Posted on 11/05/2016 10:03:05 AM PDT by American72
September 28, 2008
TO: Senator Obama
FROM: Mike Froman Federico Pena John Podesta
CC: Pete Rouse
RE: Personnel Discussion
We are scheduled to see you tomorrow in Reno to discuss White House organization/structure, as well as candidates for senior White House, national security and economic policy positions.
Our focus tomorrow will be the White House Chief of Staff, the national security team (NSC, State, Defense, USUN, DNI/CIA, Homeland Security) and the core economic policy team (Treasury, NEC, OMB).
At the meeting, we will provide you with a list of names which includes:
Candidates for top positions; Deputies, as appropriate, to get a sense of how teams might be rounded out; and Supporting staff to get a perspective on the breadth, depth and diversity of the bench.
We will also have available the public vetting reports on most of the candidates for senior positions.
While we do not necessarily expect you to make final decisions as to specific appointments tomorrow, the objective of this meeting is to narrow the list to those you wish to serve in key posts, understanding that some candidates could serve in multiple jobs. This will allow the private vetting process to begin and to expedite their potential appointment/announcement. It will also allow us to identify those candidates you need to spend more time with before making final decisions.
Hasan Nemazee , the crooked Iranian campaign donor for Obama and Hillary Clinton and a bunch of other Democrats, is also the brother-in-law of British ambassador Sir Peter Westmacott.
Thanks - I’ve contacted and corrected my source - Pete Rouse was an Obama advisor. He left the Obama admin in 2014 and was succeeded bu John Podesta.
Obama has used email pseudonyms, I need a good list.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pete_Rouse
bobama@ameritech.net - that is one of his private emails I found in Wikileaks
Not sure if 3 to 5% qualifies as “primarily.”
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