing. Thanks.

To: Steinberg, James B; Burns, William J; Abedin, Huma; Sullivan, Jacob
Cc: Fitzpatrick, Kathleen M
Sent: Sat Sep 19 05:57:33 2009
Subject: Nalbandian statement/S Calls
Nalbandian statement: "The Turkish side is informed and we are confident that they realize that we exclude the
conditioning of the normalization of Turkish-Armenian relations on steps toward the settlement of the Karabakh
conflict. Trying to link these two processes could lead to the failure of both. A number of countries, including those of
the Minsk Group Co-Chairs, have the same position. They have said many times that the normalization of relations
between Turkey and Armenia must be without preconditions. With this mutual understanding, we have started and
conducted negotiations and come to agreements that are reflected in the initialed protocols. If the Turkish leadership
has problems with the signing of these documents, they should not try to solve them by distorting the spirit, essence,
and goals of the initialed documents. The signing and implementation of the agreed documents is a process that is full
of difficulties. Nevertheless, Armenia is ready to respect the agreements and move forward. If the current authorities in
Turkey are not ready to accept the fact of the genocide perpetrated in the Ottoman Empire, then they are at least
obliged to show respect toward the survivors of the Armenian genocide and their descendants."
Huma can you make sure S sees this before calls.
Erdogan quote: "Until the Karabakh issue is solved we cannot open the border. We have told,them that already. We
cannot open the border until the Azerbaijani-Armenian conflict is overcome. There are frequent meetings of AliyevMedvedev-Sargsian. We are much closer to a Karabakh solution. Without that issue being resolved, it is impossible for
our side to take this step. Armenia must free itself of being led by the diaspora. Armenia doesn't get any benefit from
the diaspora. The diaspora scores points by using Armenia. That's what it does. The diaspora in the U.S. and France
does this."
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What's that about?

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Subject: FW: Interim Clearance Denied Just fyi I am sure it will be fine eventually
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Do we have date yet? I thought we did but apparently that's not been confirmed w Qataris. Pls let me know so I can
respond to Cherie.
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When can you talk?
I know you're seeing Denis. Can you call after?
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Pls let me know what the follow up will be. Kabila may be at the luncheon this week so I at least could say something or
deliver a letter.
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From: PVerveer
To: H
Sent: Sat Sep 19 22:14:54 2009
Subject: Fwd: list of 5 update
Thought you'd be interested in this -on the status of the "notorious 5" you raised with Kabila.
I will get to Johnnie Carson too. I think we will have to follow up through best channel.
From: howlandt
To: pverveer
Sent: 9/18/2009 12:36:34 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time
Subj: list of 5 update
Hello Melanne,
Well the list of 5 continues to be a Quizomba dance (a bit forward, a bit backward).
On the positive.
The two, Mosala and Pitchen, that had been commanders in Kimia II, have finally been changed. They are
supposedly in route to Kinshasa.
That means none of the 5 are now in active operational command position.
This is positive.
All 5 are supposedly in Kinshasa, but not yet confirmed. 2 are in the central prison in Kinshasa.
On the negative.
None of the 5 have been charged. 2 are arbitrarily detained.
More negative.
We received attached requestthis week for support to investigate the cases of the 5 officers. While only about
$70,000, the request is strange and worrying. In 4 of the cases an open file in North or South Kivu military prosecutors
office exists. Only in the case of
should the Military Prosecutor General need to be involved, given the
rank of the suspect.
In all 5 cases the local military prosecutor had opened a legal investigation and had interviewed all the victims.
The cases were stopped by political or financial intervention. Now the request indicates the Military Prosecutor General
needs to fly all over the country to investigate. Not only is the request 18 months late in coming, it makes no sense. In 4
of 5 cases, the military prosecutor in the Province has jurisdiction. They just need to continue their work. With the
suspects all in Kinshasa, it makes their work more difficult.
Is someone trying to make some money? Were they given the impression that the international community is
so interested in this case, but the government is not? Or is there so little trust in the local prosecutors that central
government wants more control? Or do governmental officials know so little about how criminal cases function that
they are inadvertently delaying procedures.
Conclusion. Lobby has been effective to remove from position of active command. Political intervention has not
had desired impact in terms of judicial action.
To be continued.
Have a good weekend.
Todd
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Be sure they know we'll be happy to pay for them. State and I. Talk w Justin about it too.
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I was just thinking about this last week. I'm going to order some tomorrow so that they'll be in your office when you get
back from unga. For some reason our ny supplier just stopped sending them after the new year. III set up an account
with them to ensure we get regular deliveries again.
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Will we receive them this Fall? How can I buy some for personal use?
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Ok.
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Subject: Demarche on UNGA redlines
FYI: We will send today for your review and approval a demarche describing the circumstances in which the U.S. would
walk out of speeches at the UN General Assembly and asking countries to join us in the walkout. Note that we are
differing from past practice when we simply did not have anyone in the U.S. seat during speeches by certain countries.
This year an appropriate-level individual will be behind the U.S. placard for all speeches and will remain unless these
redlines are crossed.
This demarche is going out to EU member state capitals, as well as Oslo, Reykjavik, Ottawa, Canberra, Wellington, Tokyo,
Seoul, Buenos Aires, Bogota, San Jose, and Montevideo. USUN asks that our posts deliver the demarche in advance of an
EU political directors meeting on this issue in New York Monday morning our time.
The background portion,of the cable, which discusses EU internal dynamics on this issue, is classified, but the
unclassified talking points will come to you for your review.
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I would love to see you. We'll have to play timing by ear so I'm copying Huma and Lona to help schedule.
Original Message
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To: H
Sent: Sun Sep 20 10:24:45 2009
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Hillary,
I expect you are claimed six times over, given everyone who is in NY for CGI, but I will be in NY from tonight through next
Saturday (returning Saturday), so if you could have dinner Friday night or just a cup of tea after the closing plenary, I
would love to see you.
I loved the Washington Post piece!!! I And your inquiry meant a lot to
and I appreciated having a few minutes to
talk. I know how true it is that this is "24/7" as the Post quoted you remarking.
Jan
Jan Piercy
Executive Vice President
ShoreBank Corporation
1200 G Street NW Suite 401

Washington, D.C. 20005
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Thx Jan. I'll call to check in.
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Hillary: See today's "Limits of Force" OpEd by Chuck Nagel. No answers but apt analysis.
Might Congressional momentum for development assistance reform warrant serious consideration of former or current
Member of Congress to head USAID? Nagel? Lee Hamilton?... Still thinking!
Jan
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ShoreBank Corporation
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Would it be a good idea to pass out copies of the NYTimes Magazine issue on Half the Sky w my interview at the several
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UNGA question:
What is timing for POTUS meetings w Israel and PA?
Am I going to the deforestation mtg? If not, can Todd go?
Do we know yet if there will be an ASEAN-US Summit while POTUS in Singapore?
I'd like to set up mtg w John Kerry for week after UNGA. Offer him choice if he wants to come to State but make clear I
will come to meet him at his office or other place of his choosing.
Also, how are we doing w Durbin mtg--I owe him one and not sure I can wait for larger Reid/Pelosi mtg.
There is a Dec 11 mtg in Costa Rico which I may want to attend as part of the larger Latin Am trip.
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I need to find a time to meet w the Undersectretaries every week. What do you suggest?
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Here are some matters I haven't raised w you but wanted to get your reaction:
Was there any followup to
offer to help/advise on Afghan women?
Re your memo about S/GWI priorities for FY 09 and 10-Will we be announcing the global womens fund and/or other partnerships at UNGA?
Are we closely coordinating w the WH and its Council?
How can we strengthen the AID Women's office?
Are the Congress Members ok w our work and priorities so far? What about the 2010 budget?
Who will be the UN women's voice on the inside and outside?
How will we mark 15th anniv of Cairo?
Let's do a thorough review about CEDAW strategy. Should we ask
to be on contract w H to lead our
efforts?
What's followup w Doug Hattaway?
Are you working w Alec Ross? ECA?
Are you working w WHA and Julissa Reynoso on econ issues?
What are we doing w MEPI?
Are you staffed up now?
Did you see Kay Warren when she was in DC for Eric Goosby's swearing in?
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Just a mtg.
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Either Mondays or Tuesdays are best -- at one point, you had mentioned a meal. Would you still like to do that or just a
normal meeting?
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They're ok to go.
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I understand cherly forwarded you the unga demarche points Do you have edits to them?
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Cherie--this is strange since meeting was confirmed several days ago. In fact, her office called back to say it was the only
time that worked for her. Its at 7pm on the 24th. Can you confirm for me that she knows this. Thx.
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This doesn't sound like there's anything for me to do but pls keep me informed.
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From: Brimmer, Esther D
To: Abedin, Huma; Macmanus, Joseph E; Sullivan, Jacob
Cc: Anderson, Gerald C; Killion, David T; Feltman, Jeffrey D
Sent: Sun Sep 20 18:20:50 2009
Subject: UNESCO update
Huma, Joe, Jake,
We are likely to have one candidate against Hosni in round 4 of the UNESCO director general race on Monday.
EU Commissioner Ferraro-Waldner has pulled out formally.
Our UNESCO Amb. Killion reports that candidates Baki (Ecuador) and Bukova (Bulgaria) met Sunday night Paris time.
Baki has given Bukova an ultimatum. Either they form a unity ticket with Ivonne Baki on top or Baki leaves the race.
Tonight former Ferrero-Waldner supporters are considering how to vote. Mexican Dep Secretary for 10 issues called
me. They are wondering whether to support Baki in round 4 now that F-W is out.
I noted that we wanted the strongest of the ladies to stay in (Fyi, they both were on our list of the most qualified
candidates.) Too early a pull out could also affect the race.
The Egyptian candidate could lose because of a consolidation of alternative candidates.
I am sorry to report that the Egyptians have used harsh tactics in the halls of UNESCO. A member of the U.S. delegation
has seen a member of the Egyptian-hired "public relations" group walking around with an envelope of cash. They
pushed to have two Amb recalled. Disgust and resentment is running high.
The Egyptians are pushing delegations very hard. FM Aboul-Gheit has stopped in Paris to deal with the UNESCO race
while en route to NY for UNGA.
A/S Feltman writes that Egyptian Ambassador Shoukry has called him twice todaY with a "message from the Foreign
Minister." FM Aboul Gheit is angry and reports President Mubarak is angry.
A/S Feltman notes" maybe we've become a convenient excuse." A/S Feltman very helpfully pushed back and helped
defend our ambassador who had been criticized.
Our strategy relies on our Amb being low-key. He is following his instructions. We should be unhappy with the way he is
being attacked personally. Candidates Bukova and Baki are moving ahead on their own lobbying. FYI, Hosni even said
on French TV that the U.S. is neutral reflecting our especially low key approach this past week. Now that Hosni may
lose, the U.S. looks like a convenient one to blame.
Events will continue to develop among the candidates and voting delegations. The Monday 9am Paris time Europeans'
meeting could indicate Bukova's relative support and offer a chance to reveal any Baki-Bukova deal if there is one.
Meanwhile Egyptian pressure is likely to continue at UNESCO on Monday.
Monday's vote is midday EDT.
Esther
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Could we do Tuesday after the 8:45?

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does it make sense to do it every monday so you have your series of meetings the top of the week and then people can
get direction for the week?
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Yes--but, first, be sure both Ds can come at that time.

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Happy to set up moving forward. Is 45 minutes long enough?
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Sent: Sun Sep 20 18:38:06 2009
Could we do Tuesday after the 8:45?
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does it make sense to do it every monday so you have your series of meetings the top of the week and then people can
get direction for the week?
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I'm proud of the company we're keeping! Thx again for the chance to speak at Brookings. All best, H
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Subject: FW: MD oped
Apparently you can't get away from me. We're sharing the FT op-ed page tomorrow. Here's my piece....
Thanks again for Friday. Much favorable comment. Good luck at the UNGA.
President Barack Obama's announcement of a new system for protecting America's allies against Iranian missiles has
ignited charges that he is scaling back the one he inherited from George W. Bush as a concession to the Russians.
In fact, the Obama plan is a big improvement on the Bush one, and it is designed to counter an evolving Iranian threat,
not to mollify Russian anxieties.
Mr Bush's decision to put 10 missile interceptors in Poland and an associated radar in the Czech Republic was based
on a concern that Iran was developing long-range rockets that could hit the US. The Bush system would have been less
effective against shorter-range Iranian missiles, and it would have left much of Europe, notably including America's ally
Turkey, unprotected.
Over the last several years, the Iranians have shifted their efforts from developing a few long-range rockets to
deploying large numbers of shorter-range ones that pose an immediate danger to southeastern Europe and the Middle
East, as well as to US forces stationed there. Unlike Mr Bush's, Mr Obama's plan will quickly field a missile-defence
capability to address an existing threat. It can be upgraded to deal with longer-range Iranian missiles in the future.
The Central Europeans who have reacted to the decision with apprehension or alarm should recognize that the
replacement of a conceptually flawed plan with a more credible one strengthens the bonds of transatlantic defence.
The view from Moscow has been clouded by outright paranoia. Military experts there suspected that the US rockets
in Poland, while advertised as defensive, could be used offensively, even pre-emptively, against Russia. Laying to rest
that far-fetched scenario was not the prime motivation for Mr Obama's decision, nor should it have been. However, by
removing what has been a gratuitous irritant in bilateral relations, the president has improved the prospects for USRussian arms control negotiations now underway in Geneva.
Those talks could produce by December a new treaty reducing numbers of strategic that is, intercontinental
weapons. If ratified by the US Senate (which will not be easy, given the ferocity of the partisan wars in Washington), the
US and Russia will be on track for further reductions in the future. Mr Obama and Russian President Dmitri Medvedev,
who are due to meet in New York this week, have jointly called for the eventual goal of eliminating nuclear weapons.
As they and their successors take steps in that direction, they will have to grapple with a stark paradox of the nuclear
age: mutual deterrence depends on each side being vulnerable to retaliation from the other. If either side has enough
defences to trump the other side's offence, the mutuality of deterrence breaks down and one or both sides will be on
hair-trigger, making war more likely in a crisis.
American statesmen pounded this inescapable truth into the heads of their initially sceptical Soviet counterparts 40
years ago. The result was the Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) treaty signed by Richard Nixon and Leonid Brezhnev in 1972. By
limiting the defensive capability of both superpowers, the ABM treaty was a necessary companion piece to a series of
treaties setting ceilings on offensive weaponry. Because nuclear weapons were expected to with us forever, the ABM
treaty was meant to last in perpetuity.
While the Soviets were converted to the logic of restricting defence, Ronald Reagan was not. The late US president
championed the development of a space-based comprehensive shield that would make offensive weapons and
therefore mutual deterrence "impotent and obsolete."
Many experts believed Reagan's vision, which they derisively nicknamed Star Wars, was an impossible dream. So did
his successor, George H. W. Bush, who treated the program with benign neglect while negotiating with the Russians in
the Strategic Arms Reduction Talks (START) begun by Mr Reagan.
The second president Bush reversed his father's policy. He greatly weakened the START process, pulled the US out of
the ABM treaty and sought to revive a national missile defence (NMD) system. His decision to build the interceptor and
radar sites in Poland and the Czech Republic was, as one of his aides told me at the time, in large measure about
"pouring concrete for what will eventually be a global NMD."
Key officials of the Obama administration including the president himself, who studied arms control in college
understand the linkage between reduction of offences and regulation of defences. However, they have avoided raising
that issue in the context of last week's decision. That is partly because they want their plan to be judged on its own
merits, vis--vis the Iranian threat. But it is because they have more than enough fights with the Republicans without
further energizing the right wing by trying to reinstate the principles of the ABM treaty.
Yet sooner or later the US administration will have to grasp the nettle of regulating strategic defences. Otherwise,
continued reductions in strategic nuclear offences will be either impossible or, worse, dangerous.
The author is president of the Brookings Institution.
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I'm in NY. Thx.

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Cc: H
Sent: Sun Sep 20 22:09:51 2009
Subject: CGI Speech First Draft
This is a very rough first cut at the CGI speech, mostly to give you an idea of structure, themes, and some of the
substance. It has a long way to go. We are still waiting for feedback and for input from various people, including Jack.
We will have a much improved draft by Monday night.
I'm not sure if you are in Washington or NY, but will fax this to Whitehaven in case you are there. Thanks.
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I'm on endless calls about the UN. Could I call you early tomorrow? Would btw 6:30 and 8:00 be too early?
Please wear socks to bed to keep your feet warm.
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To: H
Sent: Sun Sep 20 21:20:52 2009
Subject: Re: When could we talk?
Sorry. Didn't see this earlier. I'm at,
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Subject: When could we talk?
Dear John,
I would like to talk w you tonight if possible. Is there a time that is best for you? And which number should I call? This
is the right thing to do and I do not believe there are any serious obstacles
Please let me know when we can connect. All best, H
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Great. Thx so much and I hope to see you as well.

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To: H
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Subject: RE: Eid Mubarak
I have been back to them and yes they are all set to see you then.
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To: Cherie Blair
Subject: Re: Eid Mubarak
Cherie--this is strange since meeting was confirmed several days ago. In fact, her office called back to say it was the only
time that worked for her. Its at 7pm on the 24th. Can you confirm for me that she knows this. Thx.
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Cook Stoves
Mike--What's the plan for working w EPA? This may come up in mtgs about climate change this week. HRC
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'verveerms@state.gov'
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Would he write a letter we could deliver to her setting all this out?
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I talked to Yunus. She is making any progess very difficult. The health project he discussed with yoiu can't get OKs from
govt for Nursing school, univ health center, corporate partnerships, etc. If she hears it's Grameen, she stands in way of
licenses, etc, even tho it benefits the country.
He was hoping there might be some way to assure her that he has NO intention of getting into politics in any way and
that she can use him effectively to make the country a model in ways that Grameen can do that. There is some deep
personal antagonism that he can't fathom. Very sad development.
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I'm seeing Yunus tom'w. We're both speaking to the Hilton Foundation. He wants to meet with me there. I will learn
more.
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What can we do about this? And what is the other side of the saga so we are better informed?
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To: H
Sent: Fri Sep 18 00:30:12 2009
Subject: FW: Daily Star Article about Prime Minister Hasina's Speech
The ongoing saga involving Yunus and Hasina.
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Subject: Fwd: Daily Star Article about Prime Minister Hasina's Speech
Dear Melanne:
I am drawing your attenrtion to the following report in the leading daily

newspaper in Bangladesh. All other papers carried the same news.
This is a report on the Prime Minister Hasina's speech on the floor
of the parliament. High-lighted section of the report refers to me
without naming name but giving her usual description of me.
See if you can find a way to clear her mind of all the terrifying thoughts
she has about me. I invite you to be a peace-maker! Otherwise it will become
explosive for nothing. PM Hasina is coming to NY for General Assembly
meeting, and will have a meeting with Sec H during her visit.
See you soon.
Yunus
Prime Mnister Hasina Warns

The Daily Star, Dhaka, September 17, 2009
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday alerted the countrymen to the
ongoing conspiracy of 'special quarter' and 'undemocratic forces' who are
still plotting to wipe out democracy and grab the seat in power after
being failed to capture it.
The prime minister, however, urged the Leader of the Opposition and BNP
Chairperson Khaleda Zia and her allies to return to parliament for raising
their voices.
Recalling her experience as the opposition leader, Hasina said, "We used
to walk out from parliament sessions, boycott it but we used to return to
the House again."
Meanwhile, the parliament session was adjourned till 4:00pm on October 4.

Sheikh Hasina, also ruling Awami League (AL) president, urged people to keep vigil against recurrence of incidents like
BDR mutiny to reverse the democratic strides. She also urged the people not to be misguided by any 'false campaign.'
"While running the government and doing development works, we find continued obstacles in every step from the
'special quarter', benefited by undemocratic government, who earlier had captured power through undemocratic
means, So, I urge the countrymen to be cautious so that the democratic trend continues," she told the parliament.
The prime minister was speaking at a discussion titled 'democracy and political tolerance' on the occasion of the
International Day of Democracy.
Following an hour long discussion, the House passed a resolution by which Bangladesh will also observe the
International Day of Democracy through holding a discussion in the parliament every year.
Inter-Parliamentary Union decided to observe September 15 of every year as International Day of Democracy in the
context of a resolution adopted by the United Nations in 2007.
The International Day of Democracy was first observed in 2008 but Bangladesh could not observe the day as unelected
caretaker government ruled the country during that time.
Referring to the sugar price, Sheikh Hasina told the House that a big conspiracy is going on regarding sugar price. Price of
sugar is being raised though stock of sugar is available. "We are investigating the matter and action will be taken against
those who are responsible for it,"
said the Leader of the House.
On plotting of the conspiracy, Sheikh Hasina said people who wanted to sit in power without election are still hatching
conspiracy against her government.
Pointing out the two years of the past caretaker government, Hasina said, "Various formulas were floated during that
time by those who would lose security money if contest any election."
She also disclosed in parliament that many proposals were given to her
(Hasina) during that time including offering her the status of a prime minister without participating,in elections, which
she rejected.
Without mentioning any name, the prime minister said, those who wanted to capture power by creating new political
parties are still continuing their activities to capture power.
"Those persons who had failed to float a new political party, exploit
people, get huge interest from poor people and remain in disguise of good
men wearing good dresses are still busy hatching a conspiracy against the
government," said Hasina, who was sent to a makeshift jail during the
anti-graft drive of the past caretaker government.
She, however, hailed the caretaker regime for holding a free and fair election, which she claimed as the best election
since 1973.
The AL Chief Hasina told lawmakers that the country has been pushed back economically, socially and culturally by
applying the undemocratic and military rule while only a special quarter became rich but the majority people remained
ignored.
The premier vowed that her government is committed to materialise all its election pledges to fulfil the desire of the
people.
Hasina said her party believes in the definition of democracy given by Abraham Lincoln who said Democracy means--by
the People, of the People, for the People.
"But this democracy has been absent in the country since 1975 when the military ruler grabbed power throwing an
elected government," she said.
AL leaders Sheikh Fazlul Karim Selim, Suranjit Sengupta, Abdul Latif Siddiqui, Advocate Fazle Rabbi Mia, Abdul Matin
Khasru, Bangladesh Workers' Party President Rashed Khan Menon, among others, took part in the discussion.
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Kris-- can you follow up on these issues and let me know so we can report back? Thx.
Steve Schwarzman at Blackstone wanted help on a visa for
and said Mickey Kantor was
talking to Cheryl about it. What's status?
David Cote of Honeywell wanted help w
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He also
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complained about export control regs that interfere w sales. He said the State Dept is the holdup and gave example of
nuts and bolts for an engine being labelled as "dual use and therefore couldn't be exported. Andrew may know about
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Glad that's over!

Original Message
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To: H
Sent: Tue Sep 22 13:51:21 2009
Subject: Fw: Bulgarian wins 31-27 in final round of UNESCO DG Election
From: Anderson, Gerald C

To: Wells, Alice G; Ashraf, Madeeha S; Sullivan, Jacobi; Smith, Daniel B; Schlicher, Ronald L; Scobey, Margaret;
McEldowney, Nancy E; Macmanus, Joseph E
Cc: Platukis, Lauren D; Brimmer, Esther D; Cook, Nerissa J; Siekman, Kelly 0; Sadoski, Nicholas A
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There were no procedural motions prior to the 5th and final round vote. The issue of irregularities did not come in the
Board meeting.
Gerald C. Anderson
Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary
Bureau of International Organization Affairs
Room 6323
U.S. Department of State
Office: 202-647-9602
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Subject: FW: dire situation in horn of africa
FYI
From: Stremlau, Matthew H

Sent: Tuesday, September 22, 2009 6:23 PM
To: Mills, Cheryl D; Muscatine, Lissa; Rooney, Megan
Subject: dire situation in horn of africa
I haven't seen the latest draft of the speech but the horn of Africa is currently experiencing a serious crisis one of its
worst in years. I think we should reference the crisis in the speech and perhaps discuss what we are doing to address
although it's mostly just providing emergency food assistance. Best, Matt
Somalia faces worst food crisis in 18 years: UN

(AFP) 1 day ago
ROME Drought, conflict and displacement are causing the worst humanitarian crisis in war-torn Somalia in 18 years,
the UN food agency warned on Monday.
Some 3.6 million people, about half the Somali population, need emergency aid including 1.3 million people displaced by
fighting in the Horn of Africa country, the Food and Agriculture Organisation said in a statement.
Around 1.4 million Somali farmers face a severe drought, while some 655,000 poor urban dwellers face high prices for
basic food staples, the FAO said.
Hundreds of thousands of Somalis have fled their homes over the past three years of violence involving hardline Islamist
movements and many more in total over the country's 18 years of almost uninterrupted civil chaos.
Hunger also stalks other countries in east Africa and the Horn of Africa region, the UN agency said.
The number of people depending on food aid in the region -- currently nearly 20 million -- "may increase as the hunger
season progresses, particularly among marginal farmers and low-income urban dwellers," the FAO said.
"Below-average rains combined with conflict and displacement are aggravating an already serious food insecurity
situation in the region," it said.
An added element is El Nino, a weather phenomenon associated with floods, droughts and other climatic disturbances,
the FAO said.
"The effects of El Nino, which usually brings heavy rains towards the end of the year, could make matters worse, ...
destroying crops both in the field and in stores (and) increasing livestock losses," the statement added.
Continued low purchasing power is also threatening food security in the region, the UN agency said.
Matthew Stremlau, Ph.D.

Office of the Counselor and Chief of Staff
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Email: StremlauMH@state.gov
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Where is Steinberg? He needs to be upfront early.

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Sent: Wed Sep 23 09:59:07 2009
Subject: Here is the draft agenda per our discussion
Take a look we are now eliminating Saturday but agenda is here:
Senior Leadership Retreat

Department of State
Blair House
October 2, 2009
Notional Timeline
8:00am:
Continental Breakfast
8:15am:
Welcome [HRC]
8:25am:
Overview and Strategic Objectives for Retreat [CDM]
8:30am:
Foreign Policy in the Obama Administration [HRC]
o priorities]
Our Accomplishments To Date

.o [HRC uses as opportunity to celebrate what has been accomplished and call out areas for recognition show
appreciation for work that has been done and set the tone of appreciation, collaboration, team approach to success]
8:50am:
Funding our Needs and Ambitions State/USAID Budgets
Presentation by Jack Lew [10 minutes]

o New Processes and Protocols for Implementing 2010
o Expectations for 2011
o Expectations for State/USAID approach
Moderated Q and A by Lew with Greene, Smith, other appropriate support [10 minutes]
9:25am:
QDDR: Restoring Diplomacy/Elevating Development
Introduction by Jack Lew [5 minutes]

Presentation by Anne Marie Slaughter/Alonzo Fulgrum
[10 minutes]
Moderated Questions and Answers [20 minutes]
o Lew to moderate discussion
o Alonzo/AMS/Jim Michel to field questions
o HRC field questions as approach in instances where she wants to make or emphasize a point
10:05am:
Seizing the Day Immediate and Long-term Opportunities
Intro of topic by CDM [5 min]:

1.
What are 3 opportunities that State/USAID/MCC (or any individually) have
2.
How specifically would we implement each one

Break out session 30 minutes (4 groups of 17), with designated staff member facilitator and note-taker
10:45am
Coffee Break
11:00am
Traditional Threat: Security Peace in the Middle East
Introduction by HRC [5 min: praise/validation for team]

Presentation by George Mitchell [10 minutes]
Moderated [Mara Rudman] Questions and Answers [15 min]
o recognize Mitchell team to permit them to respond to questions with George
11:30am
Transnational Threat: Non-Proliferation (or alternatives below)

Presentation by Ellen Tauscher [other options: climate change, energy security, global health, others]
Moderated [TBD] Questions and Answers [15 minutes]
o recognize T team to permit them to respond to questions with Ellen
12:15:
Lunch
Introduction by CDM [5 min]

21st Century State Craft Alec Ross [10 min]
[No Q/A or Q/A]
1:15pm
Partnering for Success Paradigms and Pitfalls
Introduction by: TBD [5 min]

Breakout into 4 Groups of 17 with facilitator and note-taker [40 min]
Whole of State/USAID/MCC Approach
Partnering and Leading Through the Interagency
Regional and Functional Bureaus Ensuring Connections
In-Country USG Coordination the Art of the Possible?
2:00pm
Traditional Threat: Iran is Not Ten Feet Tall
Presentation by Bill Burns [10 min] [other options: Af/Pak, North Korea, Iraq]
Moderated [by Jeff Feltman] Questions and Answers [15 minutes]
o recognize Iran team to permit them to respond to questions with Bill
2:30pm
Transnational Threat: Health in a Global Age [alternatives b/11

Presentation by TBD/USAID [10 min] [other options: climate change, energy security, others]
o recognize team to permit them to respond to questions with presenter
3:00pm
Coffee Break
3:15pm
Traditional Threat: North Korea Moving Forward or Not?

Presentation by Jim Steinberg [10 min] [other option: Iraq]
Moderated [by Kurt Campbell/Phil Goldberg] Questions and Answers [15 minutes]
o recognize North Korea team to permit them to respond to questions with Jim
3:45pm:
Presentation of Working Group Findings
Presentation by Group Facilitator (or Other) of Lessons and Best Practices [5 min per group]
o Whole of State/USAID/MCC
o Partnering and Leading Through the Interagency
o Regional and Functional Bureaus Ensuring Connections
o In-Country USG Coordination the Art of the Possible?
Q/A Moderated by CDM [15 min]
4:20pm
Working Group Presentations of the Opportunities Ahead
Presentation by Group Facilitator (or Other) of Opportunities and Actions Needed [5 min per group]
WA Moderated by CDM [15 min]
5:10pm:
The Challenges on the Horizon [HRC]
HRC expresses appreciation for work done today

Outlines the Challenges Ahead
Seeks Investment and Commits to Follow-Up
Invites Participants and Partners to Whitehaven at 7:30pm
5:30pm:
Retreat Concludes until Dinner
7:30pm
Dinner at Whitehaven Residence

Staff and Partner/Spouses invited
Buffet Dinner No formal remarks

Department of State
Whitehaven (or Department)
October 3, 2009
Notional Timeline
9:00am:
Coffee
9:15am:
General Retreat Impressions
9:30am:
Specific Takeaways and Tasking
Review list of Takeaways

Discussing Tasking and Follow-Up
10:00am:
Building Our Leadership Team Connection
Collaboration and Communication

Operational Flows (Paper, Clearance, Communication, etc.)
Seen/Heard in the Building
o 3 criticisms and ways to approach;
o 1 praise and way to multiply
11:00am
Creating a Leadership Culture
Listening and Responding

Inviting Appropriate Risk-Taking and Creativity
Embracing Broad Accountability
Empowering Your Respective Teams
Noon
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I'm confused--will he be there in am? Can he be urged to reschedule whatever else he has and come? Also tell NSC we're
having this retreat and cannot do DCs, PCs or other WH mtgs that day.
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Subject: RE: Here is the draft agenda per our discussion
He initially indicated he couldn't do anything until the afternoon but yesterday emailed me and said he could not do am.
I will move his presentation -- which would be NK up
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Sent: Wed Sep 23 09:59:07 2009

Department of State
Blair House
October 2, 2009
Notional Timeline
8:00am:
8:15am:
Welcome [HRC]
8:25am:
8:30am:
o priorities]
o [HRC uses as opportunity to celebrate what has been accomplished and call out areas for recognition show
8:50am:

9:25am:

[10 minutes]

10:05am:

1.
2.

10:45am
Coffee Break
11:00am

11:30am

12:15:
Lunch

[No Q/A or Q/A]
1:15pm

2:00pm

2:30pm
Transnational Threat: Health in a Global Age [alternatives b/l]

3:00pm
Coffee Break
3:15pm

3:45pm:
4:20pm
5:10pm:

5:30pm:
7:30pm


Department of State
October 3, 2009
Notional Timeline
9:00am:
Coffee
9:15am:
9:30am:

10:00am:

11:00am


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So put him on agenda before Jack to do overview of issues or some other topic.
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1. he's coming entire day now.
2. okay
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To: Mills, Cheryl D
I'm confused--will he be there in am? Can he be urged to reschedule whatever else he has and come? Also tell NSC we're
having this retreat and cannot do DCs, PCs or other WH mtgs that day.
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Sent: Wed Sep 23 10:04:32 2009
He initially indicated he couldn't do anything until the afternoon but yesterday emailed me and said he could not do am.
I will move his presentation -- which would be NK up
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To: H
Cc: Abedin, Huma <AbedinH@state.gov>; Sullivan, Jacob J <SullivanJJ@state.gov>
Sent: Wed Sep 23 09:59:07 2009

Department of State
Blair House
October 2, 2009
Notional Timeline
8:00am:
8:15am:
Welcome [HRC]
8:25am:
8:30am:
o priorities]
o [HRC uses as opportunity to celebrate what has been accomplished and call out areas for recognition show
8:50am:

9:25am:

[10 minutes]
10:05am:

1.
2.

10:45am
Coffee Break
11:00am

11:30am

Lunch
12:15:

[No Q/A or Q/A]
1:15pm

2:00pm

2:30pm
Transnational Threat: Health in a Global Age [alternatives b/1]


3:00pm
Coffee Break
3:15pm

3:45pm:
4:20pm
WA Moderated by CDM [15 min]
5:10pm:


5:30pm:
7:30pm


Department of State
October 3, 2009
Notional Timeline
9:00am:
Coffee
9:15am:
9:30am:

10:00am:

11:00am

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I'm upstairs at mtg and will meet you in room.

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Subject:
I'm back, just waiting for elevator.
Let me know if you need notes.
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Re: Question and Ireland
Can you come over in the morning early-7:30-to do these mtgs w me?
Original Message
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To: H
Sent: Wed Sep 23 23:40:04 2009
Subject: Re: Question and Ireland
Just saw Sean Woodward and heard you were mtg with the Irish parties in the am. He was quite distressed after their
mtg w PM Gordon Brown this eve. Robinson very "nit-picky". You may want to chat w him prior to the mtg. He had
thghts on how you could be helpful to the cause. His # is
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Subject: Question
Which banks have contributed to the Expo?
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Re: A Bold New Strategy for Smart Aid
Can we work some of these ideas into CGI speech?

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Subject: Fw: A Bold New Strategy for Smart Aid
Fyi
From: Toiv, Nora F

To: Mills, Cheryl D; Slaughter, Anne-Marie; Sullivan, Jacob J
Sent: Wed Sep 23 19:45:51 2009
Subject: A Bold New Strategy for Smart Aid
A Bold New Strategy for Smart Aid
Matthew Bishop is the New York bureau chief for The Economist magazine and, with Michael Green, he is author of the
2008 book, Philanthrocapitalism: How the Rich Can Save the World <http://www.philanthrocapitalism.neth .
The Clinton Global Initiative's fifth birthday celebration this week
<http://www.clintonglobalinitiative.oreourmeetings/meeting_annual.asp?Section=OurMeetings&PageTitle=CGI%20An
nual%20Meeting> may be a less glitzy affair than in previous years but it marks an amazing comeback. Last year the
Obama administration actually thought about having it shut down as a price of Mrs. Clinton becoming Secretary of State
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/16/AR2008111602039.html > , fearful that Bill's
schmoozing of wealthy philanthropists could compromise his wife's role as America's top diplomat. Now, Obama is going
to be topping the bill, outshining the A-list celebrities, heads of state and corporate titans who pack the hall for the
annual "Philanthropy Oscars."
Yet the most important speech at the event may not be delivered by either the current or the former president but by
Mrs. Clinton herself. She has said the State Department is going to forge new partnerships with philanthropists to
achieve America's foreign policy goals (and has already started work on a new initiative around the Middle East peace
process). Her speech is an opportunity to announce a radical new departure in the way America gives aid.
The aid business in crisis. The past year may have been tough for the world's richest countries, but it has been far harder
for the poorest. Markets for exports have slumped as rich conumers have reined in their spending. Government
budgets are creaking under the strain of the global recession and foreign aid is threatening to dry up. At the same time,
the intellectual attack on aid has escalated, led by the author of "Dead Aid" <http://www.washingtonpost.com/wpdyn/content/article/2009/04/02/AR2009040203285.html > , the African economist, Dambisa Moyo.
The CGI has become the showcase for those who believe Moyo is wrong and that aid can be effective. The CGI is not
about the old government-to-government aid model. Its members aim to deliver smart aid, based on partnerships
between business, philanthropists, and social entrepreneurs. Mrs. Clinton's speech is the perfect opportunity to show
that government is ready to work with the CGI crowd to rethink how it does aid.
One promising, for-profit solution to poverty is to take the model of microfinance -- one of the more resilient corners of
banking during the financial crisis -- and extend it to improve education, health care, clean water and sanitation. Loanbased investments can be more sustainable than traditional aid or charity, because they tap the far larger sums available
in the capital markets and are not dependent on the whims of political leaders or budgetary wrangling. Some in
government may be reluctant to give up their near monopoly on aid but it is long overdue.
A second opportunity is to get the public more involved in the aid business. New giving organizations such as Kiva
<http://www.kiva.org/about/how> have demonstrated how the public can play an effective role in allocating money to
needy people <http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/06/AR2009070603594.html > .
Government should be doing all it can to encourage his type of mass philanthrocapitalism that levers the generosity of
the American people and taps into the wisdom of crowds. It is time for government aid to be made more democratic by
letting Kiva and others like it distribute some of the tax dollars.
Finally, Mrs. Clinton should seize the opportunity to turn the aid business on its head and pass control from the
bureaucrats to the poor people themselves. Technology such as the internet and the mobile phone are now widespread
in the developing world, so why not use these tools to give a greater voice in aid spending to the people the money is
intended to help? Much aid has gone to waste because of a lack of feedback from the intended beneficiaries. Imagine
how the best technology entrepreneurs could transform the aid business, in the same way that they have changed the
media, by giving the poor a say in how the aid billions are spent.
The Obama Administration has made all the right noises about making government smarter by working more with the
philanthrocapitalists. At home, the creation of a White House Office of Social Innovation
<http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/President-Obama-to-Request-50-Million-to-Identify-and-ExpandEffective-Innovative-Non-Profitsh was a welcome first move, yet it is still to be seen whether this will amount to much
more than a new source of grant funding for the nonprofit sector. The big win is in remaking government through
innovative partnerships with the private sector. Mrs Clinton has been mulling over what to do with USAID for nearly a
year. What better opportunity than the CGI to announce a bold new strategy for smart aid?
Nora Toiv
Office of the Secretary
202-647-8633
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Pis print for me and review for CGI speech.

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Subject: Fw: A Bold New Strategy for Smart Aid
Fyi
From: To iv, Nora F

To: Mills, Cheryl D; Slaughter, Anne-Marie; Sullivan, Jacob J
Sent: Wed Sep 23 19:45:51 2009
Subject: A Bold New Strategy for Smart Aid
A Bold New Strategy for Smart Aid
Matthew Bishop is the New York bureau chief for The Economist magazine and, with Michael Green, he is author of the
2008 book, Philanthrocapitalism: How the Rich Can Save the World <http://www.philanthrocapitalism.neth .
The Clinton Global Initiative's fifth birthday celebration this week
<http://www.clintonglobalinitiative.oreourmeetings/meeting_annual.asp?Section=OurMeetings&PageTitle=CGI%20An
nual%20Meeting> may be a less glitzy affair than in previous years but it marks an amazing comeback. Last year the
Obama administration actually thought about having it shut down as a price of Mrs. Clinton becoming Secretary of State
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/16/AR2008111602039.html> , fearful that Bill's
schmoozing of wealthy philanthropists could compromise his wife's role as America's top diplomat. Now, Obama is going
to be topping the bill, outshining the A-list celebrities, heads of state and corporate titans who pack the hall for the
annual "Philanthropy Oscars."
Yet the most important speech at the event may not be delivered by either the current or the former president but by
Mrs. Clinton herself. She has said the State Department is going to forge new partnerships with philanthropists to
achieve America's foreign policy goals (and has already started work on a new initiative around the Middle East peace
process). Her speech is an opportunity to announce a radical new departure in the way America gives aid.
The aid business in crisis. The past year may have been tough for the world's richest countries, but it has been far harder
for the poorest. Markets for exports have slumped as rich consumers have reined in their spending. Government
budgets are creaking under the strain of the global recession and foreign aid is threatening to dry up. At the same time,
the intellectual attack on aid has escalated, led by the author of "Dead Aid" <http://www.washingtonpost.com/wpdyn/content/article/2009/04/02/AR2009040203285.html > , the African economist, Dambisa Moyo.
The CGI has become the showcase for those who believe Moyo is wrong and that aid can be effective. The CGI is not
about the old government-to-government aid model. Its members aim to deliver smart aid, based on partnerships
between business, philanthropists, and social entrepreneurs. Mrs. Clinton's speech is the perfect opportunity to show
that government is ready to work with the CGI crowd to rethink how it does aid.
One promising, for-profit solution to poverty is to take the model of microfinance -- one of the more resilient corners of
banking during the financial crisis -- and extend it to improve education, health care, clean water and sanitation. Loanbased investments can be more sustainable than traditional aid or charity, because they tap the far larger sums available
in the capital markets and are not dependent on the whims of political leaders or budgetary wrangling. Some in
government may be reluctant to give up their near monopoly on aid but it is long overdue.
A second opportunity is to get the public more involved in the aid business. New giving organizations such as Kiva
<http://www.kiva.org/about/how> have demonstrated how the public can play an effective role in allocating money to
needy people <http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/06/AR2009070603594.html > .
Government should be doing all it can to encourage his type of mass philanthrocapitalism that levers the generosity of
the American people and taps into the wisdom of crowds. It is time for government aid to be made more democratic by
letting Kiva and others like it distribute some of the tax dollars.
Finally, Mrs. Clinton should seize the opportunity to turn the aid business on its head and pass control from the
bureaucrats to the poor people themselves. Technology such as the Internet and the mobile phone are now widespread
in the developing world, so why not use these tools to give a greater voice in aid spending to the people the money is
intended to help? Much aid has gone to waste because of a lack of feedback from the intended beneficiaries. Imagine
how the best technology entrepreneurs could transform the aid business, in the same way that they have changed the
media, by giving the poor a say in how the aid billions are spent.
The Obama Administration has made all the right noises about making government smarter by working more with the
philanthrocapitalists. At home, the creation of a White House Office of Social Innovation
<http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/President-Obama-to-Request-50-Million-to-Identify-and-ExpandEffective-Innovative-Non-Profits/ > was a welcome first move, yet it is still to be seen whether this will amount to much
more than a new source of grant funding for the nonprofit sector. The big win is in remaking government through
innovative partnerships with the private sector. Mrs Clinton has been mulling over what to do with USAID for nearly a
year. What better opportunity than the CGI to announce a bold new strategy for smart aid?
Nora Toiv
202-647-8633
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Friday, May 1, 2009 7:50 AM
H2
Call
Richard holbrooke called again for u this am.
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Mills, Cheryl D <MillsCD@state.gov>

Friday, May 01, 2009 4:19 AM
Fw: Thank you so very much!!!!
Fyi
From: Begala, Paul

To: Mills, Cheryl D
Sent: Thu Apr 30 12:46:55 2009
Subject: Re: Thank you so very much!!!!
I gave Sec. Clinton an A+ in our dopey CNN report card last night. So did Donna Brazile. The only two A+'s all night.
From: Mills, Cheryl D <MillsCDOstate.gov >
To: Begala, Paul
Sent: Thu Apr 30 16:18:28 2009
Subject: RE: Thank you so very much!!!!
Xo
From: Begala, Paul
Sent: Tuesday, April 28, 2009 2:09 PM
To: Mills, Cheryl D
Thanks, Cheryl. Hope all is well and I'm so glad you are serving our country once again! P3 can give me what I need.
Paulie
From: Mills, Cheryl D [MillsCD@state.gov]
Sent: Tuesday, April 28, 200911:49 AM
To: Capricia Penavic Marshall; Begala, Paul; Abedin, Huma; Philippe Reines1; Adler, Caroline E (PACE)
Cc: Crowley, Philip 3
Thanks Paulie also looping in Pi Crowley
From: Capricia Penavic Marshall IL
Sent: Tuesday, April 28, 2009 9:30 AM
Mills, Cheryl D; Abedin, Huma; Philippe Reines1; Adler, Caroline E (PACE)
To: pbegala
Subject: Re: Thank you so very much!!!!
Adding a whole bunch of folks who I know can assist you with the information you need.
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From: Begala, Paul
To: Capricia Penavic Marshall
Sent: Tue Apr 28 09:18:25 2009
Capricia,
Who at State should I talk to about getting a briefmg on what HRC has accomplished in the first hundred days? CNN is doing special
coverage all night tomorrow night, and we'll be rating HRC as well as the President. Any ideas who I should contact and how to reach
her/him?
Thanks.
Paul
From: Capricia Penavic Marshall I

Sent: Friday, April 24, 2009 5:59 PM
To: Begala, Paul;
Subject: Thank you so very much!!!!
We raised 500K from the email contest!! You all are amazing - the world adores you! You put a serious hole in hrc debt!
A million thanks!
capricia
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Friday, May 01, 2009 2:33 PM
FW: High Praise Indeed
Enjoy see message below Pfs

From: P.] Crowley
Sent: Friday, May Ll, 2009 2:213 PM
To: Mills, Cheryl D; Reines, Philippe I (PACE)
Subject: High Praise Indeed
Richard Sisk of the NY Daily News reports that even Elliott Abrams is having difficulty criticizing the first 100 days.
PJ
From: Sisk, Richard

Sent: Friday, May 01, 2009 12:02 PM
To: 1:9 Crowley
Subject: white house correspondents dinner
P.J.
I am stuck with one of those confounded calendar stories -- Hillary's 100 days. Just got off the phone with Elliott
Abrams, thinking Pd give the dark side their due, but even he was at a loss. "I can't think of anything very critical,
but give me time," said he.
Who knew he had a sense of humor?
Cheers
Rich
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National Hispanic Leadership Agenda
NATIONAL LATINO LEADERS REPORT ON

OBAMA ADMINISTRATION'S FIRST 100 DAYS
April 29, 2009
BACKGROUND
Every President of the United States since Lyndon B. Johnson has made some effort to include Hispanics in his
Administration. Hispanics have held top level positions in the administrations of Lyndon B. Johnson, Richard
M. Nixon, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and George W. Bush.
Ronald Reagan was the first President to appoint Hispanics to cabinet-level positions. He appointed two and
every President since Reagan has had at least one Hispanic serving in a cabinet-level position in their
administration whether they served two, four, or eight years as President. Bill Clinton was the first to have
three Hispanics in cabinet-level positions at the same time when he exercised his prerogative and elevated the
office of the Administrator of SBA to cabinet level. George W. Bush chose not to continue the designation but
still had two Hispanics in his cabinet throughout his two terms.
All Presidents want to fill positions in their administration with the best qualified persons, and that is the way it
should be. No one should expect to be appointed to any position by the President because of their race, gender
or national origin, even though as presidential candidates they promise to do so. More importantly, given
massive demographic change that the country is experiencing, it is no longer possible to craft or implement
effective policies and programs without the experience and expertise provided by a diverse, truly representative
government.
Still, Presidents try to accomplish something in the course of appointing the best qualified persons to their
administration. Bill Clinton wanted a government that looked like America and in the process named two
Hispanics to head two major departments in his cabinet, elevated a third to cabinet level, brought an
unprecedented number of Hispanics into his administration, and signed Executive Order 13171, which called
for government-wide strategies to address the persistent under-representation of Latinos within the federal
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workforce. He was also very much aware of the fact that Hispanics helped him carry 14 of 16 major electoral
vote states in which over 90% of the Hispanic vote was concentrated.
George W. Bush brought a natural sensitivity and affinity to his administration, having served as Governor of
Texas, a state with the second largest Hispanic population in the nation. He too appointed two Hispanics to his
cabinet, chose to extend Executive Order 13171, and, like Clinton, brought a reasonably high number of
Hispanics into his administration. Similarly, George Bush was very much aware of the fact that Hispanics
helped him carry six major electoral vote states in which 90% of the Hispanic vote was concentrated.
Barack Obama assumed the Presidency promising change, which lends itself more to qualitative measurement
than quantitative. Still, during his first 100 days he nominated three Hispanics to major cabinet-level
positions. One nominee withdrew and the other two were subsequently confirmed by the Senate. It remains to
be seen how many Hispanics are ultimately named to high positions in his administration, and whether he will
choose to extend Executive Order 13171. And, like his last two predecessors, he too is very much aware of the
fact that Hispanics helped him carry 14 of 16 major electoral vote states in which 90% of the Hispanic vote is
concentrated, in addition to North Carolina, Virginia, and Indiana.
On comparing the Clinton, Bush, and Obama Administrations
In order to make a fair comparison as to how Hispanics have fared during the first 100 days of the Clinton,
Bush, and Obama administrations, one should first recognize that the Hispanic community has changed
considerably since 1992. In 1992 the estimated Hispanic population was 22.4 million, 5.1 million were
registered to vote, approximately 4.2 million voted, and 61% voted for Clinton. In 2000 the estimated Hispanic
population was 33.3 million, 7.5 million were registered to vote, approximately 5.9 million voted, and 35%
voted for Bush. In 2008 the estimated Hispanic population was 44 million, 14 million were registered to vote,
approximately 10 million voted, and 67% voted for Obama. So not only has the Hispanic population grown
exponentially since 1992, the Hispanic electorate has grown dramatically, and in 2008 helped carry traditional
states and more importantly proved decisive in carrying non-traditional states.
So from Clinton to Obama the Hispanic population doubled, voter registration nearly tripled, and voter turnout
more than doubled. Obama received more Hispanic votes than the combined total number of votes cast in 1992
and 2000. He received 4.1 million more Hispanics votes than Clinton in 1992 and 4.6 million more Hispanic
votes than Bush in 2000. The November 2008 election created a new political reality a new political reality
that has emboldened the Latino community and Latino leaders to demand the change President Obama
promised and to expect more than we got from both Clinton and Bush. Clinton and Bush did not give Hispanics
something to strive for. They gave us something to surpass. Anything less is not change, but more of the same
or worse.
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President Obama is to be commended on the appointments of Hispanics he has made to date and for the access
to the process that NHLA has had, but NHLA is very disappointed in the overall results. For the record, the
Transition Team and NHLA leaders worked very closely from the beginning to find and encourage well
qualified Hispanics to apply. Once the President was sworn into office NHLA continued working with the
White House Office of Presidential Personnel to ensure that more Hispanics would be nominated and appointed
and that more prospective candidates would continue to apply. NHLA commends the President for the access
we have had and the transparency with which the process has been conducted, but the results speak for
themselves. These efforts fell well short of the target. Latinos remain one of the most under-represented groups
in government and the most under-represented at the Senior Executive Service level.
We are also mindful of the fact that senior White House appointees and the Office of Presidential Personnel
have been similarly accessible to other Hispanic groups on matters pertaining to personnel as well as policies,
and the President is to be commended for that as well. But regardless of the group with which the
Administration has worked, the results have fallen below target and Latinos remain seriously underrepresented.
As of April 27, has announced 58 Hispanics who have been nominated or appointed to positions in the Obama
administration, including 19 that require Senate confirmation.
The Cabinet. NHLA commends the President for nominating two highly qualified Hispanics to major cabinet
level positions Hilda Solis at Labor and Ken Salazar at Interior. Both departments are extremely important,
given the nature, scope, and purview of their responsibilities.
And while NHLA also commends the President for nominating a third Hispanic, Governor Bill Richardson, to a
major cabinet level position (Commerce), NHLA is extremely disappointed in that another Hispanic was not
nominated from the impressive list of well qualified and experienced Puerto Ricans, Dominicans, and Cubans
that NHLA provided when Governor Richardson withdrew, considering that no Puerto Ricans, Dominicans,
Cubans, or Central and South Americans had been nominated for anything at the time.
The White House. NHLA commends the President for appointing four highly qualified Hispanics to senior
staff level positions in the White House Cecilia Munoz, Louis Caldera, Adolfo Carrion, Jr., and Moises Vela,
Jr.
But NHLA is extremely disappointed in that only four Hispanics are among the 49 Presidential appointees
selected to date to fill senior staff positions in the White House and that no Cubans or Dominicans have been
included.
And while NHLA commends the President for appointing five highly qualified Hispanics to the position of
Special Assistant to the President including Alejandro Perez at Legislative Affairs, Michael Camunez at
Presidential Personnel, and Roberto Rodriguez, Carlos Monje, and Tino Cuellar at the Domestic Policy Council,
NHLA is extremely disappointed in that not one Hispanic has been appointed Assistant to the President or
senior advisor, the President's inner circle. NHLA is also disappointed in that not one of the five Special
Assistants is Puerto Rican, Cuban, or Dominican.
The Sub-Cabinet. NHLA also commends the President for nominating 17 highly qualified Hispanics to
Senate-confirmation required sub-cabinet level positions at various departments
Edward M. Avalos
Under Secretary Marketing & Regulatory Services
USDA
Luis C. de Baca
Ambassador-at-Large Monitor Human Trafficking
State
Lorelei Boylan
Administrator Wage & Hour Division
Labor
Gabriella Gomez
Asst Secretary Legislation/Congressional Affairs
Education
Sandra B. Henriquez
Asst Secretary
Mercedes Marquez
Asst Secretary Community Planning/Development
HUD
Kathy Martinez
Asst Secretary Disability Employment Policy
Labor
HUD
Alejandro Mayorkas
Director, Citizenship & Immigration Services
DHS
Victor M. Mendez
Administrator, Highway Administration
Transportation
Tom Perez
Asst Atty Gen for Civil Rights
DOJ
Veteran's Affairs
Brig Gen Jose Riojas Asst Secretary Operations, Security & Preparedness
Frank Sanchez
Under Secretary International Trade
Daniel Sepulveda
Asst Secretary Congressional Affairs
John Sepulveda
Asst Secretary for Human Resources
Peter Silva
Asst Administrator for Water
John Trasvina
Asst Secretary Fair Housing & Equal Opportunity
Ines Triay
Asst Secretary Environmental Mgmt
Commerce
Office of USTR
Veteran's Affairs
EPA
HUD
Energy
NHLA is extremely disappointed in both the number of Hispanics appointed to date and that not one single
Hispanic has been nominated for a position that requires Senate-confirmation at four major departments
including Interior, Health and Human Services, Treasury, and Defense.
High Level Staff Positions. Though Hispanics are severely under-represented at this level as well, NHLA
commends the President for appointing 27 well qualified Hispanics to other high level positions throughout his
Administration including the White House (17), Transportation, Labor, Homeland Security, State, Office
Personnel Management, Peace Corps, and U.S. Trade Representative (3). They are:
Lizette Alvarado
Office of Presidential Personnel
White House
Anthony Bernal
Director of Scheduling Dr. Jill Biden
White House
Xavier Briggs
Assoc Director, Office Mgmt & Budget
White House
Alejandra Campoverdi Assistant to the Deputy Chief of Staff
White House
White House
Carlos Elizondo
Social Secretary for Vice President
Kirsten Garcia
Legislative Affairs
Roberto Gonzalez
Associate Counsel, Office of Legal Counsel
Noerena Limon
Staff Assistant, Presidential Personnel
David Medina
Deputy Chief of Staff Office of First Lady
White House
Luis Miranda
Director Hispanic Communications
White House
Lizette Ocampo
Staff Assistant, Legislative Affairs
Carlos Odio
Deputy Assoc Director, Political Affairs
Michael Ortiz
Legislative Affairs
Dan Restrepo
Western Hemispheric Advisor NSC
Nancy Sutley
Director Office Environmental Quality
Dag Vega
Stephanie Valencia
Director of Communications
Office Public Liaison, Intergov'tal Affairs
Lisa Garcia
Intergov'tal Affrs/Public Liaison USTR
Luis Jimenez
Office of the U.S. Trade Representative
White House
White House
White House
White House
White House
White House
White House
White House
White House
White House
Exec Office President
Jennifer Urizar
Elizabeth (Liz)Montoya Chief of Staff
OPM
Elisa Montoya
Senior Advisor to the Director
Esther Olavarria
Deputy Asst Sec Policy Development
DHS
Special Asst Office White House Liaison
State
Laura Pena
Oscar Ramirez
Miguel Rodriguez
Yasmin Yaver
Peace Corp
Special Asst to the Secretary
Labor
Deputy Asst Secretary Legislative Affairs

Office Governmental Affairs
State
Transportation
Other Appointments. Additionally, the President has made four additional Hispanic appointments. Two have
been appointed to the President's Advisory Council on Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships, one ot the
President's Advisory Council on Science& Technology, and one Judge. They are:
Noel Castellanos
Faith-based Adv Council
Member
Dr. Arturo Chavez
Faith-based Adv Council
Member
Mario Molina
Adv Council Science & Tech
Marisa Demeo
Judge
Member
DC Superior Court
Review of Departments:
Agriculture
NHLA is extremely disappointed in that only one Hispanic has been appointed among the nine positions filled
at the Department of Agriculture to date. NHLA respectfully urges the President and the Secretary of
Agriculture to appoint additional well qualified Hispanics during the course of filling the eight high level
positions remaining.
Commerce
NHLA is extremely disappointed in that only one Hispanic has been appointed among the eight positions filled
at the Department of Commerce to date. NHLA respectfully urges the President and the Secretary of
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Commerce to appoint additional well qualified Hispanics during the course of filling the 15 high level positions
remaining.
Defense
NHLA is extremely disappointed in that no Hispanics have been appointed among the 16 positions filled at the
Department of Defense to date. NHLA respectfully urges the President and the Secretary of Defense to appoint
well qualified Hispanics during the course of filling the 15 high level positions remaining.
Education
NHLA is extremely disappointed in that only one Hispanic has been appointed among the nine positions filled
at the Department of Education to date. NHLA respectfully urges the President and the Secretary of Education
to appoint additional well qualified Hispanics during the course of filling the 10 high level positions remaining.
Energy
at the Department of Energy to date. NHLA respectfully urges the President and the Secretary of Energy to
appoint additional well qualified Hispanics during the course of filling the 14 high level positions remaining.
Environmental Protection Agency

NHLA is extremely disappointed in that only one Hispanic has been appointed among the seven positions filled
at the Environmental Protection Agency to date. NHLA respectfully urges the President and the Administrator
of the Environmental Protection Agency to appoint additional well qualified Hispanics during the course of
filling the seven high level positions remaining.
Health and Human Services

NHLA is extremely disappointed in that no Hispanics have been appointed among the five positions filled at the
Department of Health and Human Services to date. NHLA respectfully urges the President and the Secretary of
Health and Human Services to appoint well qualified Hispanics during the course of filling the 15 high level
positions remaining.
Homeland Security
at the Department of Homeland Security to date. NHLA respectfully urges the President and the Secretary of
Homeland Security to appoint additional well qualified Hispanics during the course of filling the 14 high level
positions remaining to be filled.
Housing and Urban Development

NHLA is very pleased that three Hispanics have been appointed among the nine positions filled at the
Department of Housing and Urban Development to date. NHLA commends the President and the Secretary of
Housing and Urban Development and respectfully recommends that additional well qualified Hispanics be
appointed during the course of filling the five high level positions remaining.
Interior
at the Department of Interior to date. NHLA respectfully urges the President and the Secretary of Interior to
appoint well qualified Hispanics during the course of filling the 10 high level positions remaining.
Justice
NHLA is extremely disappointed in that only one Hispanic has been appointed among the 11 positions filled at
the Department of Justice to date. NHLA respectfully urges the President and the Attorney General to appoint
additional well qualified Hispanics during the course of filling the 16 high level positions remaining.
Labor
NHLA is pleased in that three Hispanics have been appointed among the seven positions filled at the
Department of Labor to date. NHLA respectfully urges the President and the Secretary of Labor to appoint well
qualified Hispanics to fill one or more of the 10 high level positions remaining to be filled.
State
NHLA is extremely disappointed in that only one Hispanic has been appointed among the 15 positions filled at
the State Department to date. NHLA respectfully urges the President and the Secretary of State to appoint
additional well qualified Hispanics during the course of filling the 30 high level positions remaining.
Transportation
at the Department of Transportation to date. NHLA respectfully urges the President and the Secretary of
Interior to appoint additional well qualified Hispanics during the course of filling the 14 high level positions
remaining to be filled.
Treasury
NHLA is extremely disappointed in that no Hispanics have been appointed among the ten positions filled at the
Treasury Department to date. NHLA respectfully urges the President and the Secretary of the Treasury to
appoint well qualified Hispanics to fill one or more of the 14 high level positions remaining to be filled.
Veteran's Affairs
NHLA is extremely disappointed in that only two Hispanic have been appointed among the seven positions
filled at the Department of Veteran's Affairs to date. NHLA respectfully urges the President and the Secretary
of Veteran's Affairs to appoint additional well qualified Hispanics during the course of filling the eight high
level positions remaining to be filled.
Three of these 16 major departments have no Hispanics in Senate confirmation required positions Defense,
Health and Human Services, and Treasury. A combined total of 143 high level positions in these 16
departments have been filled to date and only 18 by Hispanics. Ten departments have only one Hispanic in a
high-ranking position; one department has two Hispanics; and two departments (HUD and Labor) have three
Latinos.
Executive Office of the President excluding the White House:
Council of Economic Advisors

Three appointments have been made; no Hispanics.
Council on Environmental Quality

One of three members has been appointed; one Hispanic.
Office of Management and Budget

Two appointments have been made; no Hispanics. There are four positions to be filled.
Office of National Drug Control Policy

One position has been filled; no Hispanics. There are four positions to be filled.
Office of Science and Technology Policy

Four positions have been filled; no Hispanics. There are two positions to be filled.

Two positions have been filled; no Hispanics. There are three positions to be filled.
Five of these six offices and councils in the Executive Office of the President have no Hispanics. Only one
Hispanic has been appointed to one of these six offices and councils, but this is not the worst case of Hispanic
under-representation in the Obama administration.
Regulatory Agencies:
Commodity Futures Trading Commission

One position has been filled; no Hispanic. The number of positions to be filled is unknown.
Consumer Protection Safety Commission

No position has been filled. There are three positions to be filled.
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

No position has been filled. There are two positions to be filled.
Federal Communications Commission

One position has been filled; no Hispanic. There is one position to be filled.
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation

No position has been filled. There is one position to be filled.
Federal Election Commission

No position has been filled. There is no known position to be filled.
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

One position has been filled; no Hispanic. There is no known position to be filled.
Nuclear Regulatory Commission

Securities and Exchange Commission

One position has been filled; no Hispanic. There is no known position to be filled.
No Hispanics have been appointed by the President to any of these nine regulatory commissions. Four of 13
positions have been filled, leaving nine to be filled, which provide an opportunity for the President to improve
on his record on Hispanic appointments.
Independent Agencies:
Appalachian Regional Commission

Broadcasting Board of Governors

Central Intelligence Agency

One position has been filled; no Hispanic. There are two positions to be filled.
Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board

Corporation for National and Community Service

Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board

Delta Regional Authority

Export-Import Bank of the United States

Farm Credit Administration

No position has been filled. There is no position to be filled.
Federal Housing Finance Board

Federal Labor Relations Authority

Federal Maritime Commission

Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service

Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission

Federal Reserve System

General Services Administration

One position has been filled; no Hispanic. There is one position to be filled.
Millennium Challenge Corporation

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

No position has been filled. There are four positions to be filled.
National Archives and Records Administration

National Credit Union Administration

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No position has been filled. There is no known position to be filled.
National Foundation on the Arts and Humanities

National Labor Relations Board

National Mediation Board

On6 position has been filled; no Hispanic. There are no positions to be filled.
National Science Foundation

National Transportation Safety Board

Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission

Office of Government Ethics

Office of Navajo and Hopi Indian Relocation

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Office of Personnel Management

One position has been filled; no Hispanic. There are no known positions to be filled.
Office of the Special Counsel

Office of the Director of National Intelligence

One position has been filled; no Hispanic. There are no known positions to be filled.
Office of the Federal Coordinator Alaska Natural Gas Transportation Projects

Overseas Private Investment Corporation

Peace Corps
Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation

Postal Regulatory Commission

No position has been filled. There are no known positions to be filled.
Railroad Retirement Board

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Selective Service System

Small Business Administration

One position has been filled; no Hispanic. There are three positions to be filled.
Social Security Administration

Tennessee Valley Authority

Trade Development Agency

United States Agency for International Development

No position has been filled. There are 10 positions to be filled.
United States Election Assistance Commission

No position has been filled. There are no known positions to be filled.
United States International Trade Commission

No Hispanics have been appointed by the President to any of these 45 Independent Agencies. Eight of 83
positions have been filled to date, none by a Hispanic. There are 75 positions yet to be filled, which provide an
excellent opportunity for qualified Hispanics to be appointed and for the Obama Administration to improve on
its record.
Conclusion. While NHLA commends the President for his commitment to change, there is none to be seen with
regard to personnel. Hispanics are under-represented at the sub-cabinet and senior staff levels, and on the
White House staff Of the countless number of positions filled to date by the Administration, including senior
advisors, Cabinet, sub-cabinet, White House staff, and senior staff in major departments, only 58 have been
filled by Hispanics. This is not change. This is more of the same, below target. More announcements of
Latinos being nominated for Senate confirmation required positions are expected in the coming days, weeks and
months, which will undoubtedly improve what has been accomplished during the President's first 100 days.
NHLA would respectfully suggest to the President that he impress upon his Cabinet Secretaries, senior White
House staff and the Office of White House Personnel, and the Office of Personnel Management that they need
to be more attentive to the serious under-representation of Hispanics in the Obama Administration. NHLA
respectfully urges the President to order an agency-by-agency review of the hiring process being utilized and
request a "Plan for Change and Improvement" from each department as it pertains to appointing more Latinos
for high level positions, and urge him to call for a comprehensive report on Hispanic employment in 90 days.
The 16 departments surveyed in this report have a combined total of 205 vacancies which would be the logical
place to start implementing a "Plan for Change and Improvement" and increasing the number of high-ranking
Hispanics in the Obama Administration including Senior Executive Service level positions.
The all but total lack of Hispanic appointments to councils in the Executive Office of the President, as well as to
Regulatory Agencies and Independent Agencies, is a great source of disappointment to NHLA and leaves very
much room for improvement. NHLA respectfully urges the President to order a thorough review of all
applications submitted to identify qualified Hispanic candidates for possible appointment to boards,
commissions, and agencies, and to request more applications if necessary.
NHLA remains committed to working with the President, the Office of Presidential Personnel, and all
departments to assist in identifying qualified Hispanics to serve in the Obama Administration, but realizes that
the direction and enforcement must come from the President.
Finally, we commend the President for the aggressive steps he has taken to address tough issues of public policy
that, while affecting all Americans, have disproportionately had an adverse affect on the Latino community, i.e.,
mortgage foreclosures, unemployment, education, health (SCHIP), small businesses and immigration
reform. NHLA also looks forward to working with the President and his Administration on specific proposals
that affect all Americans and the Hispanic community particularly, pertaining to education, civil rights,
immigration, economic empowerment, health, and governmental accountability.
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NHLA reaffirms its unqualified commitment to continue working with the President and those in his
Administration to help get America back on the right track and moving again.
For further information:

Dr. Juan Andrade via email at docandrade@ushli.organd by phone at (312) 371-5826.
National Institute for Latino Policy (NiLP)
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RELEASE IN
PART B6
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To:
Subject:
Attachments:
on behalf of Jackie Newmyer

newmyer
Friday, May 1, 2009 7:06 PM
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update
Newmyer USCC testimony 30 April 2009.doc
Dear Secretary Clinton,

I am seeing Michelle on Tuesday at 3 pm. Thank you very much for making this happen, and I will let you know how the
meeting goes.
Congratulations on all the glowing first 100 days reviews. Hope your testimony yesterday went well. Mine is attached,
fyi.
All best, and thank you again, Jackie
Jacqueline Newmyer
President, Long Term Strategy Group
12 Eliot St., Cambridge, MA 02138
B6
617-661-1626 (fax)
www.ltstrategy.com
RELEASE IN FULL
Mr/s Chairman, Members of the Commission, Thank you for the invitation to speak
today on this timely subject.
My testimony will address how Chinese foreign-directed information operations figure
into the People's Republic of China's (PRC's) broader strategy as it rises, and my
remarks will be structured around what the Chinese themselves are saying and writing
about foreign-directed information operations in their internal reports. After reviewing a
representative sample of the Chinese reports, I'll move to the logic behind their approach,
or where it comes from, and finally, what China's aims are, before offering a preliminary
assessment of their success. To give you a preview, my answer is, clearly, yes, the
Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leadership is trying to influence or shape American
perceptions of, and policies toward, China. Mainly, up to now, these efforts have been in
the direction of reassurance, to allay US concerns about China's economic rise, military
build-up, and increasing political and diplomatic influence.
Let me begin by referring to a Chinese report addressing the need for, and character of,
foreign-directed strategic information capabilities. This article, a kind of roadmap for
foreign-directed information campaigns, appeared in a February 2009 Reference News
(Cankao Xiaoxi) outlet, and it was translated by the American Open Source Center, along
with the other articles that I am going to cite today. Reference News publications come
out of a special branch of the official Chinese news agency Xinhua that is charged with
preparing information and analysis for senior cadres. In theory, the circulation of these
Reference News reports is limited to high-ranking Party members. To be sure, I am not
about to quote a policy document but rather an analytical piece. It seems to be
representative of a certain cast of mind, however, as we will see. The article from
February refers to "national public relations weapons," which it defines: "By national
public relations, we mean dialogues between nations or between a country and relevant
stake holders against the backdrop of competition over power and interest."
The need to "set the agenda for foreign media" is explicitly stressed. Under a subhead of
the article called "Media Diplomacy: Breaking the Siege of Public Opinion in the West,"
the author writes:
It is obvious that the West still has the upper hand while the East remains weak...
Whenever there is an agenda dispute, international public opinion will form a force
that involves the West's besieging the East.
And the article proceeds to explain:
Influencing and setting the foreign media agenda fully embodies a rule of the game
in modern society that is, whoever can influence the media agenda can influence
the public agenda... The foreign media are not a taxi on the road that can be flagged
when one needs it and shoved away when one does not need it.
In other words, the foreign press has to be cultivated, so that when a crisis strikes, certain
outlets can be counted upon to report favorably on China.
How can this be achieved? "Foreign media outlets should be given special treatment so
that they will not be forced to unite and form a confrontational alliance." In other words,
divide them, or keep them divided. The article elaborates on this question, emphasizing
the need to "provide them with specialized information..." That is, grant privileges to
encourage positive coverage.
Under the same heading of "Breaking the Siege of Public Opinion in the West," the
article also offers general precepts such as,
When a negative event occurs, [the authorities] should not order the media to shut up.
Public opinion is like a big container. The more information you inject.., the less
space there is for other people's views and ability to return fire.
In other words, flood the zone.
More specifically, under the heading of "Lobbying," the author writes:
We need to influence the influential. In every country, there are famous
commentators and writers, and they are the media and public focus. With the
support of these foreign 'eloquent speakers' and writers, the national public relations
drive can yield twice the results with half the effort. In addition, it is necessary to
fully mobilize overseas elites and [overseas] Chinese who are 'familiar with
China.' ... [Because they] understand the cultural environment abroad, they can be
good assistants in China's public relations.
Where does all this come from? Whence this talk of a "siege of public opinion," "national
public relations weapons," and the like? It flows from a tradition that stresses the role of
information in political and geopolitical interactions that is, in both domestic and
foreign strategy. I'd go so far as to say that the Chinese tradition puts managing
perceptions at the heart of strategy. This is evident from Sun Zi's injunction to know the
enemy and oneself to the CCP's extensive domestic propaganda and information
management efforts, which have been explored by scholars such as Anne-Marie Brady,
David Shambaugh, Daniel Lynch and Ashley Esarey, among others. Perhaps most
relevant for our purposes, the emphasis on information in China's strategic culture is
evident in Deng Xiaoping's famous injunction that China should "bide its time and hide
its capabilities," which can only be understood as a call to shape the data that reaches
foreigners, in this case to conceal certain data.
In this connection, consider the formulation designed to influence how foreigners
understand China's increased power on the world stage, "peaceful rise." The line,
promulgated by Zheng Bijian in 2002, was later changed to "peaceful development," lest
the word "rise" provoke anxiety and undermine the intended effect of reassuring
foreigners about China's trajectory. But before this change took hold, Zheng slipped up
in a September 2004 Shanghai TV appearance, as quoted in a recent China Quarterly
article by Daniel Lynch: "Working in this way [touting the "peaceful rise] has its
advantages in obtaining greater understanding, sympathy and support, in winning

discourse power on the question of China's development path, in winning discourse
power in the international sphere... It is all extremely advantageous, and there is
absolutely no downside." This is a pretty stunning shift from insisting that "peaceful
rise" is an earnest description of China's present and future to describing the label as
instrumental, a tool for "winning discourse power."
Now Zheng is affiliated with the Central Party School of the Chinese Communist Party,
but he has been a senior member of the Party's propaganda apparatus, an extensive
network of offices that exists behind the official bureaucracy, since the 1960s. Zheng is
never identified this way in Chinese Western-language news outlets. Further, the Party
School is often referred to as a Chinese think tank. Is this an institution just like our
Brookings or AEI? No. In another recent article called "It Is Difficult for Chinese Think
Tanks to Learn from the American Model," the author explicitly notes the differences:
"US private think tanks are in ... a thriving state. This is unique in the entire world, ... a
byproduct of ... the US dual-party election system... fundamentally different from the
domestic conditions of China." Therefore, "one is afraid that what China think tanks can
learn from US think tanks is more about micro-level management and operational
models." In other words, because most Chinese think tanks are sponsored by the Party,
while American think tanks are private, all Chinese think tanks can learn from their US
counterparts is internal organizational details.
A different recent piece, "China Must Have Strong Nongovernmental Diplomatic
Power,' published in a Chinese People 's Daily [Renmin Ribao] outlet that tracks foreign
opinion on China for senior cadres, reviews the fundamental differences between the
United States and China in the think tank realm, and assesses that China is at a
disadvantage:
The diversified nongovernmental forces have provided US diplomacy with multiple
abilities to set up various agendas. In the meantime, China can do nothing but rely on
its government's single-track diplomacy. This has placed China in a passive position,
in which it is hard to cope with the situation, as if it is shooting mosquitoes with a
cannon.
The article goes on to say that to avoid embarrassments like the crackdown on free Tibet
protestors in the run-up to the Olympics, China must unleash overseas Chinese to counter
Western public expressions of sympathy for Tibet.
What is this talk of "discourse power in the international sphere" and "shooting
mosquitoes" about? Well, with regard to the United States and the lines about "biding
time, and hiding capabilities" and "peaceful rise," we can be sure that there is an effort to
keep America friendly and complacent. But there is also increasing realism in the
Chinese reports about the continuing feasibility of this approach as China passes through
different stages of modernization and development and starts to assume roles associated
with great powers.
From the "national public relations" document that I quoted at the outset, here is a
description of a natural evolution for China's foreign-directed information campaigns:
China's public relations drive is not a.. .competition that involves waging a quick
battle, but what Chairman Mao.. .described as a 'long-running battle.' According to
Chairman Mao, a long-running battle involved three stages: defense, confrontation,
and counterattack. From the strategic level of national public relations, the defense
stage comprises passive defense and active defense. We divide the confrontation
period into two parts: confrontation resulting from both sides being well matched in
strength, and [then] dialogue brought about by a balance of power. The counterattack
stage involves attacking and conquering.
Within the PRC today, there seems to be significant discussion of whether China can
continue to bide its time or whether China will be compelled to shift its foreign-directed
information efforts. The roadmap article concludes, "While we should not demonstrate
toughness characteristic of the confrontation stage and the counterattack stage, we cannot
continue making the kind of unprincipled compromises or maintaining the unrestrained
modesty that marks the passive defense stage."
In addition to shifting the message directed at the United States, China may accelerate its
wooing of other countries. Perhaps inspired by the idea of "soft power," the Chinese
seem to believe that a competition exists in the realm of "international public opinion."
A January 2008 analysis by the scholar Yan Xuetong, published in a journal of the
Chinese Institute of Contemporary International Relations (CICIR), a "think tank" with
ties to the Ministry of State Security, which oversees Chinese counterintelligence, argues
that "if a country has relatively many strategically friendly countries, it is likely to win
support from other countries." According to Yan, the United States has an advantage in
allies, or "international mobilization ability," but this can be eroded in three to five years
if China properly "positions" itself or manipulates impressions of China's "identity":
We may think of repositioning China's international identity and expanding the
homogeneity between China and other countries in identity. Economically, China
may position itself as a burgeoning modern country, being between a developed and
underdeveloped country. Politically, China may position itself as a democratizing
country, ... between a democratic country and ... [an autocracy]. Culturally, China
may position itself as a Confucian country, between a religious and a nonreligious
country...
I have been talking about Chinese intentions up to now. To conclude, I would like to turn
to an assessment of effects. But effects are difficult to measure, in part because any
judgment requires addressing the counterfactual question, Would we have acted as we
have in the absence of Chinese foreign-directed information campaigns? As a
preliminary answer, let me adduce the article "Have China Scholars All Been Bought,"
by the Hong Kong-based professor Carsten Holz. Holz begins, "Academics who study
China, which includes the author, habitually please the Chinese Communist Party,
sometimes consciously, and often unconsciously." Consider, too, the words of one of the
most senior American scholars of China, Orville Schell:
I try to say, 'Okay, here is what I think, what I understand, what I think I see, have
learned and read.' Then, I try and think through what the Chinese government's
reaction will be... And then I try to be as truthful as I can in a way that is respectful
and unprovocative but that is not pandering. China has a tremendously highly
evolved capacity to create panderers both among its own people and foreigners who
become involved with them.
Where is all of this going if China succeeds in reassuring the United States while
increasing its "international mobilization ability"? That's a subject for a different hearing,
I think. Thank you again, and I look forward to your questions.
-7'
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This news just broke. Karzai call is at noon.

Challenger withdraws from race to unseat Afghan president
KABUL (Reuters) One of the top candidates expected to bid to unseat Afghan President Karzai withdrew abruptly from
the election race, dealing a blow to opposition hopes of fielding a contender with a broad enough base to win.
Gul Agha Sherzai, popular governor of Nangarhar Province and a former anti-Soviet guerrilla commander, had been in
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Holbrooke
He called again this morning.

Asking to talk to you before 9am.
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Today
This is what you will be receiving today:

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- 12pm: phone call from ops connecting you to karzai. Your call sheet was in louis last night.
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This is what you will be receiving today:
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- 12pm: phone call from ops connecting you to karzai. Your call sheet was in louis last night.
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Sunday, May 3, 2009 8:34 AM
H; 'ValmoroLl@state.gov'; 'habedin
Re: Tomorrow
Can be easily done. We will work on it and send you revised schedule.
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Subject: Tomorrow
How late could I come tomorrow if you were able to move things?
12 shuttle or even later if possible.
would like to take the 11 or
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Iran: US journalist's case will get fair review

TEHRAN, Iran Iran's foreign minister assured his visiting Japanese counterpart that the case of an American journalist
imprisoned in Tehran for allegedly spying for the United States will get a fair review on appeal. Foreign Minister
Manouchehr Mottaki said 32-year-old Roxana Saberi's appeal will be "reviewed justly and humanely." He spoke at a
joint news conference Saturday with Japan's Hirofumi Nakasone, who expressed concern over the case during his visit to
Iran. Saberi is a dual Iranian-American citizen who was born in Fargo, North Dakota. Her father is Iranian and her
mother is Japanese. She was arrested in January in Tehran and sentenced last month to eight years in prison after a oneday trial behind closed doors. Her case has raised an international outcry
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Tomorrow
Here is what we can do if you take the 1pm shuttle. Do u want to still do press or move to tuesday? I also think we can
clear your schedule tomorrow and move things into the rest of week so u can stay in fly.
Afternoon Meeting with the FM Armenia
3:00pm Meeting with Joe Klein
3:30pm
3:45pm Meeting with David Ignatius
4:15pm
4:15pm Brief Meeting with Jim Smith,
4:30pm (saudi amb choice)
4:30pmBrief Meeting with Steve Radelet, MCC choice 4:45pm
5:00pm Meeting with Shimon Peres
(He's now saying he can't go to state. So we may have to move to tuesday)
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I've been working on it.

We can clear tomorrow.
We will insert schedule into the rest of the week and send you a revised line block.
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If we can clear schedule tomorrow that's best but I don't want to offend the Armenians or Azeris. Can you send me what
Tues-Fri would look like if we did that? Also we have the Trilateral plus Lavrov
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Subject: Tomorrow
clear your schedule tomorrow and move things into the rest of week so u can stay in ny.
3:30pm
4:15pm
4:30pmBrief Meeting with Steve Radelet, MCC choice 4:45pm
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Sunday, May 3, 2009 11:36 AM
Re: Tomorrow
Moving everything now. You had no press anyway so all is easily done.
You won't be canceling anything, just adding things to tues, wed and thurs.
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Sent: Sun May 03 11:23:19 2009
I've been working on it.
We can clear tomorrow.
We will insert schedule into the rest of the week and send you a revised line block.
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If we can clear schedule tomorrow that's best but I don't want to offend the Armenians or Azeris. Can you send me what
Tues-Fri would look like if we did that? Also we have the Trilateral plus Lavrov
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clear your schedule tomorrow and move things into the rest of week so u can stay in ny.
3:30pm
4:15pm
4:30pmBrief Meeting with Steve Rade let, MCC choice 4:45pm
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; ValmoroU@state.govl <VaIrnoroU@state.gov>
Are you sure there is no PC Monday on Pakistan?
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Sunday, May 3, 2009 3:08 PM
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I will triple check now.
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Subject: Tomorrow
Are you sure there is no PC Monday on Pakistan?
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Holbrooke just called for u
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Monday, May 4, 2009 9:08 AM
RE: Followup
Got it
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Pls find a copy of the movie "Pray the Devil Back to Hell" about the war in Liberia.
Add Gloria Steinem to my call list.
Pls find a copy of the new Mary Pipher book, "Seeking Peace: Chronicles of the Worst Buddhist in the World."
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Yes, everything is being readjusted including the personnel meetings. Angolan FM -- yes, I can set that up. And yes,
invited to the Initiative for Global Development but after running the invitation by senior staff here and having a candid
conversation with Suzy George (Albright is not pushing this event), the recommendation was to decline especially given
how hectic this week is going to be.
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Subject: Schedule
A few items:
Are you able to move everything from today to later in the week? What about the personnel meetings?
Am I seeing the Angolan FM when he visits May 19-22?
Was I invited by Powell and Albright to attend the Initiative for Global Development event this Wed-Thurs at the Willard
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H; HAbedin
RE: Schedule
One more item -- I am sure you noticed on the line block the possible meeting with Peres around 9:00am. If we were to
do this meeting, we would have to go to his hotel in Woodley Park -- we asked if he would come to State and they
pushed back. Do you feel strongly about doing this meeting or should I go ahead and let them know we need to take a
pass this time?
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A few items:
Are you able to move everything from today to later in the week? What about the personnel meetings?
Am I seeing the Angolan FM when he visits May 19-22?
Was I invited by Powell and Albright to attend the Initiative for Global Development event this Wed-Thurs at the Willard
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Re: Fw: Some intel for you...
The below report is not consistent with what I know, which is as follows:
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On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 9:39 AM, H <HDR22@clintonemai1.com> wrote:

Do you know anything about this--from any angle?
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Sent: Mon May 04 09:36:17 2009
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This is about Sri Lankan Govt and the Tigers...
I have a good source.
This was shared to me at my and Karen's Derby Party yesterday (can you
believe the 50 to 1 odds winner?).
There was a meeting held with Geitner asked for and led by IMF... They
told him you were intruding into his domain by ordering/telling IMF to
suspend funding to Sri Lakan Govt.
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My take is that the people on the ground both with World Bank and IMF
believe the Tigers need to be completely defeated and any collateral
damage inflicted on private people by SL govt in process is ok... They
also believe Tigers are better at propaganda than SL govt...
I have no idea what reality is... I know all about the conflict because
there's been so much written over time but no idea of reality on ground.
My point is that IMF/World Bank is hoping to get Geitner to intervene

and they recently played to his sense of who is US point person on
IMF... So, that's what I know. I'll keep my ears open.
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Call
Dennis ross wants to talk to you.
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He's in cairo. Saying after 2:30 is ideal. Secure is better. You can call from the grey phone.
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Is he back in the country? Does it need to be secure?
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Dennis ross wants to talk to you.
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FW: Support for Italian Restoration of Cultural Monuments
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From: Smith, Daniel B
Sent: Monday, May 04, 2009 2:31 PM
To: Mills, Cheryl D; 'AmbEFBagley
Balderston, Kris M
Cc: Abedin, Huma; 'Jake Sullivan'
Subject: RE: Support for Italian Restoration of Cultural Monuments
Berlusconi had asked that each donor country "adopt" a damaged cultural heritage monument, but EUR seems to think
that the Italians would welcome the U.S. initiative which might include help in repairing physical damage to the
University itself but would concentrate primarily on development of human capital. One of Ambassador Bagley's
suggestions was that we work with the Italian Ambassador here, who is well connected to the Prime Minister, to ensure
a positive Italian response.
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Balderston, Kris M
Is this what the Italians want though?
To: Mills, Cheryl D; 'AmbEFBagley
Balderston, Kris M
Cheryl,
Ambassador Bagley and Kris joined representatives from EUR and ECA today to review where things stand with
respect to launching a public/private partnership in response to PM Berlusconi's appeal to the President. EUR and ECA
will be sending up today a follow-up action memo to the Secretary asking that she approve in principle a partnership in
conjunction with the National Italian American Foundation (NIAF) that would focus largely on raising money for
academic exchanges for students from L'Aquila University, the school of higher education most affected by the
earthquake. This is not exactly the monument rebuilding that PM Berlusconi initially proposed, but it is something very
much in keeping with our mission and of interest to NIAF. Ambassador Bagley and Kris had a number of suggestions that
will help EUR and ECA as we move forward especially in selecting the right people to help with fund raising and making
sure the Italian Government welcomes this initiative. Dan
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Dan Smith, the Secretary's Executive Secretary, will be connecting you with folks in EUR and ECA with respect to a
commitment from the Secretary to assist Italy in the restoration post-earthquake of certain cultural monuments.
Best.
cdm
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Kazakhstan bilat
Holbrooke would like to attend the Kazakhstan bilat. Bill Burns will attend, as will the ambassador and Richard
Boucher. I recall that you thought it didn't make sense for Holbrooke to join the Menon bilat (which Burns also
attended) so I wanted to check with you to see if you had views on this.
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Got it.
On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 4:08 PM, H <HDR22@clintonemail.com> wrote:

Ok w me. India raised issues that this doesn't.
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Holbrooke would like to attend the Kazakhstan bilat. Bill Burns will attend, as will the ambassador and
Richard Boucher. I recall that you thought it didn't make sense for Holbrooke to join the Menon bilat (which
Burns also attended) so I wanted to check with you to see if you had views on this.
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FW: [InsidersOut] my latest: Iraqi Gays Face Gruesome Torture/ Murder Technique
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From: Richard Soca rides

To: Cheryl Mills1; Cheryl Mills; Melanne Verveer; Jim Kennedyl
Subject: Fwd: [InsidersOut] my latest: Iraqi Gays Face Gruesome Torture/ Murder Technique
You guys will have to deal with this at some point if not already.
Iraqi Gays Face Gruesome Torture/ Murder

Technique
By: DOUG IRELAND
GAY CITY NEWS, 04/30/2009
http://gavcitynews.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=20307475&BRD=2729&PAG=461&dept id=569346&rfi=6
As the murder campaign targeting Iraqi gays intensifies, a leading Arabic television network last week revealed the use of
a horrifying new form of lethal torture against Iraqi gay men - anti-gay Shiite death squads are sealing their anuses with a
powerful glue, then inducing diarrhea, which leads to a painful and agonizing death. The use of this stomach-turning new
torture was first reported by the Al Arabiya network, which is headquartered in the United Arab Emirates and was alerted
to the story by a leading Iraqi feminist and human rights activist.
Yanar Mohammed, president of the Organization of Women's Freedom in Iraq (OWFI), told Al Arabiya that the torture
substance "is an Iranian-manufactured glue that, if applied to the skin, sticks to it and can only be removed by surgery.
After they glue the anuses of homosexuals, they give them a drink that causes diarrhea. Since the anus is closed, the
diarrhea causes death. Videos of this form of torture are being distributed on mobile telephones in Iraq."
Al Arabiya said its reporter confirmed the use of this anal torture by "visiting the Baghdad morgue in Bab-al-Moazaam in
central Baghdad, where Neman Mohsen, the medical examiner, confirmed they have the bodies of seven homosexuals
in the morgue. He said, 'We were not able to identify the culprits, who dumped the bodies in front of the morgue and fled
without being seen." A two-person team from Human Rights Watch (HRW) currently in Iraq to investigate persecution of
LGBT people has also confirmed the use of this form of torture. In a widely-circulated email from Iraq, the head of HRW's
LGBT desk, Scott Long, said he and his colleague had gathered evidence which confirms the Al Arabiya report and that
HRW would make its own detailed report after the organization's two staffers return to the United States next week.
OWFI's Mohammed, the woman responsible for gathering information about the use of this sadistic anal torture and
passing it on to Al Arabiya, told Gay City News that "the story was so horrific that when I first heard it from gay friends I
didn't believe it. But then I investigated and found it was really true that the anuses of gay men were being glued shut."
Speaking by telephone from Toronto, where she was on a brief visit to relatives before a scheduled return to Iraq next
week, Mohammed told this reporter that, "Fortunately, Al Arabiya has a very good human rights reporter, to whom I told
what I had found, and he was able to confirm it by visiting the morgue."
She said that "many older women in my organization.were quite opposed to taking up the question of the persecution of
homosexuals and didn't understand why it was important. But I firmly believe that misogyny and homophobia are two
sides of the same coin, and that we had a duty to speak out against the persecution of gays in Iraq, which is so little
known that I was surprised by the extent of it when I began to look into it."
Mohammed, 49, is well known for her courageous human rights work. She co-founded OWFI in Baghdad in June 2003 in
the wake of the U.S. invasion and occupation, and the organization has led campaigns against so-called honor killings,
the abduction of women, and trafficking in women and children. She also co-founded Iraq's first feminist newspaper, Al
Mousawat (Equality), which has been published quarterly for the last three years. Trained as an architect, Mohammed told
Gay City News she has abandoned that profession to work full time for OWFI. She has received numerous awards for her
work for women's rights and human rights, including the Eleanor Roosevelt Global Rights Award given by the US Feminist
Majority Foundation.
Ali Hili, the 33-year-old gay Iraqi exile who coordinates the association Iraqi LGBT, which is headquartered in London but
has members and informants throughout Iraq, told Gay City News that he has also been able to confirm the use of lethal
anal torture. "We have had reports, increasingly over the last four or five days, about the use of this technique not just in
Baghdad but in smaller town and cities all over Iraq," Hili said by telephone. "We have reports on seven young men who
have been through this horrible experience in which they were arrested in the south of Iraq and had their anuses sealed,
or 'locked' as the torturers say. Our sources told us that hospitals all over Iraq's southern region have received so many
cases of similar incidents where men have had their anuses glued, but that what makes the situation even worse and
more lethal is that they have been refused treatment in hospitals when they sought it because of homophobia."
As of this week, Hili and Iraqi LGBT have documented 617 cases of assassinations of LGBT people since a death-to-allgays fatwa was issued by Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, the spiritual leader of all Shiite muslims in Iraq, in 2005. The
murder campaign of "sexual cleansing" of homosexuals has intensified in recent months, with 70 new killings since
December alone (see this reporter's April 16-29 article, "Iraqi Gay Murders Surge; World Finally Takes Note").
Now, Hili says, "I have just received word of seven new murders of gays in one week, last week." He provided Gay City
News with the names and towns of origin of the most recent victims of the anti-gay-death squads. They are Abbas Mosa,
33, from Al Hay; Saeed Majeed, 27, from Al Samawa; Jabar Khothayer, 19, from Al Dewaniya; Majed Alawi, 41, from Al
Hindiya; Hazim Hussein, age unknown, from Al Najaf; Mohammed Qasim, 25, from Al Dewaniya; and Rama Sabri, 19,
from Al Mohanawiya.
At the same time, the Iraqi news website niqash.org reported last week that "AI-Baghdadiya, a satellite television channel
based in Cairo... broadcast a report on April 7 saying that 20 young men accused of homosexuality were taken to Ibn alNafis hospital in Baghdad with mutilated genitals."
Hili told Gay City News that much of the most recent wave of assassinations appears to be the work of the Mahdi Army,
the militia led by fundamentalist Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr. He said that one of Iraqi LGBT's informants "is connected
to high-ranking religious within the Mahdi Army, and he has been told of a campaign to target anyone who is suspected of
being gay." Increasingly, Hili said, leaflets and "Wanted" posters are appearing with lists of men targeted to be killed for
what are called "crimes against morality," meaning homosexuality. A list of Iraqi LGBT members to be eliminated is also
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Yes. There isn't. Ann Manes team brainstormed on ideas for a day long session and celebration but didn't materialize.
We looked into doing something else last week but given the swine flu outbreak, most people were either canceling or
toning down things. Dan Smith said that even the mexican embassy isn't doing what they normally did either.
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What happened w our plans for this? There's nothing about it on my schedule so I assume nothing is happening.
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Yes, we have donuts this morning. We will have cake and ice cream for later. 191 find a time at the end of the day. You
are wide open at the end of the day, so it will be easy.
Also, as FYI, we will do another little "get-together" on Friday to send-off Jen to Brussels. So I figure we can do the cake
and ice cream today, and then do wine and snacks on Friday.
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EUR tells me that they have engaged fully with Ambassador Bagley and Kris Balderston on this project, and that
Ambassador Bagley has spoken with the Italian Ambassador and reviewed the proposed approach. She said he thought
that it sounded like a good plan and would be warmly received. They are ready to convene a meeting with the NIAF
President as soon as the Secretary approves the action memo.
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Cheryl,
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We should discuss.
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How did your dinner w Paul go? When will we know?
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Calls
Calls with turks will not take place this morning.
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Carolyn maloney called for you.
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Times just didn't work. We are looking for different times today.
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Obama is morphing into old rival Clinton

By: Alex Conant
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Politico
A year ago today, Barack Obama won the North Carolina and Indiana primaries, leading the late Tim Russert to famously
declare, "We now know who the Democratic nominee will be, and nobody is going to dispute it."
Russert was right, but Hillary Clinton, nevertheless, kept campaigning for several more weeks, fueled by her supporters'
convictions that her proposals were better than Obama's.
After barely 100 days in office, it now appears Obama agrees: Since taking office, he has dropped virtually every position
that distinguished him from Clinton.
Granted, there were not many policy differences between Obama and Clinton during the campaign. But those that existed
were sharply debated and helped Obama define himself as the pragmatic change agent that many voters now believe him
to be.
Take Iraq. Obama never missed an opportunity on the campaign trail to remind Democrats that he was the sole candidate
to oppose the war in 2002, and unlike Clinton he had a hard date for ending the war. Clinton repeatedly questioned
the wisdom and sincerity of Obama's pledge to remove all combat troops from Iraq within 16 months of taking office. It
was the biggest difference between the two candidates and one of the top reasons Obama won the nomination.
Yet just weeks after entering office, Obama largely dropped his campaign plan. Rather than withdraw all combat troops on
a set timeline, Obama opted for a conditions-based withdrawal that will leave as many as 50,000 troops in the war zone at
the end of 2011 exactly the sort of drawdown he maligned Clinton for proposing.
Health care is another example. While Obama was outflanking Clinton on the left on Iraq, she made up for it by criticizing
his health care plan as inadequate. Both candidates claimed to support universal health care, but only Clinton's plan
included a government mandate that would force all Americans to have health insurance.
Primary voters will recall Clinton and Obama endlessly debating this, with Clinton accusing Obama of leaving about 15
million people without health care and Obama warning voters that Clinton's plan would require "harsh, stiff penalties on
those who don't purchase it."
Just as with Iraq, Obama is now moving toward Clinton's position. His budget outline proposes a health care plan that
"must put the United States on a clear path to cover all Americans." That strongly suggests a mandate, since any
volunteer system would see some opting out. As Ezra Klein reported in The American Prospect when the administration's
health care plan began to leak out, "Despite the controversy over the individual mandate in the campaign, [Obama's team]
will support it."
Some of the most significant differences between Clinton and Obama focused on governing. One of Obama's first
breakthrough moments was at the YearlyKos convention in August 2007, when Clinton defended her relationships with
lobbyists, saying "a lot of those lobbyists, whether you like it not, represent real Americans." Drawing a sharp contrast,
Obama promised to ban anyone who had recently worked as a lobbyist from serving in his administration.
But that promise was broken even before he took office, when the president-elect chose several lobbyists for high-level
posts, including deputy secretaries at the Defense and Health and Human Services departments. (Ironically, Obama even
nominated a lobbyist to be an assistant secretary of state under Clinton.)
Obama's campaign also made Clinton's partisanship an issue. In a thinly veiled reference to Clinton's poor standing
among Republicans, his stump speech included overt pleas for Republican support. Presenting himself as a post-partisan
leader, he promised to forge a new era of bipartisanship in Washington.
As Obama confessed at his prime-time press conference last week, he's fallen short on that front, too. Since taking office,
the president's agenda has been demonstrably partisan; nearly every bill he has so far signed into law passed Congress
on a party-line vote. If Clinton were sitting in the Oval Office instead of Obama, it's hard to imagine how Washington would
be any more partisan.
Clinton lost the battle for the Democratic nomination, but a year later, it appears her campaign has won the war of ideas
within the Democratic Party.
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Funding for railroads in and out of Afghanistan is on the agenda of next week's Regional Economic
Cooperation Conference on Afghanistan in Islamabad. We are aiming for the Asia Development Bank
to agree to fund feasibility studies for railroad. If ADB agrees, then we will link up Dr Danspeckgruber
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TESTIMONY BEFORE HOUSE APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE

SUBCOMMITTEE ON STATE/FOREIGN OPERATIONS
MAY 13 2009
DEPUTY SECRETARY OF STATE JACOB J. LEW
DEPARTMENT OF STATE
Fiscal 2010 State-Foreign Operations Appropriations
Introduction: A New American Leadership
Madam Chairwoman, Representative Granger, members of the subcommittee, it is an

honor to appear before you today to discuss the principles and priorities that underlie
President Obama's international affairs budget request for 2010. During our first months
in office, the Obama Administration has launched an ambitious foreign policy agenda,
recognizing, as the President has said, that the challenges of our time will not wait for
sequencing. The United States confronts what may well be the most complex array of
threats in our history -- Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan, terrorism, climate change,
pandemic disease, extreme poverty, nuclear proliferation, and global criminal networks.
American leadership remains essential. But we cannot meet these threats alone. Nor can
we use only one set of tools. Tackling these challenges successfully -- and seizing the
opportunity to help build a more peaceful and prosperous world -- requires robust
partnerships, greater capacity, and stronger institutions. It also means that we must invest
more in the programs and people with the skills and capabilities to address these complex
challenges.
This approach is what Secretary of State Clinton has called "smart power." As she has
explained, only through the appropriate use of smart power -- harnessing the tools of
diplomacy, development and defense -- will we succeed. These three pillars of smart
power are essential to prevent and deter conflict and emerging threats.
The resources in this budget fund the operational elements required to support two pillars
of our smart-power strategy -- diplomacy and development. We know that the key to our
security and prosperity is a stable and secure world. And we also know that our power
does not just come from our military might, but from our values, our capacity to form
strong partnerships, and our ability to improve the lives of others so we do not pay the
price of global poverty, instability, and ultimately, conflict. This budget represents a
fraction of what our government spends each year on what has traditionally been defined
as national security, reflecting the cost-effectiveness of prevention through diplomacy
and development.
That is why the Secretary of Defense has come to Congress and asked that more
resources be devoted to foreign affairs. As Secretary Gates said in his recent testimony
with Secretary Clinton, "I believe that the challenges confronting our nation cannot be
dealt with by military means alone. They instead require whole-of-government
approaches -- but that can only be done if the State Department is given resources
befitting the scope of its mission across the globe. This is particularly important in
Afghanistan and Pakistan, where our ability to provide resources beyond military power
will be the decisive factor." Or, as Senators Kerry and Lugar noted in their successful
bipartisan effort to fully fund international affairs in the Budget Resolution, "From
pandemics to climate change to failed states, this century's security challenges demand a
new level of commitment to diplomacy and development. With this relatively small
investment, we are making significant strides toward restoring America's leadership role
in the world."
This budget -- a total of $53.9 billion, of which $48.6 billion is for the State Department
and USAID -- is a 9 percent increase over the total FY 2009 funding level, including
supplemental appropriations. It reflects the Obama Administration's commitment to
fiscal discipline and transparency by shifting funding for predictable and recurring
programs, previously funded in emergency supplemental appropriations, into the
FY 2010 request.
.We understand that this is a difficult moment to ask the American people to support even
a modest increase in spending overseas. At the same time, the American people
understand that our future security depends on avoiding future conflicts that will force us
to pay a terrible cost in lives and dollars. Humanitarian objectives are also security
requirements. Children need basic education to pursue opportunities rather than hatred;
parents need jobs to reject the appeal of extremists who often seem to offer the only way
to support their families; and for many, survival requires minimal access to basic health
care services. With this request, we seek to strengthen America's position of global
leadership -- ensuring that we remain a force for peace and prosperity in the world,
advancing our own security even as we expand the circle of dignity and opportunity for
people left outside of it.
Five Smart Power Funding Objectives
First, we must build the civilian capacity within the Department of State and USAID
necessary for 21st Century missions.
Our diplomatic and development missions have evolved. Foreign and civil service
personnel deploy alongside the military in Afghanistan and Iraq, reaching far beyond
embassy walls to connect with citizens and communities whose support we enlist to
suppress insurgency and drive out enemies like the Taliban and al-Qaeda. They build the
capacity of fledgling political parties, ministries, and trade associations. They help create
the conditions for economic growth and democratic progress, and lay the groundwork for
expanded access to health, education, and other basic needs. And they build the alliances
necessary to use smart power; including multilateral engagement and private sector
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collaboration. Our diplomatic and development teams are increasingly posted in

situations that resemble military conditions rather than traditional diplomatic
assignments. We simply cannot spread our workforce thinner, and thinner without
increasing the risk that while we address a current hotspot we are missing an opportunity
to prevent the next crisis or engage in such a way as to build new and capable partners.
The FY 2010 budget requests $283 million to support adding over 740 new Foreign
Service personnel at the Department of State, a significant step toward achieving a 25
percent increase in State Foreign Service personnel over four years. I want to call special
attention, however, to our efforts to rebuild USAID, where, as many of you have noted,
human resources have significantly eroded over the past decade, even as we have ramped
up development activities and our expectations of our lead development institution. The
FY 2010 request includes a 45 percent increase in USAID operations to support adding
an additional 350 new permanent USAID Foreign Service Officers and related capital
improvements under the Agency's Development Leadership Initiative. The FY 2010
budget puts the USAID on a path to double its Foreign Service officers by 2012. The
budget also would provide the resources needed to train the expanded workforces of both
State and USAID with the language, diplomatic, development and managerial skills
necessary for their mission, and allow us to increase civilian presence and leadership in
places like Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Iraq.
We must not only expand our reach but improve our management and oversight capacity.
We see contract reform as a critical component of that effort. In FY 1990, USAID
employed nearly 3,500 permanent direct hires administering $5 billion a year in
assistance. As of FY 2008, USAID employed about 2,200 permanent direct hires
administering $13.2 billion in assistance. USAID's ability to provide strategic direction
and appropriate oversight is clearly challenged at this level. This diminished workforce
has resulted in contracting out more and more programs and activities, bundling activities
under large mechanisms, and in many cases, higher overall costs.
The only way to reverse this trend is to increase the core of foreign and civil service staff
whose full time and sole responsibility is to serve their mission. Foreign and civil service
officers on the ground need to be developing objectives, working with locally based
organizations, providing oversight, and making decisions about how resources are
utilized. We have announced our intent to double foreign assistance by 2015. This can
only be accomplished if we have the people on board to drive the program.
The State Department has long needed greater capacity to respond quickly to stabilize
situations at times of conflict or crisis. These situations may be caused by political or
natural disasters, but they share a common need for a rapid civilian response. Our
military men and women are often called upon to respond to situations for which they
were not trained and where a civilian presence would be more effective. The military has
done an extraordinary job, but it cannot -- and should not -- handle these situations alone.
In order to build the capacity to deploy civilians rapidly, we are requesting $363 million
for the Civilian Stabilization Initiative. This will expand our total response team to over
four thousand persons and greatly increases our ability to prevent and respond to conflict
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with an immediately deployable civilian counterpart to the U.S. military, ready and able
to help stabilize countries in the transition from war to peace.
Included in that request is $40 million for a Stabilization Bridge Fund, which will provide
the Civilian Responders immediate resources for critical transition and stabilization
programs to reduce the need for long-term deployments of military forces or
peacekeepers. Separately, we also request $76 million for a Rapid Response Fund to help
stabilize turmoil in new and fragile democracies, such as what we saw during Kenya's
most recent election, where a quick infusion of resources can help reconcile competing
interests and support the will of the people.
In order to increase personnel and conflict response capacity, we also need the tools and
infrastructure to enable our overseas personnel to do their jobs. The FY 2010 budget
includes $2.095 billion to construct safe, secure, functional new embassies; a
strengthened American presence in critical emerging areas; and expanded and secure
global classified and unclassified information technology networks. These resources also
support efforts to improve the efficiency of diplomatic and development operations,
including modernizing antiquated software systems; integrating State and USAID
information technology; participating in e-government initiatives that promote
transparency, accountability and citizen engagement; upgrading reporting and financial
management systems, and consolidating State and USAID administrative platforms.
Smart power means using all of the tools available to reach out to the world, and the FY
2010 budget requests $1.13 billion for public diplomacy and educational and cultural
exchanges, providing the resources required to engage and influence people around the
world, advance understanding of our country's principles and values, and facilitate the
formation of strategic partnerships through the exchange of people and ideas. These
programs connect people to people -- exchanging knowledge, information, and expertise,
and bring people together around shared values. Public diplomacy programs often help
build the sustainable relationships with local communities that become foundations of our
development programs. And in a world in which 60 percent of the population is under
the age of 30, our youth programs are among the most critical investments we can make.
Extracurricular programs, educational opportunities, and exchanges help divert at-risk
youth away from the influence of violent actors, and the use of innovative new media
greatly expands our reach into this critical population.
Second, we must promote long-term development and human security -- both from
the top-down and bottom-up.
Americans have seen first-hand the threats that emerge from ungoverned spaces -- the
dangers that can take root with poverty, political oppression, and disenfranchisement.
Elevating development alongside diplomacy as an equal pillar of our foreign policy is not
only a moral commitment, but a national security imperative. Our superb military can
stem conflict, but it cannot lay the foundations of long-term economic growth, good
governance, and human capacity that will result in sustainable peace and prosperity. In
the long run, the more effective we are at development, the less we will be forced to turn
to defense.
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Our "top-down" development strategy must strengthen the ability of governments to

support just and capable institutions that meet the basic needs of their populations; and
the enabling environment for broad-based, equitable economic growth, including access
to the global economy.
Our "bottom-up" development strategy partners with citizens and civic groups to build
human capacity, ultimately spurring the power of individuals and societies to innovate,
cooperate, and solve problems -- both locally and globally. Overall, 56 percent of our
assistance request is targeted to development programs, with special emphasis on
economic development and good governance, global health, food security, education, and
global climate change.
As Secretary Clinton has said, "We believe that extreme poverty poses a grave threat to
global security and certainly to prosperity." Development experts have predicted that 50
million more people could end up living in poverty this year. A sharp increase in global
poverty has the potential to spark new humanitarian crises, erode gains from a wide range
of U.S. taxpayer investments in development, reverse progress toward achieving the
Millennium Development goals, and destabilize countries that are our partners. Many
responsible countries cannot raise funds to support safety nets, restore financial markets,
or serve the poor.
These burdens will disproportionately fall on women and children, who are the most
marginalized in many populations and who constitute the great majority of poor around
the globe. Raising the status of women and their families -- and supporting their
participation in the political, economic and social spheres of society -- is a key ingredient
of our development goals. Moreover, investing in women is one of the most effective
development tools for poverty alleviation and a country's general prosperity. It remains a
simple fact that no country can hope to get ahead if half of its citizens are left behind. In
recognition of this imperative, the Secretary has consolidated activities that were spread
across the State Department in an Office of Global Women's Issues to ensure that our
foreign policy programs, including our development initiatives, reflect the needs and
perspectives of women and girls.
Economic Development & Good Governance: The FY 2010 request demonstrates the
Administration's strong commitment to fighting poverty, both because it is important for
our national security interests, but also to further American values. Funding for
economic growth and democratic progress, both critical to achieving sustainable
development and accountable governance, are up significantly over last year's level:
$4.7 billion -- a 16 percent increase over FY 2009 -- is requested to drive economic
growth; and $2.8 billion -- a nine percent increase over FY 2009 -- is requested for
assistance to strengthen democracy and good governance worldwide.
Support for economic growth and governance is particularly critical in Africa and each is
up by more than 30 percent over the current year: economic growth in Africa grows from
$891 million in FY 2009 to a request of $1.175 billion, and governance from $265
million to $347 million. Funding is targeted to development needs and economic
opportunity and governance programs critical to the success of the investments we have
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made through the Millennium Challenge Corporation and the President's Emergency
Plan for AIDS Relief.
Food Security: The President announced at the G20 meeting in London that we will
seek to double U.S. financial support for agricultural development in developing
countries in order to, in his words, "give people the tools they need to lift themselves out
of poverty." The FY 2010 request makes good on this commitment by including $1.36
billion, an increase of 62 percent from last year, including the FY 2009 Spring
Supplemental Request, to address the root causes of food insecurity by increasing
agricultural production and productivity. Our strategy meets short-term needs and builds
long-term foundations to reduce food insecurity by improving production, increasing
rural household incomes, improving the nutritional status of children, and reducing
reliance on international food aid. Another $1.99 billion will be used to provide food aid,
of which $300 million will support emergency food security interventions such as cash
voucher and cash transfer programs and the local and regional purchase of food.
Education: Our request for basic education expands the United States' leadership in
global efforts to help all girls and boys access quality basic education. The FY 2010
request ramps up support for basic education to nearly $1 billion, an increase of 26
percent over the current year, to expand access to schooling, improve educational quality,
increase emphasis on educational results, and provide alternatives to extremist ideology.
The request expands focus to include at-risk and out-of-school youth, and programs are
coordinated with partner countries, other donors, and multilateral institutions, including
the Education For All Fast-Track Initiative, to reduce the global education deficit.
Global Climate Change: Since taking office, President Obama and Secretary Clinton
have made it clear that the United States is fully engaged and committed to meeting the
challenges of climate change. The Obama Administration is bringing significant
resources to the table -- almost a $1 billion overall U.S. Government increase, including
funds requested by the Treasury Department, signifying robust and ambitious measures
by the Obama Administration to combat climate change and help put the world on a
pathway to a low carbon future.
Within the State and USAID budget, the FY 2010 request includes $309 million of
additional international climate change assistance, added to an FY 2009 base of $272
million for a total of $581 million. These funds will help developing countries most
vulnerable to the impacts of climate change adapt and become more climate-resilient and
also assist them in pursuing low carbon economies through the development of clean
energy alternatives. Further, we will support international programs aimed at reducing
emissions from the energy sector, industry, and urban areas and encourage sustainable
water and land use, including deforestation, which accounts for about 17 percent of
global greenhouse gas emission.
Global Health: The United States continues to lead on global health in HIV/AIDS, TB,
and malaria, and we are now taking the next steps that will save the lives of millions
more women, children and families in the developing world. The FY 2010 budget
request includes $7.6 billion for global health programs for the Global Health and Child
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Survival (GHCS) Account. This request is part of a six-year, $63 billion effort to launch,
alongside our existing commitments and partners, an integrated approach to increase
resources for maternal and child health, family planning and neglected tropical diseases
with the potential to enhance dramatically quality of life, exponentially increase the
number of lives saved, and break the cycle of poverty and disease.
To combat HIV/AIDS, this budget provides a $100 million increase for HIV \AIDS
bilateral programs over FY 2009 enacted and demonstrates this Administration's
commitment to continuing the fight against HIV/AIDS as the centerpiece of its global
health agenda. In FY 2010, HIV\AIDS funding is almost 75% of the GHCS funding. In
addition, a total of $585 million is requested to support the malaria initiative to reduce
malaria deaths by 50 percent in each of 15 priority countries; and the $525 million
requested for maternal and child health and $475 million requested for family planning is
an increase over the robust levels appropriated by Congress in FY 2009.
Third, we must enhance strategic bilateral and multilateral partnerships critical to
global security, stability, and prosperity.
We must renew our diplomacy and target our development assistance to address global
threats too big and complex to meet alone, helping to develop the capacity of willing
partners to work with us to solve global problems. Our strategy focuses on states that can
or must be partners in regional peace and prosperity and those tipping-point states whose
frailties present regional and global threats. And it seeks to leverage multilateral
engagement, always a force multiplier in addressing challenges of mutual concern.
Our simultaneous top-down and bottom-up approach allows us to focus on building
much-needed capabilities in government institutions while at the same time reaching out
directly to meet humanitarian needs of the population. As the President and Secretary
have made clear, the Administration is committed to ensuring that our spending in these
areas is guided by clear plans with achievable outcomes. Such assistance will not be a
blank check -- we will hold ourselves and others accountable and establish clear
indicators for success.
In Afghanistan, we are seeking to help develop self-reliant Afghanistan Security Forces;
promoting capable, accountable and effective government at the provincial, local and
national levels; ramping up quick impact civilian assistance efforts that promote licit
economic opportunities to support counter-insurgency efforts; and increasing alternative
development funding as part of our counter-narcotics strategy. The FY 2010 request
includes significant resources for non-military assistance to Afghanistan -- $2.79 billion - an increase of four percent over the FY 2009 total, including the Spring Supplemental
Request.
In Pakistan, we will work toward improving Pakistan's capability to fight extremists;
strengthening government capacity and the rule of law; providing emergency economic
relief and promoting economic growth, agriculture, infrastructure, and education as
alternatives to extremist ideology; and developing a strategic communications strategy to
counter terrorist propaganda. The FY 2010 request for Pakistan is $1.6 billion, an 11
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percent increase from FY 2009 and a tripling of non-military aid from $457 million in FY
2008 to $1.3 billion in FY 2010.
And in Iraq, our funding request advances efforts to continue our support toward greater
Iraqi self reliance. The FY 2010 request of $500 million, a decrease of 18 percent from
the FY 2009 total, focuses on key areas that will help the Iraqis lay a foundation for
lasting peace and stability, including strengthened institutional capacity at both the
national and provincial levels, assistance to displaced Iraqis, and support to advance
national reconciliation.
In the broader Middle East, we will continue to work to support greater stability and
prosperity. The United States remains committed to a comprehensive and secure peace
between Israel and its Arab neighbors, including a two-state solution to the IsraeliPalestinian conflict. We remain steadfast in our commitment to Israel's security. The FY
2010 request includes $2.8 billion for Israel, a $225 million increase from FY 2009, to
support the second year of a ten-year, $30 billion commitment to help Israel maintain its
qualitative military edge. Other U.S. assistance to the countries of the region, including
Egypt, Jordan and Lebanon, support this objective by fostering stability, security and the
economic prosperity of our allies and mitigating the influence of extremists.
Our assistance also supports the conditions necessary for a Palestinian state to be realized
while continuing to meet immediate humanitarian needs. We are seeking funds to help
strengthen the Palestinian Authority's governing institutions. These steps are essential to
resuming serious negotiations toward a comprehensive peace in the region and
establishment of a Palestinian state that will live side-by-side with Israel in peace and
security.
The FY 2010 request includes $502 million for the West Bank and Gaza to support
reforms of the security sector; improve local infrastructure; build institutional capacity;
strengthen moderate voices, including in the private sector; create jobs; provide necessary
humanitarian assistance; and promote initiatives in health and education. In all cases, our
assistance programs in Gaza will be based on work with fully-vetted private individuals,
organizations, and public international organizations, and will be carried out in a
transparent, accountable manner to help ensure that aid does not end up in the hands of
terrorist organizations. We will work with the Palestinian Authority and our
implementing partners to follow established safeguards that will ensure that our funding
is used only where, and for whom, it is intended.
Finally, in keeping with our prevention strategy, the FY 2010 request increases funding
for Yemen by 83 percent, to $55 million. We believe we must work to help keep Yemen
out of failed state status. We have requested significant across-the-board development
increases in education, health, and jobs creation to mitigate this threat.
Closer to home, we seek to strengthen ties with our partners in Mexico and Central and
South America. Our approach is one of true collaboration, targeted to needs they identify
and building the security capacity of the state while also focusing on the root causes of
crime in the region, including economic inequality, the lack of educational opportunities,
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corruption, impunity, and weak governmental institutions. We request $550 million in

the FY 2010 request to strengthen our efforts under the Merida Initiative to combat
narcotics and arms trafficking, gangs and organized crime in our hemisphere by
strengthening law enforcement and interdiction capacity. Other regional priorities
include continued support for Colombia's fight against terrorism and narcotics trafficking
-- although at a reduced rate as Colombia continues assuming greater responsibility for
counter-narcotics efforts. And we are meeting the President's Summit of the Americas
Commitments with $55 million for energy and climate change, $31 million for a
Caribbean Security Initiative as part of the President's Shared Security Partnership to
compliment Merida, and $10 million for an education partnership for at-risk youth.
Together with the review of our strategy in Haiti, and on the heels of the Secretary's visit,
we are requesting significant funding for Haiti to strengthen its democracy, reduce
poverty, protect the environment, and expand counter-narcotics programs. In the security
sector, U.S. programs will focus on recruiting, training and equipping Haiti's police, and
on stabilizing urban hot zones that until recently were incubators of gang warfare and
political violence. On economic growth, we will focus on developing the country's
finance sector, helping the government create a regulatory environment favorable to
investors, and growing the capacity of the country's agriculture industry.
In Africa, the imperative to counter the threats of AIDS, Malaria, and other major
obstacles to health and prosperity remains compelling. The global economic crisis has hit
Africa harder than expected, with food insecurity exacerbated by low commodity export
revenues and dwindling remittances and investment flows. These factors have threatened
social unrest and political instability, particularly in the form of coups. Our response is
designed to promote economic growth and support good governance in order to create
greater opportunities, as well as to address issues such as food insecurity, with significant
resources targeted to those countries in Africa that have the potential to become regional
bread baskets. We also seek to buttress the continent against the erosion of the hard-won
gains in political stability and democratic progress, particularly in Kenya and Liberia.
Finally, our request is targeted to help resolve and prevent destabilizing conflicts,
especially in Sudan, Somalia, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. African
entrepreneurs and civil society leaders have begun to reorient their societies toward
growth and better governance. With our support and partnership, we can save lives,
prevent instability and extremism from advancing, and put Africa back on the road to a
prosperous future.
Many countries of East Asia and the Pacific have, in the course of a generation, lifted
themselves out of poverty and become models for economic prosperity and political
diversity. Our goals for the region include ensuring peace, consolidating democratic
gains, and fostering continued economic reforms to reach the region's poorest citizens.
Our programs in the Philippines and our work in North Korea help to reduce the risk of
terrorism and nuclear proliferation which threaten the United States and the region. On
the democracy front, Secretary Clinton announced the launch of a U.S.-Indonesian
Comprehensive Partnership during her trip to Jakarta in February. This partnership seeks
to support the successful transformation of the world's third largest democracy into a
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stable, democratic and moderate voice, and a beacon of promise around the world.
Finally, our programs in Burma, Cambodia, and Vietnam not only foster a more vibrant
civil society, but put in place the building blocks for prosperity and wellbeing for
vulnerable populations by investing in public health, education, and broad-based
economic development.
In Europe, we are seeking to support policies geared to promote a continent whole, free
and at peace. That includes supporting democratic reformers in Georgia, Ukraine and
Moldova. For Russia, our request seeks to support the efforts of those in Russia
promoting democratic reform while cooperating with the government in areas of common
interest. For Southeast Europe, ensuring the success of newly-independent Kosovo is a
top priority, followed closely by the need to facilitate progress on reform in Serbia and
prevent ethnic-based crises that would prevent implementation of the Dayton Accords in
Bosnia and Herzegovina. In addition, the request restores full U.S. support for the
Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) budget, preventing further
operating shortfalls. Providing full financial support to the OSCE is in keeping with the
Administration's emphasis on revitalizing multilateral engagement, which includes active
participation on our part, as well as a commitment to paying our dues on time and in full.
In all of these areas -- from Iraq and Afghanistan to the Balkans -- our objectives and
investments are greatly enhanced when pursued in partnership with the international
community. Many of our foreign policy challenges rely on coalitions of like-minded
partners, forged within our international institutions. And as demonstrated through our
support for U.N. peacekeeping activities, the dollars we contribute to these fora leverage
significant returns.
Therefore, success lies in maintaining U.S. leadership in the international community.
Responsible global leadership means meeting our financial commitments to international
institutions, even as we work with them to institute reforms to strengthen their efficacy.
The Administration's budget requests $4.1 billion for assessed contributions to
multilateral organizations and peacekeeping assessments, demonstrating our resolve to
work together with members of the international community in the pursuit of common
goals. Our overall request meets U.S. financial commitments to the United Nations and
other international organizations that support a wide range of U.S. national security,
foreign policy, and economic goals, including full funding of all 2010 scheduled
payments to the Multilateral Development Banks, and a portion of outstanding arrears.
Fourth, we must strengthen global security capabilities.
One of the most basic responsibilities of government is to provide security and order to
its people. Our allies and partners must be able to defend their territory and borders
against both external and internal attacks. That is why our strategy seeks to forge
partnerships among states to help build global security capacity in a host of areas,
including peacekeeping, police training, non-proliferation, and combating nuclear
terrorism. Notable examples include our Cooperative Threat Reduction Program with
Russia; the Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism, which brings together 75
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partner countries; and the Proliferation Security Initiative, a global effort that aims to stop
trafficking of weapons of mass destruction supported by over 90 countries.
The FY 2010 request also includes $90 million to launch a new multi-year effort to help
address the wide array of threats posed by terrorist organizations. The Shared Security
Partnership will allow the United States to forge strategic partnerships with allies to
confront common global extremist threats, building on previous law enforcement and
counter-terrorist efforts to create a regional and global information-sharing and
coordination infrastructure.
This budget also continues funding for the Global Peace Operations Initiative (GPOI),
which builds and maintains the capacity and effectiveness of peace operations worldwide.
GPOI is on track to complete its global target of training 75,000 peacekeepers, and is
shifting its focus from the direct training of peacekeepers to building sustainable,
indigenous capacity. Funding will also enhance the ability of our partners to address
counterterrorism threats through the Trans-Sahara Counterterrorism Partnership and the
East Africa Regional Strategic Initiative programs; reform military forces in the
aftermath of conflict into professional military forces with respect for the rule of law,
including those in Southern Sudan, Liberia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and
Somalia; and address critical regional coastal and border security problems in Africa.
Finally, our resource request for nonproliferation, anti-terrorism, and demining activities
is up 17 percent, including increases to expand the terrorist interdiction watchlist system
and efforts to destroy conventional weapons stockpiles.
Fifth, we must maintain the resources to respond to urgent humanitarian needs.
The U.S. remains the leader in responding to the most vulnerable populations, providing
basic life-sustaining support in the face of disasters; and protection of refugees, conflict
victims, and internally displaced persons overseas. Our humanitarian assistance
programs are the most fundamental expression of our values, from responding to the
devastating impacts of the cyclone in Burma to the victims of conflict and instability in
Darfur, Zimbabwe, and now Sri Lanka and Pakistan. We have also seen that leading with
these values has a multiplier effect. It was our humanitarian assistance in the aftermath
of the earthquake in Pakistan that began to turn the sentiments of Pakistani citizens away
from extremists, and to see the United States as a force for good in their lives. And we
know that the deep human suffering -- the lack of access to the most basic of needs -- can
feed instability and further conflict.
Our request aims to budget fully for expected requirements for refugees, rather than
continuing to rely on supplemental appropriations. The request includes $4.1 billion in
refugee, disaster, displaced persons and emergency food assistance, which is part of our
comprehensive U.S. food security efforts. In addition to basic needs, these resources
assist refugees with voluntary repatriation, local integration, or permanent resettlement in
a third country, and provide critical humanitarian relief, rehabilitation, and reconstruction
in countries around the world affected by natural and man-made disasters.
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Conclusion: Managing for Success
Securing the resources to promote our goals is an important step toward restoring
American global leadership. But resources are not enough. With leadership comes
responsibility, and especially in these difficult economic times, we must be better
managers of our resources. Congress has been at the forefront of identifying ways to
improve our assistance policies and practice, and we thank you for your leadership and
welcome your ongoing consultation.
I hope that the simple fact that I am here before you today is a sign of our commitment to
greater fiscal discipline and efficiency in international affairs. One of Secretary Clinton's
first orders of business was to fill for the first time the position of Deputy Secretary of
State for Management and Resources. This reflected her seriousness and determination
that the Department must be a responsible steward of taxpayer dollars and maximize
resources for greatest effect.
Among my first duties has been to undertake a comprehensive review of our foreign
assistance programs. Secretary Clinton has asked me to make recommendations on new
ways to speed the cause of development in nations left behind by poverty, to use foreign
aid to buttress our foreign policy aims, and to bring the full power of our resources to
bear. This effort is well underway, and we look forward to working with you as it
evolves.
At that same time, we are already acting on some of the principles that will help guide
our new approach to foreign assistance. We are learning from real-world experiences
what works and what does not. We are also rethinking where to focus our attention to
best advance our nation's security.
In particular, let me highlight the importance of an integrated approach to development to
our efforts in Afghanistan and Pakistan. To get our policies right toward these two
critically important countries, we must deploy our resources for maximum impact.
Both the State Department and USAID are building upon the Administration's overall
strategic review to craft and implement a comprehensive effort that focuses on ways that
civilian agencies -- State, USAID, working together the Department of Agriculture and
others -- can bolster both security and development. We recognize that over the long
haul, we will not have one without the other. Different agencies have different tools and
different strengths. We are working to unite them behind a common mission.
You can see a similar focus on unity of effort in an entirely different initiative -- the
Administration's efforts to develop a new food security strategy to dramatically reduce
global hunger and poverty. The State Department is leading a whole-of-government
process to design and implement this new strategy. We are creating an inventory of each
agency's programs, identifying gaps in our current programming, and coordinating
among all agencies to develop a shared strategy.
Both of these efforts underscore the need to develop basic mechanisms that allow us to
integrate our strengths -- acting as a sort of diplomatic force multiplier under a shared
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mission. State and USAID account for about 70 percent of official U.S. development
assistance; we are just two of the nearly 20 U.S. agencies involved in providing foreign
aid. We must care more about strategy, unity and results than we do about turf. We must
be able to look at a country, a function, or an objective, and be able to identify everything
that the US. government is doing in that area -- not just State. To meet the challenges of
a world being bound closer together, we need a government that is working closer
together.
Similarly, we must speak with one voice. Our partners abroad have sometimes received
mixed messages from the array of agencies working in international affairs, each of
which has its own rules of engagement. Our ability to get results on the ground will
depend on our ability to field coordinated teams, both in Washington and around the
globe. This is why we are so urgently focused on better coordination of U.S. efforts in
Afghanistan and Pakistan, and it is why we are reviewing options about how best to
develop systems and incentives to strengthen coordination across our foreign affairs
programs.
Let me also mention another key principle behind our reform efforts: accountability. We
must demand results. That means defining specific strategic priorities; developing and
validating ways to measure performance with OMB, Congress, and other key
stakeholders; and making budget and program-management decisions on the basis of
results -- or lack thereof.
Finally, we are mindful that in an age of economic crisis and foreign challenges, the
United States must be a more effective donor. Development progress is best achieved
when priorities are determined and implemented by responsible partners, and aid levels
are sustained, predictable, and coordinated with other donors. We must continue to strive
for our assistance to be demand-driven, giving our people in the field the means to
leverage opportunities and enhancing our ability to partner with responsible governments.
This is an ambitious agenda, but Secretary Clinton and I are looking forward to the
challenges. With the right resources and your good counsel, we are confident that we can
rise to meet the moment. We look forward to consulting closely with the Congress and
other stakeholders as we continue to move ahead in the coming weeks and months. And
I look forward to our discussion today. Thank you again for having me here today, and
thank you for your time.
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FYI
From: Cicetti, Pamela S
To: Mills, Cheryl D
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Cheryl, thanks so much.
My official day to leave will be Friday the 22nd which I will take as a leave day so that my last day in the office will be
Thursday. Thanks again for your support and your friendship and good luck with the enormous responsibility you have
assumed here at State. Love, Pam
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Pam
First congratulations you know
is there, right?
Second stay here as long as you like in lead up to June 1.

Third I am happy for you I loved working at a University (and miss it even more now), I am sure you will.
xo
cdm
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Dear Cheryl, first of all, thanks for your support throughout this transition process. I have accepted a position in the
Again, thanks for everything. Pam
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Fw: Bill Clinton to be UN special envoy to Haiti: UN official
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Subject: Bill Clinton tope UN special envoy to Haiti: UN official
Bill Clinton to be UN special envoy to Haiti: UN official

UNITED NATIONS, May 18 (Reuters) - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon plans to name former U.S.
President Bill Clinton as his special envoy to Haiti, U.N. officials said on Monday, in a move that could attract
investment in the Western Hemisphere's poorest nation and help stabilize the country. "The announcement is
expected to come soon," one U.N. official told Reuters on condition of anonymity. The official said a formal
announcement could come as early as Tuesday. Clinton, who has galvanized efforts to help the impoverished
Caribbean nation recover from the devastating impact of four hurricanes last year, accompanied Ban on a trip to
Haiti earlier this year. Several other diplomats confirmed the appointment of the former president, who is trying
to help Haiti through his Clinton Global Initiative foundation
Andrea Garet,
Watch Officer
Department of State Operations Center
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Gore number for tonite
Al Gore
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Monday, May 18, 2009 9:05 PM
Wjc
Wjc called during dinner. Its morning in seoul.

The number that works is
I told doug u r home and wjc will call when he can.
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'Sullivan, Jacob J'; 'Abedin, Huma'; 'Lew, Jacob J'
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CDM in NY on Wednesday for Funeral
I will be out on Weds to attend a funeral so am going to adjust my calendar accordingly tomorrow.
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Internet can help free US reporters in NKorea: Clinton

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Monday urged women students to use the Internet to campaign for the release
of two American women journalists held in North Korea. Clinton urged graduates of Barnard College, a women's
university in New York City, to show their opposition to Pyongyang's detention of the two journalists who are due to go
on trial on June 4.
"We have two young women journalists right now imprisoned in North Korea and you can get busy on the Internet and
let the North Koreans know that we find that absolutely unacceptable," Clinton told the graduation ceremony.
Clinton was highlighting the new media tools that women can use to fight injustice around the world.
North Korea announced last Thursday that it had set a June 4 trial date for the two journalists Euna Lee, a KoreanAmerican, and Laura Ling, a Chinese-American but gave no details of the charges against them.
Clinton said afterward that the announcement of a trial date is "a signal that there can be" a resolution of the case soon,
even though she said the pair should be released immediately and the charges against them are "baseless."
The North has previously said they would go on trial for "hostile acts" and illegally entering the country. Their trial would
be held "on the basis of the confirmed crimes committed by them," it has announced.
While working on a story about refugees fleeing the hardline communist North, the pair were detained March 17 along
the narrow Tumen River which marks the border with China.
Internet can help free US reporters in NKorea: Clinton
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Monday urged women students to use the Internet to campaign for the release
of two American women journalists held in North Korea. Clinton urged graduates of Barnard College, a women's
university in New York City, to show their opposition to Pyongyang's detention of the two journalists who are due to go
on trial on June 4.
"We have two young women journalists right now imprisoned in North Korea and you can get busy on the Internet and
let the North Koreans know that we find that absolutely unacceptable," Clinton told the graduation ceremony.
Clinton was highlighting the new media tools that women can use to fight injustice around the world.
North Korea announced last Thursday that it had set a June 4 trial date for the two journalists Euna Lee, a KoreanAmerican, and Laura Ling, a Chinese-American but gave no details of the charges against them.
Clinton said afterward that the announcement of a trial date is "a signal that there can be" a resolution of the case soon,
even though she said the pair should be released immediately and the charges against them are "baseless."
The North has previously said they would go on trial for "hostile acts" and illegally entering the country. Their trial would
be held "on the basis of the confirmed crimes committed by them," it has announced.
While working on a story about refugees fleeing the hardline communist North, the pair were detained March 17 along
the narrow lumen River which marks the border with China.
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Gore just called saying he hasn't heard from you. he's expecting to hear from you tonite.
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Ok great
His guy Conor called me at 11 saying he had just heard from Gore.
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Subject: Re: Gore just called saying he hasn't heard from you. he's expecting to hear from you tonite. I'm sorry.
Who did he call and when? I talked to him 15 minutes ago.
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Subject: Gore just called saying he hasn't heard from you. he's expecting to hear from you tonite. I'm sorry.
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Fw: Crisis Hot Spots (05/18/2009) (SBU)
See first two
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Subject: Crisis Hot Spots (05/18/2009) (SBU)
SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED
Crisis Hot Spots

Monday, May 18, 2009
1500 EDT
SRI LANKA: RAJAPAKSA TO DECLARE VICTORY, IDP NEEDS GROW

(SBU) The government and NGOs are struggling to respond to the needs of 60-80,000 civilians who fled the
conflict zone since May 15 and are still arriving at IDP camps. Shelter, water, basic health care, and sanitation
are the most urgent needs among the 280,000 civilians now in overcrowded camps. UNSYG Ban will travel to
Sri Lanka May 22. The EU pushed for an independent investigation into alleged human rights violations in the
war, mainly over reported civilian deaths. Czech FM Kohout said the inquiry should be carried out by Sri
Lankan authorities, but could involve non-government and UN bodies. (Colombo 539, Reuters)
SOMALIA: ISLAMISTS CAPTURE PRESIDENT'S HOMETOWN
(SBU) Al-Shabaab seized the key town of Jowhar north of Mogadishu as pro-government militia deserted their
positions near the capital, media report. The government has lost control of most of south and central Somalia;
press report insurgents are heading toward the border town of Beledweyn near Ethiopia. The Transitional
Federal Government (TFG) requested support from other armed factions in the fight against alShabaab. Embassy Nairobi comments the TFG plans to lobby Ethiopia for support at a May 20 regional
ministerial meeting. (Nairobi 1010, Reuters)
MALAWI: MAY 19 ELECTIONS TOO CLOSE TO CALL
(SBU) Parties are skeptical of the integrity of the electoral process, although the U.S. embassy and international
partners will deploy observers, Embassy Lilongwe reports. (Lilongwe 257)
PAPUA NEW GUINEA: VIOLENCE TARGETS ASIAN BUSINESSES
(SBU) Attacks against ethnic Chinese-owned businesses have spread throughout the country since May 12,
with some localities reporting thousands of rioters, according to Embassy Port Moresby. Post adds the violence
demonstrates growing resentment of ethnic Chinese economic influence. The disturbances caught authorities
by surprise, and the government has not yet taken action against those involved, according to the Papua New
Guinea desk. The embassy comments the racial basis of the attacks is a new phenomenon in the country, where
the tribal fragmentation of society has kept such nationalist violence from occurring previously. (Ops/Papua
New Guinea desk telcon, Port Moresby 88, 87)
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Additional updates on events in MALAWI are available through our classified website at
http://ses.state.sgov.gov.
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Yes, should be doable. On it.
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Anyway to get attn about what I said about religion being used to subjugate women?
Just wondering?
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mini schedule 5/20/09
8:55 am DEPART Private Residence *En route Dirksen Senate Office Building
9:00 am CONFERENCE CALL w/HEARING PREP TEAM
9:15 am En route to the Dirksen Building
9:15 am ARRIVE Dirksen Senate Office Building
9:30 am TESTIMONY BEFORE SENATE APPROPRIATIONS
12:00 pm SUBCOMMITTEE ON STATE/FOREIGN OPERATIONS
192 Dirksen Senate Office Building
12:05 pm DEPART Dirksen Senate Office Building *En route State Department
12:20 pm ARRIVE State Department
12:20 pm OFFICE TIME
1:05 pm DEPART State Department *En route Hart Senate Office Building
1:20 pm ARRIVE Hart Senate Office Building
1:30 pm TESTIMONY BEFORE SENATE FOREIGN RELATIONS COMMITTEE
5:00 pm 216 Hart Senate Office Building
5:05 pm DEPART Hart Senate Office Building *En route State Department
5:30 pm OFFICE TIME
6:00 pm DEPART State Department *En route Private Residence
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Friday, May 08, 2009 3:23 PM
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Mel Matrinez
His office called to leave his cell phone number for us. I've added it to the grid here, and I'll also share it with Ops so
they have it on file.
Lauren Jiloty
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Italian foreign minister cancels trip to Iran
ROME (AP) Italy's foreign minister has canceled a planned trip to Iran for talks on regional security issues.
The Foreign Ministry in a statement Wednesday cited a problem over the meeting place with President
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. It said it regretted the "lost opportunity" to discuss involving Iran in the stabilization
of Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Foreign Minister Franco Frattini had been scheduled to depart later Wednesday.
The communiqu made no mention of reported criticism over the planned trip, nor did it mention a missile test
conducted Wednesday by Iran with a range capable of reaching Israel and U.S. Mideast bases.
Nisha Desai
State Department Operations Center
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This was on Paul Krugman's blog yesterday. I, for one, enjoyed it. Hope you're very well Hillary.
May 19, 2009, 7:35 am
Ahem
Politico:
Health care could soon go the way of the automobile, with users having no choice but to buy
insurance coverage.
Within four years, every American could be required to own health insurance or pay their way
through tax penalties. The odds of such a sea change rose last week when chief Democratic and
Republican Senate negotiators on a health care bill acknowledged that many on the Finance
Committee considered the so-called individual mandate essential to lower insurance costs for
those who already have coverage.
President Barack Obama didn't embrace the individual mandate during the campaign, which
means he would essentially start from scratch in terms of selling the idea to voters.
The mandate was a central policy difference with Hillary Clinton, who argued that a mandate
was the only way to achieve universal coverage. Obama disagreed, saying enough people would
purchase insurance voluntarily if the costs could be brought down.
Progressive policy experts widely agreed that Obama's plan would have left out about 15 million
people. Clinton, with an assist from New York Times columnist Paul Krugman, regularly
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Hillary: In Rome, on way to Florence to NYU Center on Law and Security Conference. Here's the
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(meeting with Pope on N. Ireland). He
told me he's meeting with
on Friday. He told me things you would in my judgment want
and need to hear because they will likely involve your personal role. I think you should step in and ask
him to tell you directly. I also should relate to you when I return information about Brown government
re foreign ministry. Meetings here with former PM Amato, former amb. Saleo, key journalists for
Correire, Repubblica, Europa, RAI, etc, new re Berlusconi, as usual the real story is not what's public.
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shot him email that we need to talk -- but the Amb wanted to give me readout from his meeting with GTIP before raising
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Did you pass on to Jim S the concern about the TIPS report re UAE?
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*I/0e rs*
Heads up -- A friend just sent this to me. Does anyone have any intel? This is a huge step and kudos to Sec. Clinton for
expending the political capital to be the first federal agency to do this!
FYI. Berman just spoke about it.
Enact two items sought by the Foreign Service: elimination of a rule that inadvertently reduces the pay of officers
serving overseas by as much as 20 percent, and extension to same-sex partners of the benefits given to spouses and
their families, such as access to U.S. health care and moving expenses. This last provision is likely to provoke GOP
objections.
I don't have the source my friend used, but hopefully some of you might. If this is true (which I hope it is), we have to
start gearing up for the battle to support her now!
Yours in the struggle for equality,
+ Phil*
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Will call you shortly - my tamn gets in in 15 min.

Remind me to discuss brief filing and speech again -- everyone is going (Gates, Panetta, Napolitano, Holder) except for
Blair. We don't have logically response to why you are not there when asked and team is showing up. Easy box to check
since we don't yet anticipate going to egypt.
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Foreign Aid Reform v4.docx; Foreign Aid Reform dinner agenda.docx
Will print for you in am too
From: Hyde, Dana

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All
Attached is an agenda and background paper to help guide tomorrow's discussion. Thanks - Dana.
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Subject: dinner tomorrow night at 6:00pm
As a reminder, please join the Secretary for a working dinner tomorrow night at 6:00pm on the 8th Floor in the Monroe
room. The topic of this session will be "Foreign Assistance: Principles and Process for a Comprehensive Plan".
Please let me know if you need any further details Emily and Juliana, I am sending you information on how to get into
the building at that time.
Lona Valmoro
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AGENDA
1.
Self-Introductions
2.
Framing the conversation
3.
Discussion of the questions in section I of the paper "What are we

trying to achieve?"
4.
Discussion of what needs to be changed to achieve that:

a. Structural & Management Change in D.C.
b. Structural & Management Change in the Field
c. Contract Reform
d. Relationship between State and DoD
e. Metrics & Accountability
5.
Moving Forward: Coming out of this discussion, we need to define a

process that will develop a comprehensive and detailed strategy that
addresses each of these areas. Part of that process and strategy must
also include a vision for working with the White House, the Hill and
other agencies to accomplish our goals.
FOREIGN ASSISTANCE REFORM: DEFINING A WAY FORWARD
Foreign assistance reform is one of the most widely discussed and debated topics
on the foreign policy agenda. Indeed, the volume of literature on this topic led the
Center for Global Engagement to produce a "Report on Reports," to summarize the
major points of consensus and disagreement among reports and outline another
series of recommendations. To make the key decisions to shape our foreign
assistance reform effort we need to answer three basic questions: (1) What are we
trying to achieve? (2) Where are we now? and (3) What do we need to change?
The U.S. Record on Foreign Assistance
The U.S. is the world's largest donor of bilateral foreign assistance. In calendar
year 2008 the United States disbursed $26 billion in Official Development
Assistance (ODA). Elements of this assistance include:
$6.5 billion to sub-Saharan Africa, an increase from $4.6 billion in 2007;
$6.9 billion in bilateral assistance to least developed countries;
$4.4 billion in U.S. humanitarian assistance.
In addition, over the past five years the U.S. committed:
$18.8 billion in funding through the U.S. President's Emergency Plan for
AIDS Relief to treat HIV\AIDS, Malaria & TB;
$6.4 billion in Compact funding for 18 strongly performing countries by the
Millennium Challenge Corporation.
The President's 2010 budget request provides $53.9 billion to State and other
international programs, of which $36.5 billion is for foreign assistance -- putting
the U.S. on the path to doubling foreign assistance by 2015. Meanwhile the 2009
supplemental funding meets diplomatic and assistance needs focused on terrorism,
humanitarian assistance, stabilization and peacekeeping operations including in
Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iraq.
I.
What are we trying to achieve?
The development of a comprehensive foreign assistance strategy requires both an

articulation of the problems we seek to address, as well as the principles,
objectives, and operational strategies that will guide our efforts. We have already
defined and articulated a number of ideas: Smart Power; the Three Ds defense,
diplomacy and development; and the three P's of principles, partnership, and
pragmatism. Our challenge is to further define:
> What are the goals of our foreign assistance programs?
> What principles and objectives should guide the formulation of our strategy?
> What emphasis should be placed on security and strategic objectives, vice
humanitarian and poverty goals?
> What problems are we trying to solve?
> What gaps remain in our foreign assistance programs relative to the
outcomes we seek?
> How do we need to be organized to get the job done?
> What budget, planning and coordination functions do we need in the longterm and in the short-term during the period of transition?
II. Where are we now?
In keeping with the Administration's commitment to renewing America's global
leadership through vigorous diplomacy and innovative development efforts, initial
efforts have focused on getting State and USAID the resources needed to rebuild
capacity and on the civilian aspects of our most immediate foreign policy priorities
(Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq) :
The 2009 Omnibus and supplemental start the investment in capacity;
The 2010 Budget increases investment in capacity and program;
Afghanistan, food security, global health and other initiatives reflect new
approach to coordination and identification of key objectives;
2
The 2011 Budget process is being developed to drive collaboration across

silos, integrating USAID, MCC, PEPFAR with regional and functional
bureaus of State;
In the short-term, Defense authorizations have been limited in time and
scope and are now in process to be driven to strategic resolution;
Proposed foreign aid authorization bills and NSC processes create pressure
to accelerate work on a long-term strategic plan.
III. What needs to be changed?
Our foreign assistance programs are too fractured and discordant and the question
is what policy and structural changes are needed to achieve a greater level of
coordination and coherence. The following structures and mechanisms form the
key elements of any reform agenda:
(1) Structural & Management Change: DC
> What should be the relationship between State and USAID? Between
State and MCC? Between PEPFAR and these institutions? To the extent
changes in structures and relationships require legislative reform, what is
the likelihood this can be achieved?
> What is the best budget management structure within the State
Department? What is the current budgeting and planning process, and
what role do F and M play in it?
> What training and recruitment practices need to be developed to build the
civilian capacity we need?
(2) Structural & Management Change: Field
> What role should the Ambassador and DCM play in coordinating our
foreign assistance programs in the field? What mechanisms are needed
to achieve greater coordination, including with programs managed from
Washington?
> How can we improve flexibility and responsiveness to circumstances on
the ground?
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(3) Contract Reform

We need to quickly constitute a task force to address issues related to the
following categories of service providers: (1) DC-based contractors
("Beltway Bandits"); (2) implementing partners and NG0s; and (3) security
and service contracts.
> How do we ensure that even "good contractors" receive strategic
guidance at the front end?
> What are alternatives to the contracting model? Nation-to-nation
cooperation, greater reliance on local organizations, public-private
initiatives, economic drivers such as remittances.
(4) Relationship between State and DoD
> What is the appropriate balance between civilian and military
involvement in foreign assistance activities?
> How do we define "conflict" situations, and where do we draw the lines
in this regard?
> How do we make sure the authorities and the money move together?
(5) Metrics & Accountability
> How do we measure efficacy and achieve accountability for results?
> How do we create sustainable and durable programs and avoid the
narrow focus on achieving numerical targets?
Coming out of this discussion, we need to define a process that will develop a
comprehensive and detailed strategy that addresses each of these areas. Part of that
process and strategy must also include a vision for working with the White House,
the Hill and other agencies to accomplish our goals.
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Cheryl Mills
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LAWMAKER EXPECTS CLINTON TO SOON FIX GAY INEQUITIES AT STATE DEPT.
On Monday I posted that Rep. Howard Berman had introduced the Foreign Relations Authorization Act for Fiscal Years 2010
and 2011 (H.R. 2410) late last week, which covers a broad range of foreign policy and diplomacy issues, one of which is to
"end the long-standing practice of excluding the committed partners of Foreign Service officers from the benefits routinely
provided to the spouses and children of officers serving abroad."
q12-oday, news of developments in that area: "Berman, in a hearing on funding for the Foreign Service, said he would drop
his legislative bid as 'it is my expectation, based on very recent conversations, that the Secretary of State will move forward
with implementing all of the benefits provided in that provision in the very near future.' The congressman invited to the
hearing Michael Guest, the former US ambassador to Romania who in 2007 left the Foreign Service, citing unfair treatment of
his partner."
In February, Rep. Tammy Baldwin sent a letter co-signed by Senators Russ Feingold and Ron Wyden, and Rep. Ileana RosLehtinen to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton asking that inequities be remedied. Clinton said that such remedies were "on a
fast timeline."
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*1/0ers*
Heads up -- A friend just sent this to me. Does anyone have any intel? This is a huge step and kudos to Sec. Clinton for
expending the political capital to be the first federal agency to do this!
FYI. Berman just spoke about it.
Enact two items sought by the Foreign Service: elimination of a rule that inadvertently reduces the pay of officers
serving overseas by as much as 20 percent, and extension to same-sex partners of the benefits given to spouses and
their families, such as access to U.S. health care and moving expenses. This last provision is likely to provoke GOP
objections.
I don't have the source my friend used, but hopefully some of you might. If this is true (which I hope it is), we have to
start gearing up for the battle to support her now!
Yours in the struggle for equality,
+ Phil*
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Monday, June 01, 2009 2:29 PM
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From: Caroline Adler

To: Sullivan, Jacob J
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Subject: did you see this??
The 31-Year-Old in Charge of Dismantling G.M. By DAVID E. SANGER
WASHINGTON It is not every 31-year-old who, in a first government job, finds himself dismantling General Motors
and rewriting the rules of American capitalism.
But that, in short, is the job description for Brian Deese, a not-quite graduate of Yale Law School who had never set foot
in an automotive assembly plant until he took on his nearly unseen role in remaking the American automotive industry.
Nor, for that matter, had he given much thought to what ailed an industry that had been in decline ever since he was
born. A bit laconic and looking every bit the just-out-of-graduate-school student adjusting to life in the West Wing
"he's got this beard that appears and disappears," says Steven Rattner, one of the leaders of President Obama's
automotive task force Mr. Deese was thrown into the auto industry's maelstrom as soon the election-night parties
ended.
"There was a time between Nov. 4 and mid-February when I was the only full-time member of the auto task force," Mr.
Deese, a special assistant to the president for economic policy, acknowledged recently as he hurried between his desk at
the White House and the Treasury building next door. "It was a little scary."
But now, according to those who joined him in the middle of his crash course about the automakers' downward spiral,
he has emerged as one of the most influential voices in what may become President Obama's biggest experiment yet in
federal economic intervention.
While far more prominent members of the administration are making the big decisions about Detroit, it is Mr. Deese
who is often narrowing their options.
A month ago, when the administration was divided over whether to support Fiat's bid to take over much of Chrysler, it
was Mr. Deese who spoke out strongly against simply letting the company go into liquidation, according to several
people who were present for the debate.
"Brian grasps both the economics and the politics about as quickly as I've seen anyone do this," said Lawrence H.
Summers, the head of the National Economic Council who is not known for being patient whenever he believes an
analysis is sub-par or disagrees with his own. "And there he was in the Roosevelt Room, speaking up vigorously to
make the point that the costs we were going to incur giving Fiat a chance were no greater than some of the hidden costs
of liquidation."
Mr. Deese was not the only one favoring the Fiat deal, but his lengthy memorandum on how liquidation would increase
Medicaid costs, unemployment insurance and municipal bankruptcies ended the debate. The administration supported
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the deal, and it seems likely to become a reality on Monday, if a federal judge handling the high-speed bankruptcy
proceeding approves the sale of Chrysler's best assets to the Italian carmaker.
Mr. Deese's role is unusual for someone who is neither a formally trained economist nor a business school graduate, and
who never spent much time flipping through the endless studies about the future of the American and Japanese auto
industries.
He lives a dual life these days. He starts the day at a desk wedged just outside of Mr. Summers's office, where he can
hear what young members of the economic team have come to know as "the Summers bellow." From there, he can
make it quickly to the press office to help devise explanations for whytaxpayers are spending more than $50 billion on
what polls show is a very unpopular bailout of the auto industry.
Several times a day he speed-walks to Treasury, taking a shortcut through the tunnel under the colonnade, near the
kitchens. The other day he talked about how sharply perceptions of the industry's future changed after Mr. Obama's
election.
"At the first meeting with Rick Wagoner," he said, referring to G.M.'s recently deposed chief executive, "they were in a
very different place. He said publicly that bankruptcy was not a viable option. It's been a long process getting everyone
to look at the options differently."
In fact, from before Inauguration Day, few in Mr. Obama's circle saw any other choice. Every time Mr. Deese ran the
numbers on G.M. and Chrysler, he came back with the now-obvious conclusion that neither was a viable business, and
that their plans to revive themselves did not address the erosion of their revenues. But it took the support of Mr.
Rattner and Ron Bloom, senior advisers to the task force charged with restructuring the automobile industry, to help
turn Mr. Deese's positions into policy.
"The president's instruction to us was that we had to come up with a solution that would work on a commercial basis,
that didn't involve indefinite federal financing," Mr. Deese said. "But we didn't want liquidation, which would have even
worse effects. So the question was how do you design a very substantial restructuring, and do it fast."
Mr. Deese's route to the auto table at the White House was anything but a straight line. He is the son of a political
science professor at Boston College (his father) and an engineer who works in renewable energy (his mother). He grew
up in the Boston suburb of Belmont and attended Middlebury College in Vermont. He went to Washington to work on
aid issues and was quickly hired by Nancy Birdsall, a widely respected authority on the effectiveness of international aid
and the founder of the Center for Global Development.
But he wanted to learn domestic issues as well, and soon ended up working as an assistant for Gene Sperling, who 17
years ago in the Clinton White House played a similar role as economic policy prodigy. Eventually, Mr. Deese headed to
Yale for his law degree. But his e-mail box was constantly filled with messages from friends in Washington who were
signing up to work for the Obama or Hillary Rodham Clinton campaigns. Mr. Deese chose Senator Clinton's.
"He was pretty quickly functioning as the top economic policy staffer through her campaign," Mr. Sperling said. "He
could blend the policy needs and the political needs pretty seamlessly." On the day that the Clinton campaign ended,
Mr. Deese left her concession speech and received a message on his BlackBerry from a friend in the Obama campaign
urging him to sign on immediately to Mr. Obama's team.
He resumed his policy work there, and found himself stuck in Chicago unable to fly to Washington with his dog as
the economic crisis deepened. Finally, one night, he decided to get into his car with his dog and just started driving back
to Washington. Tired, he pulled over to catch some sleep in the car.
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"I slept in the parking lot of the G. M. plant in Lordstown, Ohio," he recalled. The giant plant, opened during G.M.'s
heyday in the mid-1960s, is where the Pontiac 65 is produced. Under the plan Mr. Deese worked on when he arrived in
Washington, Pontiac will disappear.
"I guess that was prophetic," he said, shaking his head.
Correction: An earlier version of this article misidentified the Center for Global Development as the Center for
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Hillary: I'm on train until 1 pm (six hours ahead), my cell works anywhere
. Sid
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Can you talk? What # should I call?
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Hillary: In Rome, on way to Florence to NYU Center on Law and Security

Conference. Here's the point: While here, I had dinner tonight with Shaun
Woodward (meeting with Pope on N. Ireland). He told me he's meeting with Jim
Steinberg on Friday. He told me things you would in my judgment want and need to
hear because they will likely involve your personal role. I think you should
step in and ask him to tell you directly. I also should relate to you when I
return information about Brown government re foreign ministry: Meetings here
with former PM Amato, former amb. Saleo, key journalists for Correire,
Repubblica, Europa, RAI, etc, new re Berlusconi, as usual the real story is not
what's public. Sid
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Yes -- Stephens is in DC all day, we can work with Ops on the call. I don't think we need to push the Angolans more than
15 minutes so should be fine. Should I move forward and adjust?
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Hi Cheryl,
I do not believe there is Twittering in the Secretary's name. The Twittering is from DipNote, the State Department's Blog
htto://twitter.com/dipnote
It will occasionally quote the Secretary but the Twittering should not be done in her name.
Alec
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But we should not be twittering in the Secretary's name since she is not the person actually twittering.
There is a reference in Newsweek to her twittering and says: Hillary Clinton Style: Dry info and offers 4,788 followers
Can you advise who is twittering in her name and how we can address?
Thanks.
cdm
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Just saw Newsweek piece and went over site with Nora --- Nora can show to you. It's a leap for Newsweek to say that
the State Dept DipNote Twittering = Secretary Clinton Twittering. I did a scan (and will do a longer one) but there
appears to be no first person Twittering in Secretary's Clinton's name.
To: Ross, Alec ); Adler, Caroline E (PACE); Kennedy, Patrick F
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I'll send you the newsweek piece
From: Ross, Alec )
Cc: Sullivan, Jacob ); McHale, Judith A; Crowley, Philip J
Hi Cheryl,
htto://twitter.com/dipnote
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I will double check with the person who sends the actual tweets, but I have been really clear that the tweets should not be
in her name (unless of course she signs off on something down the road)
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Thanks.
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Some other thoughts
AMS did not like any of this both for the substance and because she did not write it so we did not share it with you
today. Then I decided to share it with you anyway for any value it has for you.
Frame:
The world we live in today is inextricably interconnected. Together we succeed. Apart we fail. In the Obama
Administration, we will use smart power to advance to our shared security, shared prosperity and shared humanity.
In advancing our shared security, we seek to:
Reduce threat of violent extremism

Reduce the spread of weapons of mass destruction
In advancing our shared prosperity, we seek to:
Use development to create and sustain strong stable economies by:

o Focusing on women as essential for driving economic growth;
o Expanding access to food and the means to grow or buy it; and,
o Expanding access to quality education in developing countries;
Expand access to stable, affordable and increasingly clean energy sources

In advancing our shared humanity, we seek to:
Expand human rights and the conditions that promote respect for human rights
Support the development of health systems that support healthier societies and
confront the spread of pandemic disease (e.g., AlDs)
How we achieve these goals:
We will advance these goals through shared responsibility and the application of smart power. America has the
responsibility to lead, but can only lead in partnership with others. Smart power means elevating and
integrating diplomacy and development.
DIPLOMACY:
Focus on priority partnerships:
Revitalized partnerships with historic allies EU, Japan, Korea, Australia;

Calibrated partnerships with China and Russia;
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Cultivated partnerships: Brazil, India, Turkey, Indonesia, and South Africa;

Targeted public/private and multilateral partnerships based upon the principles of
variable geometry (L e., focused on the problem at hand).
Build strong partnerships by:
listening and mutual respect which has begun already and will continue
being accountable for the challenges we create and demanding that our partners are
similarly accountable;
focusing on government to people, and people to people connections using new
technology to create buy in from bottom up so shared responsibility is experienced
on the ground and sustainable;
eliminating the obstacles to cooperation that stand in the way of us achieve our
goals (e.g., resolving Cyprus so Turkey can enter the EU; engaging Iran to create
greater accountability among EU partners if engagement fails)
creating work plans to drive cooperation on our shared agenda: tasks, timetables
and benchmarks for each country
DEVELOPMENT:
Establish and implement against our critical priorities:
Women as economic drivers and social stabilizers;

Education as the gateway to economic opportunity and human rights;
Food and agriculture as the cornerstone of sustainable local economies
Global health as the foundation for the future
Reform our government institutions
Improve coordination in planning and budgeting across our diplomacy and

development
Make Ambassadors country-level CEOs responsible for government-wide
efforts in each country.
o Grow the quality, talents and capacities of our development institutions;
o Introduce effective metrics and evaluation for accountability
Improve delivery and outcomes
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Assess and promote what works and stop spending resources on what doesn't.
Establish transparent benchmarks for measuring success
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Of all his transition choices, none was easier to make, or more complex to execute, than Hillary Clinton as
secretary of state. Obama had long wanted his former rival on his team, no matter what his friends and aides
said about her aggressive campaign... His staff opposed the idea for the most part, arguing that Clinton would
never be truly loyal. But Obama was willing to leave the primaries behind, including his own strong feelings at
the time. "I don't hold grudges," he told his aides. "I don't worry about the past. I'm concerned about What
happens now. If she can help me and Bill Clinton isn't too much of a liability, we should seriously look at this."
Obama was under no illusion about the legacy of the long primary season. During one transition meeting,
Obama said he wanted to offer Clinton the diplomatic job. "I'm really interested in pursuing this, but I know she
has some hard feelings coming out of this campaign." Emanuel and John Podesta, the former Clinton official
who ran the transition, assured Obama that she was over those hard feelings now. Obama smiled and said,
"Believe me. She's not over it yet."
His decision to offer her the job of secretary of state came surprisingly early. Well before the end of the
primaries, when his staff and friends still felt hostile to her, Obama decided that Clinton possessed the qualities
to carry his diplomacy to the rest of the world. "We actually thought during the primary, when we were pretty
sure we were going to win, that she could end up being a very effective secretary of state," he told me later. "I
felt that she was disciplined, that she was precise, that she was smart as a whip, and that she would present a
really strong image to the world.. .I had that mapped out."
Recruiting and managing a team of rivals would not be easy, and Clinton came with her own set of issues. Chief
among them was her campaign debt, which she wanted eliminated before she took the job of secretary of state.
Would the president-elect go out and help her to do so? "I'm not begging her to take this job," Obama told his
senior aides. "If she wants it, I could help. But I'm not willing to go out in these difficult economic times to do a
flashy fundraiser in California." As it happened, plenty of people in the Senate were begging Obama to offer
Clinton the job. Obama's aides believed that many Senate Democrats thought Clinton had extended her
presidential campaign far beyond the point where she had lost the election. Her negative advertising wasted
Democratic money, threatened to undermine the party's nominee, and suggested that she was disloyal to the
party. They were unwilling to offer the junior New York senator a position ahead of her lowly rank, and she
stood little chance of becoming majority leader. "There was a lot of encouragement from inside the Senate to
get her into this job," said one senior Obama aide. "They wanted her out of there." ...
As for controlling the uncontrollable Bill Clinton, Obama's aides drew up a series of checks on his fundraising
for both Clinton Global Initiative and his work on HIV/AIDS across the world. But they really counted on
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Hillary to be the ultimate safeguard - against both her husband and her own ambition. "It's in her interests to
keep him in line," warned one senior Obama aide. Others in Obama's inner circle said the president-elect
believed Clinton needed to demonstrate that she was a team player and to shape her own career and legacy.
"There are plenty who don't trust her and think she still harbors something," said another senior adviser. "It's
still potentially problematic down the road. Barack's thinking on this is that it's not in her interests to mess with
us. She can't win that fight internally and she's smart enough that she won't want that fight publicly."
Several weeks into the administration, even Clinton's internal critics believed the relationship was a success.
"They have both worked really hard at it," said one senior White House official. "There's a natural affinity and
respect that ironically grew out of being opponents. You get to know someone really well after all that."
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Cc: Sullivan, Jacob); McHale, Judith A; Crowley, Philip J; Toiv, Nora F
Subject: Re: Not Sure who is Twittering at DOS
Our twittering guys confirmed that we don't tweet directly from HRC
The closest we come to that is to send out quotes from her official statements, e.g. using the format:
Secretary Clinton: ...We will work with the Goldman family and the Brazilian Government with the goal of ensuring this
young boy's return.
From: Ross, Alec J <RossAJ@state.gov>

Cc: Sullivan, Jacob ); McHale, Judith A; Crowley, Philip J; Toiv, Nora F
Sent: Tue Jun 02 08:54:18 2009
Just saw Newsweek piece and went over site with Nora Nora can show to you. It's a leap for Newsweek to say that
the State Dept DipNote Twittering = Secretary Clinton Twittering. I did a scan (and will do a longer one) but there
appears to be no first person Twittering in Secretary's Clinton's name.
To: Ross, Alec J; Adler, Caroline E (PACE); Kennedy, Patrick F
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I'll send you the newsweek piece
From: Ross, Alec J
Hi Cheryl,
http ://twitte r.co mid ipnote
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Abedin, Huma
Mini Schedule 5/22/09
8:25 am ARRIVE State Department

8:25 am PRESIDENTIAL DAILY BRIEFING
8:30 am Secretary's Office
8:30 am DAILY SMALL STAFF MEETING
8:45 am DAILY SENIOR STAFF MEETING

9:15 am Secretary's Conference Room
9:30 am AWARD PRESENTATION FROM THE NATIONAL COORDINATED

9:45 am EFFORT OF HELLENES Treaty Room
10:00 am OFFICE TIME
11:15 am
Secretary's Office
11:15 am MEETING w/ICRIS BALDERSTON AND GLYN DAVIES

11:30 am
Secretary's Office
11:30 am BILATERAL w/BELGIAN DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER AND

12:00 pm
FOREIGN MINISTER KAREL DE GUCHT
Secretary's Conference Room *Camera Spray in Treaty Room at top.
12:00 pm CONFERENCE CALL w/CEOs REGARDING THE SHANGHAI EXPO

12:15 pm
Secretary's Office
12:30 pm MEETING w/RICHARD MORNINGSTAR, SE FOR EURASIAN ENERGY

1:00 pm OFFICE TIME

2:20 pm DEPART State Department *En route Reagan National Airport
2:35 pm ARRIVE Reagan National Airport

3:00 pm DEPART Reagan National Airport via US Air Shuttle #2176
En route New York, New York LaGuardia Airport
4:17 pm ARRIVE New York, New York
4:30 pm DEPART LaGuardia Airport *En route Private Residence

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Author of Renegade is Richard Wolfe (wrote for Newsweek)

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From: Toiv, Nora F

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Of all his transition choices, none was easier to make, or more complex to execute, than Hillary Clinton as secretary of
state. Obama had long wanted his former rival on his team, no matter what his friends and aides said about her
aggressive campaign... His staff opposed the idea for the most part, arguing that Clinton would never be truly loyal. But
Obama was willing to leave the primaries behind, including his own strong feelings at the time. "I don't hold grudges,"
he told his aides. "I don't worry about the past. I'm concerned about what happens now. If she can help me and Bill
Clinton isn't too much of a liability, we should seriously look at this." ...
Obama was under no illusion about the legacy of the long primary season. During one transition meeting, Obama said he
wanted to offer Clinton the diplomatic job. "I'm really interested in pursuing this, but I know she has some hard feelings
coming out of this campaign." Emanuel and John Podesta, the former Clinton official who ran the transition, assured
Obama that she was over those hard feelings now. Obama smiled and said, "Believe me. She's not over it yet."
His decision to offer her the job of secretary of state came surprisingly early. Well before the end of the primaries, when
his staff and friends still felt hostile to her, Obama decided that Clinton possessed the qualities to carry his diplomacy to
the rest of the world. "We actually thought during the primary, when we were pretty sure we were going to win, that
she could end up being a very effective secretary of state," he told me later. "I felt that she was disciplined, that she was
precise, that she was smart as a whip, and that she would present a really strong image to the world...I had that mapped
out."
Recruiting and managing a team of rivals would not be easy, and Clinton came with her own set of issues. Chief among
them was her campaign debt, which she wanted eliminated before she took the job of secretary of state. Would the
president-elect go out and help her to do so? "I'm not begging her to take this job," Obama told his senior aides. "If she
wants it, I could help. But I'm not willing to go out in these difficult economic times to do a flashy fundraiser in
California." As it happened, plenty of people in the Senate were begging Obama to offer Clinton the job. Obama's aides
believed that many Senate Democrats thought Clinton had extended her presidential campaign far beyond the point
where she had lost the election. Her negative advertising wasted Democratic money, threatened to undermine the
party's nominee, and suggested that she was disloyal to the party. They were unwilling to offer the junior New York
senator a position ahead of her lowly rank, and she stood little chance of becoming majority leader. "There was a lot of
encouragement from inside the Senate to get her into this job," said one senior Obama aide. "They wanted her out of
there." ...
As for controlling the uncontrollable Bill Clinton, Obama's aides drew up a series of checks on his fundraising for both
Clinton Global Initiative and his work on HIV/AIDS across the world. But they really counted on Hillary to be the ultimate
safeguard - against both her husband and her own ambition. "It's in her interests to keep him in line," warned one senior
Obama aide. Others in Obama's inner circle said the president-elect believed Clinton needed to demonstrate that she
was a team player and to shape her own career and legacy. "There are plenty who don't trust her and think she still
harbors something," said another senior adviser. "It's still potentially problematic down the road. Barack's thinking on
this is that it's not in her interests to mess with us. She can't win thaffight internally and she's smart enough that she
won't want that fight publicly."
Several weeks into the administration, even Clinton's internal critics believed the relationship was a success. "They have
both worked really hard at it," said one senior White House official. "There's a natural affinity and respect that ironically
grew out of being opponents. You get to know someone really well after all that."
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goodies in his honor.

Friday, May 22, 2009 6:41 AM
birthday. He will be in the office until noon today. There will be breakfast
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POL Tro
'Renegade' CliffsNotes
By: Jonathan Martin
June 2, 2009 12:22 AM EST
The flood of books devoted to the 2008 campaign and President Barack Obama begins in
earnest this week with the release of "Renegade, The Making of a President," by former
Newsweek reporter Richard Wolfe.
Wolffe's account of the Obama campaign isn't to be officially released until Tuesday, but
POLITICO obtained a copy earlier this week.
Herewith are some of the book's most fascinating nuggets:
No Shrum Moment:
Before the election had been called, but when it looked promising for Obama the thencandidate called his top adviser, David Axelrod.
"What's going on?" Obama asked.
"Look, I'm not going to say congratulations yet, but boy, it looks awfully good," Axelrod
replied.
Axelrod, Wolfe notes, wanted to avoid a repeat of 2004, when John Kerry's top adviser,
Bob Shrum, told the Massachusetts senator prematurely on election night that he wanted
to be the first to say, "Mr. President."
Pritzker Veers Off-Message (A little):
The impressive fundraising Obama demonstrated in 2007 was largely a result of the usual
high-dollar contributors not the small-dollar donors the campaign liked to hold up to the
press.
"It wasn't the Internet," admitted Penny Pritzker, Obama's national finance chair.
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Talking To Himself:
The revamped stump speech Obama gave to Iowa Democrats at their Jefferson-Jackson
Dinner in November of 2007 was borne out of a speech Obama scribe Jon Favreau had
written for the candidate earlier that month in South Carolina.
Favreau trimmed the original version and sent it to Obama who had to memorize it for
what became a pivotal moment leading up to the Iowa caucuses.
Aides were concerned that Obama was not prepared to give the speech, but he largely
got it right on his first run-through a day befOre the dinner.
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"None of Obama's aides knew that the candidate had been rehearsing in his Des Moines
hotel room all week," Wolfe writes. [Press secretary Robert] Gibbs had walked by his
room a couple of times, heard a loud television behind the door, and wondered what was
going on. Obama had turned the volume up to practice the speech to himself, out of sight
and earshot of even his closest staff."
Michelle As Strategist:
The morning after Obama lost the early-March Ohio and Texas primaries, campaign
manager David Plouffe suffered through an uncomfortable car ride with the candidate and
his wife, Michelle Obama.
The future first lady, writes Wolfe, "threatened not to return to the campaign trail until they
had come up with a new strategy."
Says Plouffe: "I think she was pissed at both of us."
A Rev. Wright Sit-down:

After Obama gave his race speech in Philadelphia primary but before his former pastor,
the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, would make his now-infamous appearance at the National
Press Club, the candidate went to Chicago to meet with Wright.
Obama was trying to dissuade Wright from a "comeback tour" and told his former pastor to
expect a "media circus" if he reemerged.
Wright, Wolfe writes, wanted to tell his side of the story and felt like he was "the aggrieved
party."
Tough Words For Bill Clinton:
His wife is now Obama's secretary of state, but Obama had some tough words for the
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"We had to figure out how to deal with a former president who was just lying, engaging in
bald-faced lies," Obama explained to Wolfe.
When the then-candidate was asked if Clinton got in his head, he replied: "Yes, but I got
into his."
Later, when considering who to name as his running mate, Obama told aides that if Hillary
Clinton would help politically she ought to be considered.
"But I'm concerned about Bill Clinton being a loose cannon," Obama said, according to
Wolfe.
Joe Biden Wants His Damn Calls Returned
When Sen. John McCain wouldn't return the phone calls of Sen. Joe Biden, the neversubtle Delawarean sought out his longtime colleague.
In New York City with Obama and McCain where the two were both appearing at a public
service event on the anniversary of 9/11, Biden was rebuffed by McCain's aides
backstage when he asked to see the GOP nominee.
So, Wolfe writes, Biden went to McCain's green room door and knocked.
"John McCain,' he shouted, according to Wolfe. "It's Joe Biden. The next time I phone
you, take the damn call."
Rendell Drinks The Obama Kool-Aid Literally
After Obama locked up the nomination, Pennsylvania Gov. and ardent Clinton supporter
Ed Rendell got a note from an Obama supporter attached to a can of Kool-Aid telling him
to drink up.
So the next day at a Philadephla fundraiser for the Pennsylvania Democratic Party, the
ever-demonstrative governor poured it into a glass of water and proclaimed: "Now I feel
that Senator Obama is the most wonderful person ever to have lived in the United States
of America. The smartest, most sensitive most decent and honorable man. Now I
understand what you guys have been feeling for the last six months."
"The Old Man":
Plouffe told Wolfe that they never considered going after the 72-year-old McCain on his
age, but the author notes that some in Obama's high command enjoyed references to the
GOP nominee's age and one staffer had a nickname for the Republican: "the old man."
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Office of the Spokesman
June 2, 2009
For Immediate Release

2009/
Question Taken at June 1, 2009 Daily Press Briefing

Current results of Texting Campaign for Humanitarian Aid to Pakistan
Q. How much money has been raised through the texting campaign for humanitarian aid for
Pakistan?
A. The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees reported that as of June 1, 2009, a total of
$135,008 in private donations from U.S. sources for humanitarian aid to Pakistan had been
received. Of that total, $31,390 was received via 5,722 text messages.
The remainder included $84,702 received via 439 online donations; and $18,916 by mail and from
major donors.
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FYI. Some interesting results on on-line contributions this far regarding Pakistani IDPs.
Pi
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I just received the final clearance.

<<060209 Taken Question - Current Total of Pak IDPs via Texting Campaign JB-D RB.docx>>
Gina Mils
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Subject: Tom in Jamaica
To All:
Tom wanted you to know that he and Hector Morales just departed Jamaica after meeting with Caribbean
foreign ministers. Three main points:
--The Caribbean FMs welcomed discussion with Tom about the Caribbean security dialogue. Tom told them
we would go into more detail at the May 20 experts meeting in Suriname.
--The FMs look forward to meeting with S in San Pedro.Sula at the OASGA.
--On Cuba, the FMs expressed sympathy with what we are trying to do, but want to hear more about next
steps.
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When will we hear from Paul Farmer???
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To All:
Tom wanted you to know that he and Hector Morales just departed Jamaica after meeting with Caribbean foreign
ministers. Three main points:
--The Caribbean FMs welcomed discussion with Tom about the Caribbean security dialogue. Tom told them we would
go into more detail at the May 20 experts meeting in Suriname.
--The FMs look forward to meeting with S in San Pedro Sula at the OASGA.
--On Cuba, the FMs expressed sympathy with what we are trying to do, but want to hear more about next steps.
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I spoke w him. Any word from Pam? I have to leave.
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Miliband...
Hillary: Spoke with Jonathan Powell. What we heard is accurate. More: Labour will suffer a large
defeat in the European elections on June 4. (New poll in Guardian shows widespread disaffection
with all parties as a result of the Commons expenses scandal; 27 percent voting for fringe parties.)
Gordon will attempt to overwhelm news coverage of the loss with a cabinet reshuffle, as early as the
next day, June 5. The plot (sounds like the Tudors): David is the target, from multiple angles and
motives, personal ambition mixed with anti-Blairism. Peter has always wanted to be Foreign
Secretary, a job held by his grandfather, Herbert Morrison. (Morrison was also deputy PM, why
doesn't Peter want that?) New Labour people regard Peter as more ambitious than New Labour at
this point. He supported Gordon's utterly misbegotten and wildly unpopular proposal to raise the top
tax rate to 50 percent. The fallout is less resentment of the affluent to paying more or grudging
understanding of need for new revenues as it is a sense that Labour under Gordon is abandoning the
project for social aspiration and opportunity that is at the heart of the New Labour message. Ed Balls,
one of Gordon's closest longtime advisers, is also determined to topple David. Balls is a
contemporary of David's, wants to be leader of the party himself, and continues the Gordon v. Tony
bitter rivalry into the future. Balls is currently Minister for Children and Schools and was linked to
Damian McBride (Gordon's hatchetman, who has trashed Blairites, got caught out on his blogging
scheme to smear Cameron). If Gordon names Peter to David's job, Balls would take Peter's and
become Business Secretary. David would be pushed into Home Secretary. Once Balls takes Peter's
job, Balls will likely reverse Peter's privatization proposal for the Royal Mail to win support from party's
left-wing base, beginning of his campaign against David for post-Gordon leadership struggle. Tony
sees the situation as terminal. Hope to speak with him soon. He is trying to become President of
Europe if and when Lisbon treaty passes. Jonathan made an interesting and ironic comment about
Colin Powell, given Tony's deference to him, that Powell's flaw was being too deferential to Bush.
From bitter experience, Jonathan is wishing you well, be close to the president, and advance your
ideas, too. There's more for when we can talk. Sid
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http://www.advocate.cominews detail ektid85471.asp

May 22, 2009
Draft Letter Signals Clinton Ready For

Equal Treatment at State
By Kerry Eleveld
The Advocate has obtained a draft of a letter from Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to employees of the State Department
that details her intentions to extend certain benefits to same-sex partners of foreign service officers posted abroad.
"Historically, domestic partners of Foreign Service members have not been provided the same training, benefits, allowances,
and protections that other family members receive. These inequities are unfair and must end. Providing training, medical
care and other benefits to domestic partners promote the cohesiveness, safety and effectiveness of our Posts abroad," says
the letter.
The letter explains that the department will be "exercising its inherent authority to change its regulations in the Foreign
Affairs Manual and Department of State Standardized Regulations" in order to allow domestic partners of foreign service
personnel to qualify as family members. "Where appropriate, this extension of benefits and allowances will apply to the
children of domestic partners as well."
Providing these benefits to all employees, notes the letter, will help the department "attract and retain personnel in a
competitive environment where domestic partner benefits and allowances are increasingly the norm for world-class
employers. At bottom, the Department will provide these benefits for both opposite-sex and same-sex domestic partners
because it is the right thing to do."
The letter appears to be the culmination of Secretary Clinton's work with LGBT employee groups at the State Department. A
source familiar with the situation who spoke on the condition of anonymity said the letter was drafted by senior officials at
the department and represents the Secretary's thinking on the issue. The letter currently awaits final approval from senior
government lawyers.
The draft is consistent with statements made this week by California Congressman Howard Berman that Secretary Clinton
is committed to equalizing the treatment of gay employees of the State Department and that he anticipated an
announcement on the matter soon.
Full text of the letter is below:

DRAFT INTERNAL RELEASE
For Review
Today, I am pleased to announce that the Department of State will be extending a number of benefits and allowances to
domestic partners of members of the Foreign Service assigned abroad.
While a career in the Foreign Service is rewarding, the demands to serve our country both at home and abroad also require
great sacrifice by our Foreign Service personnel and their families as well. Family members often must uproot their lives,
endure hardship conditions, and put their own careers on hold. Like all families, our Foreign Service families come in
different configurations; all are part of the common fabric of our Post communities abroad.
Historically, domestic partners of Foreign Service members have not been provided the same training, benefits, allowances,
and protections that other family members receive. These inequities are unfair and must end. Providing training, medical
care and other benefits to domestic partners promote the cohesiveness, safety and effectiveness of our Posts abroad. It will
also help the Department attract and retain personnel in a competitive environment where domestic partner benefits and
allowances are increasingly the norm for world-class employers. At bottom, the Department will provide these benefits for
both opposite-sex and same-sex domestic partners because it is the right thing to do.
The Department will be exercising its inherent authority to change its regulations in the Foreign Affairs Manual and
Department of State Standardized Regulations to allow the domestic partners of Department Foreign Service personnel to
qualify as family members for a variety of benefits and allowances. Where appropriate, this extension of benefits and
allowances will apply to the children of domestic partners as well. To qualify for these benefits and allowances, an employee
must file an affidavit identifying his or her domestic partner and certifying to certain eligibility requirements that will be set
forth in the FAM.
The Department of State intends to provide the following additional benefits and allowances for declared domestic partners of
eligible employees serving overseas:
Diplomatic passports,
Inclusion on employee travel orders to and from posts abroad,
Shipment of household effects,
Inclusion in family size calculations for the purpose of making housing allocations,
Family member preference for employment at posts abroad,
Use of medical facilities at posts abroad,
Medical evacuation from posts abroad,
Emergency travel for the partners to visit gravely ill or injured employees,
Inclusion as family members for emergency evacuation from posts abroad,
Subsistence payments related to emergency evacuation from posts abroad,
Inclusion in calculations of payments of overseas differentials and allowances (e.g., payment for quarters, cost of
living, and other allowances),
Representation expenses, and
Training at the Foreign Service Institute.
The Department also will work with our inter-agency partners and host country governments to provide domestic partners
with diplomatic visas, appropriate diplomatic and consular privileges and immunities, and authorization to work in the local
economy abroad.
We look forward to implementing these changes.
Richard Socarides
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Friday, May 22, 2009 4:48 PM
Calls
- call cheryl
- Durbin called u back.
Is available for next few hours on
- don't return barak call. Mitchell just talked to him. We'll get you call readout first and then u can decide if u want to
talk to him.
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Re: Miliband...
Ok now,
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Very sorry to read this confirmation. Email if and when it would be convenient to call you.
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Hillary: Spoke with Jonathan Powell. What we heard is accurate. More: Labour will suffer a large defeat in the European
elections on June 4. (New poll in Guardian shows widespread disaffection with all parties as a result of the Commons
expenses scandal; 27 percent voting for fringe parties.) Gordon will attempt to overwhelm news coverage of the loss
with a cabinet reshuffle, as early as the next day, June 5. The plot (sounds like the Tudors): David is the target, from
multiple angles and motives, personal ambition mixed with anti-Blairism. Peter has always wanted to be Foreign
Secretary, a job held by his grandfather, Herbert Morrison. (Morrison was also deputy PM, why doesn't Peter want
that?) New Labour people regard Peter as more ambitious than New Labour at this point. He supported Gordon's utterly
misbegotten and wildly unpopular proposal to raise the top tax rate to 50 percent. The fallout is less resentment of the
affluent to paying more or grudging understanding of need for new revenues as it is a sense that Labour under Gordon is
abandoning the project for social aspiration and opportunity that is at the heart of the New Labour message. Ed Balls,
one of Gordon's closest longtime advisers, is also determined to topple David. Balls is a contemporary of David's, wants
to be leader of the party himself, and continues the Gordon v. Tony bitter rivalry into the future. Balls is currently
Minister for Children and Schools and was linked to Damian McBride (Gordon's hatchetman, who has trashed Blairites,
got caught out on his blogging scheme to smear Cameron). If Gordon names Peter to David's job, Balls would take
Peter's and become Business Secretary. David would be pushed into Home Secretary. Once Balls takes Peter's job, Balls
will likely reverse Peter's privatization proposal for the Royal Mail to win support from party's left-wing base, beginning
of his campaign against David for post-Gordon leadership struggle. Tony sees the situation as terminal. Hope to speak wi
th him soon. He is trying to become President of Europe if and when Lisbon treaty passes. Jonathan made an interesting
and ironic comment about Colin Powell, given Tony's deference to him, that Powell's flaw was being too deferential to
Bush. From bitter experience, Jonathan is wishing you well, be close to the president, and advance your ideas, too.
There's more for when we can talk. Sid
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(SBU) Embassy Seoul reports former President Roh Moo-hyun died in a fall while mountain climbing. Roh
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June 2, 2009
QUESTION TAKEN AT JUNE 1, 2009 DAILY PRESS BRIEFING
CURRENT RESULTS OF TEXTING CAMPAIGN FOR HUMANITARIAN

AID TO PAKISTAN
Q. How much money has been raised through the texting campaign for
humanitarian aid for Pakistan?
A. The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees reported that as of June
1, 2009, a total of $135,008 in private donations from U.S. sources for
humanitarian aid to Pakistan had been received. Of that total, $31,390 was
received via 5,722 text messages.
The remainder included $84,702 received via 439 online donations; and $18,916
by mail and from major donors.
# ##
Drafted:
PRM/MCE: GWills 3-1071
Approved: PRM/FO: MPollack ok
Cleared:
PRM/ECA: AWendt ok
PRM/ECA: ENagy
ok
IO/RHS: D Moore ok
USAID/PAPD: TRigler ok
SCA/PAPD:KFaillace ok
D(L):
CLacrosse ok
D(L):
JButte-Dahl ok
D(S):
LCue
ok if all others clear
G:
KFriedrich ok
SIP:
SChaudhary ok
SIP:
MPatel
ok
P:
AReinemeyer ok
UNHCR: TIrwin info
PA:
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QUESTION TAKEN AT JUNE 1, 2009 DAILY PRESS BRIEFING
CURRENT RESULTS OF TEXTING CAMPAIGN FOR HUMANITARIAN

AID TO PAKISTAN
Q. How much money has been raised through the texting campaign for
humanitarian aid for Pakistan?
A. The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees reported that as of June
1, 2009, a total of $135,008 in private donations from U.S. sources for
humanitarian aid to Pakistan had been received. Of that total, $31,390 was
received via 5,722 text messages.
The remainder included $84,702 received via 439 online donations; and $18,916
by mail and from major donors.
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PRM/MCE: GWills 3-1071
Approved: PRM/FO: MPollack ok
Cleared: PRM/ECA: AWendt ok
PRM/ECA: ENagy
ok
IO/RHS: D Moore ok
USAID/PAPD: TRigler ok
SCA/PAPD:KFaillace ok
D(L):
CLacrosse ok
D(L):
JButte-Dahl ok
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ok if all others clear
LCue
G:
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SIP:
MPatel
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Obama picks financial backer for UK ambassador post
FYI
Original Message
To see this story with its related links on the guardian.co.uk site, go to
http://wwvti.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/may/20/obama-uk-ambassador-louis-susman
Obama picks financial backer for UK ambassador post Chicago friend Louis Susman chosen for plum posting despite
president's promise to end cronyism in Washington Ewen MacAskill in Washington Wednesday May 20 2009
guardian.co.uk
A little bit of Chicago's ruthless and combative political machine is soon to descend on the decorous calm of the Court of
St James. Despite promising to end cronyism in Washington, Barack Obama is about to appoint one of his home town
friends and financial backers to the plum posting of US ambassador to London.
The next ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary will be Louis Susman, a lawyer and financier with little
experience of foreign affairs.
The appointment will end months of speculation. Susman's name first surfaced in a diary column in the Washington Post
in February, but Caroline Kennedy was also mentioned, as was Oprah Winfrey, another of Obama's Chicago supporters.
There was no official confirmation of Susman's nomination today, but the Guardian has learned that the paperwork has
been completed. Buckingham Palace approved the appointment this month and Obama will announce it shortly.
London has become a retirement posting for many backers of US presidents, offering a comfortable home in one of the
best mansions in the city, Winfield House in Regent's Park.
Recent ambassadors have been political appointees more interested in country walks than Iraq or nuclear nonproliferation. Most of the work is left to the number twos at the embassy, career diplomats.
Susman, 71, a vice-president of Citigroup until he retired in February, has long been a backer of the Democrats,
nicknamed the Vacuum Cleaner by the Chicago Tribune for his ability to hoover up campaign funding. "I don't think
anyone enjoys raising money, but for some reason I seem to have a knack," he told the paper. Susman, who lives in an
expensive neighbourhood of Chicago overlooking Lake Michigan, raised at least $500,000 (?320,000) for Obama's
campaign and a further $300,000 for his inauguration.
He is so much a part of Obama's inner circle that he was invited to an exclusive party on the Sunday before the
inauguration. Other guests included Rahm Emanuel, Obama's chief of staff, who typifies the sharp-suited, foul-mouthed
approach of those brought up on Chicago politics.
London is not the only posting being used to reward political supporters.
Other positions in Europe are expected to be filled on the basis of patronage. Dan Rooney, owner of the Pittsburgh
Steelers football team, who campaigned for Obama, is to be the ambassador to Dublin.
The appointments will disappoint former US career diplomats who have been pressing Obama to end the practice,
especially since he promised to offer more of the top jobs to diplomats. In the Washington Post in December, a retired
diplomat with 30 years' service, Morton Abramowitz, called on Obama to "declare that he will not appoint ambassadors
who have secured their posts through financial contributions and who have little background to merit any such
appointment".
Ronald Neumann, a former career diplomat and ambassador and president of the Washington-based American
Academy of Diplomacy, wrote to Obama last year, saying ambassadors should have had experience of the country they
are being appointed to. Neumann said today: "You would think with our most important ally we might occasionally send
someone with some experience."
Historically, about 25% to 30% of the diplomatic posts have been political appointees. It is too early to say, but Obama's
ratio could yet be lower.
The president's choice of Susman could be viewed as a snub to the UK. The relationship between the Obama
administration and the UK government got off to a bad start. At least one member of the administration was irritated
over the leaking during the campaign of a memo from the British ambassador, Sir Nigel Sheinwald, assessing Obama as
"aloof". But the minor rows over the memo, the removal of the Churchill bust from the Oval office, the DVD present to
Gordon Brown and other perceived slights have been presentational problems rather than a sign of ruptured relations.
Obama's predecessor, George W Bush, sent two of his financier backers to the
UK: William Farish, a Texas multimillionaire, and Robert Tuttle, a California car dealer. The lack of an experienced
diplomat in London was felt most in the runup to the war in Iraq in 2003, with Farish invisible when a figure was needed
to put the US case on camera and in print.
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FYI
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Sent: Tuesday, June 02, 2009 12:05 PM
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Subject: Richard Wolfe
Richard Wolfe
Wolffe covered the entire length of Barack Obama's presidential campaign for Newsweek magazine, traveling
with the candidate and his inner circle from his announcement through election day, 21 months later.
As a political analyst on MS7VBC, he appears frequently on Countdown with Keith Olbermann and Hardball. On
NBC, he has featured as a political commentator on Meet The Press and TODAY. He features prominently in
the forthcoming HBO documentary on the Obama campaign, and played a leading role in the HBO
documentary of the 2000 Bush campaign, Journeys With George. He previously appeared on CNN and Fox
News, as well as international media including British, Canadian and Australian television.
He now writes regularly for The Daily Beast.
As Newsweek's senior White House correspondent, his cover stories included What He Believes (on Obama's
faith) Black & White (about Obama and racial politics), Bush In The Bubble (after Hurricane Katrina) and
Weight of the World (how Bush handled the Lebanon war). Wolfe joined Newsweek in November 2002 as
diplomatic correspondent, covering foreign policy and international affairs. In the 2004 presidential election, he
covered the Howard Dean campaign before switching to John Kerry.
Before Newsweek, Wolfe was a senior journalist at the Financial Times, serving as its deputy bureau chief and
U.S. diplomatic correspondent in Washington. He reported on U.S. foreign policy, covered the Microsoft
antitrust trial, as well as regulatory and business issues at Treasury, the Federal Trade Commission and
Securities and Exchange Commission.
In April 2009, he joined Public Strategies, a business advisory firm, as Senior Strategist.
Wolfe is the co-author of The Victim's Fortune, (HarperCollins, 2002), about the deals that led to billions of
dollars in compensation to the Nazis' victims in the late 1990s. He also co-authored two Spanish cookbooks,
Tapas: A Taste of Spain in America (Clarkson Potter in the US and Planeta in Spain, 2005) and Made in Spain:
Spanish Dishes for the American Kitchen (Clarkson Potter, 2008). He has also written for food magazines such
as Food Arts and Food & Wine. He authored an upcoming book on Obama's campaign called Renegade: The
Making of a President.
Born in in Birmingham, England, Wolffe is a 1992 graduate of Oxford University, first-class honors, in English
and French literature.
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Fw: Alma Powell
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Cheryl
th
Mrs. Powell will be in the Department on the 18 of June to speak to the Annual Meeting of the Overseas Schools
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Fw: Korea
Fyi
Original Message
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Subject: RE: Korea
Spoke to Beth today to close loop after our chat yesterday and after checking overnight with Kathy Stephens.
Original Message
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Beth: I just landed at Dulles after a trip to Singapore and Tokyo. I'll call you as soon as I get to the office. Rgds, Glyn
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Glyn
Not sure if you recall beth nolan who was wh counsel under pres clinton.
She has a matter regarding the pres of ROK that she could use your guidance on.
I am connecting you two by email. She also can be reached al

Thks
Cdm
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Cheryl,
I am hoping you can put me in touch tomorrow with Glen Davies or whomever you think I should talk with re Korea.
Thanks.
Beth
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I will go back to her and see when she is free when are you next in Europe or even better London. I will also ask when
she can come to Washington
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CherieSo sorry I've been slow in responding but I am very interested in talking w
I would be happy to host her if
she were to come to DC or meet her in Europe when I'm next there. How do you think I should proceed? All the best,
Hillary
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Hilary,
You may know but for the last four years I have been working with the Qatari's and in particular with
issues in Qatar and I have built up a good relationship with them
on
has approached me privately saying they are keen to get their relationship with the USA onto a more
positive footing and she was hoping for a "women to women" one to one private meeting with you. She is happy to
come to Washington if you could make some time available.
Is this something you would be prepared o do.
is someone who has real influence in Qatar and she has
made a lot of difference already with her
and with the
in
which I am involved as the
I am sure the conversation would not be
confined to these issues but would be about the US/Qatar relationship generally.
Cherie Blair
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Wednesday, June 03, 2009 2:39 PM
Update from pir:

Pis tell HRC he changed his lede graf to read:
"SAN PEDRO SULA, Honduras Thirty-four members of the Organization of American States gathered here Tuesday to
argue over whether to readmit Cuba. By evening, an isolated United States was still struggling to fend off a vote to lift
the ban on Havana."
Much better, word "failed" doesn't appear
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Fw: OAS Foreign Ministers vote to revoke Cuba Expulsion
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Subject: OAS Foreign Ministers vote to revoke Cuba Expulsion
(SBU) Embassy Tegucigalpa confirms media reports that OAS Foreign Ministers have voted to revoke the 1962
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Sullivan, Jacob
Re: OAS--again
I'm usually the pessimist, but I'm not sure this is as dire as it seems in the moment from 10,000 miles away.
First, the world/media is fixated on the President's speech, the imagery from Riyadh dominates, there's no Honduras
footage of interest, which is key. Speech tomorrow will blanket coverage and extinguish the Cuba stuff, so we just need
to weather the night.
Second, Tom & Dan did an on the record conf call not long ago and we think they did very well. Dan was especially
strong, and he's also speaking to people 1:1
Third, your statement was strong and the reporting will catch up with it, it's only been out 90 minutes.
Fourth, we are suffering from two significant tactical problems: 1) you are here and removed 2) our press corps was out
of position today and in flight, so the people we worked on all week and the ones likely to skew our way were replaced
by reporters not connected to us.
The two issues above will be rectified tomorrow in your two interviews - especially Greta who is malleable. We can use
that to make a strong case on the principle, and the simple fact Cuba wasn't in the OAS yesterday, and won't be
tomorrow. Everyday that passes reinforces that point. The time difference to East Coast will help us in moving
whatever is said in these interviews tomorrow.
Short term, we started the week showing we can engage with Cuba (mail, migration), and ending it showing we are
serious about our redlines
Long term, we stood up for human rights and that can only be a plus.
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Sullivan, Jacob J
Well, Philippe looks right again. CNN is reporting this as being done against my wishes. Any way to salvage?
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Yes, That's the plan.
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Can we be sure that press knows we supported lifting suspension w conditions which is what we got.
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my happy surprise and deep appreciation for her statement on my behalf that was read by Rep. Lowey at my hearing
today. I was incredibly moved by it and it helped make a remarkable day even more memorable.
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Oscar should have printed gates shangrila conf speech.

Also, he should have printed the draft US-EU joint statement on Georgia for your approval. We would like to release it
jointly with the EU, under the your name. Goal is to issue Monday in advance of planned demonstrations.
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If u r still up, wjc landed in brazil for refuel. He should be on the ground for an hour or so. Call dougs cell.
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Went on a falucca ride and are now at the bar/restaurant downstairs.

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Are youy on a falucca? Here's my
if they want to call.
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Yes, I will arrange.
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Can I greet her while she's here?
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Cheryl
Mrs. Powell will be in the Department on the 18th of June to speak to the Annual Meeting of the Overseas Schools
Advisory Committee
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Barack Obama may support insurance mandate

By CARRIE BUDOFF BROWN I 6/3/09 3:42 PM EDT
Updated: 6/3/09 11:22 PM EDT
As a presidential candidate, Barack Obama scoffed at Hillary Rodham Clinton's proposal to require people to
buy health insurance.
"(If) they can't afford it, they just don't get it," Obama said during the primary, arguing that a mandate would
not work unless insurance costs were lowered first.
For the first time, Obama confirmed Wednesday that he plans to stake out a different position as president.
In a letter to two leading Democratic senators, Obama said he could support a mandate on individuals to buy
coverage, as long as Congress exempted those who could not afford it. This marks a shift from his stance during
the campaign, when he tussled repeatedly with Clinton on the issue. She proposed an individual mandate, and
he did not.
"I share the goal of ending lapses and gaps in coverage that make us less healthy and drive up everyone's costs,
and I am open to your ideas on shared responsibility," Obama wrote. "But I believe if we are going to make
people responsible for owning health insurance, we must make health care affordable."
"If we do end up with a system where people are responsible for their own insurance, we need to provide a
hardship waiver to exempt Americans who cannot afford it," Obama wrote.
Detailing his positions on various health care proposals for the first time as president, Obama also said
Americans should be able to choose between public and private insurance plans in a reformed health care
system.
"I strongly believe that Americans should have the choice of a public health insurance option operating
alongside private plans," he wrote. "This will give them a better range of choices, make the health care market
more competitive, and keep insurance companies honest."
He offered qualified support for a mandate on employers to provide insurance or pay a fee to the government.
Employers "have a responsibility to support health insurance for their employees," Obama wrote, but small
businesses should be exempt.
Obama's positions on these issues were not entirely surprising, but his decision to weigh in before
congressional Democratic leaders released a single bill was unexpected. Prior to the letter, Obama and his aides
had declined to say specifically where he stood on various issues, including the public plan and individual
mandate, saying they wanted Congress to lead the way in writing a bill.
But Democrats have been anxious for the president to take a more public stance, and the letter provides the
guidance that many in Congress had been craving as House and Senate committees move closer to releasing
draft bills.
"The president says get it done. Get it done right because we only get one chance," said Sen. Barbara Mikulski
(D-Md.), a member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee. "The letter essentially
synthesizes what the president is saying."
He outlined the parameters in a letter to Senate Finance Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) and Health,
Education, Labor and Pensions Committee Chairman Ted Kennedy (D-Mass.).
Obama's endorsement of a public insurance option could boost the controversial proposal and serve as catalyst
for the Democratic base as the president kicks off a grassroots campaign Saturday.
"It's clear that the Republican resistance to a public plan hasn't softened President Obama's support for one,"
Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) said in a statement. "This strengthens the hand of those of us advocating for a
public option, which is the only way to keep the private insurers' feet to the fire."
Despite almost uniform opposition from Republicans on the public plan, the president wrote in the letter that he
remains "hopeful that many Republicans" would back an overhaul bill.
Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), the ranking Republican on the Finance Committee, struck an optimistic tone in
a statement, saying the letter "doesn't draw lines in the sand," and "is helpful because of his statements that
reform legislation needs to have bipartisan support."
However, the letter is likely to incite opponents, who have been frustrated by Obama's lack of specifics.
Indeed, on Thursday morning, Conservatives for Patients' Rights will begin airing a new TV ad called
"Bulldozer," which says a "government-run plan" will drive private insurers out of business and eliminate
consumer choices.
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Cheryl and Huma,
As HRC requested for this weekend, attached is a draft base text for the big speech/FA article. I will be on a
plane all day Wednesday heading for Asia to do policy planning talks, so it would be great to have her feedback either by
phone on Monday or meeting with her on Tuesday that way I could turn around another draft by Thursday to
response to her reactons and then Lissa and I could work on turning it into a real speech draft and circulate more
widely. I will also have plenty of time on my trip to work over a version that would be more suitable for Foreign Affairs,
assuming she is comfortable with the overall frame and the different pieces.
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Because of the time difference, your clips were prepared at midnight Eastern Time so many are still early versions. But
what we're seeing online right now look MUCH better this morning than even 5 hours ago - it just took a bit for your
statement, our conf call, our pushback, and our travelers to catch up. Many including the Times take a very different
tone. And all note Cuba's not in. Mostly, stories are small and seem buried.
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I'm usually the pessimist, but I'm not sure this is as dire as it seems in the moment from 10,000 miles away.
First, the world/media is fixated on the President's speech, the imagery from Riyadh dominates, there's no Honduras
footage of interest, which is key. Speech tomorrow will blanket coverage and extinguish the Cuba stuff, so we just need
to weather the night.
Second, Tom & Dan did an on the record conf call not long ago and we think they did very well. Dan was especially
strong, and he's also speaking to people 1:1
Third, your statement was strong and the reporting will catch up with it, it's only been out 90 minutes.
Fourth, we are suffering from two significant tactical problems: 1) you are here and removed 2) our press corps was out
of position today and in flight, so the people we worked on all week and the ones likely to skew our way were replaced
by reporters not connected to us.
The two issues above will be rectified tomorrow in your two interviews - especially Greta who is malleable. We can use
that to make a strong case on the principle, and the simple fact Cuba wasn't in the OAS yesterday, and won't be
tomorrow. Everyday that passes reinforces that point. The time difference to East Coast will help us in moving
whatever is said in these interviews tomorrow.
Short term, we started the week showing we can engage with Cuba (mail, migration), and ending it showing we are
serious about our redlines
Long term, we stood up for human rights and that can only be a plus.
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Madam Secretary,
The text below is a blueprint for both a speech and a Foreign Affairs article. For the speech,
we will have to shorten it and add more examples, as well as put it more in your distinctive voice.
You will see lots of places where I have indicated in footnote that we need examples from what you
have done over the past four months. We also need to flesh out the smart power toolbox section
this is a chance to roll out a lot of the innovative techniques/ideas that Alec Ross, Jared Cohen and I
have been working on with others in the building. I have asked Alec and Jared to start working on
that section already.
There are enough big ideas here to power several speeches, and perhaps too many for one
speech. You could, for instance, make this speech primarily about power and purpose discussing
the world we are in, the strategy for expanding and using our power, and the final section on
purpose, and then give a second speech that would focus on a new opportunity for American
leadership using all the tools of smart power (with again a particular emphasis on how we can
innovate with mobile information technology). In addition, however you decide you want to deliver
the ideas contained here, I propose that this big speech, or two big general speeches, then drive a
series of major policy addresses over the next six months on 1) development, 2) human rights and
democracy (you could give that one at the Community of Democracies meeting in Lisbon and July
and outline your distinctive approach to using democracy as tool to improve people's lives through
more accountable government), 3) global governance/making multilateralism work (you could give
that one at the UN), and then several on more specific policies such as a strategy for failing and
failed states, climate change/energy security, creating global economic opportunity, a global
educational initiative, etc. This would all build up to an idea that PJ has proposed of giving a "State
of the World Address" in December before the President's State of the Union address in January.
You will see here that I describe the overall grand strategy (our broad plan for employing the
various instruments of national power to advance the U.S. national interest and other national goals)
as partnership, which I then qualify in terms of pragmatic and principled partnership. I do that
because lots of conversations have convinced me that the strategy itself has to be summed up in one
or two words w/o adjectives e.g. containment, engagement, power-balancing, isolationism, liberal
internationalism. That's the difference b/w a strategy and a slogan. The principled and pragmatic
parts are critical, but they should come in the elaboration of the strategy if this is too have legs.
I have road-tested this in roughly 8-10 different presentations, largely in house to our new
ambassadors and lots of different classes of FSOs and folks from the rest of government over at the
Foreign Service Institute, but also at closed presentations at think tanks. The response has been very
positive in terms of the way this frame brings a lot of different things together. Various other ideas
here have also been previewed in your speeches and testimony already.
I am leaving for Asia on Wednesday for policy planning tglks w/ my Chinese counterpart,
for a trilat policy planning talk w/ my Japanese and Korean counterparts (these are all established
before me), and then w/ my G-8 counterparts and also the other 6 countries invited to L'Aquila. I
will have lots of time on planes to revise and incorporate comments from you and the rest of the
team, as well as working w/ Lissa. We will then still have a full week when I get back before the
earliest day you might give this speech. I have loved working on this; if we get it right you will stand
w/ Marshall and Kissinger as a Secretary of State who took American foreign policy in a new and
bold direction in response to changing historical circumstance.
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Long time politico, was close to rajiv ghandi. III send his bio to oscar to print for you.
On election calls, SCA is recommending calls to Congress Party head Sonia Ghandi, outgoing FM Mukherjee, and
incoming FM Krishna. We also have a call sheet for Prime Minister Singh in case you want to call. Please let me know if u
want to do these calls tomorrow.
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What do we know about him?
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POLITICO
Gay groups grow impatient with Obama
By: Ben Smith and Jonathan Martin
June 4, 2009 04:32 AM EST
President Barack Obama's promises of change are falling short for one core Democratic
constituency: gays and lesbians, whose leaders say Obama's administration isn't keeping
up with the times.
Gay rights campaigners, most of them Democrats who supported Obama in November,
have begun to voice their public frustration with Obama's inaction, small jokes at their
community's expense and deafening silence on what they see as the signal civil rights
issue of this era.
His most important campaign promises repealing the Defense of Marriage Act and the
military ban on openly gay and lesbian service-members have not been fulfilled.
And the news, which emerged quietly earlier this year, that he'd supported same-sex
marriage back in 1996, then changed his mind, especially rankles. As mainstream
Democratic politicians such as Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) move to support same-sex
marriage, gay rights advocates say that the barrier-breaking president looks increasingly
odd for opposing what they see as full equality.
"Obama is out of step with his party, which is overwhelmingly in favor of marriage at this
stage," said David Mixner, a veteran gay rights activist who is among the organizers of a
march on Washington for same-sex marriage scheduled for this fall. "He's out of step with
the next generation."
Gay rights issues have been moving at breakneck speed, none faster than same-sex
marriage. Most public opinion polls now show more than 40 percent of Americans support
same-sex marriage, seen as a fringe issue just a few years earlier. Already, five New
England states and Iowa have same-sex marriage laws on the books.
"Politicians are finding out that their voters are moving faster than they anticipated," said
Democratic pollster Celinda Lake, who called Obama's place behind that curve
"surprising, because he is the next-generational candidate."

She noted that Obama could be concerned about alienating older voters in the Midwest
who would be turned off if he came out in support of same-sex marriage.
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The White House has been reluctant to spend its political capital pushing Obama's
highest-profile pro-gay positions believing, White House allies say, that it could detract
from priorities like health care. And it may be even less likely to do next year, with
midterms approaching.
But officials have told restive gays and lesbians to give them until the end of this month to
show movement on a number of lower-profile issues they support, including restrictions on
visas for people with HIV. The Pentagon also has toned down public opposition to
reversing the gay ban, and the new secretary of the Army's job will be, in part, to smooth
the way for that move.
"The president remains fully committed to advancing LGBT rights. His positions on all of
these issues are well-established and well-known. His staff continues to work with
Congress on a variety of LGBT issues," said Jim Messina, the deputy White House chief
of staff who is the point man on gay and lesbian issues, citing White House efforts to
move hate crimes legislation through the Senate. "While we recognize that some in the
community are anxious, the president's commitment has not wavered."
Meanwhile, however, marriage equality has emerged as the movement's central issue, a
question that's seen as a simple matter of justice and fairness by a growing number of
Democrats.
"There's going to come a point where's he going have to deal with it," former Democratic
National Committee Chairman Howard Dean, who now supports same-sex marriage, said
of Obama. "I'm in favor of giving him a little more time. He's got an awful lot on his plate."
"But he is a politician like everybody else, and he's going to respond to pressure. And I
don't blame the LGBT community for trying to push," Dean said.
Rep. Jared Polis (D-Colo.), who is openly gay and was a major Democratic donor before
being elected last year, said he was "very hopeful [Obama's] position will evolve."
But Polls warned, "If his position doesn't evolve, it could turn off some strong supporters."
Gay leaders in Washington, though, have been loath to publicly criticize the president.
They say they still view Obama as an ally and think private talks are more promising than
public pressure.
Still, it was especially frustrating for some left-leaning gay figures to see the otherwise
dreaded former Vice President Dick Cheney publicly express his support this week for
letting states allow gay marriage -- a position that puts him to theleft of Obama.
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"I think that freedom means freedom for everyone," Cheney said in an appearance
Monday at the National Press Club.
Obama also has been criticized for a joke at the expense of same-sex marriage. After the
White House Correspondents Association dinner, columnist Dan Savage fumed that
Obama's only reference since being sworn in to the high-profile drive toward same-sex
marriage in Iowa had been a joke about going to the state with longtime friend and adviser
David Axelrod to "make it official."
"The best he can do all he's willing to do is toss off an Adam Sandler-level joke,"
Savage wrote.
Another Obama ally, writer Andrew Sullivan, recently referred to Obama's stance on gays
as "the fierce urgency of whenever."
And on the front line, in the states, gay rights advocates are also growing increasingly
impatient with Washington.
"His position has been causing some problems for those of us working in the states, those
who are against it are using him for cover," said Alan Van CapeIle, the executive director
of New York's Empire State Pride Agenda, who called on Obama to fulfill another
neglected campaign promise and back the full repeal of the Defense of Marriage Act,
which blocks the federal government from extending benefits to married same-sex
couples.
Gay activists cringed recently when reminded by Donald Trump, of all people, that Miss
California Carrie Prejean shared the same position on gay marriage as the progressive
president.
"I'm still optimistic that the president is going to be good on his word," said Aubrey Sarvis,
the executive director of the Servicemembers Legal Defense Networks, which opposes
the military ban.
"No one believes that [anti-gay federal policies] will be miraculously changed overnight,"
said Human Rights Campaign president Joe Solmonese, who added nevertheless that his
group is "frustrated at the pace of progress."
Behind the scenes, patience is wearing thin.
"People are far angrier than they're saying publicly, because they don't want to jeopardize
[White House] relationships with the groups," said John Aravosis, an openly gay blogger
who speaks to gay leaders. "But everyone is feeling like we've entered a danger zone
where the administration is backing away from us fast, and I can tell you that the
professional gay crowd in Washington, D.C., to a person, feels a sense of impending
betrayal."
The most heated battle is in California, where some of the same voters who
overwhelmingly elected Obama also passed a referendum barring same-sex marriage.
Proposition 8 has since energized the state's gay rights movement.
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The Army linguist, Dan Choi, spoke at a rally across the street from the Beverly Hills Hilton
while Obama spoke inside at a high-dollar fundraiser late last month. The group
organizing the rally, the Courage Campaign, has gathered 140,000 signatures on a letter
to Obama asking him to rescind the ban.
Back at the fundraiser, Messina had the same message delivered in a somewhat more
intimate setting.
He was walking through the men's room at the Beverly Hilton when Mike Bonin, an activist
and former Obama campaign staffer who loves the president "the way Walt Whitman
loved Abe Lincoln," confronted him.
"I told him I was disappointed that [Obama] talked about justice and equal opportunity and
across the street stands Dan Choi, who's about to be booted out of the Army," he recalled
of the faucet-side chat.
Messina, Bonin said, responded that the White House hadn't forgotten, and complained
that the administration hasn't gotten enough credit for pushing to outlaw hate crimes
against gays and lesbians, but was ultimately "noncommittal." Bonin, who said he kept
Messina standing by the sinks for about ten minutes before letting him proceed to his
destination, said marriage advocates in California have been using Obama campaign
tools and strategies to push the White House.
"All the people who signed this petition for Choi, all the people who are outside across the
street at this rally, all the people who are coming to these [political training camps] are
Obama people who love and support our president," he said. "But he didn't stand up for
us, and until he does we're going to love him enough to be tough on him."
Correction: Hate crimes legislation has passed the House, but not the Senate; an earner
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I don't have her in my contacts but will track it down

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WASHINGTON (AP) Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton will soon announce that gay American diplomats will be
given benefits similar to those that their heterosexual counterparts enjoy, U.S. officials said Saturday.
In a notice to be sent soon to State Department employees, Clinton says regulations that denied same-sex couples and
their families the same rights and privileges that straight diplomats enjoyed are "unfair and must end," as they harm U.S.
diplomacy.
"Providing training, medical care and other benefits to domestic partners promote the cohesiveness, safety and
effectiveness of our posts abroad," she says in the message, a copy of which was obtained by The Associated Press.
"It will also help the department attract and retain personnel in a competitive environment where domestic partner
benefits and allowances are increasingly the norm for world-class employers," she says.
"At bottom, the department will provide these benefits for both opposite-sex and same-sex domestic partners because
it is the right thing to do," Clinton says.
Among the benefits that will now be granted gay diplomats: the right of domestic partners to hold diplomatic passports,
government-paid travel for their partners and families to and from foreign posts, and the use of U.S. medical facilities
abroad.
In addition, gay diplomats' families will now be eligible for U.S. government emergency evacuations and training courses
at the Foreign Service Institute, the message says.
The announcement, expected this week, was provided to the AP by a State Department official who is a member of the
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Subject: Dyncorps Post Story -- Second Shoe To Drop
Folks,
You may recall an April 17 Post story on problems with Dyncorps in Afghanistan which focused on a suspected
drug overdose death, breakdown in internal controls within the company, and actions the USG and the firm
were taking. The other issue that surfaced at the time was a colossal error in judgment by one of the
contractors' employees in hiring an adolescent boy dancer for some sort of event that, at least to most folks,
looked very inappropriate. The Post is now looking at the dancing boy, which was not included in the April 17,
article, and we expect will soon publish a story on it.
The Post inquiry at this point focuses only on confirming whether or not there's an OIG investigation. We are,
of course, referring the Post to the OIG on such a question. However, the premise for the question raises the
issue again in some eye-popping rhetoric which could feature in the follow-up story, so I wanted to make sure
everyone had a heads-up.
We have already relieved the folks involved with both incidents and I am meeting with the firm's CEO today to
hear his report on his trip to Afghanistan and Iraq to address these, as well as other, issues on which we have
demanded corrective actions.
I'm attaching the original note to Deputy Secretary Lew at the time of the original inquiry which lays out both
issues, a copy of the memo the INL section at Embassy Kabul provided to Post Management on the most
recent Post inquiry, as well as the Post inquiry itself for context.
David.
Incoming from Post:
"According to my reporting, the week of April 13th, the DynCorp regional commander from Konduz, Flint Chambers,
allowed his men to hire a 15-year-old boy dancer to do tribal dances at a DynCorp party on the training site.
Some 15 or so DynCorp employees in attendance pulled out a single chair and had the boy do mock lap dances. This
was captured on video. The video shows DynCorp employees putting dollar bills in the boy's waistband, just as they would
a stripper's garter. The revelry lasted about 45 minutes.
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No sex took place.

The video was leaked to Kabul INL program manager, Marissa Martin. INL Washington ordered INL Kabul to replace the
entire DynCorp chain of commaand.
The video was leaked by Mike Gonzalez to another DynCorp employee who emailed the video to Martin. Flint Chambers
retaliated against Mike by spitting in his face, pushing him to the ground in front of the DynCorp security building in Kabul.
Chambers was fired, along with Dean Deines, Stan Knee and David Kelly.
Can you confirm that the IG is looking into this? (in addition to the Kurt Schafer incident)
Thank you,
Ellen Nakashima
The Washington Post"
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These are the numbers au i has in her database:
I tested them both and they are both correct. The voice mail at the home number is non-decript/an older gentleman's
voice, but I crossed-checked it on the internet and it is listed under ursula's name.
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Dear Hilary it seems if you suggest a day she will come to you. DO you want to let me know and I will go back to them
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Dear Cherie,
Thank you for your message.

Would you be able to ask Hilary to suggest two dates either in Washington and or Europe in the near future?
With the suggested dates, I can then confirm a meeting.
Should you need to contact me urgently you can reach me on my mobile at
Regards,
2009/5/23 Cherie Blair

Here is my reply from hilaary how do you suggestu I move it forward
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CherieSo sorry I've been slow in responding but I am very interested in talking w
I would be happy to
host her if she were to come to DC or meet her in Europe when Pm next there. How do you think I
should proceed? All the best, Hillary
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This is still being reported, we have no confirmation.
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N. Korea appears to have conducted nuclear test: source

SEOUL, May 25 (Yonhap) -- South Korea has detected an "artificial earthquake" in North Korea,
suggesting the communist state went ahead with its threat to conduct a nuclear test, a source here said
Monday.
"It was felt shortly before 10:00," the source said, declining to be named and adding that the magnitude
was estimated at 4.5.
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NOTE FOR DEPUTY SECRETARY LEW
SUBJECT: Afghanistan: Inappropriate Behavior by Department Contractor
FROM:
1NL David T. Johnson
Over the course of the last few weeks, employees of DynCorp International,
the INL contractor in Afghanistan providing police trainers, aviation support, and
security, have been discovered in a series of compromising situations.
Based on this continuing pattern of allegations concerning inappropriate

conduct in Afghanistan, I called in DynCorp International's corporate management
April 16, to make crystal clear that:

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The message was conveyed clearly and bluntly, and given the pattern of
behavior, we will be watching closely for remedial actions. The DynCorp team
was contrite, admitted that their internal controls were clearly inadequate if these
things had occurred, and committed to take effective action, beginning with a visit
by senior management to Kabul next week.
SENSITIVE BUT-UNCLASSIFIED
Approved by: INL: David T. Johnson

Drafted: INL/AP: Karen Hall, x68760/D Brown, x68724, 4/16/09
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We will confer in the morning and come up with a plan

Also, sent Huma some info on NK to pass on to you.
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Pls read Brian's message and all the email traffic below. What can we do about this? Let me know if you have ideas. Thx.
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To: H2
Sent: Sun May 24 17:21:40 2009
Hi hillary,
Please call me about this if you have a moment. The message is self-explanatory, apparently there is no american voice
in place to speak out or lead on this issue so --there is no voice. I believe you know Bruce Ramer who is my brother-inlaw, former president of american jewish committee and well-respected entertainment lawyer in la. And, he is right.
Look forward to seeing you next week in washington. Best, brian
From: Bruce M. Ramer

To: Brian Greenspun
Sent: Sun May 24 14:08:16 2009
Subject: FW: Edinburgh Film Festival israeli Boycott
Brian, First, thanks for a nice family morning and for breakfast. Always fun, always interesting and always fulfilling.
Below is a sample of the kind of emails I sent to various people (studio heads; Dan Glickman; etc), which have started to
generate concern, interest and action. AJC is also active on other fronts, as well.
Just below the email you will find the news item which first called this abomination to my attention.
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I hope you can enlist Hilary's support (and please give her my personal best). We need, for many reasons, to have the
US protest and condemn this outrageous boycott and to oppose the anti-Semitism inherent in it; cf Durban. The
organizers of the festival must be convinced to reverse themselves. This, because of the inherent wrongness of it and
that if it succeeds, it will encourage and motivate those who fomented the boycott to other, probably even worse,
action. For example, there is in effect or pending (I am not certain which) a UK-Israeli treaty on film production; we
should cut off at the pass any attempts to derail it.
Our Embassy in London does not yet have our Ambassador. The charge d'affaires is Robert Lebaron who I hope will
receive appropriate instructions from DOS. If he acts quickly, it is likely that other nations will follow suit; again,
compare Durban.
This is truly appalling and serious and I earnestly solicit your assistance with the Secretary, and through you my earnest
solicitation of her assistance.
With appreciation and love, Bruce
PS Naturally, you are free to share this email.
Dear Michael, This is disgusting and outrageous.

If you have any films in the festival or can lean on anyone else who does, please get them withdrawn. We would not
boycott the films of any other nation, even those we consider outlaws. Neither should they. And they should learn that
boycotts beget boycotts.
Thanks for whatever help you can be.
Warmest regards. Bruce
May 20, 2009
Edinburgh film festival bows to pressure from Ken Loach over Israeli boycott
Mike Wade
A row threatened to engulf the Edinburgh International Film Festival yesterday after it bowed to pressure from the
director Ken Loach and returned a 300 grant it had received from the Israeli Embassy.
Sir Jeremy Isaacs, the former chief executive of Channel Four, accused the festival's organisers of making "an appalling
decision" and called on them to rescind it. Describing Loach's intervention as an act of censorship, he said: "They must
not allow someone who has no real position, no rock to stand on, to interfere with their programming."
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The grant was intended to enable Tali Shalom Ezer, a graduate of Tel Aviv University, to travel to Scotland for a
screening of her film, Surrogate.
After days of protest against the award from pro-Palestinian organisations, Loach, an outspoken opponent of Israel's
policies in Lebanon and Gaza, urged filmgoers on Monday to boycott Edinburgh.
"The massacres and state terrorism in Gaza make this money unacceptable," he said. "With regret, I must urge all who
might consider visiting the festival to show their support for the Palestinian nation and stay away."
The intervention brought an immediate capitulation from the organisers. In a statement the festival said it accepted that
Loach spoke "on behalf of the film community, therefore we will be returning the funding issued by the Israeli Embassy".
Sir Jeremy said that he was disgusted both by Loach's actions and by the capitulation of the festival organisers. "Ken
Loach has always been critical of censorship of his own work, albeit it was many years in the past. The idea that he
should lend himself to the denial of a film-maker's right to show her work is absolutely appalling," he said. He was
"equally horrified" that festival organisers should accept that Loach was speaking on behalf of all British film-makers.
Sir Jeremy worked closely with Loach in the 1980s when, as chief executive of Channel Four, he commissioned a number
of controversial documentaries from him. One, A Question of Leadership, was made in 1981 but never broadcast,
leading to accusations of political censorship from Loach. The irony of the director's present position was all the more
obvious, given the spirit of the Edinburgh festival, Sir Jeremy said.
"It must be good for cinemagoers at an international film festival to see films by Jews, Arabs, Israelis and Palestinians, to
the benefit of all," he said.
"I have admired the Edinburgh International Film Festival for many years and would like to think that this appalling
decision will be rescinded."
Loach's acclaimed new film Looking for Eric has made him the toast of the Cannes Film Festival. It is, uncharacteristically,
a comedy, although its lead character is an authentic Loach creation a Mancunian postman who goes off in search of
his idol, the footballer Eric Cantona.
Ezer's film makes no reference to war or politics. It is a romance set in a sex-therapy clinic. It woni the audience award at
an international women's film festival in Israel recently.
Lord Janner of Braunstone, a Labour peer and former chairman of the Board of Deputies of British Jews, said that he was
disappointed by the festival's decision. "By banning the Israeli Embassy from supporting a film-maker the festival is
helping to exclude Israelis from British cultural life, something that is clearly unfair."
Last night a spokesman for the EIFF said that although it had returned E300 to the Israeli Embassy, the festival itself
would fund Ms Shalom-Ezer's travel to Edinburgh out of its own budget
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SUBJECT: Afghanistan: Inappropriate Behavior by Department Contractor
FROM:
INL David T. Johnson
Over the course of the last few weeks, employees of DynCorp International,
the INL contractor in Afghanistan providing police trainers, aviation support, and
security, have been discovered in a series of compromising situations.
Based on this continuing pattern of allegations concerning inappropriate

conduct in Afghanistan, I called in DynCorp International's corporate management
April 16, to make crystal clear that:

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The message was conveyed clearly and bluntly, and given the pattern of
behavior, we will be watching closely for remedial actions. The DynCorp team
was contrite, admitted that their internal controls were clearly inadequate if these
things had occurred, and committed to take effective action, beginning with a visit
by senior management to Kabul next week.

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We are getting press confirmation. EAP is preparing call sheet for possible calls you place to the Japanese and koreans,
maybe chinese tomorrow morning.

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(AP) North Korea says it has successfully conducted an underground nuclear test.
Tiffany L. McGriff
Operations Center
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Importance: High
N. Korea appears to have conducted nuclear test: source

SEOUL, May 25 (Yonhap) -- South Korea has detected an "artificial earthquake" in North Korea,
suggesting the communist state went ahead with its threat to conduct a nuclear test, a source here said
Monday.
"It was felt shortly before 10:00," the source said, declining to be named and adding that the magnitude
was estimated at 4.5.
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Susan rice
She called me while you were in service. Pis call her as soon as you can. They have been negotiating on the middle east
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H; Shapiro, Andrew J
On 5/25/09, Sullivan, Jacob J <Sullivann@state.gov> wrote:

> We will confer in the morning and come up with a plan
> Also, sent Huma some info on NK to pass on to you.
>
Original Message
> From: H <HDR22@clintonemail.com>
> To: Sullivan, Jacob 1; Shapiro, Andrew J; 'preines
> Sent: Sun May 24 21:25:02 2009
> Subject: Fw: Edinburgh Film Festival israeli Boycott
> Pis read Brian's message and all the email traffic below. What can we
> do about this? Let me know if you have ideas. Thx.
Original Message
> From: Brian Greenspun
> To: H2
> Sent: Sun May 24 17:21:40 2009
> Subject: Fw: Edinburgh Film Festival israeli Boycott
> Hi hillary,
> Please call me about this if you have a moment. The message is
> self-explanatory, apparently there is no american voice in place to
> speak out or lead on this issue so --there is no voice. I believe you
> know Bruce Ramer who is my brother-in-law, former president of
> american jewish committee and well-respected entertainment lawyer in la. And, he is right.
> Look forward to seeing you next week in washington. Best, brian
> Sent from my BlackBerry Wireless Handheld
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> From: Bruce M. Ramer

> To: Brian Greenspun
> Sent: Sun May 24 14:08:16 2009
> Subject: FW: Edinburgh Film Festival israeli Boycott
> Brian, First, thanks for a nice family morning and for breakfast.
> Always fun, always interesting and always fulfilling.
> Below is a sample of the kind of emails I sent to various people
> (studio heads; Dan Glickman; etc), which have started to generate
> concern, interest and action. AJC is also active on other fronts, as well.
>Just below the email you will find the news item which first called
> this abomination to my attention.
> I hope you can enlist Hilary's support (and please give her my
> personal best). We need, for many reasons, to have the US protest and
> condemn this outrageous boycott and to oppose the anti-Semitism
> inherent in it; cf Durban. The organizers of the festival must be
> convinced to reverse themselves. This, because of the inherent
> wrongness of it and that if it succeeds, it will encourage and
> motivate those who fomented the boycott to other, probably even worse,
> action. For example, there is in effect or pending (I am not certain
> which) a UK-Israeli treaty on film production; we should cut off at the pass any attempts to derail it.
> Our Embassy in London does not yet have our Ambassador. The charge
> d'affaires is Robert Lebaron who I hope will receive appropriate
> instructions from DOS. If he acts quickly, it is likely that other
> nations will follow suit; again, compare Durban.
> This is truly appalling and serious and I earnestly solicit your
> assistance with the Secretary, and through you my earnest solicitation
> of her assistance.
> With appreciation and love, Bruce
> PS Naturally, you are free to share this email.
> Dear Michael, This is disgusting and outrageous.

> If you have any films in the festival or can lean on anyone else who
> does, please get them withdrawn. We would not boycott the films of
> any other nation, even those we consider outlaws. Neither should
> they. And they should learn that boycotts beget boycotts.
> Thanks for whatever help you can be.
> Warmest regards. Bruce
> May 20, 2009
> Edinburgh film festival bows to pressure from Ken Loach over Israeli
> boycott
> Mike Wade

> A row threatened to engulf the Edinburgh International Film Festival
> yesterday after it bowed to pressure from the director Ken Loach and
> returned a 300 grant it had received from the Israeli Embassy.
> Sir Jeremy Isaacs, the former chief executive of Channel Four, accused
> the festival's organisers of making "an appalling decision" and called
> on them to rescind it. Describing Loach's intervention as an act of
> censorship, he
> said: "They must not allow someone who has no real position, no rock
> to stand on, to interfere with their programming."
> The grant was intended to enable Tali Shalom Ezer, a graduate of Tel
> Aviv University, to travel to Scotland for a screening of her film, Surrogate.
> After days of protest against the award from pro-Palestinian
> organisations, Loach, an outspoken opponent of Israel's policies in
> Lebanon and Gaza, urged filmgoers on Monday to boycott Edinburgh.
> "The massacres and state terrorism in Gaza make this money unacceptable,"
> he said. "With regret, I must urge all who might consider visiting the
> festival to show their support for the Palestinian nation and stay away."
> The intervention brought an immediate capitulation from the
> organisers. In a statement the festival said it accepted that Loach
> spoke "on behalf of the film community, therefore we will be returning
> the funding issued by the Israeli Embassy".
> Sir Jeremy said that he was disgusted both by Loach's actions and by
> the capitulation of the festival organisers. "Ken Loach has always
> been critical of censorship of his own work, albeit it was many years
> in the past. The idea that he should lend himself to the denial of a
> film-maker's right to show her work is absolutely appalling," he said. He was "equally horrified".
> that festival organisers should accept that Loach was speaking on
> behalf of all British film-makers.
> Sir Jeremy worked closely with Loach in the 1980s when, as chief
> executive of Channel Four, he commissioned a number of controversial
> documentaries from him. One, A Question of Leadership, was made in
> 1981 but never broadcast, leading to accusations of political

> censorship from Loach. The irony of the director's present position
> was all the more obvious, given the spirit of the Edinburgh festival, Sir Jeremy said.
> "It must be good for cinemagoers at an international film festival to
> see films by Jews, Arabs, Israelis and Palestinians, to the benefit of
> all," he said.
> "I have admired the Edinburgh International Film Festival for many
> years and would like to think that this appalling decision will be rescinded."
> Loach's acclaimed new film Looking for Eric has made him the toast of
> the Cannes Film Festival. It is, uncharacteristically, a comedy,
> although its lead character is an authentic Loach creation a
> Mancunian postman who goes off in search of his idol, the footballer Eric Cantona.
> Ezer's film makes no reference to war or politics. It is a romance set
> in a sex-therapy clinic. It won the audience award at an international
> women's film festival in Israel recently.
> Lord Janner of Braunstone, a Labour peer and former chairman of the
> Board of Deputies of British Jews, said that he was disappointed by
> the festival's decision. "By banning the Israeli Embassy from
> supporting a film-maker the festival is helping to exclude Israelis
> from British cultural life, something that is clearly unfair."
> Last night a spokesman for the EIFF said that although it had returned
> 300 to the Israeli Embassy, the festival itself would fund Ms
> Shalom-Ezer's travel to Edinburgh out of its own budget
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Richard called to give you update on this weekend.
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Monday, May 25, 2009 6:57 AM
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Kurt W; Davies, Glyn T; Higgins, Melanie H
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Subject: FW: STATEMENT FROM THE PRESIDENT REGARDING NORTH KOREA
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Subject: STATEMENT FROM THE PRESIDENT REGARDING NORTH KOREA
THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
May 25, 2009
STATEMENT FROM THE PRESIDENT REGARDING NORTH KOREA
Today, North Korea said that it has conducted a nuclear test in violation of international law. It appears to also have
attempted a short range missile launch. These actions, while not a surprise given its statements and actions to date, are
a matter of grave concern to all nations. North Korea's attempts to develop nuclear weapons, as well as its ballistic
missile program, constitute a threat to international peace and security.
By acting in blatant defiance of the United Nations Security Council, North Korea is directly and recklessly challenging the
international community. North Korea's behavior increases tensions and undermines stability in Northeast Asia. Such
provocations will only serve to deepen North Korea's isolation. It will not find international acceptance unless it
abandons its pursuit of weapons of mass destruction and their means of delivery.
The danger posed by North Korea's threatening activities warrants action by the international community. We have
been and will continue working with our allies and partners in the Six-Party Talks as well as other members of the U.N.
Security Council in the days ahead.
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I'm going to skip Yale today.

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Monday, May 11, 2009 3:51 AM
Fw: NYU
Fyi in case you wanted to see raw input
From: Jim Kennedy

To: Mills, Cheryl D
Cc: Muscatine, Lissa; Tillemann, Tomicah S; Sullivan, Jacob 3
Sent: Mon May 11 02:13:50 2009
Subject: NYU
Thanks for the opportunity to suggest a line or two 1. As a Yankees fan (though not as expert as Kris), and an eyewitness to the "cap" fiasco, I share everyone's
sensitivity to sports references. But I'm not dead set against trying to leverage that sensitivity in a selfdeprecating, appropriately funny way. A couple thoughts along those lines:
a.
"As you can see, I resisted the urge to wear my Yankees cap."
b. (if the stage is set up near, for example, second base; substitute whatever part of the field she's near) "This
is about as close as I'm going to get to playing second base for the Yankees"
c. "I kind of feel at home here in Yankee Stadium, because ever since January, I've been playing on a team
with a bunch of guys wearing pinstripes."
(on the other hand, I'm a little concerned about suggesting that the 1923 team "looked the same, talked the
same, and came from the same cities and towns" - seems to be a little dismissive of a team that included such
outsized personalities as Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig.
Also, saying "Today's Yankees play with the strength of a global team" could provoke an unintended laugh
because they are playing so poorly this year, so far. Maybe safer to broaden it to all of baseball - like "Major
League Baseball is comprised of truly global teams."
And the "I don't care whether you bring us home a World Series" seems like stretching too far for a sports
metaphor, but in a way that doesn't really make sense in context. maybe better as "I have every confidence that
you will. ..You are starting your post-graduate life on a field of dreams, and you have every reason to believe
that your own dreams of a better world can come true." (or something akin to that).
2. I think the speech could benefit from one clear "soundbite" that more succinctly captures the essence of her
remarks. More of a clarion call to service, something like:
"...And I hope some of you will join our ranks. But the State Department cannot go up against the great
challenges of our time alone. And so my message to you today is this: be the special envoys of your ideals,
using the vast communications tools at your disposal to help advance the interests of this nation and every
nation. Be citizen ambassadors in the course of your personal and professional lives, helping to forge
partnerships built on mutual interest in the face of global crises. By creating diplomatic social networks, you
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can extend the powers of our and every government to meet the needs of this generation.. .and help lay the
groundwork for the kind of public-private alliances we need to end hunger, defeat disease, combat global
warming and give every child the chance to live up to her or his God-given potential."
(and maybe go from there into a little riff like "Don't sell yourselves short. Many of you showed your capacity
to bring change by helping bring Barack Obama to the presidency." (And then, after the inevitable applause at
that line, follow with this quip, with a smile: "Where were you when I needed you?")
Finally, just a couple small notes:
-- "half of my senior staff used to work here" - the word "here" given that it's in Yankee Stadium might confuse
a little - better perhaps to say "used to work at NYU."
-- "swine flu" - hasn't the government been trying to avoid using that phrase? (I like that sentence overall)
-- nice examples with Colombia and Kilimanjaro - though just wondering, since I'm ignorant of the facts, is it
too much to say that the Facebook project really did more than years of military action?
-- if you happen to like the Obama reference above, then it would supplant the "social networking platforms"
line in the speech - but if you don't like my suggestion, I would still suggest changing the "I am told" as that
sounds a little gratuitous - better to be a little more self-deprecating, like "And there was also a recent
presidential election in which social networks brought legions of young people into the electoral process. ..a few
more into certain campaigns than others, I'm afraid to say..." or something like that.
-- also, if you don't use the suggested Obama reference, I do think his name should be used somewhere in the
speech.
-- "suited up" doesn't sound like HRC to my ear.
love the examples of things people can do online to make a difference, also like and agree with idea of being
short and punchy.
thanks again for the chance to suggest a couple thoughts...
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John crosby will be there. He's the tall blonde advance guy who's been on the plane with us a few times too.
He will have program for commencement and acknowledgement card for lunch.
You will go straight backstage and can go to hold if u want to put your robe on unless u put it on in the car.
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Of course. Who will be there?
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I'm going to skip Yale today.
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Subject: Request to see the Secretary, the Deputies and Undersecretary Burns
As most of you know, this will be my last week as Assistant Secretary for South and Central Asia. After three years in this
job and an able successor about to have his hearing, I'm glad to move on. Before I slip out, I would like to stop by and
exchange a few thoughts with the Principals. These can be short chats, a few words and a goodbye handshake.
I'm in the office all this week, and will be back with more time the week of May 26-29 to clean up and check out. Dona
Richard, my OMS, can fix the times.
Thanks for your help in setting some meetings up for me, if there is time on your bosses' schedules.
Richard
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Sent: Sun May 24 19:23:55 2009
Subject: mini schedule 5/25/09
8:35 am DEPART Private Residence *En route Yale University
9:55 am ARRIVE Yale University

10:00 am
YALE 1UNIVERSITY's 2009 COMMENCEMENT
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Kabul, Afghanistan
June 4th, 2009
INFORMATION MEMORANDUM
TO:
Ambassador Karl W. Eikenberry
THROUGH: Deputy Ambassador Francis J. Ricciardone

Narcotics Affairs Section Acting Director Lee R. Brown
FROM:
SUBJECT: Washington Post Inquiry / Investigation of DynCorp
Summary. Washington Post reporter Ellen Nakashema contacted INL/NAS Police Program
Manager Marissa Martin on June 3 to inquire about the State Department's Office of the
Inspector General (OIG) investigation of DynCorp International in Afghanistan. Ms.
Nakashema wrote the April 2009 Washington Post article on the drug overdose death of an
American DynCorp. Ms. Nakashema said she has collected more negative reports on DynCorp
and she expressed particular interested in an episode involving DynCorp contractors and a
"dancing boy" in Konduz. She plans to publish an article within the next week or ten days.
Background
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On April 18, the Washington Post's Ellen Nakashema published a factually accurate
article (Tab 1) about the DynCorp employee's death. The article did not address the
"dancing boy" episode or other possible misconduct by DynCorp employees. The article

cited a public statement (Tab 2) provided by A/S Johnson acknowledging problems in

DynCorp management and employee conduct, noting that the three DynCorp Afghan
Police Program managers had been dismissed, and pointing out that investigations were
underway.
Current Status
Since the publication of the April 18 article, Ms. Nakashema says that she has received many
calls and emails alleging DynCorp misconduct, including the "dancing boy" incident. In her call
to Marissa Martin on June 3, Ms. Nakashema asked for confirmation of the incident, the status of
the Department's OIG investigation, and if "it was true the Department called in the OIG
because of the 'Dancing Boy' incident, instead of the death of Mr. Schafer." Marissa assured her
that, as A/S Johnson stated for the record in April, investigations are underway regarding all of
our concerns with DynCorp. Ms. Nakashema has also been in touch with INL Washington,
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THROUGH: Deputy Ambassador Francis J. Ricciardone

FROM:
Narcotics Affairs Section Acting Director Lee R. Brown
SUBJECT: Washington Post Inquiry / Investigation of DynCorp

Summary. Washington Post reporter Ellen Nakashema contacted INL/NAS Police Program
Manager Marissa Martin on June 3 to inquire about the State Department's Office of the
Inspector General (OIG) investigation of DynCorp International in Afghanistan. Ms.
Nakashema wrote the April 2009 Washington Post article on the drug overdose death of an
American DynCorp. Ms. Nakashema said she has collected more negative reports on DynCorp
and she expressed particular interested in an episode involving DynCorp contractors and a
"dancing boy" in Konduz. She plans to publish an article within the next week or ten days.
Background
On April 18, the Washington Post's Ellen Nakashema published a factually accurate
article (Tab 1) about the DynCorp employee's death. The article did not address the
"dancing boy" episode or other possible misconduct by DynCorp employees. The article

cited a public statement (Tab 2) provided by A/S Johnson acknowledging problems in

DynCorp management and employee conduct, noting that the three DynCorp Afghan
Police Program managers had been dismissed, and pointing out that investigations were
underway.
Current Status
Since the publication of the April 18 article, Ms. Nakashema says that she has received many
calls and emails alleging DynCorp misconduct, including the "dancing boy" incident. In her call
to Marissa Martin on June 3, Ms. Nakashema asked for confirmation of the incident, the status of
the Department's OIG investigation, and if "it was true the Department called in the OIG
because of the 'Dancing Boy' incident, instead of the death of Mr. Schafer." Marissa assured her
that, as A/S Johnson stated for the record in April, investigations are underway regarding all of
our concerns with DynCorp. Ms. Nakashema has also been in touch with INL Washington,
which tells us that it expects another article to appear soon.
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Cheryl - Thank you so much for considering this invitation. I am sure the sponsors would be absolutely thrilled to have
Secretary Clinton appear.
In passing let me say what an extraordinary job you are all doing. As an American citizen it gives me great confidence
and pride to see Secretary Clinton representing our country with such skill and grace. All Best, Dick
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Thank you so much.
I am adding Lona and we will make sure she reviews to address.
Best.
cdm
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Dear Cheryl
Following a few discussions with Dick Gephardt - I have pleasure in laying out fairly detailed information about a
conference that is being held in Demark on 3-4 December 2009.
We have made the note reasonably in-depth so hopefully will provide you with sufficient background. The organisers of
the event which are ATP - the largest Danish Pension Fund and the Climate Consortium Denmark are being sponsored
and backed by the Danish government and they were very hopeful that Hillary would be able to be the key note speaker
at the conference for reasons that they have identified in the attached briefing document.
We were hoping to establish whether this event would be of interest for Hillary to appear and if she was available we
would then arrange for the formal invite to be sent out by the Danish Government.
If we can provide any further clarification, please do not hesitate to contact us.
With very Best wishes

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CQ TODAY ONLINE NEWS APPROPRIATIONS
June 4, 2009 1:39 p.m.
War Supplemental Conference Slips to Next Week

By Josh Rogin, CQ Staff
House leadership has decided not to hold a conference or a vote on the war supplemental spending bill this
week, as leaders worked behind the scenes to secure enough Democratic votes to pass the measure absent GOP
support.
Multiple lawmakers and aides confirmed the expected Thursday session to finalize negotiations over the bill
(HR 2346), which is mainly to fund the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, will not occur until at least early next
week. Democratic leaders were trying to convince as many as 18 of the 51 Democrats who voted against the
House version in May to change their votes, but many said they would not do so.
Republicans are promising to vote against the conference report en mass if it includes $5 billion worth of
funding related to the International Monetary Fund. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said Thursday it
would.
"I believe there are people in the Republican Party who support [the IMF funding]; they just don't want to
support it on this bill," Pelosi said Thursday, "So we have to do that with all Democratic votes."
She also pushed back against two key pillars of the House Republican leadership's argument against the IMF
funding, which is meant to accommodate an increased U.S. credit extension to the organization.
Responding to statements of Minority Leader John A. Boehner of Ohio that the IMF money is unrelated to the
war spending measure, Pelosi said the IMF help was a "national security initiative" because it helps to alleviate
sources of instability, such as poverty.
Pelosi also accused House Minority Whip Eric Cantor, R-Va., of fear mongering by putting out a statement
warning that IMF assistance could somehow fund terrorism.
"I don't know why anyone would say that the money is going to the hands of terrorists," she said. "It simply is
not based in fact and is a scare tactic, and most unfortunate."
House Democratic aides said the conference on the supplemental bill probably would be early next week.
"We're going to come up with a supplemental conference report in the next few days," said Senate Majority
leader Harry Reid, D-Nev.
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Whipping Votes
House leaders had planned to hold the conference session Thursday and had said the House floor vote could be
as early as Friday. But their effort to convince members to switch their no votes was still underway Thursday
afternoon.
Although several high ranking Democrats have pledged to switch their no votes, including Reps. Barney Frank,
D-Mass., and George Miller, D-Calif., many others have said they would not.
"It's a conscience vote," said Rep. Alan Grayson, D-Fla., who said he was inclined to not change his stance on
the bill
"I haven't cracked yet," said Rep. Jim McGovern, D-Mass., who along with other anti-war Democrats has
pledged to be against any war funding that does not provide for the withdrawal of troops from southwest Asia.
Still, many Democrats said that the leadership was lobbying them relatively intensely.
More Details Emerge
Meanwhile, more details of the near finalized supplemental conference report negotiations came out Thursday.
Senate Appropriations Committee Chairman Daniel K. Inouye, D-Hawaii, said that the final bill will "in all
likelihood" include money for 5 C-130 transport planes and 8 C-17 cargo planes, none of which was requested
by the administration or in the Senate's bill. The House bill had sought 11 C-130s and the 8 C-17s.
Overall, the defense portion of the bill is expected to be about $4 billion less than the House version but still
billions above the Senate version and the administration request, House Appropriations Defense subcommittee
chairman John P. Murtha, D-Pa., said.
As for the fate of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, the conference report likely will include language
barring the administration from transferring prisoners to U.S. soil for the remainder of the fiscal year, said
House Appropriator James P. Moran, D-Va.
No money towards the president's effort to close the prisons will be in the conference report, Moran added. The
president had requested $80 million but neither the House nor Senate versions included those funds.
John M Donnelly and Katherine Hunter contributed to this story
Source: CQ Today Online News
Round-the-clock coverage of news from Capitol Hill.
2009 Congressional Quarterly Inc. All Rights Reserved.
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Fyi
Father Gutierrez, another honorary degree recipient and founder of Liberation Theology, is also not marching in
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People at yale think you have to deal with north korea issues so they are fine if need to leave lunch early.
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I saw that too

They say they were holding seats just in case but they know he's not coming.
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Good since it happens to be true! One thing I noticed is that both you and Bill were included in lunch seating. Can we be
sure they know Bill is not coming.
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Father Gutierrez, another honorary degree recipient and founder of Liberation Theology, is also not marching in
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People at yale think you have to deal with north korea issues so they are fine if need to leave lunch early.
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(U) According to the Department of Homeland Security, New York Police Department(NYPD) believes an
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Monday, May 25, 2009 1:11 PM
Oscar Flores
Chinese
We are going to confirm chinese fm yang call at 9pm unless that's a problem.
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Below is current draft of the press release we would issue once DOJ issues their release:
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Mini Schedule Friday 6/5/09
11:40 am (t) ARRIVE State Department

12:00 pm BILATERAL w/PORTUGUESE FOREIGN MINISTER LUIS AMADO
12:30 pm Secretary's Conference Room *Official photo in East Hall preceding.
12:30 pm PROTOCOL OF EXCHANGE OF INSTRUMENTS OF RATIFICATION
12:45 pm CEREMONY w/PORTUGUESE F.M. LUIS AMADO Treaty Room
1:30 pm BILATERAL w/TURIUSH F.M. AHMET DAVUTOGLU
2:30 pm PRESS AVAIL Iv/TURKISH F.M. DAVUTOGLU
2:40 pm Treaty Room
2:45 pm BILATERAL w/KOREAN F.M. YU MYUNG-HWAN
3:15 pm Deputy Secretary's Conference Room *Camera Spray in Treaty Room following.
3:15 pm MEETING w/TODD STERN
4:00 pm MEETING w/ARTURO VALENZUELA, NOMINEE FOR ASST.
4:15 pm SEC'Y OF STATE FOR WESTERN HEMISPHERE AFFAIRS Secretary's Office
4:30 pm (t) DEPART State Department *En route Private Residence
4:40 pm (t) ARRIVE Private Residence
4:40 pm PERSONAL TIME
5:30 pm Private Residence
5:30 pm DEPART Private Residence *En route Rodham Home
6:00 pm 90TH BIRTHDAY BBQ FOR MRS. RODHAM
10:00 pm (t) Location: Home of Tony & Megan Rodham *Call Time: 6:00pm-10:00pm
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Monday, May 25, 2009 3:42 PM
H; Shapiro, Andrew J; preines
Here is the situation as I understand it.

The film festival returned funds that it had received from the Israeli Embassy, after protests from some UK film figures
(Ken Loach) and Palestinian solidarity groups.
The Israeli director is now being funded directly by the festival.
The organizers issued a sort of apology today.
We have not been able to locate any State Dept response to similar episodes in the past (Israeli academics disinvited to
a British conference).
Original Message
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Sent: Sun May 24 21:25:02 2009
Pls read Brian's message and all the email traffic below. What can we do about this? Let me know if you have ideas. Thx.
Original Message
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To: H2
Sent: Sun May 24 17:21:40 2009
Hi hillary,
Please call me about this if you have a moment. The message is self-explanatory, apparently there is no american voice
in place to speak out or lead on this issue so --there is no voice. I believe you know Bruce Ramer who is my brother-inlaw, former president of american jewish committee and well-respected entertainment lawyer in la. And, he is right.
Look forward to seeing you next week in washington. Best, brian
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From: Bruce M. Ramer

To: Brian Greenspun
Sent: Sun May 24 14:08:16 2009
Subject: FW: Edinburgh Film Festival israeli Boycott
Brian, First, thanks for a nice family morning and for breakfast. Always fun, always interesting and always fulfilling.
Below is a sample of the kind of emails I sent to various people (studio heads; Dan Glickman; etc), which have started to
generate concern, interest and action. AJC is also active on other fronts, as well.
Just below the email you will find the news item which first called this abomination to my attention.
I hope you can enlist Hilary's support (and please give her my personal best). We need, for many reasons, to have the
US protest and condemn this outrageous boycott and to oppose the anti-Semitism inherent in it; cf Durban. The
organizers of the festival must be convinced to reverse themselves. This, because of the inherent wrongness of it and
that if it succeeds, it will encourage and motivate those who fomented the boycott to other, probably even worse,
action. For example, there is in effect or pending (I am not certain which) a UK-Israeli treaty on film production; we
should cut off at the pass any attempts to derail it.
Our Embassy in London does not yet have our Ambassador. The charge d'affaires is Robert Lebaron who I hope will
receive appropriate instructions from DOS. If he acts quickly, it is likely that other nations will follow suit; again,
compare Durban.
This is truly appalling and serious and I earnestly solicit your assistance with the Secretary, and through you my earnest
solicitation of her assistance.
With appreciation and love, Bruce
PS Naturally, you are free to share this email.
Dear Michael, This is disgusting and outrageous.

If you have any films in the festival or can lean on anyone else who does, please get them withdrawn. We would not
boycott the films of any other nation, even those we consider outlaws. Neither should they. And they should learn that
boycotts beget boycotts.
Thanks for whatever help you can be.
Warmest regards. Bruce
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May 20, 2009
Edinburgh film festival bows to pressure from Ken Loach over Israeli boycott
Mike Wade
A row threatened to engulf the Edinburgh International Film Festival yesterday after it bowed to pressure from the
director Ken Loach and returned a 300 grant it had received from the Israeli Embassy.
Sir Jeremy Isaacs, the former chief executive of Channel Four, accused the festival's organisers of making "an appalling
decision" and called on them to rescind it. Describing Loach's intervention as an act of censorship, he said: "They must
not allow someone who has no real position, no rock to stand on, to interfere with their programming."
The grant was intended to enable Tali Shalom Ezer, a graduate of Tel Aviv University, to travel to Scotland for a
screening of her film, Surrogate.
After days of protest against the award from pro-Palestinian organisations, Loach, an outspoken opponent of Israel's
policies in Lebanon and Gaza, urged filmgoers on Monday to boycott Edinburgh.
"The massacres and state terrorism in Gaza make this money unacceptable," he said. "With regret, I must urge all who
might consider visiting the festival to show their support for the Palestinian nation and stay away."
The intervention brought an immediate capitulation from the organisers. In a statement the festival said it accepted that
Loach spoke "on behalf of the film community, therefore we will be returning the funding issued by the Israeli Embassy".
Sir Jeremy said that he was disgusted both by Loach's actions and by the capitulation of the festival organisers. "Ken
Loach has always been critical of censorship of his own work, albeit it was many years in the past. The idea that he
should lend himself to the denial of a film-maker's right to show her work is absolutely appalling," he said. He was
"equally horrified" that festival organisers should accept that Loach was speaking on behalf of all British film-makers.
Sir Jeremy worked closely with Loach in the 1980s when, as chief executive of Channel Four, he commissioned a number
of controversial documentaries from him. One, A Question of Leadership, was made in 1981 but never broadcast,
leading to accusations of political censorship from Loach. The irony of the director's present position was all the more
obvious, given the spirit of the Edinburgh festival, Sir Jeremy said.
"It must be good for cinemagoers at an international film festival to see films by Jews, Arabs, Israelis and Palestinians, to
the benefit of all," he said.
"I have admired the Edinburgh International Film Festival for many years and would like to think that this appalling
decision will be rescinded."
Loach's acclaimed new film Looking for Eric has made him the toast of the Cannes Film Festival. It is, uncharacteristically,
a comedy, although its lead character is an authentic Loach creation a Mancunian postman who goes off in search of
his idol, the footballer Eric Cantona.
Ezer's film makes no reference to war or politics. It is a romance set in a sex-therapy clinic. It won the audience award at
an international women's film festival in Israel recently.
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Lord Janner of Braunstone, a Labour peer and former chairman of the Board of Deputies of British Jews, said that he was
disappointed by the festival's decision. "By banning the Israeli Embassy from supporting a film-maker the festival is
helping to exclude Israelis from British cultural life, something that is clearly unfair."
Last night a spokesman for the EIFF said that although it had returned 300 to the Israeli Embassy, the festival itself
would fund Ms Shalom-Ezer's travel to Edinburgh out of its own budget
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Abedin, Huma
Betsy and Tom
Just FYI that Betsy and Tom are coming to State today for a tour of the Diplomatic Reception Rooms. (Betsy may have
her boss in tow, too). Marcee Craighill is going to give them a private tour at 2:00 PM, and afterward I will show them
whatever I can on the 7th floor.
Lauren Jiloty
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Calls
Calling you at 9pm with FM yang.

Australian fm smith asking to talk to you tonite about north korea. U want to do after china? Or wait till tomorow?
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Ok call in 20 min with australian fm smith

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We can do tonight but not after 11. Thx.
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Calling you at 9pm with FM yang.
Australian fm smith asking to talk to you tonite about north korea. U want to do after china? Or wait till tomorow?
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Revised mini schedule below. Two items added during office time, denoted with asterisks:
1:10 pm * MTG w/ JACK LEW AND JAKE SULLIVAN *
1:20 pm * PRE-BRIEF FOR TURKISH BILATERAL *
1:30 pm BILATERAL w/TURKISH F.M. AHMET DAVUTOGLU
2:30 pm PRESS AVAIL w/TURKISH F.M. DAVUTOGLU
2:40 pm Treaty Room
2:45 pm BILATERAL w/KOREAN F.M. YU MYUNG-H WAN
4:00 pm
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MEETING w/ARTURO VALENZUELA, NOMINEE FOR ASST.

SECY OF STATE FOR WESTERN HEMISPHERE AFFAIRS Secretary's Office

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Okay good to know, we have a couple informal call requests that we could get through during that time.
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Sent: Friday, June 05, 2009 10:35 AM
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Also I will not leave the office before 5:30.
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Sent: Fri Jun 05 10:28:17 2009
Subject: Revised Mini Schedule 6/5/09
Revised mini schedule below. Two items added during office time, denoted with asterisks:



1:10 pm * MTG w/ JACK LEW AND JAKE SULLIVAN *
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1:30 pm BILATERAL w/TURKISH F.M. AHMET DAVUTOGLU

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2:40 pm Treaty Room
2:45 pm BILATERAL w/KOREAN F.M. YU MYUNG-HWAN


4:00 pm MEETING w/ARTURO VALENZUELA, NOMINEE FOR ASST.

4:15 pm SEC'Y OF STATE FOR WESTERN HEMISPHERE AFFAIRS Secretary's Office

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Re: Schedule
Yes, we can do Lee in the afternoon of the 5th. If we did Musa in DC, we have many options the week if the 8th or the
15th.
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Sent: Mon May 25 21:56:16 2009
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S. Korea FM Yu wants to see me in DC June 5 to prepare for Pres Lee's trip to DC on June 16. Can I do that in the
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I need some dates asap to offer for a mtg in DC or Europe w Quatari Sheika Musa.
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couple things on reshuffle
Alan Johnson is named Home Secretary. He was considered the only possible alternative to Gordon,
a bland, competent, Blairite, consensus choice. Johnson taking Home Secretary in effect puts an end
to the coup attempt. Alistair Darling is kept as Chancellor. Ed Balls, Gordon's close adviser, was
considered a bridge too far given Gordon's weakness now. But with Purnell's resignation Gordon
named Balls' wife, Yvette Cooper to Purnell's job at Work and Pensions Ministry. More later... Sid
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Mandelson
So in the end Peter did not get Foreign Secretary. But Gordon has now created a new job and title for
him: First Secretary of State. In effect, he is deputy prime minister, probably the first peer in that role,
not an elected member of Commons. Gordon held a defiant late afternoon press conference: "I will
not waver. I will not walk away. I will get on with the job." There will be more fallout, but I think this is
done. Sid
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From: Kelly Craighead [mailto
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Retiring Today
Ladies,
One of HRC's most committed and passionate supporters,
is retiring. Although she will be at SEIU until the
end of the month, her party is today. I know it would mean the world to her to get a message from HRC.
an be reached at
A phone call would be great. If you prefer snail mail, let me know and I will get her home address.
is very interested in serving on a task force or other position where she can help advance
You should also know that
women's issues and otherwise help HRC.
Thanks,
Kelly
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last email on this subject
Sorry to flood your email, but I couldn't resist sending this to you from Ben Smith
B6
A year later, Hillary wins

A year ago today, the final set of primaries made official the foregone conclusion that Barack Obama had won
the primary, and Hillary Clinton lost it.
There's far too much going on today to dwell on an anniversary, but it does seem worth noting one particular
piece of news in its light: On the central health care policy debate of the Democratic Primary -- which was, to
be fair, conducted within a fairly narrow frame -- Obama appears to have conceded today to a Senate plan likely
to more closely resemble Clinton's.
In a dense, careful letter to Ted Kennedy and Max Baucus, Obama offered his principles for a health care plan
and conceded on a central point: He is now open to an individual mandate, which he campaigned against, and
which is now being talked about by Senators of both parties with the buzzword "shared responsibility."
Obama still backs a "hardship waiver" for people unable to afford the mandate -- which is consistent with the
core of his objection to the mandate. But what he cast as a principled difference of approach -- was the problem
merely that people couldn't afford insurance? or something more? -- seems to have been conceded.
Here's the relevant paragraph:
I understand the Committees are moving towards a principle of shared responsibility -- making
every American responsible for having health insurance coverage, and asking that employers
share in the cost. I share the goal of ending lapses and gaps in coverage that make us less healthy
and drive up everyone's costs, and I am open to your ideas on shared responsibility. But I believe
if we are going to make people responsible for owning health insurance, we must make health
care affordable. If we do end up with a system where people are responsible for their own
insurance, we need to provide a hardship waiver to exempt Americans who cannot afford it. In
addition, while I believe that employers have a responsibility to support health insurance for their
employees, small businesses face a number of special challenges in affording health benefits and
should be exempted.
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FYI I think Port-au-Prince Le Matin is a summary of Haitian radio programming.
Many Haitians See Bill Clinton Appointment as Setting Up Protectorate
Port-au-Prince Le Matin
June 5, 2009
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon's recent appointment of former US President Clinton to serve as special envoy to
Haiti has been perceived by many groups, including lawmakers, political analysts, political leaders, and media
commentators, as a step toward putting Haiti in a protectorate or trusteeship status. They questioned in particular the
extent of Clinton's powers and the term of his mandate, wondering what role will be attributed to Haiti's elected
representatives. Several pointed out that Heidi Annabi, Ban's special representative in Haiti, and President Rene Preval
would be subservient to Clinton, their senior in rank and described by some media as Haiti's new chief. As expected,
Haitian Government officials and most foreign diplomats hailed this nomination and expressed their optimism about it.
Several political leaders objected to Clinton's being named special envoy to Haiti, saying that it showed the international
community wanted to bring Haiti under its control.
o Former Senate President Belizaire, president of the National Council of the Haitian Political Parties, pointed out that
Haiti has had a foreign force in the country, the UN Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH), since 2004 and now has
an envoy such as President Clinton who is in a "higher position than any other UN personnel." These both indicate the
country is being considered a "genuine protectorate," according to Belizaire (Signal FM, 27 May).
o Socialist Identity and Liberty Collective spokesman Cherubin referred to Clinton's mission as an umpteenth "civil
commission," alluding to the administrative steps France took to restore order and peace when Haiti was under French
rule, intended to speed up the process of "taking charge" of Haiti. Cherubin added that in the current international
jargon this is called "colonialism of a third type, or colonialism of necessity"
(www.alterpresse.org, 22 May).
o According to Christian Movement for a New Haiti leader Mesadieux, Ban's decision will further help put Haiti under
foreign supervision. He asserted that the international community wants to reinforce its control over Haiti's
administration (Radio Vision 2000, 21 May).
o Dr. Eugene of the Haitian Social Christian Party, speaking on the "Pickup Talk Show" live from the United States, said
that "Clinton's responsibility is to control events in Haiti and he will control them in a firm manner" (Radio Caraibes FM,
23 May). Eugene was "offended" by this appointment and called it "a shame for all Haitians" and "a slap in the face of
the entire nation" (Radio Galaxie, 29 May).
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Lawmakers and political analysts, who questioned how far Clinton's powers would extend and described him as a
colonial administrator, also concluded that Haiti was under trusteeship or protectorate status.
o Senate President Bastien, who said the UN usually sends special emissaries only to "places where there are crises and
conflicts," wondered why former President Clinton had been named special envoy to Haiti. He particularly questioned
the extent of Clinton's mandate, asking "where do his powers end?" and concluded that the ongoing rumors of Haiti
being put under trusteeship will be confirmed if clarifications are not offered (Radio Vision 2000, 26 May).
o Professor Lalanne, a former ambassador under the Duvalier regime, described Clinton as "the new administrator of
the colony called Haiti." Lalanne said this nomination shows that the international community is not happy with Annabi's
work. He added that he had "no other interpretation [of the appointment other than it Is]... a reinforcement of the
occupation" (Radio Kiskeya, 25 May).
o Reacting to the appointment, political analyst Gracien Jean referred to Article 76 of the UN fundamental charter and
said that although Haiti is not a classic protectorate with an administrator, the very fact that it cannot administer itself
and has foreign forces in charge of ensuring its security, is an indication that the country is "under trusteeship or
protectorate status because in principle there is partial restriction of its sovereignty" (Radio Vision 2000, 26 May).
Media commentators highlighted the powers conferred to President Clinton as minimizing the role of Haitian or UN
officials.
o The oldest and most famous Haitian newspaper, Le Nouvelliste, questioned in an editorial what mandate former
President Clinton would have in his new role. The paper noted that even though Clinton was presented as "an
international lawyer for Haiti," the country's moderate national ists consider him the new "governor general," recalling
the title given by France to colonial Haiti's highest authority. The paper further asked what role Haiti's elected
representatives would have if President Clinton has responsibility for "a complete political program." Moreover, the
editorial questioned how long the program would last (20 May).
o In an article entitled "Haiti Under High Surveillance," journalist Nancy Roc, host of Radio Metropole's famous weekly
talk show "Metropolis," reported: "This nomination establishes the eviction of the Latin Americans and represents the
response of the Obama Administration to the powerlessness and irresponsibility of the Haitian rulers.... Through this
nomination, Haiti has a new chief.... Annabi and Preval are relegated to a position of secondary importance and will have
to execute to the letter any instructions from [Clinton] their senior in rank (Le Matin, 25 May).
Predictably, government officials and foreign diplomats hailed Clinton's mission and emphasized its beneficial
socioeconomic influence.
o Le Nouvelliste reported on 19 May that "President Preval received this nomination favorably," saying that it is "a vital
push" for assuring Haiti's needs remain "a priority for the international community." Responding to a journalist who
asked him about Haiti being put under protectorate status, Preval replied that he knew Haiti, as a UN member, was like
many countries with problems who have accepted UN help (Radio Vision 2000, 26 May).
o Prime Minister Pierre-Louis saw in the naming of President Clinton a positive sign all the more so since he is "a long
time friend of Haiti." She said it was in the interest of the country to take advantage of all international opportunities
(Radio Caraibes FM, 21 May).
o MINUSTAH spoke of its limits to help social and economic problems, and stressed the appropriateness and the
importance of President Clinton's mission after the hurricanes that hit Haiti last year (Le Nouvelliste, 20 May).
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o The Chilean Chancery said in a communique issued on 26 May that it received this nomination with "total
approbation" and expected it to help put Haiti's economic and social development and reconstruction on the
international agenda (www.radiokiskeya.com, 26 May).
On another note, however, OAS representatiave in Haiti, Ricardo Seitenfus reacted defensively to rumors about
President Clinton's appointment, telling Signal FM that "Haiti will never fall under the protectorate of another country"
even if it is a "disguised protectorate." He further said that the "OAS will constantly watch to make sure that does not
happen" (26 May).
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Please pass this message to Secretary Clinton.

Thank you so much for your support for the GLT community. This is the first time in my 24.5 year
career that I have seen this type of support. I appreciate all the hard work you have done in the short
time as Secretary of State.
You have given so much hope to so many. I am so proud of you and your work.
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Ok I will not suggest that but I will go back with the other suggestions and see what we can do
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Cherie-I will also be in Cairo for Pres. Obama's speech on June 4th, but do not believe that a meeting around that occasion
would be a good idea or would be possible for me timewise. I did want you to know tho in case it is raised that I will be
in the region. Thx again.
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Yes will get to work on it right away

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Can you get #s for me so I can call and congratulate her?
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Monday, May 11, 2009 4:28 PM
RE: May 19-21
Yes, I will reach out to him.

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Can I fit in a visit at the State Dept??
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Sent: Mon May 11 13:41:58 2009
Subject: May 19-21
Madam SecretaryI hope this note finds you and your family doing well. I've been following all of your activities over the last several
months. You are doing an incredible job, which I'm sure is a surprise to no one. I'm going to be in DC May 19-21. We
have our annual gathering out there with about 150 folks coming out from the Exchange. I know this is probably a long
shot at best, but we are having a dinner for our group at the Hay Adams on Tuesday, May 19 and it would be a
tremendous honor if you would come by and say a few words. If this doesn't work but you are in town, I'd love to stop
by for 5 minutes to say hello. Please let me know if any of this is possible. I look forward to seeing you soon.
All my best,
Terry
Terrence A. Duffy
Executive Chairman
CME Group
20 S. Wacker Drive
Chicago, IL 60606
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FYI, we have heard from an AP reporter that Sydney outed himself about coming to the Department, mentioning it
without realizing he was talking to someone who actually covers our building.
PJ
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more on what happened...
Purnell called Miliband to tell him he would resign, trying to prompt David into joining him, thereby
bringing down the government. Miliband refused, tried to talk Purnell out of quitting. Mande[son was
at No. 10 discussing strategy with Gordon when Purnell called at 10 pm Thursday night to tell him he
resigned. Mandelson worked the phones long into the night to get the Blairites to stay put and back
Gordon. He succeeded in holding the fort. Then Gordon named him First Secretary of State. Sid
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Speech
I heard from jon.

Wjc reviewed your edits
Said they were all good
Has some of his own (from original copy) that he said he "doesn't feel very strongly about" but they make it less wordy
and easier to give. I can send that version to you if u want.
He mentioned you may want the section on "purpose of power" at the end.
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Faxed to house.
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You can send it to me or if that's not easy for you, tomorrow is ok.
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I heard from jon.
Wjc reviewed your edits
Said they were all good
Has some of his own (from original copy) that he said he "doesn't feel very strongly about" but they make it less wordy
and easier to give. I can send that version to you if u want.
He mentioned you may want the section on "purpose of power" at the end.
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Fw: Mary Beth Sheridan and WP
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Sent: Fri Jun 05 18:53:44 2009
Subject: Mary Beth Sheridan and WP
I talked with Mary Beth Sheridan. This is actually a pretty good story. The thrust of the piece is that there is a great deal
of concern about growing Iranian influence in Latin America talk of investments, projects and so forth but so far very
little has actually appeared. In other words, the Iranians are talking a good game but not delivering. It is within this
context that Mary Beth picked up on the comment by the Secretary of this large embassy in Manangua that
It turns out is not under construction, at least not yet.
On the record, I said that the Secretary picked this up from one of her counterparts from the region during a bilateral. If
it turns out that is not happening, that's good news. The Iranians see themselves as the big winners in the second Gulf
War. They are trying to extend their influence, particularly in their own region, but elsewhere where they see possible
openings. But while they are trying to buy friends and influence people around the world, the results are clearly mixed.
The story will probably run Sunday.
Pi
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"Thank you for your immediate follow up. Her Highness informs me she is unable to meet during the suggested dates in
June 2009 due to prior commitments. However, Her Highness is available to meet immediately after Ramadan/Eid week
of September 27, 2009. I hope these dates are suitable for Mrs. Clinton."
Cherie Booth QC
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H2
tonight....
Hillary, that was quite wonderful, what you made possible this evening.
This evening was a lovely moment. And I'll long remember your line about
"Pretty Bunkers." Good luck in translating that into policy, or even practice. Anyway,
thanks. S.
Strobe Talbott
President, The Brookings Institution
1775 Massachusetts Avenue NW
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H; H2
Thought some more after our conversatiion and have something to discuss that might be useful.
Call when you have a chance.
Sandy
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Subject: (AP) Blast in Lahore; many casualties
Blast in Lahore; many casualties
LAHORE, Pakistan (AP) A powerful bomb exploded in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore on Wednesday,
ripping buildings apart and causing many casualties, according to officials and television footage.
The mid-morning blast occurred the office of the emergency police service in main business district of Lahore.
The nearby office of Pakistan's main intelligence agency was also badly damaged.
"There is a large number of casualties," local government official Khoro Pervaiz told Dawn news channel.
Sporadic gunfire was heard in the area of the blast, and troops rushed to the scene.
Television footage taken shortly after the blast showed emergency workers carrying at least one body covered
by a blanket to an ambulance, and injured bystanders mopping blood from wounds.
The blast comes as government forces are engaged in a major offensive against Taliban militants who have
seized control of the northwestern Swat Valley.
Tiffany L. McGriff
Operations Center
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Calls
Holbrooke called for you. He's in abu dhabi.

Jim steinberg also just called for you.
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I see that Maria Otero is on my schedule today for a short courtesy visit.
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From: Feltman, Jeffrey D

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Sent: Wed May 27 10:38:34 2009
Subject: today's meeting with Roxanne Saberi
Just FYI: wanted you all to know that, for S's meeting today with Roxanne Saberi, I deferred on my own
participation in favor of the officer in the Iran office who has been doggedly working on this case for
months. Erica Thibault
has been working all
out to get messages via the Swiss and others, working with CA and the family, etc. on this case. So if S was
wondering why I wasn't showing up, it was as a moral boost and recognition of the work Erica did on this case.
Jeffrey Feltman
Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary
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Savage case - related legal background.docx
On Michael Savage:
Joan wanted everyone to clearly understand before any further discussion occurred with UK that Savage's exclusion
could also have occurred under our legal regime so to the extent we want to suggest to UK that his exclusion on free
speech grounds is inappropriate (or any thing of that like) that we should understand we may appear slightly hypocritical
given our legal regime and actions.
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This is what L staff, in coordination with EUR, have said to Savage's lawyer:
The demarche was delivered Friday in London, to FCO and Home Office officials. The Embassy
passed your letter to them, drawing their attention in particular to Mr. Savage's statement that he had
never advocated violence and that his statements had never instigated violence. The British officials
said that, given Mr. Savage's legal action in the UK, Treasury solicitors would contact his legal
representatives directly to provide details of the comments that had given rise to the decision to
exclude him.
Joan
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Perspective on USAID C,ontracting Mechanisms
May 2008
USAID's indefinite quantity contracts and other large-scale contracting mechanisms were
designed to make the country's bi-lateral assistance more efficient, resulting in more and
better delivery of development aid to the world's poor. As an implementing partner on
several of these awards, FINCA International thinks that the benefits of multiple layers of
contracted assistance rarely materialize. In F1NCA's experience prime contractors (a)
pass very little funding to their implementing partners, (b) greatly increase the cost to the
taxpayer through 'reselling' the industry's technical expertise at high mark ups, and/or (c)
provide unclear instructions to the organization actually implementing the program on the
ground regarding goals or compliance procedures. FINCA's experiences with direct
awards from USAID missions have proven to be much more successful.
With respect to point A, as a specialized organization, FINCA is unable to compete as a
prime for these multi-disciplinary awards. As a result, FINCA (like many other specialized agencies) joins a larger team as a sub-contractor, helping the prime demonstrate to
USAID that they have assembled a team of implementing partners with the skill and expertise to deliver. However, after the prime wins the award, FINCA often finds that the
primes have little interest in utilizing the mechanism to fund sub-contractor activities.
While USAID generally makes multi-million dollar awards, FINCA's sub-awards rarely
exceed $100,000.
There is little transparency within consortia and very little information is readily available
from USAID, so it is difficult for FINCA to state unequivocally how much money prime
contractors receive, how much they spend on their own overhead and profit, and how
much they pass to sub-contractors, but FINCA's experience includes:
Haiti: In 2006, USAID Haiti issued a task order under the AMAP MF IQC to
support Haiti's microfinance, small and medium enterprise sector. DAI won the
award in the amount of $6-8 million. DAI sub-contracted a total of $1.2 million.
FINCA received $85,000.
Uganda: In 2002, FINCA signed a sub-award with Chemonics as part of the
USAID-funded SPEED project to facilitate the transformation of FINCA Uganda.
While the sub-award to FINCA was for $600,000, the procurement process was
so restrictive, that FINCA was only able to receive $325,000. FINCA believes
that the total award to Chemonics was $30 million.
Armenia / Georgia / Mexico / Ecuador: There are certainly more examples, but
over the last six to eight years, Chemonics and DAI received sizable awards to
support micro-enterprise in these markets. Though running the largest or one of
the largest MFIs in each of these countries, FINCA International has received no
sub-award funding through these mechanisms.
As a result of their failure to secure funding through the IQC system, a coalition of practitioners (FINCA among them) raised concerns about the system to USAID. USAID replied that given limited staffing they could not manage contracts with individual microfinance institutions (MFIs) and suggested that the coalition organize itself and find a
leader to bid against the big contractors. In preparing to bid on the Leaders with Associates Award (LWA), the industry followed USAID's advice, selecting AED to serve as the
prime since none of the MFIs had the capacity to manage such a large contract. The
ARIES funding for Afghanistan was channeled through the LWA mechanism. Unfortunately, although FINCA has received significant funding for its program in Afghanistan,
AED's limited industry expertise created another reporting layer between USAID and the
MFIs while providing little technical value to the MFIs or USAID when things got tough
in Afghanistan.
With respect to point B, senior FINCA staff who have been hired away by large consulting firms to provide technical assistance to FINCA and other MFIs at a much higher cost
to the US Government include Phil Broughton (hired by Chemonics but who has returned
to FINCA because of its more productive environment), Mark Rostal (hired by DAI) and
Adam Blanco (also hired by DAI). At best, this practice duplicates the talent required for
a project (FINCA must replace these employees). At worst, as contractors lose or reassign these individuals a lack of continuity constantly hinders forward progress.
In addition, much of the technical assistance provided by contractors despite the quality
of the people they have hired has been overly broad and not valuable to the organization's needs.
With respect to point C, FINCA has on numerous occasions found it difficult to obtain
instructions directly from the local Mission or from AID in Washington, and dialogue
with the prime contractor has in many cases been conspicuously influenced by selfinterest or based on lack of understanding or attention to the goals/outcomes sought by
USAID. We believe that this process is exacerbated by a proclivity to use the grant to
hire as many consultants as possible, resulting in a short term outlook and a diminution of
funds available to achieve the desired outcomes. FINCA believes that direct dialogue
and reporting with AID can ensure a common understanding of goals and an effective
resolution of issues that arise in the course of a project.
When contracting directly with USAID missions, FINCA has found substantially more
success. In 2004, FINCA received an award for $1.2 million from the USAID mission in
Kinshasa to launch a new program in the DR Congo. FINCA earlier had received direct
awards from USAID missions for programs in Kyrgyzstan ($6.2 million) and Azerbaijan
($4 million). These programs are today among FINCA' s most successful affiliates. Together they account for nearly 210,000 clients and a $120 million loan portfolio.
Analysis/Conclusion
The contractors that win the bulk of the awards from USAID have very different success
criteria than organizations such as FINCA. While FINCA measures success in terms of
the ability to deliver sustainable financial services that have a long-term impact on development, most contractors are project focused, seeking to demonstrate short-term results.
Oversight has often been inconsistent or lacking in understanding of the programs.
FINCA is committed to full compliance with the letter and spirit of regulations. Intervention by prime contractors with no on-the-ground involvement is often ineffective or even
counterproductive.
In FINCA's experience, contractors fail to engage with organizations like FINCA and,
often impede our efforts (as well as do a disservice to taxpayers) by attempting to cure
their lack of expertise by hiring away FINCA's talent to manage the new contracts and
provide technical assistance.
FINCA and many other MFIs have decades of experience working with USAID, managing contracts and producing results. FINCA does not need expensive consultants to help
account for money and write reports. Ultimately, the US Government would be better
served by making direct contracting relationships between organizations such as FINCA
and USAID the rule, rather than the exception.
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Kathleen M. O'Toole currently serves as Chief Inspector of the Garda Siochana
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accountability to the 15,000 member Irish national police service. O'Toole was recruited
by the Irish Government for this role as the result of her service on the Independent
Commission on Policing in Northern Ireland (The Patten Commission).
The Patten Commission was established is 1998 as part of the Good Friday Agreement in
Northern Ireland. The eight-member group created a new framework for policing and
security as an integral step in the Peace Process.
O'Toole remains actively involved in Northern Ireland. She was recently tapped by the
Security Minister there to serve on a four-person commission established to develop
prison reforms. In addition, she maintains close links to the North through her crosscommunity volunteer and philanthropic work.
As the result of her intimate knowledge and extensive network of contacts in Northern
Ireland, O'Toole has frequently been tapped to brief and advise U.S. Government
officials on issues there.
O'Toole is a practicing attorney with diverse career experience in government and the
private sector. She began her career in 1979 as a patrol officer in the Boston Police
Department and rose through the ranks of local and state law enforcement in
Massachusetts. Prior to her appointment as Chief Inspector of the Garda Siochana, she
served as Boston Police Commissioner, overseeing three thousand sworn and civilian
personnel. She also served as Massachusetts Secretary of Public Safety, overseeing
twenty agencies and more than 10,000 employees.
O'Toole has worked on other high-profile projects. For example, she was a consultant to
the United States Department of Justice Civil Rights Division on police profiling cases.
She also chaired the Boston Fire Department Review Commission, a group established to
address serious allegations of mismanagement and bias.
Kathleen O'Toole founded O'Toole Associates LLC, an international consulting firm
with offices in Dublin, Ireland and Boston, Massachusetts. The firm provides a variety of
services to government and industry clients in Ireland, Northern Ireland and the United
States.
O'Toole earned a Bachelor of Arts Degree from Boston College, a juris doctor from New
England School of Law and was admitted to the bar as a practicing attorney in 1982. She
is now enrolled in the PhD program at the Business School of Trinity College, Dublin.
She is married to Dan O'Toole and has one daughter, Meghan.
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Hume Abedin
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Last I heard, I thought you guys were organizing a meeting at Whitehaven?
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Carl says he's trying to reach you to get these columns up and going.
Let
me know if there's something I can do to help. Shall he just drop off a contract? I think he wants to talk timing and
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Hilary,
You may know but for the last four years I have been working with the Qatari's and in particular with
ssues in Qatar and I have built up a good relationship with them
on
has approached me privately saying they are keen to get their relationship with the USA onto a more
positive footing and she was hoping for a "women to women" one to one private meeting with you. She is happy to
come to Washington if you could make some time available.
Is this something you would be prepared o do.
is someone who has real influence in Qatar and she has
made a lot of difference already with her
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I am sure the conversation would not be
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Given your meeting in March with NGOs working on human rights in China, I thought you might be interested in this very
positive reaction from Human Rights Watch on the Secretary's Tiananmen statement.
Karen
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Susan, Susan,
Many thanks for the Tiananmen statement, which hit all they key points, and went a long way towards resolving any lingering
ambiguity from the Secretary's February comments. We believe it remains crucial to make such statements every year-or until such
time as the Chinese government allows for real resolution. We know these statements cause a certain amoint of diplomatic rancor, but
we hope that the comfort and courage they give people also remain part of your calculations.
May I trouble one of you to forward this message to Steve and Dan in Beijing, and to Carlos in DC? And please do feel free to share it
with anyone else involved in the statement.
Cheers,
Sophie
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Awesome The largest ceremony in NYU historyl Thank You II III The book is a special gift Greg Albanis Senior Director of
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Condi rice checked in during party. She can talk tomorrow between 830 and 1045
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Schedule
This should have been faxed to house. Here is final schedule:

8:15 am
DEPART Private Residence
8:25 am
PRESIDENTIAL DAILY BRIEFING
8:30 am
DAILY SMALL STAFF MEETING
DAILY SENIOR STAFF MEETING

Participants: Jim Steinberg, Jack Lew, Pat Kennedy, P.J. Crowley, Dan Smith, Cheryl Mills, Joan Donoghue,
Anne-Marie Slaughter, Ian Kelly, Rich Verma and Joe Macmanus
8:45 am
9:15 am
MONDAY MEETING w/ASSISTANT SECRETARIES
10:00 am
11:00 am
OFFICE TIME
Secretary's Office
11:00 am
MEETING w/ARTURO VALENZUELA, NOMINEE FOR A/S WESTERN HEMISPHERE AFFAIRS
11:40 am
DEPART State Department

En route Sewall-Belmont House and Museum
11:50 am
ARRIVE Sewall-Belmont House and Museum
11:55 am
2009 ALICE AWARD PRESENTATION
Note: 100 people attending the reception, 250 attending the luncheon. Reception called from 11:00am-12:00pm,
Luncheon from 12:00pm-1:30pm.
Upon arrival, Page Harrington escorts HRC to the tented Garden Terrace, as guests are sitting for the luncheon.
HRC sits at the head table.
At 12:00pm, Peggy Cifrino, Sewall-Belmont House and Museum event chair, delivers welcoming remarks and
introduces Audrey Sheppard, Chair, Board of Directors, Sewall-Belmont House and Museum.
Audrey Sheppard delivers brief remarks and announces HRC as the receipent of the 2009 Annual Alice Award.
HRC proceeds to stage to accept award.
HRC gives brief remarks and departs, luncheon program continues.
12:35 pm
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12:45 pm
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12:45 pm
1:40 pm
OFFICE TIME
Secretary's Office
1:40 pm
PRIVATE MEETING with BAMBI
2:00 pm
PHOTO w/VISITING MIDDLE EAST DEMOCRACY ACTIVISTS
2:15 pm
MEETING w/MEMBERS OF U.S. COMMISSION ON
INTERNATIONAL RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Deputy Secretary's Conference Room
CAMERA SPRAY (at the top of the meeting)
Members of U.S. Commission and Staff
Donald Argue, Commissioner
Felice Gaer, Chair
Dwight Bashir, Associate Director
Elizabeth Cassidy, Associate Director
Michael Cromartie, Vice Chair
Talal Youssef Eid, Commissioner
Judith Golub, Director of Government Relations
Richard Land, Jr., Commissioner
Leonard Leo, Commissioner
Elizabeth Prod romou, Vice Chair
Nina Shea, Commissioner
James Standish, Executive Director
3:00 pm
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HASSAN WIRAJUDA
Secretary's Conference Room
OFFICIAL PHOTO (in East Hall preceding bilateral)
3:30 pm
JOINT PRESS AVAILABILITY w/INDONESIAN FOREIGN MINISTER NOER HASSAN WIRAJUDA
3:45 pm
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6:00 pm
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the beginning of a nice review from chicago tribune below... .(and it looks like she added some excellent
personal touches to the final remarks, if I'm not mistaken)....
"Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton held the infield today at the new Yankee Stadium. "Does it get
getter than this?" she asked her audience.
And the former senator from New York may have hit one out of the park, as the commencement speaker at
New York University's graduation, suggesting that everyone who had used their social networks to help elect
Barack Obama president should turn that e-power toward doing good for other people."
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Read out on Hearing with Zelikow testimony and document
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Cc: Donoghue, Joan E; Deeks, Ashley S; Mathias, Stephen; Prosser, Sarah E; Kelly, Ian C (PACE)
Subject: Re: draft press guidance on Zelikow document
With respect to our interests, it went great. They had so many witnesses (five on a single panel) that Zelikow didn't get
that much play and the memo itself even less. Zelikow mentioned in his opening statement, matter of factly, that his memo
was located and that it was undergoing declassification review.
Senator Whitehouse didn't even mention that he had read the classified memo, and Coburn was in attendance but left
before he could ask any questions.
Dave

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8:25 am PRESIDENTIAL DAILY BRIEFING

8:30 am DAILY SMALL STAFF MEETING
8:45 am DAILY SENIOR STAFF MEETING
9:00 am Secretary's Conference Room
9:00 am PHONE CALL w/GHANAIAN FOREIGN MINISTER MUMUNI
9:15 am WEEKLY MEETING w/REGIONAL BUREAU SECRETARIES
10:00 am Deputy Secretary's Conference Room
10:00 am PRIVATE MEETING
10:30 am PHONE CALL w/SAUDI PRINCE SAUD AL-FAISAL
11:00 am BILATERAL w/LATVIAN PRESIDENT VALDIS ZATLERS
11:30 am Secretary's Conference Room *Camera Spray in Treaty Room preceding.
11:30 am BRIEF MEETING/PHOTO OP w/AMBASSADORIAL SEMINAR
11:50 am PARTICIPANTS James Monroe Room, 8th Floor
12:00 pm PRIVATE MTG w/ DOUG HATTAWAY
1:45 pm PRIVATE MTG w/ PHIL LEVINE
2:00 pm PRIVATE MTG w/ ROY SPENCE
2:30 pm BILATERAL w/IVIALAYSIAN FOREIGN MINISTER Y.B. DATUK
3:00 pm ANIFAH bin HAJI AMAN Secy's Conf Rm. *Official photo in East Hall preceding.
3:00 pm PRESS AVAILABILITY w/MALAYSIAN FOREIGN MINISTER
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Phil gordon was confirmed by the Senate this evening
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Blair
Only addition to your schedule today is tony blair for office mtg. He is seeing mitchell at 11, and will see u right after
around 12 for one on one office meeting. Doug hattaway now coming later in the afternoon.
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Subject: Thanks
Cheryl:
Thanks for all your help and guidance on getting HRC to our Commencement.
Clearly she was a hit!
Her presence and her message added luster to the event.
Greg reported record attendance for an NYU Commencement and largest seated graduation in NYC history: over 27,000.
Sorry I missed seeing you but I understand many did...
I hope the Secretary was pleased.
All the best,
Lynne
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The New ForeienPolicv.com

Passport : Tom Ricks : Dan Drezner : Stephen Walt : David Rothkopf : Marc Lynch
The Cable : Madam Secretary : Net Effect : Shadow Govt. : The Argument : The Call
US Embassy Beijing "decapitated"

Thu, 05/14/2009 - 10:04am
Citing the desire to spend more time with his wife, the charge d'affaires of the U.S. embassy in Beijing,
Dan Piccuta, has announced his retirement, a notice issued to embassy employees and obtained by The
Cable says. Piccuta's departure will leave the embassy "decapitated" as of July 1, a source said. "If the
process for selecting an ambassador to Beijing wasn't in high gear before, we better hope it is now," the
official said. The U.S. embassy in Beijing will also need a formal, actual deputy chief of mission. One
possibility -- that Bill Weinstein, who has been the effective DCM in Beijing for four months now, would
be able to drop the "acting" title.
(The Cable previously reported that several people had turned down the Beijing ambassador job.)
Piccuta's retirement announcement here:
From: Beijing All Embassy
To: ALL EMBASSY BEIJING
Subject: BROADCAST NOTICE: Dan Piccuta - Retirement
It seems to me that for some time now we have been living in a non-stop diplomatic highlights film.
I won't soon forget the thrill of supporting our US Olympic family, the President and other Americans
during the Beijing 2008 Summer Olympic Games. We can be proud to have safely and securely
consolidated employees at our beautiful new embassy where proximity to colleagues and techno wizardry
have catalyzed collaboration in our professional efforts. To that list we can now add our contributions to
the engagement with China of a new U.S. administration through mutual efforts to build a positive,
cooperative and comprehensive bilateral relationship. Your accomplishments are too numerous to mention
in more detail, but the depth, breadth and excellence of our agencies and posts in China are acclaimed as
without equal among U.S. diplomatic missions.
Just as important have been successes in improving work-life balance throughout the Mission, in
facilitating employment of our family members, and in promoting the sense of community and mutual
support among employees, sections, and agencies as well as with constituent and neighboring posts.
I am hopeful that some have noticed the effort to provide deserving officers, specialists, family members
and LES employees with opportunities for professional growth including in supervisory and leadership
roles. Because of the ever-increasing diversity and talent of our team, the exit of any one colleague has
never diluted our combined strength nor caused us or the Department concern. I am therefore confident
that we will manage the many transitions we'll address in the coming months with exceptional
competence and that we can count on each others' support as we prepare for new leadership throughout
this terrific Mission.

As many of you know, Christina has been preparing our Hawaii home since March. No future challenge or
incentive nor any measure of past success could fully repay two decades of sacrifice as a trailing
spouse. Reflecting on our experience, I have great empathy for colleagues who meet the tandem,
hardship and expeditionary demands of the military and our Foreign Service that require long periods of
separation from loved ones.
Mindful of all of the above, I have earlier today asked the Office of Retirement and the EAP Bureau to act
now on the retirement application I submitted for their review some months ago, and to initiate the formal
DCM selection process, as I prepare to join Christina on the Big Island and to retire from the Foreign
Service with effect from July 1.
Dan Piccuta
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Fobs for Everyone short (1).docx
FYI we're going to get a short video from you that we'll put on our site announcing this. It's also one of the
ideas we can use for how we are reforming the department for the reform committee.
cdm
From: Ross, Alec J [mailto:RossA.1@state.gov]

Sullivan, Jacob 3
Cc: Toiv, Nora F
Subject: 624,000 more hours of productivity at State
Cheryl/Jake:
We're going to forward with the doubling of mobile access to email and productivity tools. It's INSANE that
fewer than 1 in 5 state Department are able to access their email or documents when they're away from their
desk. It has contributed to the 9:00-5:00 culture here and exacerbates the disconnection between D.C. and the
missions. This is a good short-term win and by my estimates will produce new fewer than 624,000 more hours
of productivity by end of year one which I think is extremely conservative it assumes just 1.5 additional hour
online per employee per week. Given that those being given the tools are principally foreign service officers
and people more senior than the mean average DoS employee, I think this is very reasonable. Will put an
evaluative instrument into this to see if I'm correct. More detail on all this below if you want it.
I should point out that Pat Kennedy and the CIO have been great. This has been one of several instances
where they listened, they got it, and they're moving forward. The CIO said she'd thought of it before, just
didn't know if she could handle the politics. I'm not going to spend a ton of time on our "corporate IT" but in
obvious cases like this I'll keep jumping in.
Last thing --- this idea got a lot of attention on The Sounding Board. I propose that HRC respond to the staff
(maybe in a quick 60 second video that we post there) saying in effect - Thank you for sharing your thinking. I
heard you. Because of you we're doing this.
Re-enforce that HRC is still listening to the staff.
From: Swart, Susan H

To: Ross, Alec J
Subject: Fobs for Everyone
Alec,
I met with Pat today and we did discuss expansion of the fob program. He is supportive and asked
that we do a decision memo to him. WE need this get decision on funding and longer term strategy
but I don't see this as slowing down an announcement the Secretary might make, we just need to
coordinate timing. Attached is what we are using as the basis for the decision memo. It is more
detail than you need but highlights some of the complexities. If you have any questions please let
me know. Susan
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sure -- bottom line - you need a special security code to get on line from a computer outside the building. Only 1 in 5 of
our employees has gotten the device (fob) that allows you to do this access.
This effort is making sure they get fobs into the hands of more (or all) employees so folks can work from home thereby
increasing productivity substantially since the 4 in 5 essentially do no work from home once they leave the building until
they get in again b/c they don't have access to their email.
cdm
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Sounds great but you'll have to explain to me!
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Subject: FW: 624,000 more hours of productivity at State
FYI - we're going to get a short video from you that we'll put on our site announcing this. It's also one of the ideas we
can use for how we are reforming the department for the reform committee.
cdm
From: Ross, Alec .1 [mailto:RossAi@state.gov]

; Sullivan, Jacob
Cc: Toiv, Nora F
Cheryl/Jake:
We're going to forward with the doubling of mobile access to email and productivity tools. It's INSANE that fewer than 1
in 5 state Department are able to access their email or documents when they're away from their desk.
It has contributed to the 9:00-5:00 culture here and exacerbates the disconnection between D.C. and the missions. This
is a good short-term win and by my estimates will produce new fewer than 624,000 more hours of productivity by end
of year one which I think is extremely conservative - it assumes just 1.5 additional hour online per employee per week.
Given that those being given the tools are principally foreign service officers and people more senior than the mean
average DoS employee, I think this is very reasonable. Will put an evaluative instrument into this to see if I'm correct.
More detail on all this below if you want it.
I should point out that Pat Kennedy and the CIO have been great. This has been one of several instances where they
listened, they got it, and they're moving forward. The CIO said she'd thought of it before, just didn't know if she could
handle the politics. I'm not going to spend a ton of time on our "corporate IT" but in obvious cases like this I'll keep
jumping in.
Last thing --- this idea got a lot of attention on The Sounding Board. I propose that HRC respond to the staff (maybe in a
quick 60 second video that we post there) saying in effect - Thank you for sharing your thinking. I heard you. Because of
you we're doing this.

To: Ross, Alec J
Alec,
I met with Pat today and we did discuss expansion of the fob program. He is supportive and asked that we do a
decision memo to him. WE need this get decision on funding and longer term strategy but I don't see this as slowing
down an announcement the Secretary might make, we just need to coordinate
timing. Attached is what we are using as the basis for the decision memo.
It is more detail than you need but highlights some of the complexities.
If you have any questions please let me know. Susan
<<Fobs for Everyone short (1).docx>>
Susan H. Swart
Department of State
(202) 647-2889
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fixed.
speaking with Paul - just blind copied you on something re: global health.
otherwise, rest will keep.
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Got it. Is the other matter fixed. Anything else going on?
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cdm
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From: Ross, Alec J [mailto:RossAi@state.gov]

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Cheryl/Jake:
I should point out that Pat Kennedy and the CO have been great. This has been one of several instances where they
jumping in.

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Alec,
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sbwhoeop
Euro election UK predictable shock
Labour finishes third behind the far right UK Independence Party. Labour percent just below 16. Sid
A Good Credit Score is 700 or Above. See yours in just 2 easy steps!
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Cheryl,
I need to see her alone. I won't be talking about the speech.
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FW: Saberi family wheels up
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Colleagues, FYI.
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We have confirmation from the Swiss that the Saberi family has left Tehran.
Elisa -
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FYI, Phil was confirmed by the Senate this evening.
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Fw: 1 page trip report from china, korea, and rome
China.Korea.Rome Trip Report6.7.09.docx
See AMS trip summary WI

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There are lots of longer cables out of this trip, but these are my dominant impressions.
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From: Anne-Marie Slaughter

To: Slaughter, Anne-Marie
Sent: Sun Jun 07 07:15:04 2009
Subject: 1 page trip report
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Trip Report: Shanghai, Beijing, Seoul, Rome

Anne-Marie Slaughter
Shanghai: I was driven around the expo site and saw how far advanced the Chinese pavilion is, also the Canadian and
Brazilian pavilions that are facing and adjacent to us, and many spectacular European pavilions. In addition to the
overwhelming size and grandeur of the expo site as a whole it will be like the New York World's Fair on steroids what
struck me is that we must also hold up our end with the many visitors who will be coming from the Americas. The video
of the history of world expositions that plays in the Shanghai exposition building and will help open the expo itself is a
visual of rising American power repeated expos in the 19th and 20th centuries in New York, Chicago, St. Louis, San
Francisco and other American cities. Expos are the soft power Olympics and hence a key part of smart power; we should
be willing to ask Congress for money and consider it extremely well spent in terms of building American power in the
world and cheap at the price.
I also had several meals and meetings with members of what I am coming to think of as "the American diaspora"
talented and entrepreneurial Chinese-Americans and Chinese raised/educated in America who have come back to China
to live on the economic frontier and who are spreading American values with them. They gave a very optimistic picture
of the Chinese economy.
1.4(D)
B1
Beijing: I had dinner with "new media figures"
In my official meetings on the S&ED we made real progress, getting the Chinese to agree to a closed meeting just with
the four principals and getting them to agree to consider a model of a joint statement that we will now provide; I made
very clear that a joint statement was critical to getting results. Later in the day we had a breakthrough with the Deputy
Minister of Commerce, who agreed to working level meetings and concrete "bottom-up" joint projects on development
assistance. His staff agreed to meet w/ the AID person at our embassy for the first time as the embassy said, clearly
the Chinese have decided to move forward w/ us on multiple fronts.
in
The most striking thing to emerge from many conversations with officials and academics in Shanghai and Beijing was
how often the G-2 was raised always in the context of "we don't believe in the G-2, but ..." One official said "we can
just take away the 'G' and leave the '2.' I was at pains to emphasize that the U.S. has no interest in a G-2,
Seoul: a conversation with faculty and the dean of the school of international studies at Ewa University revealed a
perception that "China does not object to a nuclear-armed DPRK because that would prevent reunification permanently,
as Japan and China itself would never agree to a nuclear reunited Korea." Talks with my Japanese and Korean
yielded dgreement
1.4(B)
The Japanese raised and the Koreans welcomed the prospect of China-U.S.-Korea talks to match the new 1.4(D)
China-U.S.-Japan talks. Both the Koreans and the Japanese raised the idea of an "Asian G-8" U.S., China, Japan, Russia, gi
Korea, Australia, India, and one other .." I raised the idea of convening the Asian members of the G-20 plus us, which
would include all those countries plus Indonesia.
Rome: I met with my G-8 counterparts over dinner and then w/ G-8 policy planners plus representatives from South
Africa, Mexico, Brazil, and Egypt. The G-8 discussion yielded strong agreement that responsibility for outcomes should be
a key determinant of who gets to sit at the table, although the Germans and Italians want to expand the core
"convening" group to at least the G-8 plus the Heiligendamm 5. Canada, France, Britain and Japan very much liked my
tentatively floated idea that each G-8 member be able to decide as host which other countries to invite as full members,
B1
did not even bother to send a Romedepending on the problem chosen as the focus of the agenda. Strikingly,
based representative to the talks the next day, underlining my point that some of these countries really are not ready 1.4(D)
representative, a truly impressive director general in their
for regular responsibility for global issues. The
was
not
pushing
for
a
G-13,
as
it
felt
uncomfortable
being anointed when so many African
DFA, said
mbassador to
countries were not represented. In the substantive discussion of Af-Pak and central Asia, the
Rome emphasized that the Rio Group was taking a political position on Af-Pak as a sign of increasing hemispheric
engagement with the outside world.
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Trip Report; Shanghai, Beijing, Seoul, Rome

Shanghai: I was driven around the expo site and saw how far advanced the Chinese pavilion is, also
the Canadian and Brazilian pavilions that are facing and adjacent to us, and many spectacular
European pavilions. In addition to the overwhelming size and grandeur of the expo site as a whole it will be like the New York World's Fair on steroids - what struck me is that we must also hold up
our end with the many visitors who will be coming from the Americas. The video of the history of
world expositions that plays in the Shanghai exposition building and will help open the expo itself is
a visual of rising American power - repeated expos in the 19th and 20th centuries in New York,
Chicago, St. Louis, San Francisco and other American cities. Expos are the soft power Olympics and
hence a key part of smart power; we should be willing to ask Congress for money and consider it
extremely well spent in terms of building American power in the world - and cheap at the price.
I also had several meals and meetings with members of what I am coming to think of as "the
American cliaspora" - talented and entrepreneurial Chinese-Americans and Chinese raised/educated
in America who have come back to China to live on the economic frontier - and who are spreading
American values with them. They gave a very optimistic picture of the Chinese economy.
Reiiincr T had dinner with "new merlin firniren"
1.4(D)
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In my official meetings on the

S&ED we made real progress, getting the Chinese to agree to a dosed meeting just with the four
principals and getting them to agree to consider a model of a joint statement that we will now
provide; I made very clear that a joint statement was critical to getting results. Later in the day we
had a breakthrough with the Deputy Minister of Commerce, who agreed to working level meetings
and concrete "bottom-up" joint projects on development assistance. His staff agreed to meet w/ the
AID person at our embassy for the first time - as the embassy said, clearly the Chinese have decided
to move forward w/ us on multiple fronts.
The most striking thing to emerge from many conversations with officials and academics in
Shanghai and Beijing was how often the G-2 was raised - always in the context of "we don't believe
in the G-2, but ..." One official said "we can just take away the 'G' and leave the `2.' I was at pains
to emphasize that the U.S. has no interest in a G-2,
Seoul: a conversation with faculty and the dean of the school of international studies at Ewa
University revealed a perception that "China does not object to a nuclear-armed DPRK because that
would prevent reunification permanently, as Japan and China itself would never agree to a nuclear
reunited Korea." Talks with my Japanese and Korean
I yielded agreement
The
Japanese raised and the Koreans welcomed the prospect of China-U.S.-Korea talks to match the
new China-U.S.-Japan talks. Both the Koreans and the Japanese raised the idea of an "Asian G-8" U.S., China, Japan, Russia, Korea, Australia, India, and one other .." I raised the idea of convening
the Asian members of the G-20 plus us, which would include all those countries plus Indonesia.
1.4(B)
1.4(D)
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1.4(D)
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Rome: I met with my G-8 counterparts over dinner and then w/ G-8 policy planners plus
representatives from South Africa, Mexico, Brazil, and Egypt. The G-8 discussion yielded strong
agreement that rriponsibiliy for outcomes should be a key determinant of who gets to sit at the table,
although the Germans and Italians want to expand the core "convening" group to at least the G-8
plus the Heiligendarrim 5. Canada, France, Britain and Japan very much liked my tentatively floated
idea that each G-8 member be able to decide as host which other countries to invite as full
did not
members, depending on the problem chosen as the focus of the agenda. Strikingly,
even bother to send a Rome-based representative to the talks the next day, underlining my point that
some of these countries really are not ready for regular responsibility for global issues. The
representative, a truly impressive director general in their DFA, said
was not
pushing for a G-13, as it felt uncomfortable being anointed when so many African countries were
not represented. In the substantive discussion of Af-Pak and central Asia, the
ambassador
to Rome emphasized that the Rio Group was taking a political position on Af-Pak as a sign of
increasing hemispheric engagement with the outside world.
1.4(D)
B1
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Friday, May 15, 2009 7:22 AM
H
Abedin, Huma
Today, 5/15/09 is her birthday.
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Fw: DPRK Reportedly Sentences U.S. Journalists
From: OpsAlert
Sent: Mon Jun 08 00:49:39 2009
Subject: DPRK Reportedly Sentences U.S. Journalists
(SBU) DPRK's state news agency has reported the country's top court has convicted two U.S. journalists and
sentenced them to 12 years in labor prison. The two were convicted of an unspecified "grave crime" against the
nation and of illegally crossing into the DPRK, according to media. The Operations Center is working to gather
additional information.
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Friday, May 15, 2009 10:08 PM
Calls tomorrow
Want to give you an update on the calls you requested. The ones confirmed are:
- Philippine Foreign Secretary Romulo confirmed for 900am. No translator needed.
- Thai FM Kasit confirmed for right after. No translator needed.
Waiting on indonesia. I left u call sheet and bios on your desk before I left. Ops will call the house.
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All 3 calls confirmed
All speak english. Ops will connect.

In order are:
- 9am: Philippine Foreign Secretary Romulo.
- 9:15am: Indonesian FM Wirajuda.
- 9:30am: Thai FM Kasit
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Office of the Press Secretary
May 16, 2009
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Statement by the Press Secretary
President Obama congratulates India on its historic national elections. By successfully

completing the largest exercise of popular voting in the world, the elections have strengthened
India's vibrant democracy and upheld the values of freedom and pluralism that make India an
example for us all.
While the world awaits the formation of a new government in India based on the elections result,
the United States recognizes the significance of the election for the people of India, who remain
the strength and foundation for India's prosperity and democracy.
President Obama looks forward to working with the new Indian Prime Minister, once he has
taken office, to continue and enhance the warm partnership between our two countries.
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Re: All 3 calls confirmed
No additional call sheets for them. You have the bios for them which have their names and pronounciation.
Original Message
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Sent: Sat May 16 06:41:01 2009
Subject: Re: All 3 calls confirmed
Will I get info/names for Philipines and Indonesia?
Original Message
To: H
Sent: Sat May 16 00:27:39 2009
Subject: All 3 calls confirmed
All speak english. Ops will connect.
In order are:
- 9am: Philippine Foreign Secretary Romulo.
- 9:15am: Indonesian FM Wirajuda.
- 9:30am: Thai FM Kasit
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Re: Are you still here
I called house and got vm

I came to ny last night
Have a few things for you
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Sent: Sat May 16 07:13:20 2009
Subject: Are you still here
Or already in NY? Pls call me when you can. Thx.
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Re: Are you still here
I sent call sheet for indonesia for marina to give you.

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To: 'hdr22@clintonemail.com' <hdr22@clintonemail.com>
Sent: Sat May 16 08:24:07 2009
Subject: Re: Are you still here
I called house and got vm
I came to ny last night
Have a few things for you
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Sent: Sat May 16 07:13:20 2009
Subject: Are you still here
Or already in NY? Pls call me when you can. Thx.
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Fw: DPRK AMCIT DETENTIONS CONFERENCE CALL
Precursor to earlier email I sent you
From: Tong, Kurt W

To: Mills, Cheryl D; Burns, William 3; Sullivan, Jacob 3; Abedin, Huma; Crocker, Bathsheba N
Cc: Park, Pamela P; Tesoner Mark; Davies, Glyn T; Arvizu, Alex A; Kim, Sung Y; Kim, Yuri 3; Richardson, Eric N; Ohtagaki,
Johna 0; 'Bader, Jeffrey A.'
'Russel, Daniel R.'
Cormack, Maureen E
Sent: Fri May 15 19:20:56 2009
Subject: DPRK AMCTI" DETENTIONS CONFERENCE CALL
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B1
CA/OCS and EAP/K held a one-hour conference call today with the families of the detained journalists. During
the call, we briefed the families on the Swedish Ambassador's consular visit with Ms. Ling and Ms. Lee on May
15;
recent progress on efforts to arrange
the release of the two women; an update on the proposed letter from the Secretary;
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1.4(D)
B1
Media: Although the families have thus far shown restraint from approaching the media to publicize their
story, they are increasingly anxious in response to the DPRK's announcement of a June 4 trial date. They now
feel that a media appeal is necessary and would be helpful to their case, citing the public attention given the
Saberi case. They are considering doing interviews on Larry King Live and/or The O'Reilly Factor.
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Sullivan, JacobJ <SullivanJJ@state.gov>

Re: Let me clarify my prior email
My apologies I was offline this morning. We will get you that document.
Original Message
To: Sullivan, Jacob
Sent: Sat May 16 08:18:41 2009
Subject: Let me clarify my prior email
There are Qs+As thru out the briefing book but not yet a document of the most likely/contentious ones. That's what I'm
looking to get next week. Thx.
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Fw: Sri Lanka update
Importance:
High
From: Rana, Gautam A

To: Steinberg, James B
Cc: Scanlon, Amy B; Crocker, Bathsheba N; Sullivan, Jacob J
Sent: Sat May 16 12:31:22 2009
Subject: Sri Lanka update
1.4(B)
1.4(D)
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Sir,
Gautam
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FW: NYTimes - Utah Governor to Become Ambassador to China
fvi
From: Mesquita, Mario M
Sent: Saturday, May 16, 2009 10:33 AM
To: Piccuta, Daniel; SWO; NEWS-Mahogany; NEWS-EAP
Subject: NYTimes - Utah Governor to Become Ambassador to China
Utah Governor to Become Ambassador to China

By Jeff Zeleny
Updated President Obama on Saturday selected one of the nation's leading Republican governors to serve as
the ambassador to China, nominating Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman for the diplomatic post that Mr. Obama called
"as important as any in the world."
"We will launch a new era of partnership between our two nations that will advance our shared dreams of
opportunity and security in America, in Asia and around the world," Mr. Obama said. "I can think of no more
important assignment than creating the kinds of bridges between our two countries that will determine the well
being not just of Americans and Chinese, but also the future of the world."
In a morning announcement at the White House, Mr. Huntsman stood at the president's side in the Diplomatic
Room and accepted the position that he said came as a surprise. As a co-chairman of Senator John McCain's
presidential campaign last year, Mr. Huntsman said he did not expect to be "called into action by the person
who beat us."
Mr. Huntsman, 49, learned to speak Mandarin Chinese from his days as a Mormon missionary in Taiwan. He
has worked in two Bush administrations, serving as the ambassador to Singapore in the final year of George
H.W. Bush's term and as a deputy United States trade ambassador for George W. Bush.
For Mr. Obama, whose advisers already have their eyes set on his re-election in 2012, the selection of Mr.
Huntsman is something of a political coup. He has emerged as one of the nation's most visible Republican
governors and was expected to at least consider seeking his party's presidential nomination to run against Mr.
Obama.
"In the breadth of issues at stake, this ambassadorship is as important as any in the world," Mr. Obama said. "I
believe there is much to be gained from a closer working relationship with China, but improved relationships
will require candor on issues in which we don't always agree."
As the Republican Party forges through a period of reinvention, Mr. Huntsman has been a leading voice for the
direction of the party. He has been a political moderate on issues like immigration, gay rights and the
environment, even though he represented one of the most conservative states in the country.
It was far from certain whether Mr. Huntsman would have actually sought the Republican presidential
nomination his centrist views could have created a challenge in early-voting states but if he is confirmed by
the Senate for the ambassadorship to China, he is part of the Obama team at a time when China is of critical
importance. And he is out of the mix in the 2012 presidential race.
"When the president of the United States asks you to step up and serve in a capacity like this, that to me is the
end of the conversation and the beginning of the obligation to rise to the challenge," said Mr. Huntsman, who
was joined by his wife Mary Kaye, and the couple's seven children, one of whom was adopted from China.
The courtship of Mr. Huntsman was overseen by the White House Chief of Staff, Ralun Emanuel, who met with
him last Saturday when the governor was in town for the White House Correspondent's dinner. Mr. Obama also
spoke to Mr. Huntsman, aides said, and was impressed by his experience and views on China.
"Governor Huntsman has respect for China's proud traditions," Mr. Obama said Saturday. "He understands
what it will take to make America more competitive in the 21st century and will be an unstinting advocate for
America's interests and ideals."
The nomination of Mr. Huntsman is the latest in a series of high-level Republican appointments in the Obama
administration. The president selected two Republicans to serve in his Cabinet, but aides said he was frustrated
when a third choice, Senator Judd Gregg, Republican of New Hampshire, withdrew his nomination as
Commerce Secretary.
Mr. Huntsman, who was elected to his second term of governor last year, intends to step down if he is
confirmed by the Senate.
"I hope the good people of Utah will forgive me and understand how proud they should be of their governor for
his willingness to serve," Mr. Obama said. "He always puts country ahead of himself. That's what Jon has
always done."
Mario Mesquita
Senior Watch Officer
202-647-1512
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Sunday, May 17, 2009 8:08 AM
I just faxed latest barnard draft for you to review.
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Sunday, May 17, 2009 9:06 AM
Fw: Philippine Burma Statement
Fyi
Original Message
From: Learned, George E
To: S_SpecialAssistants; Abedin, Huma
Cc: SES-O_Shift-11
Sent: Sun May 17 08:45:38 2009
Subject: FW: Philippine Burma Statement
Colleagues,
Per Mr. Gibbons request, please see below.
Best regards,
George Learned, Watch Officer
Original Message
From: Gibbons, Thomas B (Manila)
Sent: Sunday, May 17, 2009 8:35 AM
To: SES-0
Cc: Memmott, Larry L (Manila); Fernandez, Mario A (Manila); Thompson, Philip A (Manila); Schinnerer, Karen P (Manila);
Marcie!, Scot A; Lakhdhir, Kamala S; Kleine, Michael F; Burgwinkle, Kevin .1; Kenney, Kristie A (Manila)
Subject: Philippine Burma Statement
Ops - Following Secretary Clinton's call on Saturday, May 16, Philippine Foreign Secretary Alberto Romulo had the
Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) issue the following statement on Sunday, May 17. The statement is on the
Philippine DFA website. Much appreciated if you would inform S staff and other appropriate folk:
Philippine Statement:
The Philippine Government is deeply troubled and outraged over the filing of trumped up charges against Daw Aung San
Suu Kyi and her transfer to Insein prison, particularly when concerns have been raised regarding her health condition.
These recent incidents will surely impede the process of national reconciliation and the Roadmap to Democracy in
Myanmar.
We urge the government of Myanmar to resolve the matter speedily, and to release Aung San Suu Kyi immediately and
unconditionally.
Regards
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Tom Gibbons
Political Counselor
U.S. Embassy Manila
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Sunday, May 17, 2009 10:06 AM
Re: Sri Lanke
I will be home in 15 minutes and can talk anytime.
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Subject: Sri Lanke
It sounds as tho the war may be over. I want to move on a few fronts that I'd like to discuss. Pls let me know when I can
call you--and what #. Thx.
lo
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Fw: Sri Lanka army: 3 Tamil Tiger leaders killed
Fyi
From: Davis, Timmy T

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Cc: SES-O_Shift-III
Sent: Sun May 17 23:05:26 2009
Subject: Sri Lanka army: 3 Tamil Tiger leaders killed
Colombo (AP) Sri Lanka's military says special forces have killed the head of the Tamil Tigers' political wing and two
other top leaders in the northern war zone. There has been no word yet on the whereabouts of the group's top leader,
Velupillai Prabhakaran. A senior military official says an attack Sunday night killed rebels' political wing leaders
Balasingham Nadesan, head of rebels' peace secretariat Seevaratnam Puleedevan and a military leader known as
Ramesh.
Tim Davis
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PVervee _
Sunday, May 17, 2009 11:31 AM
H2
abedinh@state.gov
women finally win in Kuwait!
4 women were elected to be members of parliament for the first time. As you remember (because you were an eloquent
voice for them), women finally won the right to vote and stand for office in 2005, but failed to win seats in the two previous
election cycles.
You know some of the women who won, including Rola Dashti, who was one of the women who got the Vital Voices
award and had been part of the long-time struggle.
I told Lissa. You might want to mention in your Barnard speech.
Recession-proof vacation ideas. Find free things to do in the U.S.
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Monday, May 18, 2009 7:46 AM
Today
I'm meeting you at first stop.

I told oscar to pack commencement robe unless u want to use barnards. We would have to take back to dc otherwise.
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Monday, May 18, 2009 8:17 AM
Calls
We have two calls for today:

-canadian fm wanting to discuss sri lanka
- qatar fm on burma.
You want to try and do on drives today? Or when we get back to office?
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Monday, May 18, 2009 8:51 AM
Abedin, Huma
8:00 am DEPART Private Residence

9:00 am En route UN Building
9:00 am ARRIVE UN Building
9:00 am "FOLLOWING IN HER FOOTSTEPS" BREAKFAST HONORING
10:00 am ELEANOR ROOSEVELT UN Delegates Dining Room, UN Building
10:00 am DEPART United Nations Building *En route OTR
10:30 am OTR
12:30 pm Location: Tbd
1:00 pm ARRIVE Barnard College
1:00 pm PULL-ASIDES w/PAOLA RAMOS AND KATE PYNOOS
1:10 pm Location Tbd
1:15 pm KEYNOTE ADDRESS AT BARNARD COLLEGE's 2009
2:30 pm COMMENCEMENT South Lawn, Columbia Campus
3:00 pm DEPART Barnard College *En route LaGuardia Airport
3:30 pm ARRIVE LaGuardia Airport (LGA)
4:00 pm DEPART LaGuardia Airport (LGA) via US Airways Shuttle #2181
5:16 pm ARRIVE Reagan National Airport
5:30 pm DEPART Reagan National Airport *En route State Department
5:45 pm MEETING w/CHERYL
6:30 pm State Department
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All your people.
They will start the program as soon as you get to your table.
All on with speech?
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Let's try on drives.
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They r starting now

I have speeches too, just checking to see if u have edits for barnard.
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I will get there in about 10 minutes so they could start the prelims. I have both speeches.
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Ok its a mob scene here
All your people.
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I did update a number of your contacts while you were at the FAPE dinner last Monday. They all were saved. I updated
them from what I have in my blackberry, so this is from memory, but there were probably more:
Philippe
Monica
Jake
Andrew
Melanne
Todd Stern
Steinberg
Jack Lew
Kris
Lissa
Pam
Tamera
Anne Marie Slaughter
Miguel R
Robert Wood
Rob Russo
Laura Pena
Heather Samuelson
I'm making a list of other building people you may not have, and I'll do them tonight when you are in Netenyahu dinner.
They include:
Ian Kelly
Dan Fried
Chris Hill
Glyn Davies
Jeff Feltman
Tom Shannon
Karen Stewart
Richard Greene
Michael PoIt
Joan Donoghue
Jim Thessin
Reno HArnish
Derek Chollet
Ed Lacey
George Mitchell
Stephen Bosworth
Dick Morningstar
Paul SeIva
Alec Ross
Dennis Ross
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Ali Rubin
Brent Scowcroft
Joe Macmanus
Megan Rooney
Tomicah Tilleman
Rich Verma
Margaret Carpenter
Courtney Beale
Christopher Bishop
Charles Stith
Neera
I hope this is a more comprehensive list.
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Which names did you put in? Maybe they didn't save. But I need a lot. Pls make a list and I will check and add if
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I'd like to set up call to Sonia Gandhi in next few days.
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For: Hillary
From: Sid
Re: Latest articles on Iranian election fraud and CIA/torture
1. I've copied below texts of three articles you might not have seen. The first, by Juan Cole,
leading expert from University of Michigan on Iraq/Iran, lays out evidence so far on the
stolen election. Second, I've included the key graphs from Bill Keller's piece today in the
Times on same. And, third, Jane Mayer's article in the new issue of The New Yorker, out
tomorrow. (She sent me a digital copy.) The piece includes an interview with Panetta,
who himself discloses the internal administration debatehe was initially for a
commission but was overruled by Rabin and Axelrod.
2. On the Iranian election, the international press will obviously pursue the story of the
rigging of the vote, which will damage the legitimacy of regime. It's clear from reports
that even the Iranian man-on-the-street is affected by global public opinion and receives
international news through a wide variety of media. Ahmadinejad post-election continues
to ratchet up paranoia to consolidate support. After his statement and post-Bibi today,
there may be a remark to be made to address and defuse paranoia. If anything, whatever
the facts about the integrity of democracy in Iran, there is more reason than ever for all
sides to dispense with the politics of paranoia and discover that there are overriding
shared interests for peace, etc. But when to say anything depends upon how long to let
internal bitterness over the aftermath in Iran to simmer and the pressure from press for a
statement from you.
3. Jane Mayer's piece details the many moving and uncontrolled parts of the torture debate,
which has become chronic and will flare up again and again. The "distraction" will not go
away. I would avoid ever being drawn into commenting on any aspect.
4. One additional thought: The Iranian election points to the truism that things can
potentially go awry. Building up "the brand" of the president as the solvent for entangled
and often intractable diplomatic crises creates the basis for an opposite reaction. Raised
expectations can foster even greater disillusionment. After Lebanon's election, the US
press built up the magic of the brand as the new dynamic factor causing change. So
there's a fine line here to be walked. I would attribute positive changes or movements to
those people making them themselves, to the extent US commendation does not injure
their causes, and underline that a new global community will serve those and their
nation's interests who participate as active and responsible actors. But to reemphasize:
the danger of attributing any and all change in the world to presidential charisma is that
the bad will get assigned as well as the good.
http://www.truthoutorg/061409Z
Stealing the Iranian Election

Saturday 13 June 2009
by: Juan Cole I Visit article original @ Informed Comment
Top Pieces of Evidence that the Iranian Presidential Election Was Stolen
1.It is claimed that Ahmadinejad won the city of Tabriz with 57%. His main opponent, Mir
Hossein Mousavi, is an Azeri from Azerbaijan province, of which Tabriz is the capital. Mousavi,
according to such polls as exist in Iran and widespread anecdotal evidence, did better in cities
and is popular in Azerbaijan. Certainly, his rallies there were very well attended. So for an Azeri
urban center to go so heavily for Ahmadinejad just makes no sense. In past elections, Azeris
voted disproportionately for even minor presidential candidates who hailed from that province.
2. Ahmadinejad is claimed to have taken Tehran by over 50%. Again, he is not popular in the
cities, even, as he claims, in the poor neighborhoods, in part because his policies have produced
high inflation and high unemployment. That he should have won Tehran is so unlikely as to raise
real questions about these numbers. [Ahmadinejad is widely thought only to have won Tehran in
2005 because the pro-reform groups were discouraged and stayed home rather than voting.)
3. It is claimed that cleric Mehdi Karoubi, the other reformist candidate, received 320,000
votes, and that he did poorly in Iran's western provinces, even losing in Luristan. He is a Lur and
is popular in the west, including in Kurdistan. Karoubi received 17 percent of the vote in the first
round of presidential elections in 2005. While it is possible that his support has substantially
declined since then, it is hard to believe that he would get less than one percent of the vote.
Moreover, he should have at least done well in the west, which he did not.
4. Mohsen Rezaie, who polled very badly and seems not to have been at all popular, is alleged
to have received 670,000 votes, twice as much as Karoubi.
5. Ahmadinejad's numbers were fairly standard across Iran's provinces. In past elections there
have been substantial ethnic and provincial variations.
6. The Electoral Commission is supposed to wait three days before certifying the results of the
election, at which point they are to inform Khamenei of the results, and he signs off on the
process. The three-day delay is intended to allow charges of irregularities to be adjudicated. In

this case, Khamenei immediately approved the alleged results.
I am aware of the difficulties of catching history on the run. Some explanation may emerge for
Ahmadinejad's upset that does not involve fraud. For instance, it is possible that he has gotten the
credit for spreading around a lot of oil money in the form of favors to his constituencies, but
somehow managed to escape the blame for the resultant high inflation.
But just as a first reaction, this post-election situation looks to me like a crime scene. And here
is how I would reconstruct the crime.
As the real numbers started coming into the Interior Ministry late on Friday, it became clear
that Mousavi was winning. Mousavi's spokesman abroad, filmmaker Mohsen Makhbalbaf.,
alleges > that the ministry even contacted Mousavi's camp and said it would begin preparing the
population for this victory. The ministry must have informed Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei,
who has had a feud with Mousavi for over 30 years, who found this outcome unsupportable.
And, apparently, he and other top leaders had been so confident of an Ahmadinejad win that they
had made no contingency plans for what to do if he looked as though he would lose.
They therefore sent blanket instructions to the Electoral Commission to falsify the vote counts.
This clumsy cover-up then produced the incredible result of an Ahmadinejad landlside in
Tabriz and Isfahan and Tehran.
The reason for which Rezaie and Karoubi had to be assigned such implausibly low totals was
to make sure Ahmadinejad got over 51% of the vote and thus avoid a run-off between him and
Mousavi next Friday, which would have given the Mousavi camp a chance to attempt to rally the
public and forestall further tampering with the election.
This scenario accounts for all known anomalies and is consistent with what we know of the
major players.
More in my column, just out, in Salon.com: More in my column, just out, in Salon.com:
"Ahmadinejad reelected under cloud of fraud," where I argue that the outcome of the presidential
elections does not and should not affect Obama's policies toward that country - they are the right
policies and should be followed through on regardless.
The public demonstrations against the result don't appear to be that big. In the past decade,
reformers have always backed down in Iran when challenged by hardliners, in part because no
one wants to relive the horrible Great Terror of the 1980s after the revolution, when factionfighting produced blood in the streets. Mousavi is still from that generation.
My own guess is that you have to get a leadership born after the revolution, who does not
remember it and its sanguinary aftermath, before you get people willing to push back hard
against the rightwingers.
So, there are protests against an allegedly stolen election. The Basij paramilitary thugs and the
Iranian Revolutionary Guards will break some heads. Unless there has been a sea change in Iran,
the theocrats may well get away with this soft coup for the moment. But the regime's legitimacy
will take a critical hit, and its ultimate demise may have been hastened, over the next decade or
two.
What I've said is full of speculation and informed guesses. I'd be glad to be proved wrong on
several of these points. Maybe I will be.
PS: Here's the data:
So here is what Interior Minister Sadeq Mahsouli said Saturday about the outcome of the
Iranian presidential elections:
"Of 39,165,191 votes counted (85 percent), Mahmoud Ahmadinejad won the election with
24,527,516 (62.63 percent)."
He announced that Mir-Hossein Mousavi came in second with 13,216,411 votes (33.75
percent).
Mohsen Rezaei got 678,240 votes (1.73 percent)
Mehdi Karroubi with 333,635 votes (0.85 percent).
He put the void ballots at 409,389 (1.04 percent).
http://vvww.nytimes.com/2009/06/14/world/middleeast/14memo.html? r=l&hp
Memo From Tehran
Reverberations as Door Slams on Hope of Change

By Bill Keller
On the street, the speculation focused more on how the election was manipulated, as many voters
insisted it must have been for Mr. Ahmadinejad to score such a preposterous margin of victory.
One version (from somebody's brother who supposedly knew someone inside) had it that vote
counters simply were ordered to doctor the numbers: "Make that 1,000 for Ahmadinejad a
3,000."
Others pointed out that the ballots seemed designed to lead opposition voters astray. Voters were
obliged to choose a candidate and fill in a code. Though Mr. Moussavi was candidate No. 4, the
code No. 44 signified Mr. Ahmadinejad.
One employee of the Interior Ministry, which carried out the vote count, said the government
had been preparing its fraud for weeks, purging anyone of doubtful loyalty and importing pliable
staff members from around the country.
"They didn't rig the vote," claimed the man, who showed his ministry identification card but
pleaded not to be named. "They didn't even look at the vote. They just wrote the name and put
the number in front of it."
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the political scene
the secret h istory

Can Leon Panetta move the CIA. forward without confronting its past?
BY JANEMAYER
he Central Intelligence Agency
typically fights distant enemies, but

on May 21st its leaders were preoccupied
with a local opponent. A few miles
from the agency's headquarters, which
are in Langley, Virginia, former VicePresident Dick Cheney delivered an extraordinary
attack on the Obama Administration's
emerging national-security
policies. Cheney, speaking at the American
Enterprise Institute, accused the
new Administration of making "the
American people less safe" by banning
brutal C.I.A. interrogations of terrorism
suspects that had been sanctioned by the
Bush Administration. Ruling out such
interrogations "is unwise in the extreme,"
Cheney charged. "It is recklessness
cloaked in righteousness."
Leon Panetta, the C.I.A.'s new director-
and the man who bears much of the
responsibility for keeping the country
safelearned the details of Cheney's
speech when he arrived in his office, on
the seventh floor of the agency's headquarters.
An hour earlier, he had been
standing at the side of President Barack
Obama, who was giving a speech at the
National Archives, in which he argued
that America could "fight terrorism while
abiding by the rule of law." In January,
the Obama Administration banned the
"enhanced" techniques that the Bush
Administration had approved for the
agency, including waterboarding and
depriving prisoners of sleep for up to
eleven days. Panetta, pouring a cup of
coffee, responded to Cheney's speech
with surprising candor. "I think he smells
some blood in the water on the nationalsecurity
issue," he told me. "It's almost, a

little bit, gallows politics. When you read
behind it, it's almost as if he's wishing
that this country would be attacked again,
in order to make his point. I think that's
dangerous politics."
Panetta was also absorbing criticism
from the left. The day before, a group of
progressive human-rights advocates had
been given an off-the-record briefing
with Obama, where they discussed his
plans for handling terrorism suspects;
some of the advocates were enraged at
what they saw as a tacit continuation of
the Bush approach. According to a participant,
Obama warned the group that
such comparisons were "not helpful."
Nevertheless, Kenneth Roth, the executive
director of Human Rights Watch,
who also attended the briefing, went on
to denounce the Administration for considering
"preventive detention"incarcerating
certain terror suspects indefinitely,
without trial. Obama's position, Roth
said, "mimics the Bush Administration's
abusive approach."
Since January, the C.I.A. has become
the focus of almost daily struggle, as
Obama attempts to restore the rule of
law in America's fight against terrorism
without sacrificing safety or losing the
support of conservative Democratic and
independent voters. So far, he has insisted
on trying to recalibrate the agency's
policies without investigating past mistakes
or holding anyone responsible for
them. Caught in the middle is Panetta,
who is seventy years old and has virtually
no experience in the intelligence field.
Indeed, his credentials for running the
world's foremost spy agency are so unlikely
that when John Podesta, the head
of Obama's transition team, asked him to
take the job he responded, "Are you
sure?" Podesta assured Panetta that his
outsider status was actually an advantage:
"He said, 'You don't carry the scars of the
past eight years. Besides, the President
wants somebody who will talk straight to
him on these issues.' "
Although Panetta served briefly in the
military, half a century ago, his reputation
has been built almost entirely on his
mastery of domestic policy. For sixteen

years, he was a Democratic congressman
from his home town, Monterey, California.
In 1989, he became the chairman of
the House Budget Committee, making
him a natural choice as President Bill
Clinton's first budget director. In 1994,
he became Clinton's chief of staff.
Panetta, the son of Italian immigrants,
grew up washing dishes in his parents' restaurant.
He is disarmingly forthright,
with an easy laugh; he is also a stern disciplinarian
and a workaholic. Colleagues
say that Panetta, who attends Mass regularly,
can be principled to the point of rigidity.
It was partly Panetta's rectitude
that got him the C.I.A. job. During the
Bush years, he decried the country's loss
of moral authority; in a blunt essay for
Washington Monthly last year, he declared
that Americans had been transformed
"from champions of human dignity and
individual rights into a nation of armchair
torturers." He concluded, "We either believe
in the dignity of the individual, the
rule of law, and the prohibition of cruel
and unusual punishment, or we don't.
There is no middle ground."
Panetta's impassioned essay unexpectedly
became an asset during the
Obama transition, after John Brennan
the initial candidate for C.I.A.
directorwas pressured to withdraw.
Critics accused Brennan, who had been
a top agency official during the Bush
years, of complicity with the torture
program. (A friend of Brennan's from
his C.I.A. days complained to me,
"After a few Cheeto-eating people in
the basement working in their underwear
who write blogs voiced objections
to Brennan, the Obama Administration pulled his name at the first sign of
smoke, and then ruled out a whole class
of people: anyone who had been at the
agency during the past ten years couldn't
pass the blogger test.")
Panetta had one other strong qualification:
he was close to Rahm Emanuel,
the new chief of staff. During the
Clinton Administration, Emanuel, serving
as the White House political director,
was suspected by former First Lady
Hillary Clinton and others of leaking

steve brodner
Panetta has no C.I.A. experience, but, an ex-officer says, it's not "a bad thing to have a powerful guy
with access to the President."
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information, and was very nearly fired.

Emanuel entered what he calls his "wilderness
period." When Panetta became
chief of staff, however, he reinstated
Emanuel as a top aide. "I thought he
had a lot of street smarts and good political
sense," Panetta told me.
In 1994, Panetta discovered, to his
dismay, that the President had quietly
turned to Dick Morris, a political consultant
with a dubious ethical reputation.
Harold Ickes, a former White
House aide, recalls Panetta walking the
halls late one night and saying that he
needed a shower after attending a meeting
with Morris. Later, a tabloid newspaper
reported that Morris had been
meeting with a prostitute in a nearby
Washington hotel. In 1997, Panetta left
the White House, by mutual agreement;
he and his wife, Sylvia, founded
the nonpartisan Panetta Institute for
Public Policy, in Northern California.
In January, 1998, it was revealed that
Clinton had conducted an extramarital
affair with Monica LewinskyPanetta's
former intern. An associate described
Panetta then as "very disappointed
in Bill Clinton, because of
Monica Lewinsky. He saw him as a
man with no personal discipline."
Eleven years later, Barack Obama
called Panetta for advice on who might
make a good chief of staff. Panetta recommended
Emanuel, telling him that
"Rahm knows the Hill, he certainly
knows the White House, and he's got
the tough side" necessary for the job. In
January, Emanuel recommended Panetta
for the C.I.A. post. Emanuel said
of Panetta, "Leon has great judgment, a
great compass.,He's a great manager, and
he's trusted by both parties." (Panetta
was a Republican until 1971.) Some former
C.I.A. officers, such as Tyler Drumheller,
who retired in 2005 as the head of
clandestine operations in Europe, welcome
the choice. "It's not such a bad
thing to have a powerful guy with access
to the President," he told me. Panetta, he

predicted, "will restore the integrity of
the intelligence process. After what we've
been through on Iraq and torture allegations,
that's a big deal."
Michael Waldman, who was President
Clinton's chief speechwriter, and
who now runs the Brennan Center for
Justice, at the New York University
School of Law, describes Panetta as
"one of the more honorable, decent, and
principled people in government," but
considers it "amazing that he was such
an outspoken critic" of the agency.
Given Panetta's reputation for integrity,
and the C.I.A.'s central role in the interrogations
scandal, Waldman wondered,
"can he ride the tiger without
being eaten?" He added, "An agency
like that can turn on a director. That's
the challenge: he's got to both lead it
and reform it."
he record of outsiders taking over the
C.I.A. is mixed. John McCone, a

California shipping magnate who ran the
agency in the Kennedy and Johnson years,
is often cited as being among the most
successful directors; having been trained as
a mechanical engineer, he was skilled at
assessing threats posed by both conventional
and nuclear weapons. But other
outsiders have been met with intense hostility.
James Schlesinger was named C.I.A.
director by President Richard Nixon after
heading the Atomic Energy Commission.
Given instructions to "get rid of the
clowns," Schlesinger dismissed or forced
into retirement more than five hundred
analysts and a thousand clandestine
officers. He faced death threats, and his
tenure lasted six months. In 1995, President
Clinton appointed John Deutch,
who had previously served at the Pentagon.
Deutch tried to improve the oversight
of clandestine operatives after evidence
surfaced that an agent in Guatemala
had covered up two murders. Deutch was
reviled by many operatives, and he left the
agency after eighteen months. Eventually,
he was accused of mishandling classified
documents and stripped of his security
clearance. "You pick on the C.I.A. at your
own peril," Michael Waldman says.

Nevertheless, many critics believe
that the agency must reckon with the
legacy of the Bush era. In the past few
years, irrefutable evidence has emerged
that after 9/11 the agency lost its moral
bearings. A confidential Red Cross report
has come into public view, along
with formerly classified government
documents, leaving no doubt that the
agency subjected scores of terror suspects
to prolonged physical and psychological
cruelty. Officers shackled prisoners
for weeks in contorted positions;
chained them to the ceiling wearing
only diapers; exploited their phobias;
propelled them head first into walls. At
least three prisoners died.
Torture is a felony, and is sometimes
treated as a capital crime. The Convention
Against Torture, which America ratified
in 1994, requires a government to prosecute
all acts of torture; failure to do so is
considered a breach of international law.
The issue of torture assumed symbolic im-
"For God's sake, have some populist rage."

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portance during the 2008 campaign, and

when Obama took office many of his liberal
supporters expected him to hold the '
perpetrators of abuse accountable. Democratic
leaders in Congress pushed particularly
hard for action. Senator Carl Levin,
the chairman of the Armed Services Committee,
had investigated the military's role
in detention and interrogation abuse but
was kept by his committee's limited jurisdiction
from investigating the C.I.A.; he
urged the new Attorney General, Eric
Holder, to open an inquiry, saying, "There
needs to be an accounting of torture in this
country." Senator Patrick Leahy, the
chairman of the Judiciary Committee, argued
for the creation of an independent
"truth commission," which could grant
immunity to witnessesthus helping to
insulate the Obama Administration from
charges that it was exploiting the torture
issue for partisan gain.
The C.I.A.'s role in providing misleading
intelligence about the presence
of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq
has also provoked calls for reform. Senator

Dianne Feinstein, the new chairman
of the Intelligence Committee,
told me, "There's no vote that I regret
more than the vote to authorize war
with Iraq"; her vote was based on intelligence
that she describes as "flat wrong."
Feinstein went on, "I am absolutely determined
to reform the process of gathering
and analyzing intelligence."
As soon as Obama took office, he overturned
most aspects of the Bush Administration's
interrogation policy. He issued
an executive order banning inhumane
treatment of prisoners by any government
officials, and one closing the C.I.A.'s network
of secret "black site" prisons, which
stretched from Poland to Thailand. He
also vowed to close the military prison in
Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, where fourteen
former C.I.A. prisoners are being held.
But Obama's message has been uncharacteristically
muddled on the question of accountability.
He has said that Attorney
General Holder should be the one to decide
whether to take criminal action; he
has also said that he would support further
congressional investigation, as long as it
was done in a bipartisan fashion. At the
same time, he has signalled that he has no
appetite for "looking backwards," and in
late April, during a private White House
meeting with congressional leaders, he rejected
the idea of an outside truth commission.
In the meantime, Republicans
have seized the political initiative, expressing
grave concern about the plans to close
Guantanamo and transfer the prisoners to
U.S. facilities.
Tim Weiner, the author of "Legacy
of Ashes," a recent history of the C.I.A.,
says that Panetta is facing a series of
"unappetizing choices." Weiner believes
that the country is in a period similar to
the Watergate era, when a series of disturbing
state secretssuch as the existence
of the Phoenix Program, a C.I.A.supported initiative, in which the South
Vietnamese were alleged to have tortured
civiliansspilled out. Speaking of
Panetta, he said, "It can't be comfortable
for a man who said, 'This is un-American,'
to be put in the position of saying,
'Well, we hold no one accountable.'"
Panetta, whose conversation with me at

C.I.A. headquarters was his first
lengthy interview on the topic of abusive
interrogations, said that when he took
over the agency he "wanted to be damn
sure" that there was nobody on the payroll
who should be prosecuted for torture or
related crimes. He asked John Helgerson,
then the C.I.A.'s inspector general, to
conduct a review. In theory, the inspector
general is politically independent, and
therefore able to render unbiased judgments.
In 2004, Helgerson had written
a classified report on the C.I.A.'s secret
detention-and-interrogation program, in
which he questioned both the legality and
the effectiveness of the agency's brutally
coercive techniques. Panetta cited Helgerson's
"credibility" as a reason to trust his assessment.
According to Panetta, Helgerson,
who is not a lawyer, assured him that
no officer still at the agency had engaged
in actions that went beyond the legal
boundaries as they were understood during
the Bush years. Helgerson, who retired
from the agency in May, says he told
Panetta only that he was not aware of any
cases that merited prosecution, though
"continuing work was being done."
Panetta told me, "I'm going to give
people the benefit of the doubt. . . . If they
do the job that they're paid to do, I can't ask
for a hell of a lot more." His words echo
those of President Obama, who on April
16th promised immunity from prosecution
to any C.I.A. officer who relied on the
advice of legal counsel during the Bush
years. Jeffrey H. Smith, a former general
counsel to the C.I.A., points out that this
is a low standard, given that "what the Justice
Department approved was outrageous."
For example, for more than a century
the U.S. had prosecuted waterboarding
as a serious crime, and a ten-year prison
sentence was issued as recently as 1983. Indeed,
the memos authorizing interrogators
to torment prisoners clashed so glaringly
with international and U.S. law that some
of them were later withdrawn by lawyers in
Bush's own Justice Department.
Smith, who has advised Obama informally
on how to handle the C.I.A.'s legacy

of abuse, thinks that prosecutions are
not politically viable at this point, and
would in any case be unfair to officers who
thought they were adhering to the law.
And many Republicans, from Newt Gingrich
to John McCain, have argued that
pressing charges against government
officials would threaten morale and inhibit
risk-talcing at a time when the agency
faces wars on two fronts and a continuing
threat from Al Qaeda. The Harvard law
professor Laurence Tribe disagrees. "It's
hard not to do something to those who
performed the act," he says. "It's not beyond
the pale to imagine that even people
armed with legal opinions might be held
legally responsible for violating the criminal
law in the area of torture."
Panetta told me, "Frankly, I didn't
support these methods that were used,
or the legal justification for why they did
it. . . . I also believed if I were to take this
job it was about dealing with the threats
that are out there, and trying to really
bring the C.I.A. into a new chapter." He
said that once he felt confident that
there was no criminal liability inside the
agency he "didn't want to spend a lot of
time dealing with the past and what
mistakes were made."
It turns out, however, that Panetta initially
supported the creation of a truth
commission. "I'm not big on commissions,"
Panetta told me. "On the other
hand, I could see that it might make some
sense, frankly, to appoint a high-level
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commission, with somebody like Sandra

Day O'Connor, Lee Hamiltonpeople
like that." The appeal was that Obama
could delegate to others the legal problems
stemming from Bush Administration actions,
allowing him to focus on his ambitious
political agenda. "In the discussion
phase"early in the spring, before Obama
decided the issue"I was for it," Panetta
said. "Because every time a question came
up, you could basically say, 'The commission,
hopefully, is looking at this.' "But by
late April Obama had vetoed the idea,
fearing that it would look vindictive and,
possibly, inflame his predecessor. "It was
the President who basically said, 'If I do
this, it will look like I'm trying to go after
Cheney and Bush,' "Panetta said. "He just

didn't think it made sense. And then everybody
kind of backed away from it."
Ken Gude, an associate director at the
Center for American Progress, who specializes
in national-security issues, and who
has close ties to the White House, believes
that Obama's instinct, like Panetta's, was
to set up a truth commission of some sort.
"I think the political staff walked it back,"
he says. "They said it would be a distraction."
Obama's political advisers dread any
issue that could trigger a culture war and
diminish his support among independent
voters. They also see little advantage in
picking a fight with the C.I.A. But the decision
to discourage an accountability process,
Gude says, has backfired. The Administration
has lost control of the story, as
revelations about C.I.A. misdeeds have
continued to emerge through lawsuits and
the press. "It's now become the distraction
they wanted to avoid," Gude says. "The
White House briefings have been dominated
by questions about releasing documents
and photos." It's understandable, he
says, that Obama wouldn't want to spend
his energy on Bush's mistakes. But, he
warns, "they can't leave the impression that
they're trying to cover it up."
Panetta may not have scars from the

past eight years, but he is surrounded
by people who do. Some of his closest
advisers have connections to the torture
program. Panetta brought only one person
with him to the agency: Jeremy
Bash, the well-regarded former chief
counsel to the House Intelligence Committee,
who now serves as his chief of
staff. Phil Trounstine, a California-based
political consultant and analyst who has
known Panetta for years, says of him,
"Here's a guy who has been very critical
of the Bush world view, who has to enforce
a new set of guidelines and policies
by leading the same agency and the same
people as in the past."
Several of Panetta's top deputies worked
closely with George Tenet, the agency's
director from 1997 until 2004. Under
Tenet, the C.I.A. took the lead role in
fighting terrorism, and its officers became

the jailers, and sometimes the tormentors,
of many U.S.-held detainees. Tenet, who
is now a managing director of the investment
bank Allen & Company, has all but
disappeared from public sight in Washington.
He recently cancelled an appearance
scheduled at the Panetta Institute this
month. ("George has not wanted to do
stuff in front of a camera," Panetta noted.)
But in his 2007 memoir, "At the Center of
the Storm," Tenet defended the use of
"enhanced" interrogation techniques on
terror suspects, claiming that the information
they elicited had prevented other attacks
and saved American lives. (He also
assured President Bush that the case for
going to war in Iraq was "a slam dunk.")
But a former senior agency official who
worked with many of Tenet's top team
members says, "These people carried out
this policy. . . but they'll muddy the waters
by explaining why what they did was O.K.
They will say that 'Bush was bad' but they
weren't. A lot of it is just to protect their
own positions. It's amazing to me that all
these Tenet people survived!"
Behind Panetta's desknext to a
framed, tattered American flag that was
rescued from the ruins of the World
Trade Centeris a door leading to the
office of Stephen Kappes, whom Panetta
has kept on as the agency's second-incommand.
Kappes, a former U.S. marine,
is widely admired within the agency, in
particular for his role in persuading the
Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi to
abandon his nuclear-weapons program, in
2003. "Kappes is the case officer's case
officer," John Radsan, who was a lawyer at
the C.LA. during President Bush's first
term, says. Intense, serious, and fluent in
Russian and Farsi, Kappes has served as a
station chief in Moscow, New Delhi, and
Frankfurt, and has supervised many clandestine
operations. In April, President
Obama paid a visit to C.I.A. headquarters and singled out Kappes as the wise
"graybeard" in the building. Senator Feinstein insisted to Obama Administration
officials privately that Kappes continue as
deputy director; it was a condition of her
support for Panetta, whose lack of experience
in covert operations she questioned.

During the first term of the Bush Administration,
Kappes was a top official
in the Directorate of Operations. This
group oversaw the agency's Counterterrorist
Center, which, in turn, managed
the secret detention-and-interrogation
program. Few doubt that he was aware
that the C.I.A. was engaging in brutality.
One former officer recalls that Kappes
voiced qualms, warning that the program
amounted to "torture." According to the
former officer, once Kappes was overruled
he went along; Kappes was "the brains" of
the directorate, the former officer says.
(Kappes, through a spokesman, denied
having had a direct role in the interrogation
program, or having called its tactics
torture.) Another former C.I.A. operative
says, "It would be hard to say someone so
involved could be robustly objective" in
advising Panetta.
Panetta says that most of the individuals
who managed the secret interrogation
program have since left the agency. One of
the holdovers is Jonathan Fredman, who
was formerly the chief counsel to the division
that ran the interrogation program;
he is now on temporary assignment with
the director of National Intelligence. According
to notes from a 2002 meeting,
which were disclosed at a recent Senate
hearing, Fredman advised that torture "is
basically subject to perception. If the detainee
dies, you're doing it wrong." The
notes, whose accuracy Fredman has disputed,
describe him saying that videotapes
of interrogations would look "ugly." Fredman's
former boss is John A. Rizzo, the
C.I.A.'s acting general counsel, who
was the recipient of many of the Justice
Department's torture memos. (Rizzo is
scheduled to leave the agency once a replacement
has been confirmed.) And the
current head of the Counterterrorist Center
the officer, who is undercover, cannot
be identifiedran the interrogation
program for part of Bush's second term.
Several current station chiefs and division
chiefs were also deeply involved in brutal
interrogations, as were pilots, logistical experts,
medical personnel, and others.
Meanwhile, John Brennanthe man
who was considered too politically toxic for

the top C.I.A. jobhas become a senior
official on the National Security Council.
Brennan, who, as one former C.I.A. officer
puts it, was once "joined to George Tenet
at the hip"he served as Tenet's chief of
staffnow advises Obama on terrorism
and other national-security issues. He has
reportedly lobbied hard to maintain secrecy
on past abuses. According to Newsweek,
Brennan recently persuaded Panetta
to join him in protesting Obama's plan to
release four shocking Justice Department
memos about the interrogation program.
The documents, written by lawyers in the
Office of Legal Counsel, showed that the
C.I.A. had waterboarded one suspect at
least a hundred and eighty-three times and
subjected many others to harrowing mistreatment.
Opponents have argued that
exposing such details could spark an antiAmerican backlash. Panetta also argued
forcefully in favor of indemnifying any
C.I.A. officers whose actions, as described
in the memos, might have opened them
up to criminal charges.
Several well-respected former C.I.A.
officialsincluding Fred Hitz, a former
inspector general, and Paul Pillar, a former
Middle East analysttold me that
they saw no harm in releasing the documents.
Dennis C. Blair, the director of
National Intelligence, who oversees the
U.S. intelligence establishment, including
the C.I.A., also supported the release
of the documents, after his staff concluded
that the disclosures would likely
do no damage.
After intense consideration, and a latenight
meeting in Rahm Emanuel's office,
Obama rejected Panetta's arguments for
secrecy, deciding that it was in the public
interest to release the memos. But Obama
also endorsed the notion of giving blanket
amnesty to any C.I.A. officers performing
authorized work.
Panetta's resistance to public disclosure
seemed out of character to some longtime
colleagues. "I was surprised by Leon's
position on the O.L.C. memos," Phil
Trounstine told me. "It's tough to maintain
your principles when you're head of
the C.I.A., because you need to be seen as
someone that the people inside the agency

want to follow." Panetta had become an
advocate for secrecy so quickly, a White
House official joked, that "it's like 'Invasion
of the Body Snatchers.'"
Panetta's advisers may have had a personal
stake in opposing transparency. Another
former C.I.A. official, who knows
Brennan well, noted that, if the Bush torture
program were to be further investigated,
"potentially, both Brennan and
Kappes could have a lot to lose." Brennan's
supporters have argued that he had no operational
control over the interrogation
program, and point out that his tenure
as Tenet's chief of staff ended in March,
2001, before the Al Qaeda attacks. But he
was subsequently named deputy executive
director, and served in that position until
March, 2003the period when the most
brutal detainee treatment occurred. In addition,
Brennan often briefed President
Bush about daily developments in the war
on terror. Brennan has described himself
as an internal critic of waterboardinga
position that friends, such as Emile Nakhleh,
a former senior officer, confirm. Yet,
in an interview with me two years ago,
Brennan defended the use of "enhanced"
interrogation techniques and extraordinary
renditions,
in which the C.I.A. abducted
terror suspects around the globe
and transported them to other countries to
be jailed and interrogated; many of those
countries had execrable human-rights records.
He also questioned some people's
definition of "torture." "I think it's torture
when I have to ride in the car with my kids
and they have loud rap music on," he said.
Asked if "enhanced" interrogation techniques
were necessary to keep America
safe, he replied, "Would the U.S. be handicapped
if the C.I.A. was not, in fact, able
to carry out these types of detention and
debriefing activities? I would say yes."
Anthony Lake, who was the nationalsecurity adviser under Clinton,
said of Brennan, "I've known John a long
time, and he's a really good guy. I would
argue, you can't throw out the whole
agency." Lake, in fact, recommended
Brennan to the Obama campaign when
it was looking for intelligence advisers
after consulting with their mutual friend

George Tenet. America's intelligence
community is an incestuous one, making
it difficult for a President to break
with old ways of thinking.
Indeed, a well-informed analyst with
close ties to the White House says that the
C.I.A. has been lobbying hard to get
Obama to support some form of preventive
detention for terror suspects. An agency
spokesman denies this. But the analyst
says, "They definitely want the flexibility to

hold people in some form of detention.
They have been saying, 'We need deep
authorities.' They've been presenting the
President with nightmare scenarios."
Panetta, for his part, has been persuaded
that renditions are a tool worth
keeping. The rendition program began, in
a more carefully monitored form, during
the Clinton Administration, but in the
Bush years it was transformed into what
John Radsan, the former C.I.A. lawyer,
called "an abomination." As many as
seven detainees were misidentified and
abducted by mistake; many other suspects
have alleged that they were hideously tortured
by foreign governments. Panetta
told me, "The worst part of rendition was
rendition to a black site. That will not be
the case anymore. If we render someone,
it will be to a country with jurisdiction
over that individual." During the Bush
years, however, some of the most horrific
allegations of abuse were made by detainees
rendered not to black sites but to
Egypt, Syria, and Morocco. The Obama
Administration, Panetta says, will take
precautions to insure that rendered suspects
are treated humanely, as the law requires.
"I've talked to the State Department,
and our people have to make very
sure that people won't be mistreated," Panetta
said. "Some places, obviously, it's
more difficult to do. But we're going to
have to press to make sure it doesn't happen,
because it would fly in the face of everything
the President has said we stand
for." The Bush Administration professed
to be taking similar precautions.
The C.I.A. has apparently done nothing
to penalize the officer who oversaw one
of the most notorious renditionsthat of

a German car salesman named Khaled elMasri. He was abducted while on a holiday
in Macedonia, and flown by the agency
to Afghanistan, where he was detained in
a dungeon for five months without charges,
before being released. From the start, the
rendition team suspected that his case was
one of mistaken identity. But the C.I.A.
officer in charge at Langleythe agency
asked that the officer's name be withheld
insisted that Masri be further interrogated.
"She just looked in her crystal ball
and it said that he was bad," a colleague recalls.
Masri says that he was chained in a
freezing cell with no bed, and given water
so putrid that he could smell it across the
room. He was threatened and stripped,
and could hear other detainees crying all
around him. After several weeks, the
C.I.A. officer in charge learned that Masri's
German passport was not a forgery, as
was originally suspected, and that he was
not the terror suspect the agency thought
he was. (The names were similar.) Even so,
the officer in charge refused to release him.
Eventually, Masri went on a hunger strike,
losing sixty pounds. Skeptics in the agency
went directly over the officer's head to
Tenet, who realized that his agency had
been brutalizing an innocent man. Masri
was released after a hundred and forty-nine
days. But the officer in charge was not disciplined;
in fact, a former colleague says,
"she's been promotedtwice." Masri,
meanwhile, has been unable to sue the
U.S. government for either an apology or
damages, because the courts consider the
very existence of rendition a state secret
a position that the Obama Justice Department
has so far supported.
No criminal charges have ever been
brought against any C.I.A. officer involved
in the torture program, despite the
fact that at least three prisoners interrogated
by agency personnel died as the result
of mistreatment. In the first case, an
unnamed detainee under C.I.A. supervision
in Afghanistan froze to death after
having been chained, naked, to a concrete
floor overnight. The body was buried in
an unmarked grave. In the second case, an
Iraqi prisoner named Manadel al-Jamadi
died on November 4, 2003, while being

Bere avement
Behind his house, my father's dogs
sleep in kennels, beautiful,.
he built just for them.
They do not bark.
Do they know he is dead?
They wag their tails
& head. They beg
& are fed.
Their grief is colossal
& forgetful.
Each day they wake
seeking his voice,
their names.
By dusk they seem
to unremember everything
to them even hunger
is a game. For that, I envy.
For that, I cannot bear to watch them
pacing their cage. I try to remember
they love best confined space
to feel safe. Each day
a saint comes by to feed the pair
& I draw closer
the shades.
I've begun to think of them
as my father's other sons,
as kin. Brothers-in-paw.
interrogated by the C.I.A. at Abu Ghraib

prison, outside Baghdad. A forensic examiner
found that he had essentially been
crucified; he died from asphyxiation after
having been hung by his arms, in a hood,
and suffering broken ribs. Military pathologists
classified the case a homicide.
A third prisoner died after an interrogation
in which a C.I.A. officer participated,
though the officer evidently did not cause
the death. (Several other detainees have
disappeared and remain unaccounted for,
according to Human Rights Watch.)
During his tenure at the C.I.A., John
Helgerson, the former inspector general,
forwarded the crucifixion case, along with
an estimated half-dozen other incidents, to
the Justice Department, for possible prosecution.
But the case files have languished.
An official familiar with the cases told me
that the agency has deflected inquiries by
the Senate Intelligence Committee seeking
information about any internal disciplinary

action. (Helgerson told me, "Some
individuals have been disciplined. And
others no longer work at the agency.")
Panetta acknowledges that there are
some people still at the C.I.A. who may be
tainted by the torture program. Nevertheless,
he says, "I really respect the people
who say we shouldn't have gotten involved
in the interrogation business but we had to
do our jobs. I don't think I should penalize
people who were doing their duty. If
you have a President who exercises bad
judgment, the C.I.A. pays the price."
n June 1st, former Vice-President
Cheney asserted in a speech that the

C.I.A., rather than the White House, first
proposed hurting prisoners during interrogations.
"It was their initiative," he said.
"They had a couple of cases where they
thought enhanced interrogation techniques
would provide information." Panetta
has a different view. "There is no
question in my mind," he said. "The interrogation
thing, to some extent, was cast
upon us, because the military walked away
from it, and the F.B.I. walked away from
it, and so everybody came down on the
C.I.A.," he said. This is technically true, although
the F.B.I. "walked away" from interrogations
of terrorism suspects after its
director, Bob Mueller, heard complaints
from an agent, Ali Soufan, that the C.I.A.'s
interrogation methods amounted to "borderline
torture." John Helgerson told me
that he holds the
the Pentagon,
and the White House equally responsible:
"They went arm in arm into it."
Without a thorough public investigation,
it's difficult to assess the truth behind
such contradictory accusations. "Everyone
says, 'It's over, it's known,' "Nathaniel
Raymond, who works with the advocacy
group Physicians for Human Rights, told
me. "But what is known? We still don't
know how many detainees were in the
black sites, or who they were. We don't
fully know the White House's role, or the
C.I.A.'s role. We need a full accounting,
especially as it relates to health professionals."
The recently released Justice Department
memos, he noted, contain numerous
references to C.I.A. medical personnel

participating in coercive interrogation
sessions. "They were the designers, the
legitimizers, and the implementers,"
Raymond said. "This is arguably the single
greatest medical-ethics scandal in
American history. We need answers."
Some conservatives are also calling for
greater openness. Will Taft, the general
counsel to the State Department in the
Bush Administration, told me, "There are
some twenty or thirty people whom the
My eyes each day thaw.
One day the water cuts off.
Then back on.
They are outside dogs
which is to say, healthy
& victorious, purposeful
& one giant muscle
like the heart. Dad taught
them not to bark, to point
out their prey. To stay.
Were they there that day?
They call me
like witnesses & will not say.
I ask for their care
& their carelessness
wish of them forgiveness.
I must give them away.
I must find for them homes,
sleep restless in his.
All night I expect they pace
as I do, each dog like an eye
roaming with the dead
beneath an unlocked lid.
Kevin Young
C.I.A. said it formerly held but no longer

does. Those names have never been released.
The government should identify
all the people in the program and account
for them."
The Senate Intelligence Committee
recently embarked on its own, closed-door
investigation of the torture program; Panetta
told me that he has been assured that
the committee members' work "would be
about lessons learned, as opposed to going
after people." So the C.I.A. is "cooperating
with them, giving them whatever information
they need to try to conduct their
review." He says that the committee has
already identified some ten million relevant

documents. "It's going to take a
while," he said.
The Senate investigation will, among
other things, probe the question of torture's
efficacy. Dick Cheney has repeatedly
claimed that "enhanced" interrogations
yield results. Opponents say that torture is
counterproductive. Panetta is more agnostic.
He told me, "The bottom line would
be this: Yes, important information was
gathered from these detainees. It provided
information that in fact was acted upon.
Was this the only way to obtain this information?
I think that will always be an open
question." But he is certain that "we did
pay a price for using those methods."
A number of recently released documents
call into question the notion that the
C.I.A. played a passive role in relation to
torture policy. A 2008 report by the Senate
Armed Services Committee indicates
that the agency hired contract psychologists
who went on to design and implement
specific forms of abusesuch as
locking a detainee, doubled up, in a tiny,
airless cagemonths before August, 2002,
when the Justice Department granted legal
authorization with its infamous "torture
memo." More troublingly, footnotes in the
Office of Legal Counsel memos suggest
that some C.I.A. interrogators may have
egregiously exceeded the legal boundaries
set down by the Justice Department and
the White Housewhich seemingly puts
them outside the legal safety zone demarcated
by Obama and Panetta. In 2002, the
Bush Administration authorized interrogators
to re-create the ostensibly safe waterboarding
techniques used in military
training. But, instead of limiting the sessions
to a maximum of two twenty-second
bouts of controlled drowning, as prescribed
in military training, the C.I.A. interrogators
forced one detainee to undergo at least
a hundred and eighty-three sessions, and
another at least eighty-three. And, instead
of using a very small amount of water, as
the Justice Department stipulated, the
C.I.A. interrogators subjected the detainees
to "large volumes" of water. The memos
quote Inspector General Helgersott's
finding, in his secret 2004 report on coercive
techniques, that the interrogators

amplified the pain deliberately, in order to
make the sensation of drowning "more
poignant and convincing." Helgerson also
found that the psychologists and interrogators
who designed the agency's protocols
and who claimed that their judgments
were based on knowledge of military
standardshad "probably misrepresented"
their "expertise." In addition, the C.I.A.'s
Office of Medical Services found that
there was "no reason to believe that applying
the waterboard with the frequency and
intensity with which it was used by the
psychologist/interrogators . . was either
efficacious or medically safe."
In April, Panetta fired all the C.I.A.'s
contract interrogators, including the former
military psychologists who appear to
have designed the most brutal interrogation
techniques: James Mitchell and
Bruce Jessen. The two men, who ran a
consulting company, Mitchell, Jessen &
Associates, had recommended that interrogators
apply to detainees theories of
"learned helplessness" that were based on
experiments with abused dogs. The firm's
principals reportedly billed the agency a
thousand dollars a day for their services.
"We saved some money in the deal, too!"
Panetta said. (Remarkably, a month after
Obama took office the C.I.A. had signed
a fresh contract with the firm.)
According to ProPublica, the investigative
reporting group, Mitchell and Jessen's
firm, which in 2007 had a hundred
and twenty people on its staff, recently
closed its offices, in Spokane, Washington.
One employee was Deuce Martinez,
a former C.I.A. interrogator in the blacksite
program; Joseph Matarazzo, a former
president of the American Psychological
Association, was on the company's board.
(According to Kirk Hubbard, the former
head of the C.I.A.'s research and analysis
"I've put everything in your name in case my creditors come after me."

division, Matarazzo served on an agency
professional-standards board during the

time the interrogation program was set
up, but was not consulted about the
interrogations.)
Lawsuits against abusive contractors
remain a possibility, and any one of them

could expose a line of authorizations leading
directly up the chain of command at
the C.I.A., and into the Bush White
House. George Brent Mickum IV, a lawyer
representing Abu Zubaydah, a C.I.A.
prisoner who was repeatedly waterboarded,
said, "I'd like to sue Mitchell and
Jessen in a minute." (Mitchell was an adviser
on Zubaydah's interrogation.) After
Zubaydah was waterboarded, his lawyers
say, his mental state deteriorated, and he
has since been prescribed the antipsychotic
drug Haldol.
Few activists expect lawsuits against
the C.I.A. or its contractors to succeed.
But John Sifton, an attorney who specializes
in human-rights law, and who is part
of Zubaydah's legal team, notes that there
are other ways for the detainees' grievances
to become public. "The act of prosecuting
the high-value detainees will be
the accountability process," Sifton said.
"It's impossible to try these detainees
without allowing them to air all the information
about their torture."
ther legal actions threaten to expose

yet more secrets of the C.I.A.'s torture
program. A prosecutor appointed by
the Justice Department, John Durham, has
convened a grand jury in Washington to
weigh potential criminal charges against
C.I.A. officers who were involved in
the destruction of ninety-two videotapes
documenting the interrogations of Abu
Zubaydah and other detainees. Mickum
told me that he has met several times with
Durham, and believes that the scope of his
inquiry may have expanded to include a review
of whether the C.I.A. began using
brutal methods on Zubaydah before it received
written authorization from the Justice
Department. (This would provide an
extra motive for destroying the videotapes.)
Mickum said, "I got the sense he was very
serious." (Durham declined to comment.)
The A.C.L.U., meanwhile, is suing to get
access to classified descriptions of what was
on the destroyed videotapes. Last week,
Panetta filed an affidavit opposing the disclosure,
which he said "could be expected
to result in exceptionally gave damage to
the national security." Once again, he was

protecting Bush-era interrogation secrets.
Pressure is also coming from abroad.
In Italy, two dozen C.I.A. officers are on
trial in absentia for participating in a 2003
rendition. Robert Seldon Lady, the agency's
station chief in Milan at the time, can
no longer travel to Italy without danger of
arrest, nor can the other C.I.A. officers
named in the case. Spain has opened a
criminal investigation of six Bush Administration
officials in connection with torture.
And in London a former rendition
victim is suing the British authorities.
After a British judge ruled that the
plaintiff; Binyam Mohammed, should be
given access to C.I.A. intelligence documents
that the agency shared with British
authorities, the Obama Administration
surprised liberals by pressuring the British
government to stop the disclosures.
Several other legal challenges to the
agency's interrogation program are working
their way through the U.S. court system.
A judge in California recently rejected
the Justice Department's claims of
blanket state secrecy in a case brought by
five rendition victims against Jeppesen
Dataplan, a subsidiary of Boeing, which
provided the flight plans for the C.I.A.'s
renditions. In a press conference in April,
Obama indicated that he had had second
thoughts about the Justice Department's
assertion of blanket state secrecy in the
case, but on June 12th the Administration
reasserted its original claim.
Earlier this month, Philip Mudd,
Obama's nominee for a top Homeland
Security post, withdrew from consideration
after it became clear that his Senate
confirmation would turn into a fight over
his previous role in the C.I.A.'s interrogation
program. Rahm Emanuel, speaking
of the many challenges posed by the torture
scandal, told me, "It's a day-to-day
I won't say strugglebut problem. There
are a lot of cases in the queue that require
response. Many of them. But I've seen the
President in the Situation Room, and I
know he wants to move forward."
Panetta is already forging ahead on one
important reform: he plans to replace the
abusive interrogation program with a legally

acceptable, non-coercive alternative.
A task force led by the Harvard Law
School professor Philip Heymann has
been advising him on a proposal to create
an elite U.S. government interrogation
team, staffed by some of the best C.I.A.,
F.B.I., and military officers in the country,
and drawing on the advice of social scientists,
linguists, and other scholars. "What
I'm pushing for is to establish a facility
where we develop a team of interrogators
trained in the latest techniques," Panetta
said. "That's the one thing I'm worried
about, frankly. There just aren't that many
people who have the interrogation abilities
we're going to need." Heymann describes
the effort to create "the best non-coercive
interrogation team in the world" as the
equivalent of "a NASA-like, man-on-themoon
effort" for human-intelligence gathering.
He said that members of his task
force have travelled to France, England,
Japan, Australia, and Israel, in order to
compile comparative information on what
interrogators do. "We also went to the best
people in the U.S.," he added.
Panetta has many ambitions for his tenure
at the agency. He spoke to me of the
need for the C.I.A. to increase its foreignlanguage
skills, and to recruit officers of
more diverse backgrounds, who can more
easily infiltrate hostile parts of the world.
But, as Panetta sees it, the C.I.A.'s effort to
"disrupt, destroy, and dismantle" Al Qaeda
remains its top priority. The agency continues
to acquire intelligence suggesting
that Al Qaeda is planning attacks on America,
he told me. "We're conducting pretty
robust operations in Pakistan, and I think
we're doing a good job of trying to disrupt
Al Qaeda. But, clearly, that is a threat."
The greatest danger, he said, is that Al
Qaeda will "find other safe havens to go
to," in states such as Somalia and Yemen.
"Our mission is to make sure they can't find
a place to hide." Finding and bringing
to justice Al Qaeda's leadersin particular,
Osama bin Laden and Ayman alZawahiri"remains
a focal point," Panetta
said. "It's not easy, as you can imagine."
Last week, the Times reported on escalating
friction over jurisdiction between

Panetta and Dennis Blair, the National
Intelligence director. "I'm surprised at

the number of challenges you have to
confront in this job," Panetta confided.
"You're a traffic cop, in many ways."
When he was the White House chief of
staff, Panetta said, he could delegate the
big decisions to the President. "Here,
though," he said, gazing out over the
C.I.A.'s serene grounds, "the decisions
come to me. And a lot of them involve life
and death." Sometimes, he added, all
he can do is "say a lot of Hail Marys." o
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Thanks, Hillary. I'm attaching the CV of

and have also sent it to Jake. I'd have loved to attend the
India lunch, but I've got a long-standing working lunch with the "Managing Global Insecurity" project at Brookings that
Carlos Pascual set up and has been leading. Tom Pickering, Tim Wirth, Chet Crocker, Esther Brimmer, and various other
such will be there, and I can't pull out (my office had passed this word to yours). I'm so pleased you're going to India. It
was your trip to the region, with Chelsea, in 95 that established the momentum for Bill's. I'll always remember you talk
(with slide show) at State after you returned. I'll send you tomorrow my book "Engaging India" now thatyou're reengaging them. Hard work ahead of on non-pro, as you know. Hope to see you before long. I'm taking
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Strobe-I've seen
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and sent greetings to you.
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Thanks, Hillary. I'm attaching the CV of

and have also sent it to Jake. I'd have loved to attend the
India lunch, but I've got a long-standing working lunch with the "Managing Global Insecurity" project at Brookings that
Carlos Pascual set up and has been leading. Tom Pickering, Tim Wirth, Chet Crocker, Esther Brimmer, and various other
such will be there, and I can't pull out (my office had passed this word to yours). I'm so pleased you're going to India. It
was your trip to the region, with Chelsea, in 95 that established the momentum for Bill's. I'll always remember you talk
(with slide show) at State after you returned. I'll send you tomorrow my book "Engaging India" now that you're reengaging them. Hard work ahead of on non-pro, as you know. Hope to see you before long. I'm taking
to Italy
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Just arrived in Montreal. Will get back to you. What age/level of experience do you have in mind re assistant. Happy to
work with Cheryl or Jake on that one.
& dogs much enjoyed encounter yesterday. You were great on tv.
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Strobe-I've seen
twice running and walking in front of my house, once \A/
and sent greetings to you.
As you may know, I'm trying to work out a time for lunch or dinner in the next week to discuss a list of issues w you.
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throughout out. The best man lost.
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FYI. Ellen in fact had a meeting scheduled with Kyl tomorrow to brief him in depth about these issues, but he canceled it
just before making this announcement and has shown no interest in rescheduling.
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CQ TODAY PRINT EDITION FOREIGN POLICY

June 9, 2009 Updated 3:27 p.m.
Tauscher Wins Plaudits From Panel, But Still Faces Hold

By Caitlin Webber, CQ Staff
California Democratic Rep. Ellen 0. Tauscher enjoyed an enthusiastic reception from the Senate Foreign
Relations Committee on Tuesday, but a senior Republican said she'll be blocked from quick floor
consideration.
Senate Minority Whip Jon Kyl, R-Ariz., said he plans to place a hold on the Tauscher nomination as soon as it
is reported out of the committee, as leverage to get information and assurances from the Obama administration
on issues including but not limited to nuclear reduction talks with Russia and the deployment of ballistic
missile defense.
"All I'm going to ask for is for the administration to abide by commitments that it has made, which one would
think it could easily do," said Kyl. He declined to reveal the specifics of the assurances he is seeking.
As the White House's top arms control adviser, Tauscher would be charged with pushing for ratification of the
Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) and a follow-on to the expiring Strategic Arms Reduction
Treaty (START) with Russia.
Tauscher, chairwoman of the House Armed Services Strategic Forces Subcommittee, would have to contend
with considerable push-back from Senate Republicans to implement either treaty.
Many treaty opponents argue the test-ban could undermine the U.S. capacity to deter other nations from using
nuclear weapons.
She said Tuesday that numerous advances have been made in test-ban verification procedures and ensuring the
safety of the U.S. stockpile since the Senate rejected ratification of the CTBT nearly 10 years ago.
"Stopping nuclear proliferation by protecting our stockpile, maintaining the credibility of our deterrent and
preventing terrorists from getting a hold of a weapon of mass destruction has become my life's work," she told
the panel Tuesday.
She also said she would back President Obama's diplomatic efforts to persuade the eight other non-signatories
China, North Korea, India, Pakistan, Indonesia, Iran, Israel and Egypt to ratify the treaty. Indonesia's
foreign minister said Monday it would ratify the CTBT, which bans all nuclear explosions for any purpose,
immediately after the United States does.
Tauscher would need to tackle critics among Senate Republicans who contend the Obama administration is
rushing into an agreement on nuclear arms reduction with Russia.
At an Armed Services Strategic Forces Subcommittee hearing last week, Sens. David Vitter, R-La., and Jeff
Sessions, R-Ala., said it was imprudent for the Obama administration to agree to reduced nuclear warhead
levels with Russia before the release of the Defense Department's Nuclear Posture Review, which sets the
course of the nation's nuclear stockpile, in early 2010. Administration negotiators aim to have a renewed
agreement with Russia before the current treaty expires on Dec. 5.
Tauscher told the Senate Foreign Relations panel Tuesday that she would work to allay those concerns. "We
can multi-task. . . . I'm confident we can assure everyone . . . that what is going on in the review is informing
the negotiations."
Chairman John Kerry, D-Mass., said he would move Tauscher's nomination quickly through the committee and
would urge the full Senate to follow quickly thereafter.
Josh Rogin contributed to this story.
First posted June 9, 2009 2:28 p.m.
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Can you check and see if I sent a letter to him this week? Thx.
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Called out HRC as especially helpful in making calls to the Hill on passing the supplemental approps bill.
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Kyrgyzstan rejects Obama "cooperation" offer

U.S. President Obama has sent a personal appeal to Kyrgyzstan proposing ways to discuss "expanding cooperation".
Kyrgyzstan will not reverse its decision to close a U.S. military air base which is used to supply American troops for
Afghanistan occupation, Kyrgyz Foreign Minister Kadyrbek Sarbayev said on Thursday. U.S. President Barack Obama
has sent a personal appeal to Kyrgyzstan proposing ways to discuss "expanding cooperation".
But Bakiyev's office said in a statement it had received a letter from Obama praising bilateral relations. "Moreover,
Barack Obama expressed hope to further strengthen various forms of cooperation between the United States and
Kyrgyzstan," the statement said without mentioning the air base issue. "The decision to annul all agreements on the
Manas military air base has been taken and there is no turning back on this," he told the 24.kg news agency.
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Will I see Maggie's Mom today?
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/steve-clemons/can-national-security-adv b 214672.html
Steve Clemons
Director of the American Strategy Program at the New America Foundation
Posted: June 12, 2009 07:12 AM
Can National Security Adviser James Jones Survive

a Second Round of Attacks and "Longer Knives"?
I am here in London where I'm participating in an interesting forum sponsored by the Princeton Project on
National Security and the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) Transatlantic Program, I've received not just
one email -- but three -- from prominent insider journalists and policy hands that Jim Jones' tenure as National
Security Adviser is highly fragile.
One of these emails reports starkly:
Knives getting longer
That's all my contact said. But other emails have intimated to me a serious tone-deafness by Jones about his role
and responsibilities, his relationship with the President, and his relationship with younger, dedicated,
hardworking and late-working staff. Jones recently said that National Security Council staff members that
stayed longer than 7:30 pm must be disorganized in their work.
I speak to various NSC officials -- often at 10:00 or 11:00 pm at night. They are hardworking, racing as fast as
they can to manage the many, many, many major initiatives that Barack Obama has decided to simultaneously
pursue.
James Jones is considered by his admirers to be a genius when thinking about management structures and
decision-making processes. On the other hand, his critics see him as a plodding, slow-moving, out of touch
retired general who was better prepared to think about the last era rather than the one we are moving into. His
critics think that he's just too unable to animate nimble, high flex policy decision making products for a White
House on a manic dash to get a lot of top tier issues dealt with.
Friends at the National Security Council respect a great deal the way in which NSC Deputy Tom Donilon is
managing his brief Many see him picking up the load that Jones seems unable or unwilling to carry. Donilon is
deeply engaged in the broad Middle East and Iran portfolio, the non-proliferation/WMD/arms control portfolio,
the China economic and security portfolio, and he has -- according to reports -- supported and helped cultivate
relationship building between State, DoD, the NSC, and other parts of the national security bureaucracy.
Some tell me that James Jones decided to try and remove himself from the "whack-a-mole" crisis reaction style
of decision-making that could rob the Obama administration of the chance to define a new course in national
security affairs. Tom Donilon, according to reports, wields far more the hand of power when it comes to day to
day management and responding to crises that require presidential attention and response.
Jones, in contrast, has been obsessed with the structure of decisions -- who is involved in those decisions, what
the structure of decision-making should be, and what legal modifications to this process need to be made. He
looks at that as the big nut that needs to be cracked -- and that would improve, according to Jim Jones, the
President's effectiveness and chances of success at a macro level.
Jones' self-determined task is not high profile, mostly structural, and has not won him many admirers for
leadership -- but what he is doing is necessary. If he departs his role, this challenge of dealing with the growing
complexity of national security threats and the vital need to recalibrate the policy making and decision-making
process will require the attention of someone serious.
So, whether Jones stays or goes -- his portfolio will remain vital.
But what is clear is that Jones has enemies and that they are trying to undermine his place in the Obama orbit.
Their motives may not be earnest concern about the tempo or pace of Jones' management style -- but they very
well could be his unwillingness to allow the liberal interventionists inside the Obama administration to have
more than their fair share of power in the Obama decision-making process.
Jones has structured an all views on the table approach to decision making -- quite evident when it comes to
Middle East policy -- and the hawkish/neocon-friendly/Likudist-hugging part of the Obama administration's
foreign policy operation may be engaged in a coup attempt against Jones.
I don't know if he'll survive this latest effort to oust him -- but folks need to know that those "longer knives", on
the whole, do not have pure motives.
-- Steve Clemons directs the foreign policy programs at the New America Foundation and publishes the popular
political blog, The Washington Note
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Cheryl, Jake,
I owe you both an apology. I had a very productive flight (8-10 hours in a darkened quiet cabin is just what I needed) and
finished Les Gelb's book -- it is astonishing how close our analyses are -- he says that foundation of US power is to
catalyze others to get problems solved. HRC wanted me to make the speech harder and I see some very good ways to do
that -- talking about assembling power coalitions to deal w/ troublesome states, a term Les uses.
But I also had a chance to reread the frame that you put together, much more carefully. There are a number of very
good things in it that I am going to try to work into a revision, or at least flag for how we can build off of this speech in
subsequent speeches. I am sorry that I didn't see that in the press of trying to get to this point.
I will have a revision by Sunday afternoon China time, which would allow her and you to see it Sunday morning.
AM
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This document is the latest iteration I understand from Justin (who works at Chappaqua). I also understand that last
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I think this is very good. I really like the emphasis on security, which is part of her brand, and very relevant (I
always have in the back of my mind the possibility that great tragedy will strike again, so we need to prepared
to deal with that reality, should it come about some day).
I like combining that with the notion of prosperity and humanity, which together covers so much ground - from
economic development to human rights.
A couple miscl thoughts -- in terms of promoting prosperity/economic development, might there be a reason to technological
advancement (giving people access to education and technological tools that can help them in terms of both
education and access to social networks and other avenues for advancement). You do reference education in the
development arena, and in prosperity, so that's good).
- there isn't much here mentioning democratization, freedom, etc. I know that is probably dicey given the
multitude of governments we want to partner with that aren't ready to talk that talk, but still think it needs to be
incorporated in some aspect of a mission statement.
- really like strong reference to women as a key to economic and social stabilization. That ties into her "brand"
and into a reality. I know when the First Ladies of Africa came out here to LA, one of the desires was to try to
draw them into an alliance that might transcend their own national differences and create cross-border force for
positive change. A friend of mine is one of the executives with the Hunger Project, whose CEO is a woman
who focuses, too, on the way targeting women can help alleviate hunger in ways that just dealing with men or
generally cannot.
- really like that 'variable geometry' reference. This is kind of like 3 dimensional chess - strange and
complicated alliances need to be made to grapple with a multitude of cross-cutting challenges. This is calculus,
not arithmetic.
- would like to be sure religions are involved here, vis a vis the various partnerships. It can be either a
powerful force of positive change, or it can get in the way of progress, depending on how it's used or abused,
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but to the extent allowed Constitutionally, the power of religion should be encouraged in the direction of
alliances and partnerships of progress.
- as I think about Kennan's "containment" doctrine a little further - in some ways it can be reapplied to
extremism, meaning that our goal should be to contain not Communism this time, but extremist ideology
whereever it exists, and just as Kerman supported, development is one of the ways to build those walls of
containment around a dangerous ideology. We want to contain extremist, nihilistic, violent ideologies and
movements whereever they might take root, and a good way to do that is to focus on development, on women,
on technology, on education.
The power of diplomacy rests on two foundations. On the one hand, there is the reality and potentiality of
military force. Without having the capacity to defend, and to project force, diplomacy is inherently weak and
ineffectual.
On the other hand, development is the other foundation upon which successful diplomacy can be built. It's the
carrot to the military's stick. And the State Department has an integral role to play in both the diplomatic and
developmental parts of that tripod (while also being understanding of, and when necessary supportive of,
implementing the military part).
The connective tissue of security, prosperity and humanity is, as you suggest, "purpose," or more prosaically "morality." Morals. It is immoral for people to live in fear, to be unprotected, to be subject to harm and
death. It is immoral for people's human rights to be violated, to not have access to education and heatlh. And it
is immoral to be denied the opportunity to grow, to create a better future for children, etc. To let, as Roy has
said, every child to live up to his or her God-given potential.
one last point - on shared humanity, perhaps protecting the natural resources of the Earth - environmentalism should be referenced along with health and human rights. It's part of the underpinning of our international
morality and the kind of partnership we need to solve global warming, etc.
On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 11:33 AM, Mills, Cheryl D <MillsCD@state.gov> wrote:
Can you both take a look at this if this implementing agenda works, we will use language of purpose to
surround it.
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got your message....
much appreciated.... sounds like the right plan... no need to call back unless there's more to
discuss re tomorrow.... you can go back to saving the world! cheers, s
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FW: 21st Century Statecraft
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85,000 views on the US Government Channel channel alone already. This is wonderful. Great work!
On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 12:27 PM, Ross, Alec J<RossAl@state.gov> wrote:
> Even Craig from Craig's list getting in on the HRC 21st century
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> video ... http://cnewmark.com/
> Alec Ross

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Washington Post's "Reliable Source" is reporting that Patti Solis Doyle has signed a book deal with Hyperion,
with an anticipated publish date of 2011.
This Just In . . .
Patti Solis Doyle: You've managed Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign, been sacked via e-mail, then
resurfaced in the transition office of then-President-elect Obama. What's your next act? Book deal! She's inked it
with Hyperion for an undisclosed amount. Scheduled for 2011, the nonfiction book will trace her political journey -and, we can only hope, reveal some juicy campaign gossip.
http://voices. washingtonpost. com/reliable- source/2009/ 05/this just in 60.html
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If we set the expectation now that the outcome is likely to not go our way, ANY alternative - even one kicking the can
down the road as Jake outlines below - would be seen as a significant victory.
And as an added bonus, it would be an opportunity to highlight your personal dedication to and prioritization of human
rights/democracy, which we've been criticized for since China.
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Fri May 29, 2009 9:40pm EDT
SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea is preparing to move an intercontinental ballistic missile from a factory near Pyongyang to
a launch site on the east coast, a South Korean newspaper quoted a source in Washington as saying on Saturday.
The factory north of Pyongyang is the same place where the North manufactured the long-range rocket it fired on April 5
before moving it to the east-coast Musudan-ri missile range for assembly and launch, the Dong-a Ilbo newspaper said.
Regional powers are waiting to see what the North might do next after it conducted a nuclear test on Monday. South
Korea is on alert on the assessment Pyongyang may make provocative moves using conventional weapons at their
heavily armed border.
North Korea has warned of an intercontinental ballistic missile test in anger over U.N. Security Council punishment of
what Pyongyang said was a satellite launch on April 5.
"Preparations to move an ICBM from the Saneum Weapons Research Center near Pyongyang by train have been
captured by U.S. spy satellites," Dong-a Ilbo quoted a source in Washington knowledgeable about the issue as saying.
The research lab is the North's main center of research and manufacture of long-range missiles, the newspaper said.
South Korea's defense ministry could not immediately comment on the report.
North Korea fired a short-range missile on Friday from the Musudan-ri missile base, South Korea's Yonhap news agency
quoted an unnamed government source as saying. The missile appeared to be a modified surface-to-air missile with a
range of up to 160 km (99 miles), Dong-a Ilbo said.
The two Koreas have fought two deadly naval clashes on their disputed maritime border in the past 10 years and the
North has warned another could happen.
U.S. Defense Department spokesman Geoff Morrell said on Friday there had been no sign of stepped-up North Korean
military activity.
But a U.S. defense official said the United States had observed "above average activity" in the past 24 hours at a site in
North Korea that has previously been used to test fire long-range missiles.
South Korea's Defense Ministry said it had seen the number of Chinese fishing boats near the peninsula in the Yellow
Sea drop sharply in recent days and is watching the North's activities for indications of aggression.
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Korea's further provocations, South Korea's defense ministry said.
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Tom backgrounded them yesterday in the briefing room, not certain but don't think he put down any groundwork on
this specifically.
But in terms of setting expectations it would be a combo of a few overt and not overt things:
- Seeing what Admin/For Pol Members of Congress are on TV today and the shows tomorrow, all we need is one person
to float it.
- We have flight time tomorrow when Tom & Jake can do it on background or OTR.
- There's one blogger that folks loosely follow, I know how to get her something through a 3rd party.
- I have to talk to a few of our guys today like Matt Lee on misc stuff, and I'm sure he'll ask me something about the OAS
where I can easily say the folks in WHA are real pessimistic. And our travelers traffic info among themselves. The best
thing to put out there would be the notion that there are those who don't think you should go. If you don't, you don't.
But if you do, you chose to be direct, to make a principled stand.
Shouldn't be too tough, because the notion of Cuba being voted in is something they will WANT to believe, it'll make
good copy. And it makes it easier to explain any decision/outcome
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How will we set any expectations? Did anyone background the press yet?
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Tom's backgrounder definitely played down expectations.
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Tom backgrounded them yesterday in the briefing room, not certain but don't think he put down any groundwork on
this specifically.
But in terms of setting expectations it would be a combo of a few overt and not overt things:
- Seeing what Admin/For Pol Members of Congress are on TV today and the shows tomorrow, all we need is one person
to float it.
- We have flight time tomorrow when Tom & Jake can do it on background or OTR.
- There's one blogger that folks loosely follow, I know how to get her something through a 3rd party.
- I have to talk to a few of our guys today like Matt Lee on misc stuff, and I'm sure he'll ask me something about the OAS
where I can easily say the folks in WHA are real pessimistic. And our travelers traffic info among themselves. The best
thing to put out there would be the notion that there are those who don't think you should go. If you don't, you don't.
But if you do, you chose to be direct, to make a principled stand.
Shouldn't be too tough, because the notion of Cuba being voted in is something they will WANT to believe, it'll make
good copy. And it makes it easier to explain any decision/outcome
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How will we set any expectations? Did anyone background the press yet?
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As the conversation with these two ministers unfold, you might make the point that we have come a LONG way
on Cuba so far -- and it would be really unfortunate to jam or embarrass President Obama after all the steps he's
taken, especially since what we are seeking is an entirely reasonable result.
Agreeing to lift the 1962 sanction is a BIG step.
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Can you send me the language we prefer in a resolution?

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As the conversation with these two ministers unfold, you might make the point that we have come a LONG way on Cuba
so far -- and it would be really unfortunate to jam or embarrass President Obama after all the steps he's taken, especially
since what we are seeking is an entirely reasonable result.
Agreeing to lift the 1962 sanction is a BIG step.
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Per your strobe request regarding a june meet with board

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Lana Gotcha - agree with that concern so let's flag and present to her. I had asked strobe if we could move date but given
that it is their board mtg, they can't.
I do think it provides a useful oppor for her to engage an imp group post her BIG Speech but the first day after such a
long trip is not ideal.
We should share that concern with hrc so she can decide..
Cdm
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It's the day after she returns from an international trip I would prefer not to.
From: Toiv, Nora F
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Do you think we can try to do this June 3?
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The proposed meeting is built around annual combined board and international advisory council meeting, so we're
locked into June 3. Hope it might still work. Will send full board and council member list.
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Pls review the memcons and follow up w Tom to see if we can work this thru
good suggestions. Let me know if this gives us any new tools.
Both had
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Reached out tom about your calls this morning.

He reports that the Mexicans are appreciative for the call and are energized. They are reaching out to others to try to
find a helpful solution.
Amorim called the Brazilian Ambassador here, who tom spoke to after your call. Amorim was very happy with the call,
especially the detailed discussion of possible solutions. He professed a desire to work with you to resolve this issue.
Brazil recognizes that it is being tagged as the "blocker on democratic language and wants to get out of the way. That
explains Amorim's heavy push to give this issue back to Insulza. Torn told the Brazilian Ambassador that Insulza has a big
credibility problem in our Congress, and that we, Brazil, Mexico, and others cannot walk away from the issue. This was
being relayed back to Amorim.
Among a core group of countries there is a growing realization that lack of consensus could be very damaging for the
OAS and its members. Tom thinks your calls have injected new urgency into the search for a solution.
He will be sending a classified update on the latest in a few hours. We will pouch to the house.
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We r tracking down cheryl.

Will have a report in 30 min.
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Are we going to Honduras?
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either works -- I can talk now and I can talk tomorrow am too - you want me to call?
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I'd like to talk w you tonight or tomorrow before I leave. What time/s work for you?
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I actually like the two column version better than the single page one I rec'd today.
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Will do.
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Lona--pls tell Jeff Feltman, that Sheika Mouza could not come to DC in June or July but can come as stated below in Sept.
Ask if he thinks we should try to meet her in Europe earlier or wait until then. Thx.
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Thanks! Will do
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Tomorrow when you distribute the materials, pls keep a list of where stuff went. I'm particularly concerned that Cheryl
get all the papers I marked for her. Everything not marked should either be filed or passed back to the line. If you have
any questions, pis let me know.
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Great. All the best to you its fantastic to see you doing so well and when I see what a difference you are making it
remindsme why politics is too important to be left to the bad people
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Thx. I will follow up. Best, H
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Jeff thinks we should wait till sept to see sheikha muza. No need to do in europe earlier.
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See traffic from bottom up

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Adding Caroline Adler and others -- another brilliant win.
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Major impact in Manila and throughout the Philippines from the Secretary's recorded National Day greeting.
Below is from the legendary Kristie Kenney, our Ambo.
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To: Gibbons, Thomas B (Manila); Thompson, Rebecca B (Manila); Schinnerer, Karen P (Manila); Marcie!, Scot A; Lakhdhir,
Kamala S; Kleine, Michael F; Burgwinkle, Kevin J
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Folks: the secretary's video was a huge success. Thanks so much to our EAP team for getting it done and to the Manila
PAS team for getting it out on a holiday. It was a terrific message.
Am just leaving the Palace independence day fete (looking stiff in my filipiana) where the President grabbed me to say
"please thank Secretary Clinton for that wonderful message. No one has ever done that before and it really showed that
the United States cares about us". Secretary Romulo stopped me and said "I heard secretary Clinton's message over the
radio this morning and it was beautiful.".
Everyone from the gate guards to shopping mall vendors stopping me to say they saw/heard Secretary's message.
People are literally thrilled and stunned that our Secretary of State would reach out in such a personal fashion.
Bravo to all of you who made that happen.
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Today
Great job @ hearing----like the 3 D's.

There is tepid support for the.afghan policy bcause of issues I raised. -- boxer
lowey and me want to do more for women- but. Developement is. Thee issue in any part of world----AID needs
rebuilding and recapitalizing-- any thing you want me to be doing with. Leahy?? Where are we on a. Director????
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Health. Care. HELP. Comm is moving @ beakneck speed to have bill.by. June one.
Miss having you. But wow. 74'k miles. 22 counties. That's quite a listening tour
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Just heard from Rich Verma that Brownback has placed a hold on Kurt Campbell until he gets a vote on restoring NK to
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Melanne's event was wonderful. Get Shaun Woodward's memo? Miliband interview
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2009/jun/12/david-miliband-gordon-brown-labour-leadership/print
The Guardian
David Miliband: Labour is facing the fight of its life

Foreign secretary thought about quitting the government in last week's turmoil
David Miliband expressed his frustration at a lack of vision from the Labour leadership. Photograph: Martin
Godwin
Voters still don't know what Labour and Gordon Brown stand for, David Miliband admits today, as he reveals
how close he came to quitting the government during last week's turmoil at Westminster.
Speaking to the Guardian at the end of 10 extraordinary days, the foreign secretary says the party's high
command was given an "electric shock" by the disastrous European election results, and he urges fellow
ministers to get out and prepare for "the fight of our life".
But Miliband also concedes that he considered following his close friend and ally James Purnell, who resigned
from the government last week and called for the prime minister to stand down.
Miliband said: "I'd made my decision on Thursday. Sometimes you can make your decisions with great
planning and calculation and sometimes you have to make them rather more quickly. James made his decision
in good faith, I made my decision in good faith ... we all have tolive with our decisions."
The Labour party has a settled view of who should be leader, he said. "This divides people who are close and
people feel passionately one way and people feel passionately the other way."
Describing the task now facing Labour, he says: "It could not be more urgent that there is a maximum of 11
months until the next general election, that we got 15% of the vote nationally [last week], that we came second
in Wales and that one in 20 people voted for us. If that does not electric shock us out of our ministerial chairs to
think: 'By God, we have got the fight of our life on our hands because whatever the Tories are they certainly
don't deserve a landslide' then nothing will."
Miliband has not given a domestic policy interview for nearly nine months since he felt dogged by accusations
that he was manoeuvring for the premiership. He refuses to acknowledge that his decision to back Brown last
week saved the prime minister, saying "it is impossible to tell".
But the foreign secretary feels his loyalty has given him the freedom to speak his mind without his motives
being questioned by anyone in Downing Street.
Miliband betrays frustration at the absence of a clear Labour vision, saying: "We need the message to go out
that we have got the humility to learn about what has gone wrong.
"It is not a masochism strategy. It is about saying what we believe in. It is about clarity, priority, adding up to
purpose. I know what we stand for, I know what our instincts are, but the voters don't. Actually, I know what
Gordon Brown stands for.
"We have a responsibility to make sure that, come the election, [voters] know what Labour stands for. We were
not being listened to, people felt that they had been forgotten, we neither inspired nor reassured."
He calls for cabinet colleagues to show stronger leadership in the battle to restore Labour's fortunes. "We need
to make sure the talents and energies of not just the whole of the cabinet, but the whole of the labour movement
are give n free rein because one in 20 people voted for us. The truth is that we are not automatons. We all have
to get out there."
Asked whether he felt voters had stopped listening to Brown, Miliband said: "He himself has said he has to
build on his strengths and work on his weaknesses. That is a good maxim for all of us. He is someone who
made the right decisions on the biggest issue of the day. We have got a chance to fight with honour and dignity
for what we believe in. The stakes are very high because we know that parties can slump into very dangerous
positions."
Providing what he describes as a route map from the disaster, he said: "Labour first needs a period of
competent, effective, stable government; secondly, we need to reset our political compass so ministers are no
longer locked in their departments, but link their policies to their values; and thirdly, the government has to be
at the cutting edge of policy."
On the issue of political reform, he demands a speeding-up of the pace of political reform, saying it is not a
piece of middle-class frippery. For the first time, he reveals that he now backs the Alternative Vote for the
Commons, saying MPs' legitimacy will be strengthened by being able to say 50% in my constituency voted for
me.
He says the change cannot be made before the general election. He also backs a fresh push on Lords reform,
saying "we have got an agreed blueprint".
He rounded on Tory spending plans, but said Labour would clarify its own intentions before the election. "They
will be credible and clear. We will come to that in an open and honest way."
But he defends delay in setting out these figures, arguing "when you are in the middle of a Tornado it is a bad
time take a forecast".
In an oblique reference to the Damian McBride briefings, he also calls on the media to abandon unattributable
briefings, saying all politicians' spokesmen should be named, or not quoted by media outlets. "The gotcha
culture of politics is not in anyone's interests," he said.
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Most interesting observation of the day, from State:

"A statistical analysis of the data issued by the ministry of interior suggests a perfect linear relationship between votes
received by Ahmadinejad and Mousavi with an r-squared value of 0.9995, a near impossibility in nature.This suggests
that the ballots were never counted or were.abandoned after it was clear Ahmadinejad was going to lose. Statistically, it
is impossible to maintain such a perfect linear relationship consistently through all stages of vote counting. We would
expect variation as the votes were coming in, due to differences expected between the cites and the country side and
hetereogeneity amoung ethnic groups.This to me is the most concrete evidence I have seen"
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No, it's only an internal assessment from someone in the Iran Watch Office. Kay added me to their updates so I'm
seeing their internal chit chat.
I have to admit I don't understand statistics enough to gauge it's accuracy, but they are trying to prove the accusation of
egregious fraud. The only other #s are actual vote tallies coming from the Iranian Interior Ministry, showing Mousavi
winning by far - but the #s are unconfirmed.
Since it's after 4am in Tehran, most of the reporting now is focusing on tumult
Nothing is coming from State publicly aside from what you said this afternoon.
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Is that going public? Is it posted on our website?
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Most interesting observation of the day, from State:
"A statistical analysis of the data issued by the ministry of interior suggests a perfect linear relationship between votes
received by Ahmadinejad and Mousavi with an r-squared value of 0.9995, a near impossibility in nature.This suggests
that the ballots were never counted or were abandoned after it was clear Ahmadinejad was going to lose. Statistically, it
is impossible to maintain such a perfect linear relationship consistently through all stages of vote counting. We would
expect variation as the votes were coming in, due to differences expected between the cites and the country side and
hetereogeneity amoung ethnic groups.This to me is the most concrete evidence I have seen"
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Saturday, July 25, 2009 11:07 AM

Ok. Is Kristy in town? If so, can I see her tomorrow?

Thx so much for all of your help.

H < hrod17@clintonemail.com >

Friday, July 31, 2009 6:16 AM

Sorry I hit send too soon!

Saturday, August 1, 2009 4:22 PM

Saturday, August 1, 2009 4:22 PM

Tom--Jeff Feltmann will call to disuss issue w Puneet. Thx.

From: Slaughter, Anne-Marie

I'd like to see her. Can we work it out?

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Lona--have we worked this out?

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My one reaction is that I want Derek to handle India dialogue.

From: Slaughter, Anne-Marie

Pls give me printed copy today.

Re: Branch Book

The following items are addressed in the memo:

Wen Ho Lee and Terror Clause of Crime Bill

HRC and Kissinger

Tension with Moynihan

HRC as World Player

Tension with Janet Reno

Wen Ho Lee and Terror Clause of Crime Bill

WJC and Lewinsky's Silence

Lewinsky's account." [Branch, 511]

HRC and Kissinger

HRC and gay/lesbian

Tension with Moynihan

HRC as World Player

Tension with Janet Reno

Portrayal of Jimmy Carter

Dispatch of Bombers Near Iraq

Pis print for me.

Rep. Joe Wilson's Rebel Yell

href=http://www.spIcenter.org/intel/intelreport/article.jsp?sid=90 >extensive list</a> of SCV officials who belonged to

That makes sense so go ahead. Thx.

Wanted to check back in with you.

Pls try to set up week after UNGA.

Pls print for my mtg.

From: Verveer, Melanne S

Issue I earlier mentioned to you about Mohammad Yunus.

Greetings from Bangladesh!!!

Bangladesh Foreign Minister Ms Dipu Moni will call on Secretary Clinton

meeting. Please see if the issues of Grameen Bank can be raised in a

Almost every important person in Bangladesh congratulated me for receiving

So you can see the depth of the problem.

Thanks for your help. Give my regards to H.

See you in CGI and Hilton event soon. Best.

Also give a copy to EAP rep who will be at mtg.

From: Verveer, Melanne S

Issue I earlier mentioned to you about Mohammad Yunus.

Greetings from Bangladesh!!!

Bangladesh Foreign Minister Ms Dipu Moni will call on Secretary Clinton

Almost every important person in Bangladesh congratulated me for receiving

So you can see the depth of the problem.