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"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05764616 date: 07/31/2015 release in part b5 sent: saturday, september 19, 2009 9:10 am 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. sent: sat sep 19 08:56:35 2009 subject: fw: nalbandian statement/s calls : will she be able to call sargsian? highly recommend given ongoing. thanks. 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.\"  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 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05764616 date: 07/31/2015 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05764616 date: 07/31/2015 meetings of aliyev-medvedev-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.\" unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05764616 date: 07/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05770584 date: 08/31/2015 release in full sent: monday, may 17, 2010 10:04 pm subject: lavrov per your discussion with jake, we are doing lavrov call at 8:30am. he hasn't confirmed yet. unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05770584 date: 08/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05764345 date: 07/31/2015 release in full sent: sunday, august 23, 2009 9:13 am subject: strobe strobe talbott says he's expecting a call from you 10am. he gave all his numbers to ops if u want to call thru them. 145 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05764345 date: 07/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05767781 date: 08/31/2015 release in full sent: monday, january 11, 2010 8:01 am subject: out of office autoreply: npr i am currently out of the office on official travel and will be checking e-mail periodically. if you need immediate assistance, please call 202-647-9572.. unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05767781 date: 08/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05768926 date: 08/31/2015 release in part b6 sent: monday, march 22, 2010 7:34 am subject fw: haiti recovery blueprint includes foreign donors fyi sent: monday, march 22, 2010 7:29 am subject: haiti recovery blueprint includes foreign donors posted on sun, mar. 21, 2010 haiti recovery blueprint includes foreign donors by jacqueline charles jcharles@miamiherald.corn call it the $100 million club. that's the amount each donor nation will have to ante up for a say in haiti's early recovery under a plan haitian president rene preval plans to present at an international donors conference in new york at month's end. while haitian and foreign disaster experts were tallying the cost to rebuild after the jan. 12, 7.0-magnitude earthquake -- $11.5 billion -- preval and his advisors have been quietly negotiating the blueprint of the development plan that will shape haiti's reconstruction over the next decade. \"it moves it in the right direction,\" mark schneider, senior vice president of the washington d.c.-based international crisis group, said of the plan, which he has seen. \"i've said, the first phase of reconstruction is a decade. the real test is a generation and hopefully with partnerships both inside and outside of haiti, it will continue for that time period.\" the plan includes creation of an interim haitian recovery commission that will -- for the first time -- seek to guide how and where aid is spent by giving both haitians and foreigners a vote in reconstruction priorities and projects over the next 18 months. haiti's president will retain veto power and there's a starring role for former u.s. president bill clinton if he wants it. the blueprint is certain to come under plenty of scrutiny in haiti, a country plagued and in-fighting among donors. over the years, billions of dollars in aid -- often delivered after hurricanes or political coups -- has failed to produce any signs of lasting progress in a country that remains the poorest in the western hemisphere. unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05768926 date: 08/31/2015 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05768926 date: 08/31/2015 clinton, who is to visit haiti monday along with former president george w. bush, will be asked to help lead haiti's reconstruction planning over the short-term as co-chair -- along with the haitian prime minister - - of the commission, several sources confirmed to the miami herald. clinton, who is already in charge of the international relief effort for the united nations, has not said whether he'll accept the job as haiti's reconstruction czar but he has championed the strategy, saying the goal is to provide to haitians the success that has long eluded them.he and bush are visiting haiti, where more than 200,000 people were killed in the quake, in their roles as co-chairs of the clinton bush haiti fund. the private u.s. fundraising effort, initiated by president obama, has raised more than $36 million. the commission's goal will be to plan and coordinate reconstruction priorities and projects over the next 18 months with recommendations from a 20-member board made up of haitians and foreign donors. eventually, the commission would morph into the haiti development authority (hda), a central planning agency tasked with approving all reconstruction projects in haiti regardless of which country or aid agency is funding it. the authority's executive director, like that of the commission, likely would be a well-respected haitian. \"haitians must have the chance to lead the rebuilding of haiti,\" said u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton's chief of staff  , a key person in talks. \"development authorities have helped other countries that have large donor communities to accomplish their visions -- we want no less for haiti and its citizens.\" the original plan, first reported by the herald last month, was modeled on the successful reconstruction authority created in indonesia after the 2004 tsunami and presented by  to preval and top haitian officials last month. other countries and multilateral institutions also presented plans to the haitian government. the u.s. plan has since undergone several revisions at preyal's urging. among them: offering a voting seat on the commission's board to each donor pledging $100 million or more over the next two years and donors who provide $200 million in debt cancellation. as a result, venezuela is among the likely donors to help review and approve projects. initially 16 members, the board was expanded to give a say-so to haiti's private sector and labor unions and the 15-nation sub-regional caribbean community (carciom). the plan also establishes a multi-donor trust fund, administered by the world bank, to possibly pool donors' dollars for reconstruction projects. for decades, haiti has been plagued by a lack of planning and coordination among donor nations and aid groups as they battled among each other in the poverty-stricken country. using the indonesian model employed in indonesia after the asian tsunami, plan supporters say the reconstruction commission offers haiti the best chance to lead its own redevelopment and to change the way donors do business, ending an era where aid groups spend budgets larger than haitian ministries without any accountability to the haitian people. but that can only be achieved in haiti, say supporters, if donors and their projects are coordinated, and in line with haiti's vision and post-disaster reconstruction needs, which will be presented at the march 31 new york conference and remains a work in progress while the government seeks input from various haitian groups, including the diaspora. also haiti's parliament must vote on the creation of the interim haitian recovery commission. still, the idea of putting haiti's reconstruction into the hands of one central authority -- or having some donors channel their money into a trust fund -- is not without detractors. some argue that the authority could render government ministries obsolete because projects would now bypass them, while others point out that unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05768926 date: 08/31/2015 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05768926 date: 08/31/2015 a similar world bank fund in the sudan has been troubled by rules leaving schools and healthcare facilities undone as hundreds of millions of dollars remain unspent. meanwhile, haitian government officials worry that donors may not want to change the way they do business with haiti, rendering the reconstruction a failure before it gets started. \"the creation of the [trust fund] or the [haiti development authority] are improvements to changing the paradigm if and only if everybody plays the game -- putting most of their money in the fund -- and access to the funds is more flexible than the usual process of disbursing from the international donors,\" haitian prime minister jean-max bellerive told the herald. in the past, donors have pledged hundreds of millions of dollars to assist haiti but have fallen short in disbursing those dollars -- or at times spent the money on projects without consulting the haitian government about whether the projects were needed. last week, as representatives of the haitian government and others met to prepare for the new york conference, bellerive warned that \"new york could be a failure if we don't reach an agreement on the structure for the coordination and the organization of the trust fund. ..(and) don't manage to establish together the priorities for immediate investments,\" to begin reconstructing the country.  2010 miami herald media company. all rights reserved. http:fiwww.miamiherald.com read more: http://www.miamiherald.com/2010/03/21/v-print/1540944/haiti-recovery-blueprint-includes.html"
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05761766 date: 06/30/2015 release in full sent: thursday, june 04, 2009 1:26 pm subject: fw: kurt campbell fyi sent: thursday, june 04, 2009 11:15 am subject: kurt campbell has an sfrc hearing date for next wednesday morning. 1 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05761766 date: 06/30/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05768267 date: 08/31/2015 release in part b5 sent: saturday, march 20, 2010 12:45 pm subject re: abu mazen yup. already did that. original message ---- sent: sat mar 20 12:25:27 2010 subject: re: abu mazen i meant after 1:30. thx original message sent: sat mar 20 11:34:47 2010 subject: re: abu mazen they are in the original email i sent and pasting again below. oscar should have printed. original message ---- sent: sat mar 20 11:32:21 2010 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05768267 date: 08/31/2015 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05768267 date: 08/31/2015 subject: re: abu mazen where are points? jake did mention it, but i didn't know there was a decision. original message sent: sat mar 20 11:31:31 2010 subject: re: abu mazen oh i apologize. jake said he spoke with you about it and that you'd agreed to do it if mitchell recommended it. he does recommend it, these are points from him about what to say. and they asked if you would do today. iii follow up. original message sent: sat mar 20 11:26:34 2010 subject: re: abu mazen not until i have a report from mitchell. no one asked mer to call and i don't know what i'd say. original message sent: sat mar 20 11:25:37 2010 subject: abu mazen i understand you are ok making the abu mazen call. everyone agrees you should make it and they want you to do it today. can you do after marianne? below are points. unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05768267 date: 08/31/2015 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05768267 date: 08/31/2015 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05768267 date: 08/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2015-04841 doc no. c05739731 date: 05/13/2015 state dept. - produced to house select benghazi comm. subject to agreement on sensitive information & redactions. no foia waiver. release in part b6 sent; monday, september 17, 2012 9:19 am subject: fw: thanks sent: sunday, september 16, 2012 12:34 pm to ,  d; kennedy, patrick f; sherman, wendy r; marshall, capricia p subject fw: thanks b6 touching words from kudos to pat and capricia and all who organized so well, unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2015-04841 doc no. c05739731 date: 05/13/2015 state dept. - produced to house select benghazi comm. subject to agreement on sensitive information & redactions. no foia waiver. state-5cb0045405  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05763729 date: 07/31/2015 classified by das, a/gis, dos on 07/30/2015  class: confidential  reason: 1.4(d)  declassify on: 08/14/2024 release in part b1,1.4(d) sent: ,  j <n@state.gov> saturday, august 15, 2009 3:22 pm h; abedin, huma rch now recommends you call tonight. he spoke with him earlier this week and judges that your call -- if heb1 take it -- could be effective and even if not will help us with thef7 1.4(d) he proposes a simple message unclassified u.s. department of state case nod f-2014-20439 doc no. c05763729 date: 07/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05766491 date: 07/31/2015 release in full sent: friday, november 27, 2009 7:48 am subject: i am in the office if you need me or want to catch up unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05766491 date: 07/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05763802 date: 07/31/2015 release in part b6 sent: sunday, july 19, 2009 6:51 am subject: re: palau offended by us positions i'll call him this week. i think we have this largely sorted. jeff and i go back to puerto rico and guam in the primaries. original message sent: sun jul 19 06:45:35 2009 subject: re: palau offended by us positions thx for sending. i've forwarded to jake  in my office to follow up. original message b6 sent: fri jul 10 18:36:45 2009 subject: palau offended by us positions below is the statement of very impressive palau reps at the end of a session of required meetings on the next phase of free association aid. fyi only, the palauans were insulted by the nature and depth of the response to their proposal as well as the content and the overall approach. they are even privately questioning the relationship. (this hasn't affected their intent to take the uighurs.) i will send a few further thoughts. at the conclusion of yesterday's meeting, the palau delegation caucused to discuss its reaction to the response of the united states delegation to the proposals that it made in june in washington d.c., and expanded upon in subsequent communications. while the palau delegation has agreed to respond to certain additional questions raised by the united states delegation on specific elements of the palau proposal, and further has agreed to participate in certain working groups on specific issues, the palau delegation was deeply disappointed with the response of the united states delegation. the united states delegation did not seriously respond, as required by the compact, to the operational requirements of the government of palau or to palau's comprehensive and considered plans to achieve economic advancement and self- sufficiency. in light of the foregoing, the palau delegation has determined that it must now return to palau to discuss with president toribiong the next steps that palau needs to take regarding the compact. thank you. . jeff  268 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05763802 date: 07/31/2015 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05763802 date: 07/31/2015 jeffrey l. farrow 202-343-2905 o 7ka unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05763802 date: 07/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05766034 date: 08/31/2015 release in part b5,b6 sent: subject: ,  d <cd@state.gov> sunday, january 17, 2010 10:56 am h fw: rep. meek is haiti - details sent: sun jan 17 10:47:39 2010 subject: fw: rep. meek is haiti - details sent: sun jan 17 10:46:24 2010 subject: rep. meek is haiti - details flew into santo domingo last night. went overland to pap. with amb. merten in haiti. about to do an aerial tour w/amb. planning on going out with s. florida search and response teams. (was former state trooper so we think he has some experience in search and rescue, but cannot know for sure.) he's doing this on his own, so we're not sure what he's planning. his staff had been trying to persuade him not to travel for at least the immediate future, but it clearly didn't work. he has received too many phone calls from constituents encouraging him to go. contacts in his office: clarence williams, chief of staff hassan christian, (cell phone) (i've been talking to him.) unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05766034 date: 08/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05761441 date: 06/30/2015 release in part b6 sent: monday, june 01, 2009 2:29 pm subject: fw: did you see this?? sent: mon jun 01 12:30:43 2009 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 q1 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05761441 date: 06/30/2015 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05761441 date: 06/30/2015 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. 97 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05761441 date: 06/30/2015 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05761441 date: 06/30/2015 \"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 international development. unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05761441 date: 06/30/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05762594 date: 06/30/2015 release in full sent: friday, july 3,2009 11:41 am subject: re: as soon as we get word, we can. original message sent: fri jul 03 11:17:012009 subject: re: can you set up nakasone call? original message sent: fri jul 03 10:43:37 2009 subject: nita lowey called for you. also sending thru a nakasone call sheet. it suggests that you call after the iaea board formally acclaims amano's election. the meeting to do that is going on now in vienna, so we will let you know after the election is formally acclaimed so call can be scheduled if ok with you. unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05762594 date: 06/30/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05768055 date: 08/31/2015 release in full sent: friday, april 2, 2010 12:34 pm subject: fw: economist: the limits of freedom and faith see the piece below on defamation of religion. not bad. http: i /www.economist.com/world/international/displavstorv.cfm?story id=15833005 religion and human rights the limits of freedom and faith mar 31st 2010 from the economist print edition opponents of a bid by muslim states to \"protect religion\" claim a small success how dare you call us blasphemers? it does not happen often: christian lobbyists, the sort who favour prayer in american classrooms and crucifixes in italian ones, lining up on the same side as secularists who battle to curb religion's role in the public square. but in both those camps there has been some quiet satisfaction after a recent vote at the united nations. not over the outcome, but over the slim margin of defeat. on march 25th the human rights council (hrc), a geneva-based un agency which often exasperates its western members, voted by 20 votes to 17, with eight abstentions, for a text that lists the \"defamation of religion\" as an infringement of liberty. nothing amazing there: the organisation of the islamic conference (oic), which groups 56 mainly muslim states (plus palestine), has been working to push resolutions of that kind through the general assembly and other un bodies since 2005. but the margin was the smallest ever, and opponents think there could be a good chance of defeating a \"defamation\" motion next time one comes around. the oic's idea is to establish the principle that faiths need protection, just as individuals do. it denies any sinister intention (see article). and to some ears, the oic's effort sounds like harmless un-speak, but nothing more. (the united states commission on international religious freedom, a congressionally mandated body, has noted a logical flaw: defamation means harming the reputation of a living person or entity: that implies that one can't defame an idea or a religious founder who is no longer, at least physically, alive on earth.) but critics of the oic campaign, who include atheists, christians and indeed some muslims, say the \"defamation\" idea is worse than hot air: far from protecting human rights, it emboldens countries that use blasphemy laws to criminalise dissent. what encourages these critics is that more countries seem to be coming around to their view. mexico, uruguay, argentina, zambia and south korea voted against the latest resolution. brazil criticised the text but abstained. deeper still inside the un's bureaucracy, another battle over religion ragesand the stakes could be even higher. an \"ad hoc committee\" is mulling ways to amend or extend the un convention on racial discrimination. certain states want language that would fuse the categories of race and faith; some want a new convention, or a protocol to the existing one. unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05768055 date: 08/31/2015 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05768055 date: 08/31/2015 for secularists (in the broad sense of people, including believers, who oppose the idea of faith having privileged access to power), all this is alarming. non-binding resolutions against defamation are bad enough; a un treaty on race-plus-religion would have legal force, at least for its signatories, and give heart to theocrats. at the hrc's latest discussion of this effort in march, the algerian who oversees the project was keen to plough ahead. but countries like switzerland, japan, mexico, argentina and france retorted that it would be better to enforce the existing un norms than dream up new ones. efforts to widen the racism accord will resume, with a new chairman, late this yearbut critics are relieved to have stalled it. still, would-be theocrats may now focus harder on adding to the racism charter, because they face a real risk of being defeated over defamation, in the view of roy brown, geneva spokesman for the international humanist and ethical union. meanwhile a christian-inspired ngo, the european centre for law and justice, has been denouncing the abuse of blasphemy laws in many oic member states. how fair is their point? it is an easy case to make, for example, over pakistan. some 41 complaints of blasphemy were registered by police in pakistan last year, says that country's independent human rights commission. in theory, blasphemy is punishable by deatha penalty that has been handed down but never carried out. worst-hit by the law are minorities like christians and ahmadis, a group whose claim to be muslim is rejected by the pakistani state. although abuse of the law is less rife now than in the 1980s, when an islamist general tightened up the rules, the law is still invoked in disputes (over property, say) that have nothing to do with faith. \"the most vulnerable people, that is religious minorities, continue to be charged with blasphemy,\" said ali dayan hasan, a researcher at human rights watch, a campaign group. \"but are people convicted? no. rarely. it is used as an instrument of political and social coercion.\" when convictions occur, they lead to long jail terms; and pre-trial detention can last for years. pakistan's parliament is revising the constitution but it has left intact the religious bits, despite a vow by the ruling party to review the blasphemy laws. (indonesia too has stepped back from a move to liberalise its blasphemy regime.) on pakistani streets, the law has dire effects. in january 2009, in a village in punjab province, five ahmadis, a labourer and four children, were charged with blasphemy. they had supposedly written \"prophet muhammad\" on the wall of a mosque toilet. the children were behind bars for nearly six months till the charge was quashed. and last september a young pakistani christian was accused of throwing part of the koran down a drain. it seems that his real crime, however, was affection for a muslim woman. a mob torched a church, and many christians had to flee. he was taken to jail, where he died a few days later. his family alleged torture; the authorities claimed suicide. there was mayhem at the funeral and the country's christians (see picture) were appalled. in some places, it is not the \"defamation\" of faith that threatens rights but measures that supposedly defend it. unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05768055 date: 08/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05769509 date: 08/31/2015 release in part b6 sent: thursday, july 8, 2010 5:20 pm subject maggie williams called you back she will be around/reachable the rest of the evening. ops also has her phone number on file. 1"
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05770321 date: 08/31/2015 release in part b6 sent: tuesday, may 11, 2010 4:04 pm subject: so, done. suggestion... of course, you'll speak to the new foreign secretary william hague as soon as he is appointed, undoubtedly tomorrow. but you might wish to put in calls, perhaps tonight, but perhaps even better tomorrow, after everyone has had a night, to gordon, david and shaun. sid unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05770321 date: 08/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05766018 date: 08/31/2015 release in part b6 sent: tuesday, decem er 15, 2009 10:43 am subject: h: memo, idea on berlusconi attack. sid attachments: hrc memo berlusconi 121509.docx confidential december 15, 2009 for: hillary re: the berlusconi assault the physical attack on italian prime minister silvio berlusconi is a major political event in italy and europe. his assailant is a mentally disturbed man without a political agenda who has been in and out of psychiatric care since he was 18 years old. nonetheless, the assault has significant repercussions. it has generated sympathy for berlusconi as a victimhe has been obviously injured, lost two teeth and a pint of blood, and doctors will keep him in the hospital for perhaps a week for observation. the attack comes as berlusconi was beginning to lose political footing, having lost his legal immunity. one court inquiry is turning up evidence of his links to the mafia while another is examining his role in the bribery case of british lawyer david mills. berlusconi's government and party have used the attack as a way to turn the sudden sympathy for him to his advantage, claiming that his opponents have sown a climate of \"hate.\" through demogogic appeals they are attempting to discredit and rebuff the legal proceedings against him and undermine the investigative press. (berlusconi is suing la repu.bblica, the large independent newspaper in rome that has been most aggressive in digging into his affairs of all kind.) it would seem proper and decent for the president to call berlusconi to express his concern about his health and wish him a speedy recovery, if he hasn't done so already. there are many reasons for oba.ma to do this, not least to condemn violence against a democratically elected head of state. it would be awkward for the u.s. president not to call a western head of state of a nato country who has been physically harmed. berlusconi, for his part, would certainly make such a call public. it would therefore also be awkward if a call were used only as an element in his sympathy campaign against the court proceedings. if so, there is a larger message that should be communicated, perhaps by the president in his conversation, but most importantly through a statement from the state department, also conveyed by the u.s. ambassador in italy. the usg condemns any and all violence as an assault on democracy. by the same measure, this incident involving an apparently deranged individual should not be exploited to raise unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05766018 date: 08/31/2015 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05766018 date: 08/31/2015 social tensions. instead, it should inspire reflection on the necessity of every citizen to adhere to the rule of law as well as to respect freedom of speech and the press. two articles on the legal inguries into berlusconi below: http://www.independentocb.uk/newszworldieuruei edusconi-cut-deal- with-mafia-court-told-1834647.html berlusconi 'cut deal with mafia', court told former hitman claims italian pm gave 'benefits' to the mob for political support by michael day in milan saturday, 5 december 2009 the italian prime minister, silvio berlusconi, made a deal with the sicilian mafia in the early 1990s that put the country \"in the hands\" of the mob, a court in turin was told yesterday. g-aspare spatuzza, a jailed mafia hitman turned witness, told a packed and heavily guarded bunker courtroom that his cosa nostra godfather boss had cut a deal with mr berlusconi in 1993 that provided unspecified \"benefits\" to the mafia in exchange for political support. the media tycoon entered. politics a few months later and won his first term as prime minister in 1994. spatuzza said his boss, giuseppe graviano, who was jailed over mafia bomb attacks in rome, milan and florence, had told him that the mob had \"got everything\" with the help of mr berlusconi, adding that graviano called mr berlusconi \"the man from channel 5\", in reference to his tv network. the damaging claims came at the appeal hearing of marcell dell'utri, a key berlusconi associate and senator, who is challenging his nine-year jail sentence for links with the mafia. spatuzza, in prison for several murders, testified: \"graviano told me the name of berlusconi and said that thanks to him and the man from our home town [an apparent reference to dell' utri] we have the country in our hands.\"  mr berlusconi has denounced the claims of spatuzza as \"vile\", and \"unfounded and defamatory\", denying ever having links with the mafia. the prime minister's spokesman said the testimony yesterday was the mafia's \"completely logical\" revenge against the prime minister for his \"determined\" fight against organised crime. dell'utri told the court that neither he nor mr berlusconi had mafia connections. \"it's in the interest of the mafia to force the collapse of the berlusconi government because this government has done the most in the fight against organised crime,\" he said. mr berlusconi, who recently lost his legal immunity to prosecution, was said to have been furious this week, after the parliamentary speaker, gianfranco fini, the man who is supposed to be his closest ally, had said that the spatuzza evidence was \"an atomic bomb\". mr fini was recorded by an unobserved microphone while talking privately at an official dinner. rumours of the conservative prime minister's links with the mob have persisted since investigators learnt that a cosa nostra hitman, vittorio mangano, worked as mr berlusconi's \"stable-master\" at the media mogul's villa in arcore outside milan in the 1970s. much speculation has also centred on the origins of mr berlusconi's vast wealth. last week, the prime minister's broadcast group, mediaset, and his holding company, fininvest, announced it intended to sue the left-wing newspaper la repubblica over an article that said mediaset was \"20 per cent owned by the mafia\". la stampa newspaper noted that the \"dread combination of mafia allegations and separation from his wife are now his principal torments\". mr berlusconi's estranged wife, veronica lario, is said to be seeking a f3m-a- month divorce settlement, and a messy courtroom battle looms. mr berlusconi also faces a retrial on the charge that he bribed the british lawyer david mills to lie in court. time friday, dec. 04, 2009 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05766018 date: 08/31/2015 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05766018 date: 08/31/2015 after a court ruling, berlusconi's legal woes resume by jeff israely the world has spent the past six months wondering how  and with whom -- silvio berlusconi spends his saturday nights. but the combative, scandal-plagued prime minister of italy would prefer to talk about his mornings instead. \"do you know how i've been forced to spend my saturday mornings since i entered politics?\" berlusconi once declared to business leaders in rome. \"with my lawyers.\" italy's self-proclaimed defendant in chief makes a. point of lamenting all those weekends spoiled by stacks of court dossiers. as further proof that he is the victim of politically motivated magistrates, whom he called during the same speech \"the spreading cancer of our democracy.\" lsee berlusconi's worst vaffes.). to combat such perceived persecution, berlusconi has tested the bounds of decorous democratic conduct, including his allies' pushing a bill through parliament last year that gave him and other top italian officeholders immunity from prosecution. but since the constitutional court overturned that law in october, several criminal investigations into berlusconi's business dealings have been reopened, with other new charges rumored to be looming. the potentially most damaging trial is set to resume friday, dec. 4, in milan, with the 73-year-old billionaire being accused of paying british attorney david mills $600,000 in 1997 to withhold incriminating evidence about his broadcasting empire mediaset. mills is appealing a conviction in the same case; both men have denied any wrongdoing. so, alas, berlusconi is back to spending his downtime with a well-paid cadre of more than a dozen avvocati, who have been successful so far in keeping their biggest client clear of criminal convictions. not that the lawyers have ever really gone away. since the media baron first ran for office 15 years ago, his legal advisers have doubled as political consiglieri, key members of parliament and even important cabinet ministers. indeed, while some critics have spoken of berlusconi's reign as a kind of sultanate of showgirls or government by gaffe, others have described it as a republic of attorneys. (see what beriusconi's obama \"jok.es\" sqy about italy.) his longtime lawyer cesare previti served as italian defense minister during beriusconi's first term in 1994 before being convicted of corruption himself (and losing twice on appeal). during berlusconi's second term (2001-06), gaetano pecorella, a former leftist, served as president of parliament's justice commission, where he was instrumental in shepherding through new laws that helped shield berlusconi from investigating magistrates. giovanni sartori, a columbia university professor of constitutional law, says the role berlusconi's personal lawyers have played in his legislative agenda is yet another gargantuan conflict of interest to add to those related to his ownership of italy's main private television stations. but by now, sartori says, berlusconi's lawyers have perfected the art of exploiting italy's painfully slow justice system: many cases conclude without a final verdict because the statute of limitations has been reached. \"it is more a mania than a necessity,\" sartori says of berlusconi's near obsession in battling magistrates. \"he feels persecuted, and fighting the judges is what makes him happy.\" berlusconi's current point man is nicol ghedini, a somber-faced, lanky 49-year-old criminal-defense attorney from the northern city of padua, who has served in both the italian senate and the lower house of parliament. ghedini has continued to mount a grinding defense in the criminal cases, arguing in the mills case that berlusconi cannot be present in the milan courtroom for the next several months because of time conflicts with his duties as prime minister. ghedini has also spearheaded an increasingly aggressive legal strategy that has included several libel suits against opposition newspapers. he declared in september that if necessary, berlusconi would testify in a suit against a journalist who referred to rumors that the prime minister is impotent. last week, berlusconi vowed to launch additional suits against newspapers that printed unsubstantiated reports that a close adviser of his was involved in a 1993 bombing campaign by the sicilian mafia. (read \"an offended berlusconi goes on the offensive.\") despite these many legal headaches, 'berlusconi is embroiled in one other particularly thorny case that even he can't blame on overzealous magistrates. veronica lario, berlusconi's wife of more than. 20 years, filed for divorce earlier this year, which sparked an avalanche of accusations that he frequented a prostitute from bari unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05766018 date: 08/31/2015 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05766018 date: 08/31/2015 and an underage model from naples. the milan daily corriere della sera reported last week that lario has demanded 3.5 million euros ($5.2 million) in monthly payments, and berlusconi countered with an offer of 300,000 euros ($450,000). no matter how this and the other cases shake out, there is little hope that berlusconi can avoid a mountain of lawyers' fees and some grim saturdays that he'd rather devote to other business and pleasures.  find this article at:  hit): //www. t e cornitimeiwo rid/article/0,85 99.1945439.,:00. html unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05766018 date: 08/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05771941 date: 08/31/2015 release in part b6 sent: monday, september 6 2010 1:33 pm subject: h: more, memo "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05771099 date: 08/31/2015 release in full sent: wednesday, august 25, 2010 9:30 am subject: call: fmr. dep. sec armitage has a call into you re: the american turkish council. "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05771375 date: 08/31/2015 release in part b6 sent: tuesday, november 2, 2010 8:33 pm b6 subject: re: h: election day memo on post-midterms. sid exits show 50 plus loss in house and 7-8 senate sent via droid on verizon wireless original message sent: tue, nov 2, 2010 23:39:46 gmt+00:00 subject: re: h: election day memo on post-midterms. sid thx, as always, for your insights. i'm on a plane on the way to papua new guinea for the next 6 hours so pis email me results as you get them. needless to say, i'm so distressed over all of this. all the best, h original messa e sent: tue nov 02 16:55:51 2010 subject: h: election day memo on post-midterms. sid confidential november 2, 2010 for: hillary re: post mid-terms strategy what i hear from republican sources and elsewhere and what it means for republican strategy: 1. rove is telling his donors that the ticket in 2012 is romney/barbour. haley barbour is rove's ally. together they constitute the heart of the gop establishment. in a potential republican unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05771375 date: 08/31/2015 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05771375 date: 08/31/2015 administration barbour would be a new kind of cheney, but more politically skillful. 2. rove is at war with palin. he has told his donors she must be stopped. palin is well aware. the politico story filled with anonymous quotes about a murky establishment vs. palin is about the death star of rove/barbour. ironies: rove doubled down on a base strategy for bush, galvanizing the right wing, now spun out of his control to palin. the gop used the far right and palin in the mid-terms and now have to kill them in presidential nomination politics. attacking palin only builds her stature with the right. she plays instinctively to the base, but can she play a long game against the big boys determined to destroy her? 3.palin has already aligned glenn beck and rush limbaugh on her side. fox news is being split. murdoch gave his big donation to the republican governors association, headed by barbour. 4. malcolm hoenlein has been raising money hand over fist for the republicans through eric cantor, now his vehicle. the donors are many of the same us donors to bibi and likud. implications obvious. 5. the house republicans have already planned to primary all senate republican moderates in the next cycle. olympia snowe is a particular target. 6.in the senate, jim demint continues to be a fifth column of the right, allied to the house republicans, against remaining senate gop moderates. he will be reinforced after this election with rand paul, et al. paul, of course, hates mitch mcconnell, and vice versa. 7.mcconnell's statement the day before the mid-terms that the goal of the gop is to make obama a one term president is, in fact, their agenda. everything in the house and senate will be bent to that end. 8.can the house republicans and senate republicans restrain themselves in their own interest and mcconnell's stated aim? boehner is despised by the younger, more conservative members of the house republican conference. they are repelled by his personal behavior. he is louche, alcoholic, lazy, and without any commitment to any principle. boehner has already tried to buy the members with campaign contributions and committee assignments, which he has already promised to potentially difficult members. his hold is insecure. he is not gingrich, the natural leader of a \"revolution,\" riding the crest into power. he is careworn and threadbare, banal and hollow, holding nobody's enduring loyalty. boehner is beholden and somewhat scared of his base. he twitches when they make gestures that might undermine his position. his impulse is to hand out money. his aim is to recreate delay, inc, with jerry lewis, who will be the new chairman of appropriations. but boehner is neither feared nor loved. he's a would-be delay without the whip. he's the one at the end of the lash. which means he will be under great pressure and find it hard to sustain a moderate, reasonable strategy of restraint. mcconnell is relatively in the same position in the senate. on the other hand, the congressional republicans are vulnerable to a strategy that takes advantage of their internal divisions. policies/tactics should be calculated to locate gop fissures, find political space by widening schisms, and ultimately break them apart. this is, emphatically, not a strategy of bipartisanship as obama has pursued it so far. it is a different and more informed approach. unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05771375 date: 08/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05772575 date: 08/31/2015 release in full sent: friday, october 8, 2010 7:19 pm subject: re: call request: steinberg we let steinberg know that you won't be at a secure phone for at least two hours. he is unsure of how late he will be available this evening, so his preference is to check back in with ops later on in the evening. when he does that i will let you know. original message sent: fri oct 08 19:06:56 2010 subject: re: call request: steinberg pls let him know i won't be at secure phone for at least two hours. how late can i call? original message sent: fri oct 08 18:51:39 2010 subject: call request: steinberg ms: dep. sec steinberg has asked, via ops, for a secure call with you. "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05776496 date: 08/31/2015 release in full sent: thursday, december 2, 2010 7:20 am subject: fw: update: (reuters) swedish high court decides against hearing appeal from wikileaks founder assange sent: thu dec 02 05:49:24 2010 subject: update: (reuters) swedish high court decides against hearing appeal from wikileaks founder assange stockholm (reuters) - sweden's highest court has refused permission to wikileaks founder julian assange to appeal against an arrest order issued over alleged sexual crimes, the court said on december 2. assange's lawyer had this week appealed against an arrest warrant, which has also led to an interpol notice. assange has denied the allegations. the court decision means the domestic and international arrest warrants still stand. unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05776496 date: 08/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05764539 date: 07/31/2015 release in full sent: wednesday, august 26, 2009 8:55 am what do u want to do about kennedy? statement or letter? unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05764539 date: 07/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05770990 date: 08/31/2015 release in part b5 sent: saturday, august 14, 2010 12:12 pm subject: a few more points this is what i got from s/rap: -- pakistan has asked the unga to convene a special plenary session on pakistan on august 19 in new york. zardari will likely mention this and request the secretary's participation. unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05770990 date: 08/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05763376 date: 06/30/2015 release in part b1,1.4(d),b6 sent: wednesday, july 15, 2009 11:44 pm subject: fw: update on us support of goh plan fvi sent: wednesday, july 15, 2009 11:43 pm subject: update on us support of goh plan dear prime minister pierre louis b6 1.4(d) b1 best, cdm classified by das, a/gis, dos on 06/30/2015 - class: confidential - reason: 1.4(d) - declassify on: 07/14/2029 238 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05763376 date: 06/30/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2015-04841 doc no. c05739592 date: 05/13/2015 state dept. - produced to house select benghazi comm. subject to agreement on sensitive information & redactions. no foia waiver. release in part b5,b6 from ,  j <jj@state.gov> sent: thursday, september 13, 2012 1:26 pm subject rv: quick summary of potus calls to presidents of libya and egypt fyi sent: thursday, september 13, 2012 6:00 am to burns, william 3; sherman, wendy r; ,  subject: fw: quick summary of potus calls to presidents of libya and egypt fysa please do not forward b5 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2015-04841 doc no. c05739592 date: 05/13/2015 state dept. - produced to house select benghazi comm. subject to agreement on sensitive information & redactions. no foia waiver. state-5cb0045296  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05768064 date: 08/31/2015 release in part b6 sent: wednesday, march 17, 2010 9:06 pm subject: re: h; fyi. sid waiting at nora's now with jackie for shaun and his wife camilla, you're welcome to join us. if you're around sunday joe wilson is coming by to show the cut of the film about him and valerie starring sean penn. just us and joe and the film. everything you've done on ni has had a beneficial effect. all good. this is a happy st pat's sid sent via cingular xpress mail with blackberry original message date: wed, 17 mar 2010 20:40:53 subject: re: h; fyi. sid i hadn't seen it until you sent it. so thx, as always, for the headsup. i had a great visit w shaun and all the irishmuch happier times. original message sent: sun mar 14 23:51:33 2010 subject: h; fyi. sid h: assume you have seen the \"petraeus briefing story\" or otherwise are familiar with its contents. in any case, here it is. it was blazoned atop the foreign policy website, the most widely read site on international affairs daily, owned and published by the washington post. below the piece is a note by its writer about his sourcing that appeared on a small website elsewhere. also, i've included an article by max blumenthal, who spends his time on this issue and plans to move to israel for about 6-8 months to write a book. he tracks a lot of things that do not appear in the mainstream press. sid http://mideastforeignpolicy.com/posts/2010/03/14/the_petraeus_briefing_biden_s_embarrassment_is_not_the_whol e_story the petraeus briefing: biden's embarrassment is not the whole story posted by mark perry <http://www.foreignpolicy.com/images/091022_meta_block.gif> saturday, march 13, 2010 - on jan. 16, two days after a killer earthquake hit haiti, a team of senior military officers from the u.s. central command (responsible for overseeing american security interests in the middle east), arrived at the pentagon to brief joint chiefs of staff chairman adm. michael mullen on the israeli-palestinian conflict. the team had been dispatched by centcom commander gen. david petraeus to underline his growing worries at the lack of progress in resolving the issue. the 33- slide, 45-minute powerpoint briefing stunned mullen. the briefers reported that there was a growing perception among arab leaders that the u.s. was incapable of standing up to israel, that centcom's mostly arab constituency was losing unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05768064 date: 08/31/2015 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05768064 date: 08/31/2015 faith in american promises, that israeli intransigence on the israeli-palestinian conflict was jeopardizing u.s. standing in the region, and that mitchell himself was (as a senior pentagon officer later bluntly described it) \"too old, too slow ... and too late.\" the january mullen briefing was unprecedented. no previous centcom commander had ever expressed himself on what is essentially a political issue; which is why the briefers were careful to tell mullen that their conclusions followed from a december 2009 tour of the region where, on petraeus's instructions, they spoke to senior arab leaders. \"everywhere they went, the message was pretty humbling,' a pentagon officer familiar with the briefing says. \"america was not only viewed as weak, but its military posture in the region was eroding.\" but petraeus wasn't finished: two days after the mullen briefing, petraeus sent a paper to the white house requesting that the west bank and gaza (which, with israel, is a part of the european command -- or eucom), be made a part of his area of operations. petraeus's reason was straightforward: with u.s. troops deployed in iraq and afghanistan, the u.s. military had to be perceived by arab leaders as engaged in the region's most troublesome conflict. [update: a senior military officer denied sunday that petraeus sent a paper to the white house. \"centcom did have a team brief the cjcs on concerns revolving around the palestinian issue, and centcom did propose a ucp change, but to cjcs, not to the wh,\" the officer said via email. \"gen petraeus was not certain what might have been conveyed to the wh (if anything) from that brief to cjcs.\" (ucp means \"unified combatant command,\" like centcom; cjcs refers to mullen; and wh is the white house.)] the mullen briefing and petraeus's request hit the white house like a bombshell. while petraeus's request that centcom be expanded to include the palestinians was denied (\"it was dead on arrival,\" a pentagon officer confirms), the obama administration decided it would redouble its efforts pressing israel once again on the settlements issue, sending mitchell on a visit to a number of arab capitals and dispatching mullen for a carefully arranged meeting with the chief of the israeli general staff, lt. general gabi ashkenazi. while the american press speculated that mullen's trip focused on iran, the jcs chairman actually carried a blunt, and tough; message on the israeli-palestinian conflict: that israel had to see its conflict with the palestinians \"in a larger, regional, context\" -- as having a direct impact on america's status in the region. certainly, it was thought, israel would get the message. israel didn't. when vice president joe biden was embarrassed by an israeli announcement that the netanyahu government was building 1,600 new homes in east jerusalem, the administration reacted. but no one was more outraged than biden who, according to the israeli daily yedioth ahronoth, engaged in a private, and angry, exchange with the israeli prime minister not surprisingly, what biden told netanyahu reflected the importance the administration attached to petraeus's mullen briefing: \"this is starting to get dangerous for us,\" biden reportedly told netanyahu. \"what you're doing here undermines the security of our troops who are fighting in iraq, afghanistan and pakistan. that endangers us and it endangers regional peace.\" yedioth ahronoth went on to report: \"the vice president told his israeli hosts that since many people in the muslim world perceived a connection between israel's actions and us policy, any decision about construction that undermines palestinian rights in east jerusalem could have an impact on the personal safety of american troops fighting against islamic terrorism.\" the message couldn't be plainer: israel's intransigence could cost american lives. there are important and powerful lobbies in america: the nra, the american medical association, the lawyers -- and the israeli lobby. but no lobby is as important, or as powerful, as the u.s. military. while commentators and pundits might reflect that joe biden's trip to israel has forever shifted america's relationship with its erstwhile ally in the region, the real break came in january, when david petraeus sent a briefing team to the pentagon with a stark warning: america's relationship with israel is important, but not as important as the lives of america's soldiers. maybe israel gets the message now. mark perry's newest book is talking to terrorists <http://www.amazon.com/talking-terrorists-america-engage- enemies/dp/0465011179> http://warincontext.org/2010/03/14/israel-is-putting-american-lives-at-risk/ my piece on the briefing of admiral mullen by centcom senior officers has occasioned a great deal of comment, as well as some skepticism: how accurate is the account? was it told to me by direct participants in the briefing? is there any basis for imagining that petraeus has any kind of hidden agenda, whether that is a desire to expand centcom  or even hostility towards israel. i won't name my sources, even though it's clear to people in the pentagon  and certainly to general petraeus  who they are. was i told of the briefing by the briefers themselves? i will only say that there were four people in the briefing unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05768064 date: 08/31/2015 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05768064 date: 08/31/2015 the two briefers, admiral mullen, and admiral mullen's primary adviser on the israeli-palestinian conflict. i know two of the people involved in the briefing. whether or not they are my sources is something for the reader to determine. the account is not only accurate, it's a precis of what actually happened. there is a lot more to it. the white house, state department and pentagon have not denied the account, and for good reason: it's true. is there any basis for imagining that petraeus has any kind of hidden agenda in ordering the briefing? i have been reporting on the american military for thirty years. my work on the joint chiefs of staff, four stars <http://www.amazon.com/four-stars-forty-year-americas-civilian/dp/0395429234> , is the authoritative account on the subject. i have deeply rooted contacts in the military that go back thirty years. i have never met a senior military officer whom i do not admire. there is no greater insult than to believe that general petraeus or any other senior american military officer would use the lives of american soldiers as a lever to enhance their own political future. my sense is that general petraeus neither likes nor dislikes israel: but he loves his country and he wants to protect our soldiers. the current crisis in american relations with israel is not a litmus test of general petraeus's loyalty to israel, but of his, and our, concern for those americans in uniform in the middle east. it is, perhaps, a sign of the depth of \"the biden crisis\" that every controversy of this type seems to get translated into whether or not america and its leaders are committed to israel's security. this isn't about israel's security, it's about our security. http://maxblumenthal.com/2010/03/pastor-hagee-and-netanyahus-lovefest-on-eve-of-bidens-arrival-in-israel/ netanyahu and pastor hagee's lovefest on eve of biden's arrival in israel <http://maxblumenthal.com/2010/03/pastor- hagee-and-netanyahus-lovefest-on-eve-of-bidens-arrival-in-israel/> on 03.09.10, by max (videos recorded by rachel tabachnick <http://zeek.forward.com/authors/rachel-tabachnick>; more videos coming shortly.) vice president joe biden was greeted in jerusalem with the announcement <http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/articielalecim5ioi_ojt09rjmwpnroxncndrprq3gd9eb9n580> that the israeli interior ministry approved the construction of 1600 new homes in occupied east jerusalem contrary to u.s. wishes and complicating biden's mission <http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/mar/07/joe-biden-israel-palestinian- talks> to help jump start the peace process. but biden should have known that prime minister bibi netanyahu intended to upset his plans by netanyahu's appearance with john hagee. the day after a series of talks between us special envoy for the middle east george mitchell and netanyahu, and a day before biden's arrival, netanyahu appeared onstage with pastor john hagee in jerusalem. the occasion was hagee's night to honor israel, an event the far-right texas-based preacher arranged to tout his ministry's millions in donations to israeli organizations and to level bellicose rhetoric against israel's perceived enemies. at the gathering, hagee called iranian president mahmoud ahmadinejad \"the hitler of the middle east\" and denounced the goldstone report as \"character assassination by an unbiased and uninformed committee.\" netanyahu welcomed the crowd of 1000 american evangelicals to jerusalem, a city he described as \"the undivided, eternal capitol of the jewish people. then, he told them, \"i salute you! the jewish people salute you!\" he used the rest of his speech to call for \"tough, biting sanctions\" against iran that \"bite deep into its energy sector.\" hagee and netanyahu appear together on stage: in the audience were top-level members of the israeli government, from ambassador michael oren to jerusalem mayor 'mr barkat to deputy foreign minister danny ayalon. also present was rabbi shlorno riskin, the chief rabbi of the illegal west bank settlement of efrat who gained notoriety for lobbying president bill clinton to pardon his friend, fugitive billionaire marc rich. ayalon had stirred controversy <http://haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1150484.html> days before when he refused to meet with a us congressional delegation brought to israel by the progressive jewish group j street. part one of hagee's speech: part two: unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05768064 date: 08/31/2015 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05768064 date: 08/31/2015 pastor hagee in jerusalem 3/8/10 (part ii) <http://vimeo.com/10034685> from max j blumenthal <http://vimeo.com/user3344487> on vimeo <http://vimeo.com> hagee's ceremony featured a 15-minute film highlighting the recipients of donations from john hagee ministries that totaled $58 million since 2001. the recipients included jewish settlements from the west bank like gush etzion and shomron, which was involved in promoting an \"obama hilltop project\" <http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/277856,jewish-settlers-launch-obama-hilltop-project.html> that promoted more settlement building and compared obama to pharoah. hagee also announced funding for a pressure group run by the settlers evacuated from gush katif in gaza in 2005. during israel's assault on gaza in 2009, a group of gush katif residents lobbied <http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1054491.html> the israel government to allow them to resettle the palestinian coastal region. who is hagee funding in israel? who is hagee funding in israel? <http://vimeo.com/10027708> from max blumenthal <http://vimeo.com/user1924826> on vimeo <http://vimeo.com> . the most notable of hagee's funding recipients was an organization called im tirtzu. a student representative of this group appeared in the film to thank hagee for \"help[ing] us to ensure that students in israel are on the right path, the path of zionism, the love of israel, the path of solidarity.\" another student called for \"the second revolution in israel.\" in february, im tirtzu funding a smear campaign against former knesset member and new israel fund director naomi chazan <http://www.nif.org/meclia-center/press-releases/former-mk-naomi.html> that included posters caricaturing her with a horn on her head. the group misleadingly accused the new israel fund of bankrolling 16 human rights organizations that contributed documentation to the goldstone report. the smear campaign led to unsuccessful legislation in the knesset designed to further cripple already marginalized israeli human rights groups. meanwhile, the jerusalem post fired <http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1147783.html> chazan as a columnist without explanation. gideon levy, a columnist for ha'aretz, called <http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1148014.html> irn tirtzu \"a mccarthyite movement\" for its attacks on chazan. although cur attempted to distance itself <http://www.jpost.com/jewishworld/jewishnlews/article.aspx?id=167666> from im tirtzu's campaign, the organization's appearance during cur's jerusalem ceremony suggested that hagee would continue to provide it with funding well into the future. republican senator john mccain repudiated the endorsement <http://www.cnn.corn/2008/politics/05/22/mccain.hagee/index.html> of hagee during his 2008 presidential campaign after hagee's statements describing the holocaust as a fulfillment of divine prophecy came to light. hagee has also said that <http://www.huffingtonpost.com/max-blumenthal/pastor-hagee-the-antichri_b_104608.html> he believed the anti-christ was \"partially jewish, as was adolph hitler.\" however, none of hagee's comments have deterred israeli government officials from embracing him or accepting his millions in annual charity. during hagee's speech, he made no secret of his support for the illegal settlement enterprise that has been the source of difficulties between the us and israel. \"the settlements are not the problem,\" he boomed from the podium. \"the problem is the refusal of arab leaders to respect the right of jewish people to live anywhere in the middle east.\" hagee received a rousing ovation from the crowd and the israeli government officials seated beside the podium when he proclaimed, \"world leaders do not have the authority to tell israel and the jewish people what they can and cannot do in the city of jerusalem. they don't have the authority to tell them what they can and cannot build, who can and and cannot live there.\" the following day, on march 9, vice president joseph biden arrived in israel to meet with netanyahu and officials from the palestinian authority. he told reporters <http://haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1155106.html> after touching down that he saw \"a moment of real opportunity.\" <http://www.amazon.com/talking-terrorists-america-engage-enemies/dp/0465011179> unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05768064 date: 08/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05766351 date: 07/31/2015 release in part b6 sent: thursday, october 22, 2009 4:19 am subject fw: la fyi from jose re mayor villaraigosa who offered to help raise for shanghai: \"antonio did say that he has not heard from secy since election. i wonder how feasible it would be to get her to call him to thank him for his commitment to help? i think he can easily raise $2m. \" see b/i cdm original message --- sent: wed oct 21 21:07:37 2009 subject: fw: la fyi - in case this makes it up your way... original message ---- sent: wed oct 21 20:51:30 2009 subject: la had good meeting with antonio villaraigosa this morning. he is totally supportive and commited to help raise money and sponsor an la presence. he totally got it. do you know jay carson, his press guy? he was one of our campaign press hands. also, his head of intl, dario, says he worked with you at wh legis affairs. antonio did say that he has not heard from secy since election. i wonder how feasible it would be to get her to call him to thank him for his commitment to help? i think he can easily raise $2m. this is the figure we talked about. his competitiveness got going when i told him that henry cisneros is helping raise $1m in little ole san antonio... on my way to houston tomorrow to meet with leaders there fri morning... we should figure out a ny strategy. with tx, ca & ny, we have strong geographic balance. irs circular 230 notice requirement: this communication is not given in the form of a covered opinion, within the meaning of circular 230 issued by the united states secretary of the treasury. thus, we are required to inform you that you cannot rely upon any tax advice contained in this communication for the purpose of avoiding united states federal tax penalties. in addition, any tax advice contained in this communication may not be used to promote, market or recommend a transaction to another party. the information contained in this e-mail message is intended only for the personal and confidential use of the recipient(s) named above. if you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by e-mail, and delete the original message. unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05766351 date: 07/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05773114 date: 08/31/2015 release in full sent: tuesday, october 19, 2010 8:27 am subject: fw: (ap) indian report: pakistan spies tied to mumbai siege sent: tue oct 19 03:55:17 2010 subject: (ap) indian report: pakistan spies tied to mumbai siege new delhi (ap) - a u.s. citizen convicted of scouting locations for the 2008 mumbai attack said pakistan's spy agency was deeply involved in the planning of the assault. david headley told indian interrogators that officers from pakistan's inter-services intelligence agency gave him $25,000 to fund his scouting missions to mumbai ahead of the attack. he said he debriefed his isi handler every time he returned to pakistan from mumbai. he said his handler also made suggestions about how best to carry out the attack. the revelations were contained in the indian government's report on its june interrogation of headley. the report, marked secret, was obtained by the associated press. the mumbai attacks killed 166 people. unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05773114 date: 08/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05767730 date: 08/31/2015 release in part b5 sent: monday, january 18, 2010 4:01 pm subject: fw: fox and adoptive parents sent: mon jan 18 15:58:18 2010 subject: fox and adoptive parents fox is focused on one family, joshua and elizabeth daby of rochester, ny, who have children standing to adopt, johnny and marie. they are in this category where we are evidently waiting for the government of haiti to approve. i just did a phone interview with sheppard smith and it turns out mr. daby, saying we are doing everything possible to move such cases pj unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05767730 date: 08/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05760685 date: 06/30/2015 release in full sent: friday, april 03, 2009 11:55 am subject: fw: nominees confirmed fyi original message sent: friday, april 03, 2009 12:46 am subject: nominees confirmed just a couple of minutes ago, the senate confirmed the following nominees: cal. "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05768228 date: 08/31/2015 release in full sent: saturday, april 10, 2010 10:12 am subject: re: sign off thx original message sent: sat apr 10 10:09:05 2010 subject: re: sign off ok. original message ---- sent: sat apr 10 09:50:59 2010 subject: sign off u ok with statement? statement by the secretary the death of polish president kaczynski and his delegation i join president obama in offering my deepest condolences to the people of poland, to the kaczynski family, and to the families of all those killed in this tragedy. lost alongside president kaczynski and his wife were polish leaders from across the political spectrum, men and women who shaped and sped poland's post-1989 democratic transformation and were leading poland into its promising future. the tragedy of these lives cut short will be felt deeply across the world, but their legacy will live on in a free and flourishing poland. the united states stands with the polish people in this difficult hour. like the country he led, president kaczynski was one of america's most valued and trusted allies. he was well known in the united states as a champion for democracy against an oppressive regime, a man whose journey took him from the gdarisk shipyards to the presidency of a free people. president kaczynski was an unstinting advocate for freedom and n rights not just in poland, but around the world. he will be long remembered and sorely missed. the polish people have endured more than their share of sorrow, but they have always shown resilience and resolve in the face of adversity -- and i know they will pull together in solidarity to grieve this loss. my thoughts and prayers are with all the people of poland today. unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05768228 date: 08/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05778443 date: 08/31/2015 release in full sent: wednesday, december 15, 2010 8:49 pm subject: fw: eu stopped euro 47 million sent: wednesday, december 15, 2010 3:59 pm subject: eu stopped euro 47 million lut tells me eu stopped euro 47 million disbursement of direct budget support until the crisis is resolved and there is a verifiably democratically elected govt in place. kenneth merten ambassador u.s. embassy port-au-prince, haiti tel: 509-2-229-8000 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05778443 date: 08/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05766665 date: 08/31/2015 - release in full sent: wednesday, december 23, 2009 2:39 pm subject can you hang up the fax line, they will call again and try fax unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05766665 date: 08/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05764193 date: 07/31/2015 release in part b6 sent: tuesday, september 1, 2009 3:59 pm subject: re: yes we have asked wh for a time original message sent: tue sep 01 15:56:02 2009 subject: re: so lona will include in daily schedule for tuesday? original message sent: tue sep 01 15:55:11 2009 subject: re: tuesday we think. original message sent: tue sep 01 15:54:08 2009 subject: re: i'll wait to see him in person next week. do we know when that would be? original message sent: tue sep 01 15:48:40 2009 subject: re: thx few other notes: - wh is asking if u want to speak with potus tomorrow during the meeting time? would be 10:20am. would you like to do a call with him or wait and meet with him in person? - cdm can explain the document i just asked oscar to print for you. b6 original message sent: tue sep 01 15:37:28 2009 subject: re: unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05764193 date: 07/31/2015 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05764193 date: 07/31/2015 release in part b6 ok. thx. enjoy the war. see you in dc. original message sent: tue sep 01 14:38:23 2009 subject: wanted to let you know i decided to go to dc for the wh iftar tonite and big unga meeting tomorrow morning. b6 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05764193 date: 07/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05776517 date: 08/31/2015 release in full sent: thursday, december 2, 2010 9:49 am subject: fw: (ap) palestinians angered over new israeli construction sent: thu dec 02 07:19:39 2010 subject: (ap) palestinians angered over new israeli construction jerusalem (ap) - israel is moving ahead with a plan for 625 new homes in east jerusalem, angering palestinians as peace talks remain stuck over settlement construction. the plan received preliminary approval from a district planning committee, which published an announcement on november 25. further approval is required and construction will not begin for about two years. palestinian negotiator saeb erekat said december 2 the move showed israel had chosen \"settlements and not peace.\" the units are slated for pisgat zeev. while israelis consider it a neighborhood of their capital, the palestinians see it as a settlement. unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05776517 date: 08/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05769272 date: 08/31/2015 release in full sent: friday, july 2, 2010 12:33 pm subject: pakistan bombing fyi we are putting out the following statement. statement by secretary clinton bombing of the shrine of syed ali hujviri in lahore i was shocked and saddened by yesterday's attack on one of pakistan's most popular places of worship, the shrine of syed all hujviri (data ganjbakhsh) in lahore, which claimed the lives of many innocent pakistanis. the extremists have shown that they respect neither human dignity nor the fundamental religious values of pakistani society. violating the sanctity of this revered shrine is a particularly sinister attempt to destabilize pakistan and to intimidate its people. the attackers will not succeed, as the pakistani public refuses to be cowed by such violence. we condemn this brutal crime and reaffirm our commitment to support the pakistani people in their efforts to defend their democracy from the violent extremists who seek to destroy it. our thoughts and prayers are with the families of the victims and with all the people of pakistan. "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05770874 date: 08/31/2015 release in full sent: thursday, july 29, 2010 10:09 am subject: fw: (ap) arab league backs palestinians on restarting talks sent: thu jul 29 10:06:50 2010 subject: (ap) arab league backs palestinians on restarting talks cairo (ap) - qatar's prime minister says the arab nations have endorsed direct palestinian talks with the israelis but left the timing to the palestinians themselves. sheik hamad bin jassem al thani, who chaired the meeting of arab foreign ministers in cairo said july 29 the timing of the direct talks \"is a matter for the palestinian side to decide.\" the u.s. and the europeans have been pushing palestinian president mahmoud abbas to restart the direct talks, which broke off in 2008, immediately. abbas, however, has said he would only restart talks if israel agrees to a halt in settlement construction and accepts a palestinian state in territories seized in the 1967 middle east war, the west bank, gaza, and east jerusalem. he first wants progress in the current u.s. mediated indirect talks. unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05770874 date: 08/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05777095 date: 08/31/2015 release in part b6 sent: saturday, december 4, 2010 8:55 am subject: re: followup ok ----- original message sent: sat dec 04 08:40:36 2010 subject: followup <monica.hanley pls get me two hard copies of foreign policy's top 100 global thinkers pis see if the library has a copy of claire parkinson: coming climate crisis? consider the past, beware the big fix pis see if library has copy of mary gardiner jones, tearing down walls unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05777095 date: 08/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05771278 date: 08/31/2015 release in part b5 sent: friday, august 20, 2010 3:13 pm subject: update unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05771278 date: 08/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05765044 date: 07/31/2015 release in full sent: thursday, september 10, 2009 7:53 pm karine will be there at 6:45 tomorrow. unclassified u.s. department of state case no. g2014-20439 doc no. c05765044 date: 07/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05761782 date: 06/30/2015 release in part b5 sent: friday, june 05, 2009 8:08 am subject: follow-on to earlier email below is current draft of the press release we would issue once doj issues their release: revised draft 06/05/09-0715 14 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05761782 date: 06/30/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05765552 date: 07/31/2015 release in full sent: monday, november 9, 2009 8:49 am subject fw: hikers in iran original message sent: mon nov 09 08:47:44 2009 subject: re: hikers in iran mr. reines: here's the latest ticker we have. we are reaching out to nea for more context and will pass it on once we get it. greg macris, swo iran charges three detained americans with espionage (adds background) tehran, nov 9 (reuters) - iran has charged three detained u.s. citizens with espionage, the official irna news agency quoted a judiciary official as saying on monday. \"the three are charged with espionage. investigations continue into the three detained americans in iran,\" tehran general prosecutor abbas jafari dolatabadi said. the three were held after they strayed into iran from northern iraq at the end of july. the three, shane bauer, 27, sarah shourd, 31, and josh fattal, 27, crossed into iranian territory nearly two months ago. their families say they strayed across the border accidentally. iranian president mahmoud ahmadinejad suggested in an interview with the american television network nbc in september that the americans' release might be linked to the release of iranian diplomats he said were being held by u.s. troops in iraq. under iran's islamic sharia law, espionage is punishable by death. (reporting by ramin mostafavi, writing by parisa hafezi) original message-- sent: monday, november 09, 2009 8:44 am subject: fw: hikers do you have anything on the below? unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05765552 date: 07/31/2015 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05765552 date: 07/31/2015 original message --- sent: mon nov 09 08:42:33 2009 subject: hikers the 3 detained hikers in iran were charged with espionage? unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05765552 date: 07/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2015-04841 doc no. c05739752 date: 05/13/2015 state dept. - produced to house select benghazi comm. subject to agreement on sensitive information & redactions. no foia waiver. release in part b5,b6  1111111111111111111111 111. sent: monday, august 22, 201112:37 pm subject: fw: tick tock on libya here is draft sant: sunday, august 21, 2011 7:40 pm subject: tidc todc on libya this is basically off the top of my head, with a few consultations of my notes. but it shows s' leadership/ownership/stewardship of this country's libya policy from start to finish, let me know what you think. toria, who else might be able to add to this? secretary clinton's leadership on libya hrc has been a critical voice on libya in administration deliberations, at nato, and in contact group meetings  as well as the public face of the u.s. effort in libya. she was instrumental in securing the authorization, building the coalition, and tightening the noose around qadhafi and his regime. february 25  hrc announces the suspension of operations of the libyan embassy in washington. february 26  hrc directs efforts to evacuate all u.s. embassy personnel from tripoli and orders the closing of the embassy. february 26 hrc made a series of calls to her counterparts to help secure passage of unsc 1970, which imposes sanctions on gaddafi and his family and refers qadhafi and his cronies to the icc february 28  hrc travels to geneva, switzerland for consultations with european partners on libya. she gives a major address in which she says: \"colonel qadhafi and those around him must be held accountable for these acts, which violate international legal obligations and common decency. through their actions, they have lost the legitimacy to govern. and the people of libya have made themselves clear: it is time for qadhafi to go  now, without further violence or delay.\" she also works to secure the suspension of libya from membership in the human rights council. early march  hrc appoints special envoy chris stevens to be the u.s. representative to benghazi march 14  hrc travels to paris for the g8 foreign minister's meeting. she meets with tnc representative jibril and consults with her colleagues on further un security council action. she notes that a no-fly zone will not be adequate. march 14-16  hrc participates in a series of high-level video- and teleconferences she is a leading voice for strong unsc action and a na to civilian protection mission. unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2015-04841 doc no. c05739752 date: 05/13/2015 state dept. - produced to house select benghazi comm. subject to agreement on sensitive information & redactions. no foia waiver. state-scb0045099 b6 b5 unclassified state dept. - produced to house select benghazi comm. u.s. department of state subject to agreement on sensitive information & redactions. no foia waiver. case no. f-2015-04841 doc no. c05739752 date: 05/13/2015 march 17 hrc secures russian abstention and portuguese and african support for unsc 1973, ensuring that it passes. 1973 authorizes a no-fly zone over libya and \"all necessary measures\" - code for military action - to protect civilians against gaddafts army. march 24  hrc engages with allies and secures the transition of command and control of the civilian protection mission to nato. she announces the transition in a statement. march 18-30 hrc engages with uae, qatar, and jordan to seek their participation in coalition operations. over the course of several days, all three devote aircraft to the mission. march 19  hrc travels to paris to meet with european and arab leaders to prepare for military action to protect civilians. that night, the first u.s. air strikes halt the advance of gaddafi's forces on benghazi and target libya's air defenses. march 29  hrc travels to london for a conference on libya, where she is a driving force behind the creation of a contact group comprising 20-plus countries to coordinate efforts to protect civilians and plan for a post- qadhafi libya. she is instrumental in setting up a rotating chair system to ensure regional buy-in. april 14 hrc travels to berlin for nato meetings. she is the driving force behind nato adopting a communique that calls for qadhafi's departure as a political objective, and lays out three clear military objectives: end of attacks and threat of attacks on civilians; the removal of qadhafi forces from cities they forcibly entered; and the unfettered provision of humanitarian access. may 5  hrc travels to rome for a contact group meeting. the contact group establishes a coordination system and a temporary financial mechanism to funnel money to the tnc. june 8  hrc travels to abu dhabi for another contact group meeting and holds a series of intense discussions with rebel leaders. june 12  hrc travels to addis for consultations and a speech before the african union, pressing the case for a democratic transition in libya. july 15  hrc travels to istanbul and announces that the u.s. recognizes the tnc as the legitimate government of libya. she also secures recognition from the other members of the contact group. late june  hrc meets with house democrats and senate republicans to persuade them not to de-fund the libya operation. july 16  hrc sends feltman, cretz, and chollet to tunis to meet with qadhafi envoys \"to deliver a clear and firm message that the only way to move forward, is for qadhafi to step down\". early august  hrc works to construct a $1.5 billion assets package to be approved by the security council and sent to the tnc. that package is working through its last hurdles. early august -- after military chief abdel fattah younes is killed, s sends a personal message to tnc head jalil to press for a responsible investigation and a careful and inclusive approach to creating a new executive council early august -- hrc secures written pledges from the tnc to an inclusive, pluralistic democratic transition. she continues to consult with european and arab colleagues on the evolving situation. unclassified u.s. department of state: case no. f-2015-04841 doc no. c05739752 date: 05/13/2015 state dept. - produced to house select benghazi comm. subject to agreement on sensitive information & redactions. no foia waiver. state-scb0045100  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05760722 date: 06/30/2015 release in full sent: sunday, march 29, 2009 1:12 pm subject: re: mexico trip report sounds good. sent: sunday, march 29, 2009 1:08 pm subject: re: mexico trip report thx. i won't get you revisions until tomorrow. date: sun, 29 mar 2009 11:36:58 -0400 subject: mexico trip report attached is a draft of your mexico trip report to potus. i'm also sending it by fax. i look forward to incorporating your edits. 20 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05760722 date: 06/30/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05770782 date: 08/31/2015 release in full sent: wednesday, july 28, 2010 2:15 pm subject are you free? unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05770782 date: 08/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05762616 date: 06/30/2015 release in part b5 sent: thursday, june 11, 2009 8:01 am subject: re: kyrgyzstan rejects obama \"cooperation\" offer my question exactly - sent to bill original message sent: thursday, june 11, 2009 8:00 am subject: re: kyrgyzstan rejects obama \"cooperation\" offer original message sent: thu jun 11 07:56:55 2009 subject: fw: kyrgyzstan rejects obama \"cooperation\" offer i? sent: thursday, june 11, 2009 6:21 am subject: kyrgyzstan rejects obama \"cooperation\" offer 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. 61 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05762616 date: 06/30/2015 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05762616 date: 06/30/2015 andrea gorog watch officer department of state operations center 202-647-1512 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05762616 date: 06/30/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05760602 date: 06/30/2015 release in full sent: thursday, march 26, 2009 6:51 pm subject: fw: visit media coverage see below original message sent: thu mar 26 18:45:35 2009 subject: visit media coverage jorge ramos led univision's evening broadcast by saying that secstate hrc's visit had pleasantly surprised the mexican people. the ensuing piece, by the network's correspondent in mex city, went on to cover the highlights of the visit, with an emphasis on her admission of the us role in the drug problem. it was noted that she went down to take responsibility not apportion blame or criticize mexico. the basillica stop also got excellent coverage as a rightful tribute to a central figure in mex culture and heritage. ditto cnn en espatiol and the commentariat there. major kudos to the trip planners and implementers! 2 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05760602 date: 06/30/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05770793 date: 08/31/2015 release in full sent: friday, may 28, 2010 8:08 am subject: re: schedule we'll find out. original message sent: fri may 28 07:54:57 2010 subject: schedule when and where is the next agoa conference? sometime in june i want to schedule the following meeting for an hour w top leadership: consular affairs unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05770793 date: 08/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2015-04841 doc no. c05739737 date: 05/13/2015 state dept. - produced to house select benghazi comm. subject to agreement on sensitive information & redactions. no foia waiver. release in full sent: monday, september 17, 2012 6:54 pm subject: les gelb on the obama response the whole thing is worth a read, but a very tough judge gives you and the president credit: by any standard of reason, president obama and secretary of state canton conducted themselves very well amid the confusion and crises of course they didn't do everything perfectly; for example, some unidentified administration official disowned the embassy statement condemning the video. such creepiness served only to make it look like obama was running for cover at the expense of our embattled diplomats. but minor miscues aside, obama and clinton nailed the main points, especially clinton. in her first statement soon after the riots, here s what she said the united states deplores any intentional effort to denigrate the religious beliefs of others. our commitment to religious tolerance goes back to the very beginning of our nation. but let me be clear there is never any justification for violent acts of this kind.\" http://vvvvw.thedailybeast.corniarticles/2012/09/17/leslie-h-eelb-on-the-mvsteries-of-the-middle-east-riots.html unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2015-04841 doc no. c05739737 date: 05/13/2015 state dept. - produced to house select benghazi comm. subject to agreement on sensitive information & redactions. no foia waiver. state-scb0045408  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05764085 date: 07/31/2015 release in full sent: wednesday, september 16, 2009 11:47 am 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. 44 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05764085 date: 07/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05771661 date: 08/31/2015 release in full sent: friday, august 27, 2010 2:42 pm subject: kurt campbell wants to talk to u. unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05771661 date: 08/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05764954 date: 07/31/2015 release in part b6 sent: ,  <h@state.gov> monday, august 31, 2009 12:54 pm h b6 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05764954 date: 07/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05770576 date: 08/31/2015 release in full sent: monday, may 17, 2010 7:53 pm subject: feingold letter rich is going to talk to feingold's cos and walk him through the reasoning/defense of our policy. since this is a classified letter, you couldn't talk about it in open session tomorrow in any event, but if he asks you can say that we have had substantive discussions with his staff on the concerns raised in the letter and you're happy to discuss it further in closed session. unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05770576 date: 08/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05765859 date: 07/31/2015 release in full sent: saturday, september 12, 2009 2:37 pm subject: re: yes no problem to take the van iii meet you at la guardia original message sent: sat sep 12 11:54:39 2009 subject: re: can i pls have the service drive me in my van to the airport? is that possible? original message sent: sat sep 12 11:06:00 2009 subject: re: mitchell calling one more time now. unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05765859 date: 07/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05763319 date: 07/31/2015 release in full sent: wednesday, august 05, 2009 8:50 am subject: they are showing the plan landing now 67 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05763319 date: 07/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05767181 date: 08/31/2015 release in part b6 sent subject ,  <h@state.gov> saturday, february 13, 2010 9:28 pm  ; h re: hi / about to land in shannon. will call soon. original message ---- from sent: sat feb 13 21:22:05 2010 subject: hi ,{ - 7 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05767181 date: 08/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05764300 date: 07/31/2015 release in full sent: wednesday, september 2, 2009 4:16 am subject: fw: haiti fyi sent: tue sep 01 16:26:02 2009 subject: haiti hi , just wanted to close the loop and let you know that president clinton will address the security council next week (wed, sept 9) in his role as un special envoy for haiti. this has not been announced / is still close hold. thanks for your support in moving this forward. we are excited about this session. brooke ************************* brooke d. anderson chief of staff united states mission to the united nations (212) 415-4261 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05764300 date: 07/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05773961 date: 08/31/2015 release in part b6 sent: thursday, september 23, 2010 5:27 pm subject: h: predictable woodward outcome. sid aned by woodward's fire by leslie h. gelb september 23, 2010 i 1:32pm the president and his team cooperated with the famed author's new book. leslie h. gelb on the falloutand how obama's wars shows the u.s. is stuck in an open-ended conflict. lots of white house officials observed bob woodward, mr. first draft of history, repeatedly and boldly slipping behind the closed doors of president obama's most intimate advisers. they all knew what was happening. the president's men were helping the washington post's sleuth write \"the inside story\" of how the boss masterfully managed the most trying of herculean laborsthe war in afghanistan. there's only one very big problem in dealing with woodward in this manner: once the boss opens the doors to spilling the secrets, many of his subordinates feel liberated to \"tell their side of the story.\" by the time each has exhausted tales of his own heroism and the shortcomings of his fellow senior officials, well, no one looks terribly heroic. let's start with obama, who emerges from the pages of obama's wars as he isbrilliant, emotionless, abstract, focused, and confused, a chicago law-school professor in presidents' clothes. he obviously wanted woodward to portray him as a brilliant intellectual leader of a government that was not giving him too much help in solving the afghan mystery, but that he trudged on, doing the best anyone possibly could under these terrible circumstances. the worst circumstance, as team obama alleged to woodward, was that the pentagon leadership and the u.s. generals did not give him the real choices he was asking for. he wanted options for troop increases below, even far below, what the generals were giving him. he didn't get them. he wanted a strategy for how u.s. forces would be drawn down after they reached their projected peak of about 100,000 (more than three times the number george w. bush left him). the military didn't provide him with that, either. as they say in missouri, \"give me a break.\" if the commander in chief of the united states doesn't know how to get what he wants from the u.s. military, he might want to do something about that. and some of the many generals in the white house who he picked to guide him might have told him how to go about that task. to cut to the chase: obama didn't understand what he had to dotell defense secretary bob gates to tell the generals either they meet the president's wishes or they will be fired. republican presidents do just that. and so, as woodward describes, obama had to write the strategy all by himself. this was and still is an awful situation that springs from two sources. one is that the president has just not been clear enough about his thinking and objectives for afghanistan, and the military and the rest of us must have real clarity to pursue wars. woodward has this right. here are a few obama quotes that illustrate the problem. the president told woodward that he didn't think about the afghan war in the \"classic\" terms of the u.s. winning or losing. \"i think about it more in terms of: do you successfully prosecute a strategy that results in the country being stronger rather than weaker at the end?\" what on earth does that mean? or try this one, to sen. lindsey graham (r-sc) about whether the july 2011 deadline to begin withdrawal was firm: \"i have to say that. i can't let this be a war without end, and i can't lose the whole democratic party.\" does that mean obama really believes in the war, but his party doesn't? or to white house aides: \"this needs to be a plan about how we're going to hand it off and get out of afghanistan.\" so, if he wanted such a plan, he should have gotten such a plan. he is president after all. which leads to the second problem: when a president is not clear about a tough problem, the military smells vacillations. and they sure don't like vacillation when it comes to dispatching their men and women to war. americans don't fathom well the military mentality. the military in most countries throughout history doesn't like to go to war; they like to build up their arms and overall strength. but once in war, they want only more troops, fewer restrictions on their use, and above all, victory, victory, victory. since vietnam, they smell only vacillation among democrats, and they don't like it. for their part, democrats see insubordination and worse among the military toward them, and they don't care for the suits either. it's not a happy circumstance. woodward didn't explore this underlying reality, which is critical for americans to understand. breakad the white house clash with the military could get worse over the latest news about gen. stanley mcchrystal's firing over naughty things said about the white house to a reporter. according to a preliminary army investigation, the generaland unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05773961 date: 08/31/2015 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05773961 date: 08/31/2015 perhaps even his senior army aideswere not the sources of those nasty quotes. it was some other guysyou know, the usual culprits, the navy and civilians. there will be further formal inquiries on this, but nothing good will come of them. there's another important thread running throughout the woodward account that, i believe, he gets more wrong than right. that is, woodward's repeated insistence of open and bitter policy brawls in the good old situation room (the inner sanctum for white house meetings) over afghan policy. mr. instant historian paints a picture of a war of all against all. my information has always been that there was relative agreement on major policy. based on my sources, there is no doubt that secretary of state hillary clinton, defense secretary bob gates, and joint chiefs chairman mike mullen were almost always quite cordial and in full lock step. they, along with the nsc adviser jim jones and field commanders like general mcchrystal and general petraeus, are the key players. of course, vice president joe biden and chief of staff rahm emanuel were the only regular critics of where policy was heading. the generals did lobby for their positions in publicin advance of presidential decisions. and that's a big no-no. but by that standard, almost all obama's top advisers did as much. the day after his west point speech last december, where he set the firm date of july 2011 to begin unspecified u.s. troop withdrawals, almost all the advisers publicly stated that maybe one didn't have to take this date too seriously, that everything was \"conditions based.\" that group of rebels included gates and clinton. so, if anything, most of obama's top counselors were more or less unitedsometimes against where he seemed to be going. here is what petraeus had to say to woodward on the subject of goals, and it's a stunner: \"you have to recognize also that i don't think you win this war. i think you keep fighting. it's a little bit like iraq, actually.... yes, there has been enormous progress in iraq. but there are still horrific attacks in iraq, and you have to stay vigilant. you have to stay after it. this is the kind of fight we're in for the rest of our lives and probably our kids' lives.\" the brilliant general said as much to others over the last year. it's enough to knock your socks off. so far, there are no heroes to this narrative, only self-described heroic skeptics of the war and warriors who would fight on forever. doubtless, president obama does not want to fight an open-ended war. he's sworn to that time and again, and i believe him, despite his history of calling for \"victory\" and \"defeat\" of the taliban and al qaeda. but what the woodward book demonstrates is that obama and his team just don't know how to get from here to there. so far, there are no heroes to this narrative, only self-described heroic skeptics of the war and warriors who would fight on forever. leslie h. gelb, a former new york times columnist and senior government official, is author of power rules: how common sense can rescue american foreign policy (harpercollins 2009), a book that shows how to think about and use power in the 21st century. he is president emeritus of the council on foreign relations. get a head start with the morning scoop email. it's your cheat sheet with must reads from across the web. get it. for inquiries, please contact the daily beast at editorialthedailybeast.com. al: http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2010-09-23/bob-woodwards-obamas-wars-les-gelb-on-who-got- burned/p/ <img src=\"http://b.scorecardresearch.com/b?c1=28tc2=6433482&c3=&c4=&c5=&c6=&c15=&cv=1.3&cj=1\" styleedisplay:none\" width=\"0\" height=\"0\" alt=\" i> unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05773961 date: 08/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05763796 date: 07/31/2015 release in part b5,b6 sent: subject: ,  d <cd@state.gov> friday, july 17, 2009 12:57 pm h fw: sister-in-law fyi sent: friday, july 17, 2009 9:42 am subject: sister-in-law , fyi  this morning i did a phone interview with i told her that there might be possibilities at usaid and mcc. i asked her to look at the usaid and mcc websites and let me know what might be of interest. is there something i don't know about her background that might make it easier to imagine where she'd fit? margaret 260 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05763796 date: 07/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05772175 date: 08/31/2015 release in part b6 sent: sunday, december 19, 2010 6:25 am subject: re: personal note my best time is you want to do in person so 6pm on; at 8 so am free also from then on and can come over if cdm original message sent: sat dec 18 11:42:42 2010 subject: re: personal note and well-deserved! when can you talk tomorrow? original message sent: fri dec 17 22:26:50 2010 subject: fw: personal note nice sent: fri dec 17 18:26:43 2010 subject: personal note , one sappy statement before i fly. your involvement in the qddr process has always been extremely helpful. most of the best qddr chairs meetings were those in which you participated, due in large part to the rigor and critical thought you brought to every issue. from the beginning of the process, your critical analysis and thoughtfulness in these meetings made all of us think more deeply. i have been grateful for that approach many times throughout the qddr. we've come a long way since that first meeting in which i described this as a \"capabilities review\" and organizational change exercise  all met with some frustration or blank stares. i think we've ended this phase on a great note. the unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05772175 date: 08/31/2015 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05772175 date: 08/31/2015 amount of positive feedback we've received and the eagerness to start implementation are great signs heading into implementation. you are clearly one of the hardest working people in this building and have done so much to define and implement the secretary's vision on so many things. so thanks for everything you've done on the qddr and for everything else you do. as discussed today, i'm not far away if you need anything. karen karen j. hanrahan qddr chief operating officer office of deputy secretary jacob j. lew us department of state 2201 c street nw washington, dc 20520 hanrahanio@state.gov office (202) 647-9746 cell unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05772175 date: 08/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05774199 date: 08/31/2015 release in full sent: friday, december 31, 2010 10:17 am subject: fw: brazil's lula decides against extraditing italian (reuters) sent: fri dec 3110:11:31 2010 subject: brazil's lula decides against extraditing italian (reuters) brasilia (reuters) - brazilian president lula da silva said he would not extradite former italian guerrilla cesare battisti, a move that could damage relations with italy. brazil's supreme court had ruled last year that battisti should be extradited on murder convictions from the 1970s in italy, but it left the final decision to lula. the move, announced in a statement released by the brazilian government, was widely expected and comes a day after italian prime minister berlusconi warned that such a decision would be \"incomprehensible and unacceptable.\" brazilian media reported any decision still had to be verified by the supreme court but it was not immediately clear whether this was just a formality. unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05774199 date: 08/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05775431 date: 08/31/2015 release in full sent: monday, october 25, 2010 7:21 am subject: need to discuss 1. israel 2. strobe unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05775431 date: 08/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05761312 date: 06/30/2015 release in full sent: tuesday, april 21, 2009 10:30 pm subject: fw: hill vote fyi sent: tuesday, april 21, 2009 6:08 pm subject: re: hill vote thx much. i tried to reach the secretary to give her the news. sent: tuesday, april 21, 2009 6:07 pm subject: rn: hill vote congratulations dear. cdm sent: tuesday, april 21, 2009 5:42 pm subject: hill vote chris hill was just confirmed, 73-23. miguel e. rodriguez deputy assistant secretary for senate affairs bureau of legislative affairs us. department of state (202) 647-2645 rodriguezmestate,gov 23 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05761312 date: 06/30/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2015-04841 doc no. c05739868 date: 05/13/2015 state dept. - produced to house select benghazi comm. subject to agreement on sensitive information & redactions. no foia waiver. release in full sent: friday, february 24, 2012 5:24 am subject: fvic from hrc friend latest from gene. original message ---- sent: friday, february 24, 2012 01:13 am to ,  1; feltrnan, jeffrey d subject: re: from hrc friend am skeptical that jalil and al-keeb are capable either by power or by character to deal with the shortcomings of their mindef and minint in this way. the latter 2 are both very powerful by virtue of their ziritan and lvlisrata roots respectively, and any effort to remove them would have seriousblowback. minint fawzi who i saw the other day is clearly way ahead of his colleague in getting the thuwar into the process of registration, the first step hopefully toward ddr. i think everybody here is aware now how difficult the disarming of these militias, which have become de facto real institutions in and of themselves. it is naieve to think they can be dissolved by executive fiat some positive movement- jordanians preparing to accept first tranche of 1500 for police training. there is concern here that continuing rivalries among the militias remains dangerous from the perspective of the havoc they can wreak with their firepower and their continued control of select turf. at the end of the day, i think everybody is coming to the conclusion that the elections will take place in the context of militia control. we hope that a program can be devised to keep them acting responsibly toward the outcome of the election, especially viz the obligations they may well be asked to undertake to keep elections free, and fair and devoid of violence. always danger of continuing skirmishes but armageddon predictions a bit overstated. we are all worried about the situation in kufra and the clashes between the arab alzwai tribe and the african tribe's the tebu. this is again a legacy of the qadhafi era who played on these divisions to keep himself in control. the government believes that the tebu are being aided from al_qadhafi elements and perhaps government supporters in sudan to undermine the tnc. there are some disturbing signs that in fact the tnc may be supporting the dispatch of select militias to deploy down there maybe rpt maybe to \"resolve\" this ethnic problem as the situation in tewarga was resolved-i.e., \"ethnic cleansing\" --we are only at the very beginning stages of seeing whether there is credible evidence on this score--so please rpt please don't raise any flags about it. it would be explosive.1 will keep you informed about any info we develop. no surprise about heftat-he is extremely angry he lost out on the cos spot so his efforts to undermine the new cos mangoosh would be fully in line with his character to be big cheese. the war wounded is a national tragedy. the former group allowed everybody to go abroad and they did to the tune of 800 million dollars. 50,000 libyans abroad now 15 percent receiving medical treatment who do you think the others are? relatives, frauds, and those who snuck out to get botox and tummy tucks. senator mccain will rail about our refusal to take thousands of them to the states but the process has been so bungled i think we did as much as we could considering. original message unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2015-04841 doc no. c05739868 date: 05/13/2015 state dept. - produced to house select benghazi comm. subject to agreement on sensitive information & redactions. no foia waiver. state-scb0045160 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2015-04841 doc no. c05739868 date: 05/13/2015 state dept. - produced to house select benghazi comm. subject to agreement on sensitive information & redactions. no foia waiver. sent: wednesday, february 22, 2012 9:11 am subject: from hrc friend here is the latest on libya. as always, let me know your thoughts. source: sources with direct access to the libyan national transitional council, as well as the highest levels of european governments, and western intelligence and security services. 1. on february 19, 2012, libyan president mustafa abdul ali! and prime minister abdurrahim el-keib instructed minister of the interior minister fawzi abd ali and minister of defense osama at juwali to move as forcefully as possible to deal with armed conflict between the various militias which carried the bulk of fighting during the 2011revolution against former dictator muammar al qaddafi. according to an extremely sensitive source speaking in secret, el-keib, acting in his role as the head of government, told the two ministers that if they could not stop the fighting and disarm the militias he would be forced to find ministers who can carry out his orders. ali and juwali each stated privately that, while they would follow orders, they have little hope of succeeding in this matter until el-kelb and jalil gain credibility as the rulers of the country. ali added that, in his opinion, this situation will persist until a new government is chosen during the national elections planned for later in 2012. 2. in the opinion of this individual, the prime minister is particularly concerned by the situation in the southern portion of the country, where the area defined by the towns of ghat, sabha, and al kufra, where fighting between rival tribal and regional militias has been exacerbated by the activities of qaddafi loyalists, and their allies? taureg tribal fighters. this individual added that el-keib and jaill agree that the uncertain security situation in this area represents a threat to libya's future stability. they agreed that, at present, iffaced with a concerted effort by either disaffected militiamen or pro-qaddafi forces government security forces and the new national army would be unable to protect either libyan citizens or western businessmen and oil industry workers in the region. 3.(source comment: in the opinion of this individual, el-keib believes that any attack against oil field workers will frighten large western firms and seriously damage libya's efforts to recover from the revolution. this individual added that al juwali is particularly upset with his deputy minister and chief of staff of the army, general yousef mangoush, who he believes has been unable to work with national army ground force commander general khalifa belqasim hefter. a very sensitive source added that the benghazi based units of the army, under haftar's direct command, are currently deploying to the area southeast of al-kufra, along the sudanese border.) 4. in the opinion of a sensitive source, haftar and at aswan believe that the sudanese military is providing arms and supplies to the pro-qaddafi forces, under direct orders from sudanese president omar al bashir. el-keib complained to al-juevall that haftar's forces passed through al-kufra region during early and mid-february on their way to the sudanese border, however; they did nothing to disarm the local revolutionary militias, or stop the fighting between competing tribal groups. in the opinion of this individual, hefter felt that the threat from the pro-qaddafi forces was greater than that posed by the regional and tribal fighting. 5. at the same time, a source with excellent access to the leadership of the national transitional council (ntc) stated in secret that fighting continues between regional, tribal, and religious rivals throughout the northern/mediterranean portions of the country. unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2015-04841 doc no. c05739868 date: 05/13/2015 state dept. - produced to house select benghazi comm. subject to agreement on sensitive information & redactions. no foia waiver. state-scb0045161 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2015-04841 doc no. c05739868 date: 05/13/2015 state dept. - produced to house select benghazi comm. subject to agreement on sensitive information & redactions. no foia waiver. this same source added that the ongoing struggle between the misrata and zintan militias for control of the area west of tripoli is particularly violent and disruptive for the rest of the country. in the capital itself, fighting continues between regional groups, the national army, islamist militias, and criminal street gangs, all of whom are very well armed. this individual reports that during mid-february 2012 ei-keib and jatil agreed to address the problem of disaffected former militiamen and their families by providing payments of 2,000 dinars (approximately $1,500) per month to the families of fighters who were wounded or killed in the revolution. 6. in addition the president and prime minister instructed minister of finance hassan ziglam to develop an efficient system to provide assistance funds to unemployed former fighters. for his part, ziglarri privately expressed concern that previous efforts in this regard have met with a high level of fraud. according to the government's best estimates, the revolutionary army included approximately 25,000 combat troops, but it is difficult to identify those with legitimate claims, as no accurate service records were maintained. that said, he stated in private that the government must be seen to take some form of direct action, even if money is paid to fraudulent claimants. the fact is, according to ziglam, the ntc is losing control of the country and must give something to the veterans of the revolution to slow this process. 7.(source comment: speaking in strictest confidence, a knowledgeable individual stated that al-juwali is concerned by the possibility that the country may deteriorate into a multi-sided civil war involving the regional militias, islamist forces and the national army. at the same time, he acknowledges that the new army has lost control of large portions of the southern part of the country, with tribal fighting spilling over into mali and chad. according to this source, al-juwali is also frustrated by the slow pace of military and police training promised to the various libyan national security forces by the governments of france and turkey. he added that, while turkey has received some of the most seriously wound troops for treatment, the lack of adequate medical care for veterans inside of libya remains a major source of conflict between the former rebel troops and the nit government. unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2015-04841 doc no. c05739868 date: 05/13/2015 state dept. - produced to house select benghazi comm. subject to agreement on sensitive information & redactions. no foia waiver. state-scb0045162  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05766726 date: 08/31/2015 release in full sent: thursday, december 24, 2009 12:30 am attachments: 121709 s-okada call sheet 12-17-09 (4).doc oscar, this is final call sheet for fm okada call is confirmed for 8:30am. also faxing unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05766726 date: 08/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05765017 date: 07/31/2015 release in full sent: sunday, october 18, 2009 1:23 pm subject fw: fyi original message ---- sent: sun oct 18 12:52:09 2009 subject: just talked to ken. reports appear to be untrue, at least with regard to her. there is a new movement afoot in parliament on finance min. don't think it is necessary to call her. give me a call if you want more detail. unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05765017 date: 07/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05770101 date: 08/31/2015 release in part b6 sent: sunday, june 27, 2010 7:07 pm subject: re: h: memo on uk politics/budget/economy sid me, too. on oz. on uk, been in touch with people, more this coming week. with labour leadership contest going through summer there's no real opposition, which is just as well, let cameron/clegg dig their own hole. labour needs a new face after gordon. lots of internal tensions inside lds, will only get worse. they are seen as the enablers. this can't be sustained. this budget isn't the end either. college tuition probably to double this fall, among other new measures. original message sent: sun, jun 27, 2010 6:46 pm subject: re: h: memo on uk politics/budget/economy sid sent: very interesting. original  thanks. speaking of australia, i was sorry about kevin rudd. message <sbwhoeoc sun jun 27 10:35:18 2010 subject: h: memo on uk politics/budget/economy sid unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05770101 date: 08/31/2015 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05770101 date: 08/31/2015 confidential june 27, 2010 for: hrc re: uk politics/economy 1. uk polls show support for the lib-dems after the launch of the draconian cameron government budget cratering. ld support is down to 16 percent, half what it was at its peak during the election and half of ld members now express a desire to defect from their party. they feel deceived by ld ministers' participation in a tory budget opposed to their own beliefs. in parliament, a unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05770101 date: 08/31/2015 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05770101 date: 08/31/2015 secret caucus of lds is meeting with labour about opposing the budget. meanwhile, short term support for cameron is static and for the government slightly up, but only translated to the tories. both the tories and labour are up, profiting from the ld quandary. the scenario is potentially portentous for the ld party: there was once an influential australian liberal democratic party, holding 11 percent of the vote and the balance of power in the australian senate. upon reaching its zenith in 1996 the aldp supported a liberal (that is to say, a conservative) government's budget and suffered collapse. today the aldp holds 1 percent of the seats in the lower house. the political effect of the conservative budget will almost certainly lead to an implosion of the tory-ld coalition. in the short run it's possible the tories will emerge having the greatest plurality of support. but if their budget does not produce prosperity they will pay the price, too. see stiglitz's analysis below on the tory budget with cold analysis of the us predicament. 2. the implications for us-uk cooperation are apparent. while there are spheres that remain, they are contingent, including the afghanistan war, opposed by 75 percent of uk public and about which cameron felt compelled this week to declare uk engagement would end in five years (that is, before the next uk election). on economic policy, the uk is no partner and no bridge to europe, where the merkel government has entered a fugue state of vertigo (another subject). at no other time since world war ii have the us and uk governments unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05770101 date: 08/31/2015 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05770101 date: 08/31/2015 been at such odds over international economics. with jfk and macmillan, macmillan accepted the postwar keynesian consensus. reagan and thatcher, of course, were of one mind ideologically, and the international economy was buoyed by reagan's hyper-keynesianism masked as thatcherism. unfortunately, obama did not reach out to brown, who sought to reestablish the special relationship around international economic recovery. speaking of laissez faire, cameron must be let alone to receive the consequences (within 18 months) of his ideologically driven economics. can he be engaged on international development? or does his budget rule that out too? there's not much there. 3. the labour party leadership contest is heating up. david miliband has an article out today on how the cameron budget will foster \"a lost generation.\" more on that soon_ http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/osbornes-first-budget-its-wrong-wrong- wrong-2011501.html osborne's first budget? it's wrong, wrong, wrong! joseph stiglitz, the nobel prizewinner who predicted the global crisis, delivers his verdict on the chancellor's first budget and tells paul vallely it will take the uk deeper into recession and hit millions - the poorest - badly unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05770101 date: 08/31/2015 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05770101 date: 08/31/2015 sunday, 27 june 2010 george osborne will probably not be very bothered that there is a man who thinks he got last week's emergency budget almost entirely wrong. but he should be. because that man is a former chief economist at the world bank who won the nobel prize for economics for his work on why markets do not produce the outcomes which, in theory, they ought to. professor joseph stiglitz, who has been described as the biggest brain in economics, is distinctly unimpressed by george osborne's strategy. this, he predicts, will make britain's recovery from recession longer, slower and harder than it needs to be. the rise in vat could even tip us into a double-dip recession. stiglitz, who was once bill clinton's senior economic adviser, is now professor of economics and finance at columbia business school. he was in the uk this week at the university of manchester, where he chairs the brooks world poverty institute, but he lifted his head from the detail of international development to scrutinise the economit strategy of the conservative chancellor whose liberal democrat partners recently reversed their judgement that massive public spending cuts now would endanger the economy and joined in the tory slash-and-burn strategy. they were deeply wrong to do so, he believes. it would be a mistake to ignore stiglitz on this. he has a track record of getting his predictions right. he was one of the few economists who predicted unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05770101 date: 08/31/2015 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05770101 date: 08/31/2015 the global financial meltdown long before it occurred. \"what happened was very much in accord with what i expected,\" he tells me when we meet for a coffee outside the blackwell bookshop in the centre of the university. \"the data was pretty clear about that.\" and the scale of the crash? \"that wasn't a surprise,\" he adds, in a matter-of-fact manner. \"the bigger the bubble, the bigger the burst. \"the thing most economists did not fully grasp was the extent to which the banks engaged in murky risk-taking activities. they were taking a risk with our money, their shareholders' money, the bond-holders' money,\" he says. banks were demanding up to 40 per cent of the corporate profits, saying their innovative financing was adding value. but \"all this talk about innovation was a sham\" because it did not relate to any real increase in the economy's productivity, he says. \"there was a prima facie case of something screwy going on [with all the] perverse incentives that would lead them to take excessive risk. but there was no way anyone could know or believe that the banks were [conducting themselves] at that level of stupidity. i predicted that there was going to be a collapse because of the information asymmetry problems that were being created.\" his nobel prize was given for exactly that - showing how markets fail because different people in them hold different levels of information. yet there is no hint of i-told-you-so about stiglitz's tone as he asks the unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05770101 date: 08/31/2015 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05770101 date: 08/31/2015 waiter for coffee. he orders decaffeinated, but suggests the british economy needs the opposite: a stiff stimulant rather than the \"fiscal consolidation\" which is george osborne's economic euphemism for cuts. fiscal stimulus is out of fashion now. world leaders embarked on that strategy - injecting money to re-energise the economy - after the banking crash three years ago. it was widely perceived not to have worked because the money governments pumped into the banks was not passed on to ailing businesses or individuals in trouble with their mortgages. \"the problem was that, in the us, the stimulus wasn't big enough,\" he says. \"too much of it was in tax cuts. and when they gave.money to the banks they gave it to the wrong banks and, as a result, credit has not been restored - we can expect a couple of million or more homes to be repossessed this year than last year - and the economy has not been restarted.\" instead of producing a consensus that the government should have done more, it has created disillusion that the government can do anything, stiglitz says. the result is that, following the attacks by the financial markets on greece and then spain, everybody is now in a mood of retrenchment. \"it's not just pre-keynesian, it's hooverite,\" he says. by which he means governments are not just refusing to stimulate, they are making cuts, as herbert hoover did in the us in 1929 - when he turned the wall street crash into the great depression. \"hoover had this idea that, whenever you go into recession, deficits grow, so he unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05770101 date: 08/31/2015 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05770101 date: 08/31/2015 decided to go for cuts - which is what the foolish financial markets that got us into this trouble in the first place now want.\" it has become the new received wisdom throughout europe. but it is the classic error made by those who confuse a household's economics with those of a national economy. \"if you have a household that can't pay its debts, you tell it to cut back on spending to free up the cash to pay the debts. but in a national economy, if you cut back on your spending, then economic activity goes down, nobody invests, the amount of tax you take goes down, the amount you pay out in unemployment benefits goes up - and you don't have enough money to pay your debts. \"the old story is still true: you cut expenditures and the economy goes down. we have lots of experiments which show this, thanks to herbert hoover and the imf,\" he adds. the imf imposed that mistaken policy in korea, thailand, indonesia, argentina and hosts of other developing countries in the 1980s and 1990s. \"so we know what will happen: economies will get weaker, investment will get stymied and it's a downward vicious spiral. how far down we don't know - it could be a japanese malaise. japan did an experiment just like this in 1997; just as it was recovering, it raised vat and went into another recession.\" then why have we not learned from all that? because politicians like george osborne are driven by ideology; the national deficit is an excuse to shrink the state because that is what he wanted anyway. because the financial market only unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05770101 date: 08/31/2015 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05770101 date: 08/31/2015 cares about one thing - getting repaid. and because other european governments are panicking because of the market's wild attack on greece and spain, and they don't want to be next. \"but cutbacks in germany, britain and france will mean all of europe will suffer. the cuts will all feed back negatively. and if everyone follows this policy, their budget deficits will get worse, so they will have to make more cuts and raise taxes more. it's a vicious downward spiral. we're now looking at a long, hard, slow recovery with the possibility of a double dip if everybody cuts back at the same time. the best scenario is long and hard ... and the worst is much worse. if any one of these countries is forced into default, the banking system is so highly leveraged that it could cause real problems. this is really risky, really scary.\" so what should we be doing? \"the lesson is not that you cut back spending, but that you redirect it. you cut out the war in afghanistan. you cut a couple of hundred billion dollars of wasteful military expenditure. you cut out oil . subsidies. there's a long list of things we can cut. but you increase spending in other areas, such as research and development, infrastructure, education\" - areas where government can get a good return on the investment of public money. \"i haven't done the calculation for britain, but, for the us, all you need is a return on government investment of 5 to 6 per cent and the long-term deficit debt is lowered.\" unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05770101 date: 08/31/2015 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05770101 date: 08/31/2015 taxes also need to be restructured. osborne has increased capital gains tax for high earners from 18 to 28 per cent. \"there's absolutely no reason why you couldn't tax speculative gains [from rising house or land prices] by 40 per cent. there's no social return on it and land is going to be there whether people have speculated or not. but you lower the tax on investment in things like r&d.\" stiglitz has one more practical solution to offer. governments should set up their own banks to restart lending to businesses and save struggling homeowners from repossession. \"if the banks aren't lending, let's create a new lending facility to do that job,\" he says. \"in the us, we gave $700bn to the banks; if we had used a fraction of that to create a new bank, we could have financed all the lending that was needed.\" indeed, it could be done for far less. \"tak $100bn, lever that at 10 to 1 [by attracting funds from the private sector] and that's a trillion-dollar new lending capacity - more than the real economy needs.\" such a move would help ordinary people more than all osborne's rhetoric about being tough but fair. stiglitz is sceptical, too, about the moral underpinning of a budget which claims that \"we are all in this together\", but then hits the poorest hardest. analysis by the institute for fiscal studies has suggested that the chancellor's budget will cost the poor 2.5 per cent of their income, while the rich will lose unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05770101 date: 08/31/2015 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05770101 date: 08/31/2015 just 1 per cent. \"i've not made an independent study on that point, but cuts in public services will have a disproportionate effect on the poor,\" stiglitz says. osborne's budget \"may be well-intentioned, but it takes an enormous amount of work to make sure that a package of public spending cuts of that magnitude doesn't hit the poor disproportionately\". his big fear is that overseas aid, which has been protected in this first round of cuts, will not escape a second. \"developing countries have redirected themselves towards asia, and china in particular, in recent years, so growth in africa will be more robust than one might have expected, given the severity of the downturn,\" he says. even so, aid remains vital to poor countries. \"if aid is cut back, growth will be badly affected,\" he says. \"china is providing aid, but its aid is all in infrastructure, whereas aid from the us and europe is mainly in education and health - areas in which ordinary people will suffer most if there are cuts.\" joseph stiglitz has come full circle. what the world needs now - developing and developed - is not retrenchment but greater economic stimulus. it is not a message many are in the mood to hear. but they didn't listen to him last time, either. and he turned out to be right, and they were wrong - and at what a cost to us all. unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05770101 date: 08/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05771608 date: 08/31/2015 release in full sent: friday, august 27, 2010 7:49 am subject: update on mashabane importance: high ms- mashabane just cancelled the 8am call this morning. we're waiting for them to call back and propose a new time. "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05767284 date: 08/31/2015 release in full sent: saturday, february 20, 2010 9:36 am subject re: followup he was scheduled to talk to ryabkov this am to talk through resolution elements and to check in on missile defense, etc. i will follow up. original message sent: sat feb 20 09:32:29 2010 subject: followup i'd like to know about bill burns's call w russians today about both iran and start. where are we on these? unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05767284 date: 08/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05766009 date: 08/31/2015 release in part b6 sent: thursday, december 10, 2009 7:12 am subject: re: but fm lieberman is confirmed for 7:30. sending call sheet now. ok original message --- sent: thu dec 10 07:03:11 2009 subject: re: but fm lieberman is confirmed for 7:30. sending call sheet now. ok. also pls original message sent: thu dec 10 07:00:32 2009 subject: but fm lieberman is confirmed for 7:30. sending call sheet now. unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05766009 date: 08/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05766395 date: 08/31/2015 release in full sent: tuesday, december 22, 2009 8:45 am subject fw: anti-gay laws fyi sent: tuesday, december 22, 2009 8:32 am subject: re: anti-gay laws  it may be worth putting together a small group to think through the issue in some depth to decide whether there is a more proactive strategy that may be possible and/or worth engaging in one or more countries : 1. define human rights challenges around gay communities in many of our partner countries 2. define the social political context (ie: how does civil society and the political/legislative activity converge or not converge) 3. potential role of judicial response (eg: adult disability act in us) 4. role of multilateral and normative bodies we are quietly doing this in pepfar over the next two months to assess whether we can work behind the politics to increase the \"safe space\" for our populations seeking and/or in care (increase identification, entry and retention). , i hope you have a wonderful holiday, heading back to sf now, back in monday (28th) eric this email was sent from a wireless blackberry device. this e-mail is unclassified based on the definitions provided in e.o. 12958 sent: tue dec 22 08:18:24 2009 subject: anti-gay laws johnnie what is the best way to have a systematic assessment of what countries in africa have laws proceeding or on the books re: anti-gay measures similar to the uganda bill? i am particularly concerned as we begin to make determinations in budget process for significant investments in several countries for ghfsi, pepfar, ghi, etc., that we not be surprised. unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05766395 date: 08/31/2015 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05766395 date: 08/31/2015 can you advise how we can proceed or if we should do a call or seek a tasking for this information? thanks. cdm unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05766395 date: 08/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05768947 date: 08/31/2015 release in full sent: saturday, march 13, 2010 9:00 pm subject: fw: (ap) israel to investigate settlement announcement during biden visit fyi sent: saturday, march 13, 2010 6:07 pm subject: (ap) israel to investigate settlement announcement during biden visit jerusalem - (ap) israel's premier has ordered an investigation into how government officials announced plans for a new jewish housing project in east jerusalem during a visit by vice president joe biden. prime minister benjamin netanyahu's office said he ordered the probe late saturday after he met with top cabinet ministers. while biden was visiting earlier this week, israel's interior ministry said it approved plans to build 1,600 homes for jews in disputed east jerusalem. biden condemned the announcement, which overshadowed his visit. netanyahu has apologized for the poor timing of the announcement, but given no sign he will cancel the construction orders. the palestinians claim east jerusalem as their capital, and israel's annexation of the area is not internationally recognized. doug o'neill watch officer operations center department of state (202) 647-1512 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05768947 date: 08/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05766481 date: 07/31/2015 release in full sent: saturday, october 24, 2009 10:23 am subject fw: message from johnnie carson - uganda hate crimes see traffic below  read down sent: saturday, october 24, 2009 10:22 am subject: re: message from johnnie carson - uganda hate crimes we will start to develop a running list of these result oriented diplomatic interventions  on individual cases, laws and policies  exactly what we need to tell the larger story. thanks sent: saturday, october 24, 2009 10:19 am subject: re: message from johnnie carson - uganda hate crimes agree  it adds to the list of quiet diplomacy acts she does every day that have meaningful inpact in the lives of others sent: saturday, october 24, 2009 10:18 am subject: re: message from johnnie carson - uganda hate crimes i love how these leaders always claim they didn't know about the legislation. same thing karzai said. but if this gets done, i'd like to put it out in a small way that we fixed it, just to have as a marker out there for the big speech, whenever it is. sent: sat oct 24 10:11:27 2009 subject: fw: message from johnnie carson - uganda hate crimes fyi. we had asked johnnie to address this issue based upon reports that uganda had legislation moving up that was going to criminalize homosexuality with the death penalty as a sanction. cdm unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05766481 date: 07/31/2015 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05766481 date: 07/31/2015 sent: saturday, october 24, 2009 10:01 am subject: message from johnnie carson - uganda hate crimes : my blackberry is down so i'm sending you a quick note from uganda via ambassador jerry lanier's account. i met this morning with president museveni in entebbe. i raised with him the issue of the draconian legislation proposed to criminalize homosexual activity. museveni was unaware of the legislation but thought it was excessive and out of order. he said he would work with members of parliament to revise the legislation to make it a crime for adults to solicit or recruit minors into any homo- or heterosexual activities. activities between consenting adults would be stripped from the legislation. i think we rolled the worst and most concerning part of this back. regards, johnnie unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05766481 date: 07/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05764445 date: 07/31/2015 release in full sent: monday, august 24, 2009 8:55 am subject: amorim brazilian fm asking to talk to you this afternoon about honduras. he prefers later in afternoon. we are getting a call sheet for you. unclassified u.s. department of state case no f-2014-20439 doc no. c05764445 date: 07/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05775414 date: 08/31/2015 release in full sent: sunday, october 24, 2010 2:15 pm subject: fw: update fyi. sent: sunday, october 24, 2010 2:13 pm subject: update karzai has called for an afghan leaders' meeting at 8:30am to discuss the decree. i made the rounds over the past few days and discussed the issue with many of the jihadis (including fahim khan); they will urge restraint and sobriety. personal this email is unclassified. unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05775414 date: 08/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2015-04841 doc no. c05739857 date: 05/13/2015 state dept. - produced to house select benghazi comm. subject to agreement on sensitive information & redactions. no foia waiver. release in part b6 sent: monday, january 23, 2012 723 pm subject re h: v good intel internal libya. sid will do, as with the other. sent: monday, january 23, 2012 1:41pm subject fw: h: v good intel internal libya. sid fyi, as usual distribute as you determine. b6 _ sent: monday, january 23, 2012 12:11 pm subject: h: v good intel internal libya. sid confidential january 23, 2012 for: hrc from. sid re: libya internal strife source: sources with direct access to the libyan national transitional council, as well as the highest levels of european governments, and western intelligence and security services. 1. on the evening of january 22, 2012, according to an official with access to the leadership of the national transitional government (ntc), libyan president mustafa abdul jalil spoke at length with prime minister abdurrahim el- keib, stating in a heated exchange that el-keib's government must take the steps necessary to address the complaints of the demobilized fighters from the 2011revolution. jalil pointed out that the new government has been discussing this situation since it was formed in october 2011, and matters have now reached a crisis point with a group of more than 2,000 disgruntled veterans, supported by students, attacking the ntc offices in benghazi on january 21, destroying computer equipment and ntc files. these demonstrators, some of whom threw molotov cocktails at the ntc headquarters building, continue to demand better medical care, jobs, payment for their time in the revolutionary army, and a commitment to transparency on the part of the el-keib regime; particularly the appointment of cabinet members arid senior officials. 2. according to this source, when el-keib replied, pointing out that demonstrators were camped outside of his office in tripoli. he added that the government had to proceed in a measured and professional manner, jalil stated in angry tones, that ntc staffers were beaten and could have been killed during the january 21 incident, pointing out that this is how the rebellion against muammar al qaddafi began in february 2011. jalil also warned that islamist leader general abdel hakim alamin belhaj and his supporters, particularly militia commanders from zintan, misrata, and other unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2015-04841 doc no. c05739857 date: 05/13/2015 state dept. - produced to house select benghazi comm. subject to agreement on sensitive information & redactions. no foia waiver. state-scb0045137 unclassified state dept. - produced to house select benghazi comm. u.s. department of state subject to agreement on sensitive information & redactions. no foia waiver. case no. f-2015-04841 doc no. c05739857 date: 05/13/2015 western regions, are anxiously waiting for the ntc government to collapse. their goal, in the opinion of this individual, is to eventually move in and establish a strict islamic state. jalil, added that his contacts in the egyptian muslim brotherhood had been in touch during the preceding week, warning that the threat from belhaj is very real. el-keib stated that he must press minister of defense osama al-juwali and interior minister fawzi abd ali to be more efficient in administering their positions. according to this individual, el-keib fears that al-juwali, who was a western commander during the revolution, may be maintaining a secret relationship with belhaj and his allies. in response, jai warned el-keib to avoid trying to use the regular military forces posted around benghazi under general khalifa beloasim hefter in an effort to restrain the former militia troops as such a step could lead to civil war. 3.(source comment: in the opinion of an extremely well placed individual, el-keib is, in fact, increasingly frustrated by the inefficiency in his regime and the inability of hie ministers and administrators to arrange contracts with foreign firms. he complains that his principal advisors, minister of oil abdulrahman ben yezza and minister of finance hassan zigiam, have been too timid in resolving the questions associated with contracts involving foreign firms, both old and new. at present it appearsthat whenever one official raises a question regarding an agreement the entire matter is put on hold and delayed. in the opinion of this source, el-kelb knows that without these agreements he cannot meet the demands of the veterans and the students. el-keib stated in confidence, that he may have made a serious mistake in removing the former oil/finance minister all tatham' from the government. el-kelb also noted that jalil is shaken by the january 21 attack on ntc headquarters end is searching for ways to appease the demonstrators. most recently he asked abdel - haltdh ghoza, his principal deputy and nic spokesman to step down. ghoza, who comes from the benghazi area, was particularly unpopular with the western troops.) 4. following the discussion with jalil, el-kieb ordered ziglarn and ngeb obedoi, the head of the stock exchange, to move with all possible speed to address the issue of the foreign contracts and arrange for new vendors to provide the services demanded by the veterans and students. in this discussion he pointed out that if they cannot deal with this situation they will not have to worry about the national elections in 2012, libya will be an islamic republic, with bemo as the ruler. el-kalb pointed out that foreign governments and large oil firms must be aware of this threat and that this will frighten them into meeting the conditions for foreign contracts set out by the ntc. 5. (source comment: according to an extremely sensitive source, el-keib spoke secretly with hefter, stating that he, and those troops loyal to him, should be prepared to move to protect the government in the event of increased violence. this effort could include moving against belhaj and attacking militia forces before they can unite and organize. el-keib emphasized that this is for planning purposes only, and no action should be taken until el-kelb gives the order. he emphasized that he will do everything possible to avoid civil war, but he is now concerned that jai will be unable to deal with the level of hostility against the ntc, and cannot be counted on to take strong positions against belhaj and his supporters. in the opinion of this individual, el-keib cannot back away from his commitment to technicians in senior positions, but he will press them as hard as he can to have the government respond to the needs of the veterans and students. el-keib believes it is not too late to address these problems, but they must move quickly.) unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2015-04841 doc no. c05739857 date: 05/13/2015 state dept. - produced to house select benghazi comm. subject to agreement on sensitive information & redactions. no foia waiver. state-scb0045138 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2015-04841 doc no. c05739857 date: 05/13/2015 state dept. - produced to house select benghazi comm. subject to agreement on sensitive information & redactions. no foia waiver. sent: monday, january 23, 2012 9:17 pm subject fw. h: v good intel internal libya. sid attachments: hrc memo libya internal strife 012312.doa pis print. from sent: monday, january 23, 2012 12:11 pm subject: h: v good intel internal libya. sid confidential january 23, 2012 for: hrc re: libya internal strife source: sources with direct access to the libyan national transitional council, as well as the highest levels of european governments, and western intelligence and security services. 1. on the evening of january 22, 2012, according to an official with access to the leadership of the national transitional government (ntc), libyan president mustafa abdul jalil spoke at length with prime minister abdurrahim el- keib, stating in a heated exchange that el-keib's government must take the steps necessary to address the complaints of the demobilized fighters from the 2011 revolution. jail! pointed out that the new government has been discussing this situation since it was formed in october 2011, and matters have now reached a crisis point, with a group of more than 2,000 disgruntled veterans, supported by students, attacking the ntc offices in benghazi on january 21, destroying computer equipment and ntc files. these demonstrators, some of whom threw molotov cocktails at the ntc headquarters building, continue to demand better medical care, jobs, payment for their time in the revolutionary army, and a commitment to transparency on the part of the el-keib regime; particularly the appointment of cabinet members and senior officials. 2. according to this source, when el-keib replied, pointing out that demonstrators were camped outside of his office in tripoli. he added that the government had to proceed in a measured and professional manner, jalil stated in angry tones, that ntc staffers were beaten and could have been killed during the january 21 incident, pointing out that this is how the rebellion against muammar al qaddafi began in february 2011. jalil also warned that islamist leader general abdel hakim alamin belhaj and his supporters, particularly militia commanders from zintan, misrata, and other western regions, are anxiously waiting for the ntc government to collapse. their goal, in the opinion of this individual, is to eventually move in and establish a strict islamic state. jalil, added that his contacts in the egyptian muslim brotherhood had been in touch during the preceding week, warning that the threat from belhaj is very real. el-keib stated that he must press minister of defense osama al-juwali and interior minister fawzi abd all to be more efficient in administering their positions. according to this individual, el-keib fears that al-juwali, who was a western commander during the revolution, may be maintaining a secret relationship with belhaj and his allies. in response, jalil warned el-keib unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2015-04841 doc no. c05739857 date: 05/13/2015 state dept. - produced to house select benghazi comm. subject to agreement on sensitive information & redactions. no foia waiver. state-scb0045139 b6 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2015-04841 doc no. c05739857 date: 05/13/2015 state dept. - produced to house select benghazi comm. subject to agreement on sensitive information & redactions. no foia waiver. to avoid trying to use the regular military forces posted around benghazi under general khalifa belqasim hefter in an effort to restrain the former militia troops as such a step could lead to civil war. 3.(source comment: in the opinion of an extremely well placed individual, el-keib is, in fact, increasingly frustrated by the inefficiency in his regime and the inability of his ministers and administrators to arrange contracts with foreign firms. he complains that his principal advisors, minister of oil abdulrahman ben yezza and minister of finance hassan ziglam, have been too timid in resolving the questions associated with contracts involving foreign firms, both old and new. at present it appears that whenever one official raises a question regarding an agreement the entire matter is put on hold and delayed. in the opinion of this source, el-keib knows that without these agreements he cannot meet the demands of the veterans and the students. el-keib stated in confidence, that he may have made a serious mistake in removing the former oil/finance minister ali tarhouni from the government. el-keib also noted that am is shaken by the january 21 attack on ntc headquarters and is searching for ways to appease the demonstrators. most recently he asked abdel hafidh ghoza, his principal deputy and ntc spokesman to step down. ghoza, who comes from the benghazi area, was particularly unpopular with the western troops.) 4. following the discussion with jatil, el-meb ordered ziglarn and ngeb obeda, the head of the stock exchange, to move with all possible speed to address the issue of the foreign contracts and arrange for new vendors to provide the services demanded by the veterans and students. in this discussion he pointed out that if they cannot deal with this situation they will not have to worry about the national elections in 2012, libya will be an islamic republic, with belhaj as the ruler. el-keib pointed out that foreign governments and large oil firms must be aware of this threat and that this will frighten them into meeting the conditions for foreign contracts set out by the ntc. 5. (source comment: according to an extremely sensitive source, el-keib spoke secretly with haftar, stating that he, and those troops loyal to him, should be prepared to move to protect the government in the event of increased violence. this effort could include moving against belhaj and attacking militia forces before they can unite and organize. el-keib emphasized that this is for planning purposes only, and no action should be taken until el-keib gives the order. he emphasized that he will do everything possible to avoid civil war, but he is now concerned that jalil will be unable to deal with the level of hostility against the ntc, and cannot be counted on to take strong positions against belhaj and his supporters. in the opinion of this individual, el-keib cannot back away from his commitment to technicians in senior positions, but he will press them as hard as he can to have the government respond to the needs of the veterans and students. el-keib believes it is not too late to address these problems, but they must move quickly.) unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2015-04841 doc no. c05739857 date: 05/13/2015 state dept. - produced to house select benghazi comm. subject to agreement on sensitive information & redactions. no foia waiver. state-scb0045140 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2015-04841 doc no. c05739857 date: 05/13/2015 state dept. - produced to house select benghazi comm. subject to agreement on sensitive information & redactions. no foia waiver. confidential january 23, 2012 for: hrc re: libya internal strife source: sources with direct access to the libyan national transitional council, as well as the highest levels of european governments, and western intelligence and security services. 1. on the evening of january 22, 2012, according to an official with access to the leadership of the national transitional government (ntc), libyan president mustafa abdul jalil spoke at length with prime minister abdurrahim el-keib, stating in a heated exchange that el-keib's government must take the steps necessary to address the complaints of the demobilized fighters from the 2011revolution. jalil pointed out that the new government has been discussing this situation since it was formed in october 2011, and matters have now reached a crisis point, with a group of more than 2,000 disgruntled veterans, supported by students, attacking the ntc offices in benghazi on january 21, destroying computer equipment and ntc files. these demonstrators, some of whom threw molotov cocktails at the ntc headquarters building, continue to demand better medical care, jobs, payment for their time in the revolutionary army, and a commitment to transparency on the part of the el-keib regime; particularly the appointment of cabinet members and senior officials. 2. according to this source, when el-keib replied, pointing out that demonstrators were camped outside of his office in tripoli. he added that the government had to proceed in a measured and professional manner, jalil stated in angry tones, that ntc staffers were beaten and could have been killed during the january 21 incident, pointing out that this is how the rebellion against muammar al qaddafi began in february 2011. jalil also warned that islamist leader general abdel hakim alamin belhaj and his supporters, particularly militia commanders from zintan, misrata, and other western regions, are anxiously waiting for the ntc government to collapse. their goal, in the opinion of this individual, is to eventually move in and establish a strict islamic state. jalil, added that his contacts in the egyptian muslim brotherhood had been in touch during the preceding week, warning that the threat from belhaj is very real. el-keib unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2015-04841 doc no. c05739857 date: 05/13/2015 state dept. - produced to house select benghazi comm. subject to agreement on sensitive information & redactions. no foia waiver. state-scb0045141 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2015-04841 doc no. c05739857 date: 05/13/2015 state dept. - produced to house select benghazi comm. subject to agreement on sensitive information & redactions. no foia waiver. stated that he must press minister of defense ()sauna al-juwali and interior minister fawzi abd ali to be more efficient in administering their positions. according to this individual, el-keib fears that al-juwali, who was a western commander during the revolution, may be maintaining a secret relationship with belhaj and his allies. in response, jalil warned el-keib to avoid trying to use the regular military forces posted around benghazi under general khalifa belqasim haftar in an effort to restrain the former militia troops as such a step could lead to civil war. 3.(source comment. in the opinion of an extremely well placed individual, el-keib is, in fact, increasingly frustrated by the inefficiency in his regime and the inability of his ministers and administrators to arrange contracts with foreign firms. he complains that his principal advisors, minister of oil abdulrahman ben yezza and minister of finance hassan ziglam, have been too timid in resolving the questions associated with contracts involving foreign firms, both old and new. at present it appears that whenever one official raises a question regarding an agreement the entire matter is put on hold and delayed. in the opinion of this source, el-keib knows that without these agreements he cannot meet the demands of the veterans and the students. el-keib stated in confidence, that he may have made a serious mistake in removing the forrner oil/finance minister ali tarhouni from the government. el-keib also noted that jalil is shaken by the january 21 attack on ntc headquarters and is searching for ways to appease the demonstrators. most recently he asked abdel hafidh ghoza, his principal deputy and ntc spokesman to step down. grhoza, who comes from the benghazi area, was particularly unpopular with the western troops.) 4. following the discussion with jalil, el-kieb ordered ziglam and ngeb obeda, the head of the stock exchange, to move with all possible speed to address the issue of the foreign contracts and arrange for new vendors to provide the services demanded by the veterans and students. in this discussion he pointed out that if they cannot deal with this situation they will not have to worry about the national elections in 2012, libya will be an islamic republic, with belhaj as the ruler. el-keib pointed out that foreign governments and large oil firms must be aware of this threat and that this will frighten them into meeting the conditions for foreign contracts set out by the ntc 5 (source comment. according to an extremely sensitive source, el-keib spoke secretly with haflar, stating that he, and those troops loyal to him, should be prepared to move to protect the government in the event of increased violence. this effort could include moving against belhaj and attacking militia forces before they can unite and organize. el-keib emphasized that this is for planning purposes only, and no action should be taken until el-keib gives the order. he emphasized that he will do everything possible to avoid civil war, but he is now concerned that jalil will be unable to deal with the level of hostility against the ntc, and cannot be counted on to take strong positions against belhaj and his supporters in the opinion of this individual, el-keib cannot back away from his commitment to technicians in senior positions, but he will press them as hard as he can to have the government respond to the needs unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2015-04841 doc no. c05739857 date: 05/13/2015 state dept. - produced to house select benghazi comm. subject to agreement on sensitive information & redactions. no foia waiver. state-scb0045142 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2015-04841 doc no. c05739857 date: 05/13/2015 state dept. - produced to house select benghazi comm. subject to agreement on sensitive information & redactions. no foia waiver. of the veterans and students. el-keib believes it is not too late to address these problems, but they must move wickly.) unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2015-04841 doc no. c05739857 date: 05/13/2015 state dept. - produced to house select benghazi comm. subject to agreement on sensitive information & redactions. no foia waiver. state-5cb0045143  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05764415 date: 07/31/2015 release in full sent: monday, august 24, 2009 7:40 am subject: fw: for u and to pass on to hrc see below for discussion. i think we are going to need to be very specific about limiting more of her activities in the building than she suggests b/c as is, she is in many matters here too that are very consuming. cdm original message sent: monday, august 24, 2009 7:36 am subject: for u and to pass on to hrc i was delighted to see the rothkopf piece yesterday, and not only b/c he mentioned me! it identified state as the source of big ideas under your leadership, ideas that adapt our foreign policy to a 21st c world and allow us to get things done. as i think about what i want to sink my teeth into over the next 18 months and how i can best serve you, i have concluded that i want to devote myself full time to the qddr. -- driving the process and the outcomes as efficiently and effectvely as possible. i have run something like this before; i know almost all the players; my staff is well plugged into the building; and i am committed to all the ideas that we want to see emerge. instead of hiring a senior director, i propose that the aid designate and i start driving the process by working w/ karen and the staff and reporting to/engaging the senior leadiership team on a weekly basis. as  and i discussed, i am well aware that taking on this role means cutting many other things that i do. the demands for policy planning talks have been proliferating because they serve the interests of the bureaus. i am less convinced that they are the best use of my time or that they allow me to best serve you. there are 2 sets -- one with 5 middle eastern countries that we have agreed to hold in jordan this fall -- this is their second meeting -- and the second round of the russia-eu-us talks that i think it would be very detrimental to cancel. but i shd b able to make those each 3 day trips total. other than that i wd cancel all my planned travel for the fall. i would also limit outside speaking engagements except to the extent such engagement served qddr outreach purposes. qddr meetings will also take priority on my calendar, alongside meetings w/ my staff on other projects we are pursuing. as it is shaping up, the qddr combines thinking and doing in a way that fits what i think i can bring to the table perfectly and make this what you want it to be. i very much want to take on the role i describe, and hope you agree. ams 159 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05764415 date: 07/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05762007 date: 06/30/2015 release in part b6 sent: subject: ,  c <lc@state.gov> friday, may 15, 2009 7:22 am h abedin, huma today, 5/15/09 is her birthday. 27 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05762007 date: 06/30/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05764232 date: 07/31/2015 release in part b6 sent: subject: ,  <h@state.gov> tuesday, september 1, 2009 4:09 pm h re: original message sent: tue sep 01 16:06:41 2009 subject: re: original message sent: tue sep 01 15:58:58 2009 subject: re: yes we have asked wh for a time original message sent: tue sep 01 15:56:02 2009 subject: re: so lona will include in daily schedule for tuesday? original message sent: tue sep 01 15:55:11 2009 subject: re: tuesday we think. original message sent: tue sep 01 15:54:08 2009 subject: re: i'll wait to see him in person next week. do we know when that would be? original message unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05764232 date: 07/31/2015 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05764232 date: 07/31/2015 sent: tue sep 01 15:48:40 2009 subject: re: thx few other notes: - wh is asking if u want to speak with potus tomorrow during the meeting time? would be 10:20am. would you like to do a call with him or wait and meet with him in person? - cdm can explain the document i just asked oscar to print for you. original message -- sent: tue sep 01 15:37:28 2009 subject: re: ok. thx. enjoy the gar. see you in dc. original message sent: tue sep 01 14:38:23 2009 subject: wanted to let you know i decided to go to dc for the wh iftar tonite and big unga meeting tomorrow morning. unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05764232 date: 07/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05775124 date: 08/31/2015 - release in full sent: sunday, september 26, 2010 4:38 pm subject: sunday should at least be sunday. one less day of bldng unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05775124 date: 08/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05771581 date: 08/31/2015 release in full sent: wednesday, november 3, 2010 2:44 pm subject: fw: draft e=dept notice for kris b any issues bif i pull the trigger? sent: wed nov 03 14:28:15 2010 subject: draft e=dept notice for kris b any edits? objections? kris cleared the secretary announces the special representative for global partnerships (s/gpi) the secretary announced kris balderston as the special representative for global partnerships. the office of the special representative is located in the harry s. truman building, room 6817. the special representative and his office (s/gpi) will continue to engage the private sector and civil society in partnerships to forward the priorities of the secretary by coordinating global partnerships across the interagency, developing new tools for partnerships, and advancing the department's engagement with the private sector. the special representative's office can be reached at 202-647-2200. unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05771581 date: 08/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05766141 date: 07/31/2015 release in full sent: thursday, november 26, 2009 7:48 am subject calls confirmed call sheets will be coming on secure fax at 8am. here are confirmed calls: 830: japanese fminister okada 845: french fminister kouchner 900: polish fminister sikorski 915: canadian fminister cannon 930: brazilian fminister amorim 945: romanian president basescu 1000: norwegian fm stoere 1015: italian fm frattini 1030: possible saudi fm 1045: dutch fminister verhagen 1100: spanish fminister moratinos unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05766141 date: 07/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05767194 date: 08/31/2015 release in part b6 sent: subject:  monday, february 15, 2010 6:57 pm podesta podesta: w.h. 'lost' health narrative by: ah!, february 15, 2010 03:03 pm est john podesta, the president of the center for american progress who led barack obama's presidential transition, acknowledges the white house has been unable to successfully drive the debate on health care reform. \"they lost the narrative,\" podesta told the financial times. \"they lost the perspective of how all of the activity they were engaged in was knit together.\" in a video interview posted on the newspaper's website monday, podesta also bemoaned the present political climate in washington and expressed frustration with inability of the white house and congress to advance the president's agenda. \"change is hard in america. we've all learned that over the last year,\" said the former white house chief of staff under bill clinton. \"there is real frustration amongst independent voters, and anger amongst independent voters.\" voters have become discouraged, podesta said, by seeing \"no spirit in which people were having a unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05767194 date: 08/31/2015 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05767194 date: 08/31/2015 reasonable conversation\" during the health care debate and from \"the last twist and turns on health care, the special deals that had to be made in the senate to get the 60 votes.\" asked how he would rate the health of the american political system, he responded simply: \"sucks.\" \"it feels like a very frustrated country, a country frustrated with the inability of washington to do anything to get the economy going again, to get jobs going again,\" he said. \"and i think that there is tremendous anger [and] frustration about the inability to improve people's lives.\" republicans also have shown little ability to raise the level of debate, podesta suggested. obama's \"not dealing with the party of lincoln. he's dealing with the party of palin,\" podesta said, referring to sarah palin, the former alaska governor who was the 2008 gop vice presidential nominee. 0 2010 capitol news company, llc unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05767194 date: 08/31/2015  "
"b6 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05774144 date: 08/31/2015 release in part b6 sent: friday, october 22, 2010 5:38 pm subject: robert wexler logged a call into you  as a follow-up to your meeting with danny abraham yesterday. "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05774110 date: 08/31/2015 release in full sent: thursday, december 30, 2010 8:47 am subject: fw: russian tycoon khodorkovsky gets 14-year sentence (ap) sent: thu dec 30 08:32:22 2010 subject: russian tycoon khodorkovsky gets 14-year sentence (ap) moscow (ap) - a judge sentenced jailed russian oil tycoon mikhail khodorkovsky to 14 years in prison following a trial seen as payback for his defiance of vladimir putin's power. judge viktor danilkin handed down the sentence after convicting khodorkovsky of stealing oil from his own company and laundering the proceeds. khodorkovsky is in the final year of an eight-year prison sentence. his lawyers say the new sentence is counted from his 2003 arrest and includes his previous term in jail. unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05774110 date: 08/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05771079 date: 08/31/2015 release in full sent: tuesday, august 24, 2010 3:56 pm subject: call: amb. holbrooke has a call into you via ops "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05769274 date: 08/31/2015 release in full sent: friday, july 2, 2010 1:59 pm subject pick tefft's brain about georgia! unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05769274 date: 08/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05770411 date: 08/31/2015 release in part b6 sent: tuesday, august 10, 20108:19 am subject re: do you have richard and lisa perry's email addresses? i just checked and we don't. i will get updated contact information for them today. all we have is a home phone number of and a mailing address: i'll send you the updates when i get it. sent: tuesday, august 10, 2010 8:04 am subject: do you have richard and lisa perry's email addresses? unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05770411 date: 08/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05769908 date: 08/31/2015 release in part b5 sent: sunday, june 13, 2010 6:19 pm subject strategy sessions i talked to cdm about doing some strategy sessions this week. we discussed trying to do three: there are obviously a dozen different ways to do this, and a dozen different configurations. so consider this a strawman - we're eager to hear your reactions. unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05769908 date: 08/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05773678 date: 08/31/2015 release in part b6 sent: thursday, december 23, 2010 3:53 pm subject: fw: letter to the secretary and paper toward a new policy on iran attachments: toward a new policy on iran (dec 2010) (3) (3).doc; letter to secretary clinton.doc please print for hrc cdm sent: wednesday, december 22, 2010 11:17 pm subject: letter to the secretary and paper toward a new policy on iran dear : as you know, a small group of us met with the secretary and bill burns on tuesday morning on iran. we would like her to have both the attached letter of thanks and a paper which provides fuller detail on the ideas we discussed with her along with some further thoughts and suggestions in response to her statements to and questions of us. with my thanks and good wishes for christmas and new years, sincerely, tom pickering b6 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05773678 date: 08/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05775238 date: 08/31/2015 release in full sent: thursday, september 30, 2010 7:47 am subject: mini schedule 9/30/10 thursday 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 secretary's office 8:45 am daily meeting w/senior staff 9:15 am secretary's conference room 9:15 am weekly meeting w/regional bureau secretaries 10:00 am deputy secretary's conference room 10:00 am videos (4) 10:30 am george marshall room, 7\" floor 10:40 am depart state department *en route u.s. capitol 10:55 am arrive u.s. capitol (senate carriage entrance) 11:00 am meeting w/us senator john kerry 11:55 am s-116 (sen. kerry hideaway) 12:00 pm pull-aside w/senator chuck schumer 12:10 pm outside h-122 12:15 pm refugee consultations w/house committee members 1:00 pm h-122 (speaker's dining room) 1:00 pm depart u.s. capitol (house carriage entrance) *en route state department 1:15 pm arrive state department 1:15 pm office time 2:15 pm secretary's office 2:15 pm call w/senator john cornyn 2:25 pm secretary's office 2:30 pm office time 3:00 pm secretary's office 3:00 pm bilat. mtg w/panamanian vice president & foreign minister 3:30 pm juan carlos varela secretary's conference room *camera spray at top. 3:30 pm office time 4:00 pm secretary's office 4:00 pm photos (3) 4:15 pm treaty room, 7\" floor 4:15 pm bilateral meeting w/indian national security advisor 4:45 pm shiv shankar menon secretary's conference room *official photo at top. 5:00 pm office time 6:30 pm secretary's office 6:45 pm drop-by meridian international center reception 7:00 pm honoring ambassador elizabeth bagley monroe room, franklin room, 8th floor 7:05 pm depart state department *en route jockey club unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05775238 date: 08/31/2015 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05775238 date: 08/31/2015 7:15 pm arrive jockey club 7:15 pm dinner w/famera* 8:30 pm (t) jockey club, fairfax hotel 8:30 pm (t) depart jockey club *en route private residence 8:35 pm (t) arrive private residence "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05761145 date: 06/30/2015 release in part b6 sent: sunday, may 3, 2009 8:34 am subject: re: tomorrow can be easily done. we will work on it and send you revised schedule. original message sent: sun may 03 08:19:14 2009 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 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05761145 date: 06/30/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05764246 date: 07/31/2015 release in part b6 sent: tuesday, september 1, 2009 5:18 pm subject: re: we are making reservations original message sent: tue sep 01 16:35:31 2009 subject: re: original message sent: tue sep 0116:20:51 2009 subject: re: original message sent: tue sep 01 16:18:212009 subject: re: any word from original message sent: tue sep 01 16:09:15 2009 subject: re: original message sent: tue sep 01 16:06:41 2009 subject: re: unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05764246 date: 07/31/2015 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05764246 date: 07/31/2015 original message sent: tue sep 01 15:58:58 2009 subject: re: yes we have asked wh for a time original message sent: tue sep 01 15:56:02 2009 subject: re: so lona will include in daily schedule for tuesday? original message sent: tue sep 01 15:55:11 2009 subject: re: tuesday we think. original message sent: tue sep 01 15:54:08 2009 subject: re: i'll wait to see him in person next week. do we know when that would be? original message sent: tue sep 01 15:48:40 2009 subject: re: thx few other notes: - wh is asking if u want to speak with potus tomorrow during the meeting time? would be 10:20am. would you like to do a call with him or wait and meet with him in person? - cdm can explain the document i just asked oscar to print for you. original message sent: tue sep 01 15:37:28 2009 subject: re: ok. thx. enjoy the itfar. see you in dc. unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05764246 date: 07/31/2015 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05764246 date: 07/31/2015 original message sent: tue sep 01 14:38:23 2009 subject: w i decided to o to dc for the wh iftar tonite and big unga meeting tomorrow morning. 1.1 -. . - . ,n. unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05764246 date: 07/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05778377 date: 08/31/2015 release in full sent: monday, december 13, 2010 4:36 pm subject fw: and i don't know whether you've seen this yet... sent: monday, december 13, 2010 3:38 pm subject: fw: and i don't know whether you've seen this yet... omg http:fiblogs.cgdev.org/mca-monitor/2010/12/twas-the-night-before-the-qddr.php twas the night before the qddr december 13, 2010 by connie veillette in rethinking u.s. foreign assistance tags: qddr twas two weeks before christmas, when all through the town breaths were held expectantly, in the midst of a countdown. with their keyboards ready, the bloggers abandoned all care, hoping that secretary clinton soon would be there. the ngos were nestled all snug in their beds, knowing the qddr soon would be read. and the senate and house, with a sharp rap, had just left town for a long winter's nap. when out on the mall there arose such a clatter, aid analysts sprang from their cubicles to see what was the matter. away to their lnboxes they flew like a flash, tore open their emails and emptied the cache. the moon on the breast of the soon-to-fall snow gave the lustre of mid-day to the stalled traffic below. when, what to their wondering eyes should appear, but an armored car, and eight men in full gear. unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05778377 date: 08/31/2015 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05778377 date: 08/31/2015 with a diplomatic wit, married to bill, they knew in a moment it must be st hill. more rapid than eagles her people, they came, and she whistled, and shouted, and called them by name! \"now slaughter! now, radelet! now, geithner and shah! on, nides! on, steinberg! on yohannes, hurrah! to the top of the white house! to the top of the hill! now dash away! dash away! get us good will!\" and then, in a flash, her people took to the phone spreading the word about what few had known. as the developmentistas gathered to find common ground, behind the podium st hillary came with a bound. her eyes-how they twinkled! her hair how flaxen! her cheeks were like roses, the cameras were flashin'! her smart red suit was adorned with a bow, the perfect \"development diplomat\" from head to toe. she addressed the crowd on integration and elevation, and gave usaid some special designation! a wink of her eye and a twist of her head, soon let them dream that they had fewer things to dread. she spoke many words, and expressed her complete vision, while her colleagues set about implementing the qddr's decision. and laying her finger aside of her nose, and giving a nod, she departed, nothing else to disclose! she sprang to her car, to her team gave a whistle, and away they all flew like the down of a thistle. but they heard her exclaim, 'ere she drove out of sight, \"just trust me on this, it will all be alright!\" may all your dreams come true, from your friends at the rethinking u.s. foreign assistance initiative  connie, sarah jane, and casey  and with many thanks for the creative talents of casey dunning and julie walz. sent: monday, december 13, 2010 3:27 pm unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05778377 date: 08/31/2015 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05778377 date: 08/31/2015 subject: and i don't know whether you've seen this yet... http://blogs.cgdev.oramca-monitor/2010/12/twas-the-night-before-the-qddr.php unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05778377 date: 08/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05772349 date: 08/31/2015 release in part b5, b6 sent: tuesday, august 31, 2010 12:12 pm subject: fw: bout extradition update fyi sent: tue aug 31 08:56:37 2010 subject: bout extradition update sbu  close hold harold, best, cliff ps  i'll be on tdy in china for 10 days with peter g., starting tomorrow morning, working on concluding two updates to our aviation counterterrorism agreements. clifton m. johnson assistant legal adviser law enforcement and intelligence (202) 647-7324 (office) (202) 647-4802 (fax) unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05772349 date: 08/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05765926 date: 08/31/2015 release in part b6 sent: saturday, december 5, 2009 2:24 pm subject brian roberts returned your call "
",  d <cd@state.gov> wednesday, august 26, 2009 8:42 pm h fw: sent: subject: unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05764561 date: 07/31/2015 release in part b5,b6 fyi sent: wed au 26 18:00:38 2009 subject: i'll call tomorrow to set up an interview. will this be with you and jack, or the s? see my comments below. will try to get a better resume from lqa unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05764561 date: 07/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05762912 date: 06/30/2015 release in full sent: sunday, june 28, 2009 9:41 am subject: tom shannon wants to talk to u as soon as possible. 92 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05762912 date: 06/30/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05767087 date: 08/31/2015 release in full sent: thursday, december 31, 2009 8:09 am subject: fw: (ap) un to move some staff out of pakistan for safety sent: thu dec 31 08:00:53 2009 subject: (ap) un to move some staff out of pakistan for safety islamabad - the united nations says it plans to temporarily relocate some of its international staff outside of pakistan for security reasons. u.n. spokeswoman ishrat rizvi says 20 percent of the organization's expatriate workers will either leave the country for six months or be relocated to safer areas within pakistan. igor krayman operations specialist department of state operations center 202-647-1512 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05767087 date: 08/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05776576 date: 08/31/2015 release in full sent: thursday, december 2, 2010 5:53 pm subject: checking on you - getting on call in 8min (6pm est) for the next hour but then free unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05776576 date: 08/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05762435 date: 06/30/2015 release in full sent: friday, june 19, 2009 11:28 am subject: fw: request from  fyi sent: friday, june 19, 2009 11:14 am subject: re: request from  thanks stu! copying huma and . sent: friday, june 19, 2009 11:03 am subject: re: request from  nora, just to close the loop, i did meet w/ jeffrey romoff and his team on wed afternoon. they gave a very impressive into on what the university medical center of pittsburgh (upmc) is doing in southern italy. they are already getting a lot of political support from our emb in rome and are grateful for it. i gave them some practical suggestions on other levers in the usg that they could pull (tda, opic, commerce advocacy center). they want the secretary will make some positive reference to berlusconi in italy this summer of their interest in working the goi to build a lab/production facility for developing vaccines for h1n1 and other infectious diseases. they also note the coincidence of the g20 mtng in pittsburgh later this summer. i made no commitment. but i do believe this is a genuinely positive program and our emb agrees. i did pass their materials to david thorne and urged him to be in touch. he said he would engage, once/if he is confirmed. stu sent: tuesday, june 16, 2009 1:48 pm 17 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05762435 date: 06/30/2015 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05762435 date: 06/30/2015 subject: re: request from  i believe the upmc's goal is to have some help with the italians in achieving funding for a project in pa. but all the background i know is below in my first email. sent: tuesday, june 16, 2009 1:37 pm subject: re: request from  thanks nora. i'm now in touch w/ leslie and we'll work something out for this week, at mr. romoff's convenience. do you have any insight into his objectives for the mtng? sent: tuesday, june 16, 2009 12:40 pm subject: re: request from  that sounds great. thanks to you both. stu- i'll connect you with leslie mccombs, who is handling this. sent: tuesday, june 16, 2009 10:46 am subject: re: request from  nora: given my travel schedule (and stu's greater expertise on this), i have asked acting pdas stu jones to handle this. thanks. sent: monday, june 15, 2009 5:52 pm subject: request from  hi phil. how are you? the secretary is hoping you can schedule a meeting with the president of the university of pittsburgh medical center. he is working on a project with the italians and is seeking some guidance. i included some background below. please let me know if you are available for a meeting and i'll connect you with them. thanks!  upmc's relationship with italy: upmc has a long and successful track record in italy. more than a decade ago, upmc entered into a public- private partnership in italy, and in collaboration with the region of sicily and two existing hospitals, established a major transplant and specialty care hospital. the construction of the 18 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05762435 date: 06/30/2015 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05762435 date: 06/30/2015 facility, (\"ismett\") was funded by the government and upmc , which oversaw the construction and continues to manage it. it has been a great success - bringing transplantation and specialized services to sicily, reducing costs to the nation of \"exporting\" patients who need transplants, and as an economic driver for the region. based on the success of ismett, upmc is now working with the italian government and an alliance of educational institutions to construct rimed, a biomedical research and biotechnology center (brbc) outside of palermo, which will focus on sparking a biotechnology/regenerative medicine sector in the region. (please see attached rimed document.) the government has appropriated 330 million euros for this initiative. further, upmc is a consultant to the italian government and is in negotiations with the regional governments in milan and florence. our international offices are in rome.  upmc's relationship with prime minister berlusconi: (a.) upmc has had a long term and stable relationship in italy over the past ten years, including two governments led by prime minister berlusconi. he is knowledgeable about upmc, as is giarmi letta, italian council of ministry under secretary. (b.) the rimed initiative was conceived during his previous term of office and in 2005, the letter of intent for rimed was personally signed by prime minister berlusconi and mr. jeffrey a. romoff, president of upmc. (c.) it was under the berlusconi administration that the decision was made to fund rimed and 330 million euros were appropriated for this purpose. mr. romoff participated in a press conference at palazzo chigi with the prime minister. (d.) recently, because of the devastating earthquake and the economic downturn, the resources to fund rimed have become constrained, but it is felt this is simply an issue of an unexpected contingency, rather than any lack of interest and support. (e.) mr. romoff has met with prime minister berlusconi several times and is fluent in italian. (f .) many of the significant political figures in sicily are very closely associated with the prime minister and his party and the importance of upmc to the region and potentially to italy is reinforced.  upmc's proposed 21cb: we are pursuing funding for a flexible, multi-product biologics facility in southwestern pa, to develop and manufacture vaccines and therapeutic drugs as a defense against our nation's gravest threat: the pandemic spread of diseases and diseases used by bioterrorists as weapons of mass destruction. thanks to the tremendous help from our partners, governor rendell and senator arlen specter, we have garnered wide spread support from many across the executive branch and congress including vice president biden and hhs secretary kathleen sebelius. we will have the opportunity to brief dhs secretary janet napolitano on june 15th. the economic impact to the region would be unparalleled, resulting in approximately 1000 direct jobs and up to 6000 indirect jobs, all the while reducing production costs to the u. s. government by 80 %. (please see attached 21st century biodefense document.)  upmc's proposal for the italian government: 10 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05762435 date: 06/30/2015 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05762435 date: 06/30/2015 prime minister berlusconi is very much tied to the american agenda and would likely be interested in developing and funding a companion vaccine manufacturing facility- (600 million euros,) under upmc management, which would serve not only to enhance the strategic defense relationship between italy and the united states, but also demonstrate that the prime minister is responsive to the increasing public concern regarding h1n1. it can be an economic driver to both countries, as well. italy has close ties in the mediterranean basin and northern africa, in particular, and producing vaccines for these countries is desirable in keeping with the newus. global health care initiative. thus, for both substantive and strategic/political reasons, the 21cb vaccine facility should be exceedingly attractive to italy. as importantly, the economic gains for upmc and the western region of pennsylvania (pittsburgh) are very significant. as the largest employer in western pa. , the region depends on upmc's economic vitality. excess revenue (profits) gained from exporting the intellectual and managerial capital cultivated and developed in pittsburgh to italy and abroad, serve to create jobs and growth at home. given the unique expertise of upmc and the international focus on health care reform, this is potentially a multi- billion dollar export industry bring both funds and prestige to the united states. nora toiv office of the secretary 202-647-8633 20 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05762435 date: 06/30/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2015-04841 doc no. c05739742 date: 05/13/2015 state dept. - produced to house select benghazi comm. subject to agreement on sensitive information & redactions. no foia waiver. release in full sent: monday, august 22, 2011 7:10 am subject: fw: benghazi update (1200 local) sent: monday, august 22, 2011 06:54 am subject: fvv: benghazi update (1200 local) update from rep. stevens in benghazi, based on largely on info from acting pm ali tarhouni and acting fm salah bishari:  tnc caretaker cabinet/members were up until 4am following events in tripoli and discussing plans for the coming days. tarhouni said the tnc has been in constant communication with its people in tripoli, including both fighters and those entrusted with implementing the stabilization plans. rebels in tripoli, in coordination with the tnc, have begun to set up checkpoints inside the city and guard public buildings.  tnc chairman abd al jalil and pm jibril made statements to the media last night, urging people to refrain from revenge attacks and destruction of public buildings.  there has so far been \"no bloodbath\" or serious looting.  the capture of sail al-islam al-qadhafi and mohamed al-qadhafi is significant the tnc, including abd al-jalil himself, intervened with rebels surrounding mohamed's house to ensure that they did not harm him. they understood that it would be harmful to the revolution and the tnc if he were killed. these events were captured live by al jazeera in interviews with mohamed. both brothers are in rebel custody (at this time, it is unclear to us exactly who is holding them, however).  per tarhouni, the next steps are: 1) find muammar qadhafi; 2) issue a statement announcing the end of the qadhafi regime and the start of the interim period under the inc (tnc staff have begun drafting this statement already); 3) insure the delivery of essential services and commodities (esp addressing the acute shortages of fuel, children's milk, and medication for blood pressure and diabetes); and 4) move the tnc to tripoli.  regarding the move to tripoli, tarhouni said security arrangements would need to be made before they could send the tnc.' leadership to the capital. we have heard from another contact that some tnc members are already making plans to fly to misurata and the western mountains, possibly as early as today, and from there drive to tripoli.  request for assistance: tarhouni, who also holds us citizenship, said the items listed above (gas, diesel, baby milk, and medicine) are urgently needed in tripoli and recommended that the usg ship those items directly to zawiya's port and publicize such assistance as soon as feasible (in coordination with the inc). he said this would bring tlie us even more goodwill than it has already earned bore unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2015-04841 doc no. c05739742 date: 05/13/2015 state dept. - produced to house select benghazi comm. subject to agreement on sensitive information & redactions. no foia waiver. state-scb0045094  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05768866 date: 08/31/2015 release in part b5 sent: subject: ,  d <cd@state.gov> friday, april 30, 2010 11:16 am h remind me to discuss unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05768866 date: 08/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05778432 date: 08/31/2015 release in part b6 sent: wednesday, december 15, 2010 1:47 pm subject: fw: matt lee's piece with write-through -^ sent: wednesday, december 15, 2010 12:43 pm richard r; burke-white, william; hanrahan, karen 3; mcauliffe, marisa s; sullivan, jacob 3 subject: matt lee's piece with write-through december 15, 2010 clinton seeks to revamp diplomacy, development by the associated press filed at 11:26 a.m. est washington (ap)  secretary of state hillary rodham clinton on wednesday will unveil plans to restore civilian diplomacy and development to its former role as the leading edge of american foreign policy. clinton is scheduled to present the results of a wide-ranging review of the operations of the state department and u.s. agency for international development, conducted with the aim of better responding to global threats and emergencies. the proposed changes will \"give our military the partner it needs and deserves,\" according to an advance copy of the document obtained by the associated press. the plan calls for hiring 5,500 new personnel, creating new positions and the consolidating others under a revamped and streamlined leadership structure. the plan also outlines a strategy to reduce the government's reliance on private contractors, which has rapidly expanded over the past decade, particularly in iraq and afghanistan. \"we will work to break down walls between agencies,\" clinton wrote in an introduction. \"we will eliminate overlap, set priorities, and fund only the work that supports those priorities. we will empower our people to make decisions and hold them accountable for the results.\" no price tag is associated with the changes, which are being presented as a new congress prepares to be seated next month. many republicans, who are now the majority in the house, have called for deep spending cuts in the state department and foreign operations budgets. moreover, one of clinton's most powerful allies in efforts to boost civilian operations  defense secretary robert gates  plans to leave his post sometime in the coming year. in her introduction, clinton said the goal is to ensure that the taxpayer dollar is spent wisely. \"it's an important exercise even in the best economic times. in tough times, it's critical,\" she wrote. unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05778432 date: 08/31/2015 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05778432 date: 08/31/2015 the plan would set up bureaus for international energy affairs and crisis and conflict operations at state, as well as offices for policy planning and science and technology at usaid. it would also add a special state department cyber security coordinator and expand the department's counterterrorism office. more broadly, the review calls for giving greater authority to ambassadors and other senior diplomats abroad, making them the top managers for implementing policy across all u.s. government agencies that have offices in their respective embassies or consulates. \"it sounds basic, but it's the kind of change that will help us tap the full potential of our civilian power,\" clinton wrote. the proposals grow out of the findings of a quadrennial diplomacy and development review that clinton ordered when she became secretary of state, and reflects the obama administration's \"smart power\" approach to foreign policy stressing civilian over military operations. the review is dedicated to the late richard holbrooke, the veteran diplomat who died monday. \"he represented the best of our nation's civilian power,\" it says. \"he understood that we cannot project our leadership unless we also promote our values.\" the plan proposes expanding the existing undersecretary of state for democracy and global affairs position to include civilian security and human rights. the new crisis and conflict operations bureau would report to this official and coordinate civilian responses to humanitarian emergencies with usaid. at usaid,the proposal calls for tripling the hiring of midlevel workers from 30 to 95 per year to reduce reliance on outside contractors. this aims to reverse the 38 percent decline in the agency's work force between 1990 and 2007. caitlin klevorick office of the counselor department of state klevorickcb@state.gov 202.647.6115 (blackberry) unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05778432 date: 08/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05769288 date: 08/31/2015 release in part b6 sent: thursday, january 21, 2010 9:57 pm subject: fw: griot education project in haiti - anothter idea -- much quicker ramp-up fyi sent: thursday, january 21, 2010 8:54 pm subject: griot education project in haiti - anothter idea -- much quicker ramp-up : after watching scenes on tv, talking w/ you and others, here is idea for nearly immediate way to get kids back 'in school' or into school for the first time. it would be very cheap, could get started very soonsay mid-february, could be linked to other distribution networks (food/medical supplies), and would be quite organic and grassroots. i'll call it the griot education project (in the west african tradition of a streetside storytellers). context/understanding: looks like there are a few hundred thousand kids in port-au-prince who pretty soon will be (already are) sitting around day-to-day w/ more or less nothing to do. their schools got destroyed, their neighborhoods in rough shape. these are young kids who would be best served if they could get out of the house for a few hours a day (possibly even freeing up parents to do rebuilding or other work), and not spend their time getting caught up in crime, or desperately searching through rubble for a mal to eat... and get back to school, and engage their naturally curious brains. the goal of this program is to immediately give them a place to go, a chance to interface with an energetic educator, and at least expose them to relevant, skill-enhancing academic work that engages them while we rebuild education infrastructure. it also would likely get them 1 meal each day, and if needed a way to get referred for immediate medical attention. griot educators: we recruit and equip a cadre of teachers who will go out into communities with a set of portable materials each moming- educators who after a few days will find a place to teach, and will have attracted class of students. this is modeled off the street artist/storyteller. we flyer the neighborhoods, advertising teaching positions. we work w/ whoever we can find who can help us identify people who were good teachers prior to the earthquake and/or people who have the abilty to attract kids (appropriately). we select teachers. we agree to pay them a daily/weekly stipend. we want people who know their communities, who don't need a lot of direction, who will take a cart full of educational materials, find a corner, or abandoned building and start teaching to whoever shows up. people who will do anything to get some young kids to try to read or do some math problems or sing songs and write poetry... education supply centers we set up education supply centers and a distribution system. each center is staffed by small team-1 lead person is an education-leader, others are admin and support. griots come the center in the morning, they get a day's worth of educational materials (we select it, we photocopy it, we give them 50 pencils, etc.). we agree to send over 50 meals two hours later. each griot wheels his portable classroom to his/her spot and sets up shop... kids come, and he/she teaches. it builds momentum and kids get off the streets, out of their homes and come to the morning 'school' site. kids who come get a meal. maybe we end up w/ 3 tiers of griots-1 who works w/ 4, 5, 6 year olds, 1 with 7, 8, 9 year olds, 1 with 10, 11, 12 year olds. each one picks up a packet of material that is more or less appropriate for that age group. all this is incredibly flexible and fluid. maybe one morning session and then an after lunch session. unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05769288 date: 08/31/2015 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05769288 date: 08/31/2015 the education supply centers are warehouses we set up. they have copiers, lots of paper, basic school supplies, some art supplies, etc. (over time, maybe people donate a bunch of books or magazines, etcthey become ways for artists, volunteers, entertainers to connect w/ kids, as well.) each morning a group of griots go to their supply centers and pick up materials, and fill up their cart... and roll down the block, or blocks and set up their 'school' for the day. maybe someone wants to donate a bunch of art supplies, or harmonicaswho knowswhatever it takes to get kids to show up and do some academic and enrichment activities. these education supply centers likely get linked to other distribution hubs. this way they can get linked w/ food or other supplies. longer-term/setting the stage for longer-term ramp up over time, some of the griots will end up running little schools that start to feel permanent. kids will bring in chairs and stools...maybe some of the teaching material ends up staying at the school sites, and the end up as likely places for folks to build/rebuild schools. but in the near term, the 'school' is whatever spot the griot goes to where he/she can attract a cadre of kidsand the good news is that can be almost anywhere. this program is cheap -- as costly as it is to pay stipends to the griots, plus the cost of supplies, delivery, and some human capital to man the supply centers, develop/acquire high interest, high educational value material. i think quite cheap, and could easily be costed out once we knew about how much we need to pay a griot for a day of teaching. it also gets some folks working, immediately. some griots would take stipend and not teach; some wouldn't do it well; some would pawn off the food/biscuits...but we could weed much of that out and w/ this sort of approach, you don't let a few bad apples spoil the larger program (or fear of them stop it from getting started). this program is about planting the seeds for the future schools to come, about getting young kids off streets and stoops and into a fun/learning environment, about empowering talented teacher-artists to go out into their communities armed w/ some basic materials, their good will, their creativity (and a paycheck)together the kids and the griots will find local places to call and claim as their schools. and while this is going on, we have time to build out infrastructure (human capital, facilities, instructional/curricular materials) for more robust ramp-up over time. per usual, feel free to ignore or pass on. dd unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05769288 date: 08/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05770075 date: 08/31/2015 release in full sent: saturday, june 26, 2010 1:40 pm subject: call sheets just sent oscar call sheets for nita lowey and greek fm papandraeou for you. i think jake may have told you the aide to the greek minister of citizens protection was killed in the protests earlier this week. eur has made request that you place a condolence call to fm papandreou this weekend. the week is going to be tough politically and personally for the fm. the minister of citizens protection has resigned as a result of the protests and deaths. let me know if u want to. also, we have abdullah call for either tomorrow or monday. waiting fo them to get back to us. unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05770075 date: 08/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05761344 date: 07/31/2015 release in part b5,b6 sent: friday, april 24, 2009 4:35 pm subject: re: north korea human rights envoy i will -- eap and bosworth apparently are fine per below so likely more judgment call. original message sent: friday, april 24, 2009 4:22 pm subject: re: north korea human rights envoy have you discussed w bill burns and steve bosworth? original message sent: fri apr 24 13:50:06 2009 subject: fw: north korea human rights envoy if they now do believe a full-time slot is there? cdm sent: friday, april 24, 2009 8:08 am subject: fw: north korea human rights envoy  eap has now provided me with the attached documents b6 b5 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05761344 date: 07/31/2015 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05761344 date: 07/31/2015 there is 2004 legislation that call for an envoy and 2008 legislation [sense of the congress] that call for it to be full time plus correspondence with brownback by the previous administration [which isn't binding on the new] however, - - - thoughts? regards pat kurt w. tong director for korean affairs u.s. department of state (202)647-7719 tongkw@state.gov 17 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05761344 date: 07/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05768537 date: 08/31/2015 release in full sent: monday, march 22, 2010 9:13 am subject: wha posts for this year: chile is going to alex wolfe columbia to mike mckinley venezuela to larry palmer. next year, few big posts are up. indeed the only posts are: cuba, ecuador, guatemala, honduras, nicaragua, panama, paraguay unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05768537 date: 08/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05761621 date: 06/30/2015 release in full sent: saturday, may 23, 2009 9:16 am subject: trying to reach you 2 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05761621 date: 06/30/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05772155 date: 08/31/2015 release in full sent: saturday, december 18, 2010 5:25 pm subject: fw: news ticker: (reuters) israeli air strike kills five gaza militants sent: sat dec 18 17:09:02 2010 subject: news ticker: (reuters) israeli air strike kills five gaza militants gaza (reuters) - an israeli air strike killed five palestinian militants in the gaza strip december 18, israeli and palestinian officials said. the israeli military said in a statement that its aircraft \"targeted and identified hitting a squad of terror operatives who were preparing to launch rockets towards israeli territory\". palestinian hospital officials said the five were militants. militant groups identified the five dead as members of the islamic jihad and popular resistance committees. unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05772155 date: 08/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05770186 date: 08/31/2015 release in part b6 sent: friday, may 7, 2010 5:41 pm subject: re: maggie doesn't give u chance to change your mind if u decide to go to dinner. original message ---- sent: fri may 07 17:39:40 2010 subject: re: maggie on tuesday night, after our reception, he has nothing planned, \"rest\" time at the hotel. the vp dinner is wednesday night. lona valmoro special assistant to the secretary of state b6 original message -- sent: fri may 07 17:24:58 2010 subject: re: maggie i can't remember but don't i have some karzai event? if not, what is he doing then? original message -- sent: fri may 07 17:06:01 2010 subject: maggie ms -- i just spoke to maggie and she can meet with you/do dinner on tuesday night around 7pm. that works well on your schedule but of course wanted to double check before locking in with her. lona valmoro special assistant to the secretary of state unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05770186 date: 08/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05765865 date: 07/31/2015 release in full sent: saturday, september 12, 2009 3:31 pm arnold schwarzenegger called for you. assume its about his climate change conference which we have regretted to his stff. ops has his contact info f.31 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05765865 date: 07/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05766517 date: 07/31/2015 release in part b6 sent: friday, november 27, 2009 9:55 am subject re: full iaea vote breakdown yes. original message ---- sent: fri nov 27 08:31:53 2009 subject: re: full iaea vote breakdown original message --- sent: fri nov 27 08:04:34 2009 subject: fw: full iaea vote breakdown sent: fri nov 27 07:02:52 2009 subject: full iaea vote breakdown , u/s burns asked that we pass the full iaea breakdown to the secretary. here it is: for: argentina, australia, burkina faso, cameroon, canada, china, denmark, france, germany, india, japan, kenya, the republic of korea, mongolia, the netherlands, new zealand, peru, romania, russian federation, spain, switzerland, ukraine, the uk, and the usa, uruguay against: cuba, venezuela, malaysia abstentions: afghanistan, brazil, south africa, egypt, pakistan, and turkey unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05766517 date: 07/31/2015 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05766517 date: 07/31/2015 absent: azerbaijan james m. morris watch officer (s/es-o) (202)647-1.512 morrisjm@state.gov unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05766517 date: 07/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05765695 date: 07/31/2015 release in full sent: sunday, november 22, 2009 2:11 am subject: fyi richards office sending a secure fax tomorrow morning at 8:30am. unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05765695 date: 07/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2015-04841 doc no. c05739784 date: 05/13/2015 state dept. - produced to house select benghazi comm. subject to agreement on sensitive information & redactions. no foia waiver. release in part b6 sent: friday, october 21, 2011 5:17 am subject: fw: secretary in tripoli sent: friday, october 21, 2011 04:50 am subject: secretary in tripoli t hanks for the kind words. i think the secretary's visit here was picture perfect given the chaos we labor under in libya.the secretary was great and her efforts will i think help us move forward on our project to help the war-wounded. on a lighter note, i will never be lonely here after the secretary was kind enough to give my personal contact information to all 120,000 students at the university during her stirring dialogue with them. it has been quite a week ;i don't think i can take any more excitement. all the best, gene. sent: sunday, october 16, 2011 2:36 pm subject re: contact thanks so much gene - you have been a terrific partner in a hard circumstance. i think we will move forward with seeking to have chris become charge in january and then nominate him subsequently so he can begin serving. b6 cdm sent: friday, october 14, 2011 1:36 pm to ,  d subject: contact hi : hope this finds you well. i know that jeff has been in touch with you regarding the switch between myself and chris stevens. i just wanted you to know that i am prepared to do whatever you and the secretary think is best. i met with pat kennedy and bill burns before i left and told them please rest assured that i consider myself extremely fortunate to b6 have had the opportunity to work closely with/for the secretary during the past 8 months. i consider the secretary's visit to tripoli this coming week to be the high point of my 30 year career. warm regards, gene. personal this email is unclassified. unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2015-04841 doc no. c05739784 date: 05/13/2015 state dept. - produced to house select benghazi comm. subject to agreement on sensitive information & redactions. no foia waiver. state-scb0045106  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05765218 date: 07/31/2015 release in full sent: friday, november 6, 2009 7:18 am subject fw: (reuters) zelaya says pact to end honduran crisis has failed sent: fri nov 06 06:21:11 2009 subject: (reuters) zelaya says pact to end honduran crisis has failed tegucigalpa - ousted honduran president manuel zelaya said an accord to end a political crisis has failed after de 1 facto leader roberto micheletti announced he would form a new cabinet without zelaya. igor krayman operations specialist department of state operations center 202-647-1512 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05765218 date: 07/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05765869 date: 07/31/2015 release in full sent: saturday, september 12, 2009 4:50 pm subject: fw: (haartez) peres collapses during function in tel aviv original message sent: sat sep 12 16:48:17 2009 subject: fw: (haartez) peres collapses during function in tel aviv media reports israeli president peres collapsed at an event in tel aviv this evening. president s'iliit011 peres collapsed on saturday night during a question-and-answer session for young executives at the rabin center in tel aviv. the 86-year-old president fainted and collapsed on the lectern during the last question. he recovered consciousness after a fedv seconds, at which point he was taken to a side room where magen david adorn medics treated him. the president's personal physician later rushed to the scene. after the incident, people close to peres told haaretz that he was feeling \"good,\" that he left the hall walking, and that he hat a protracted debate with his aides about whether to go to hospital, which the president refused to do. peres was ultimately taken to the sheba medical center at tel hashomer for further treatment. hillary thompson senior watch officer 202-647-1312 104 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05765869 date: 07/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05762792 date: 06/30/2015 release in full sent: sunday, july 12, 2009 9:21 am subject: speech where are you on it - will you have a revised version today to give direction of your desires? at moment we have addl comments in from a derek, sandy, george (on mep), dennis r, ams and we are holding off doing a new draft until we get a sense from you about your edits. cdm unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05762792 date: 06/30/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05769266 date: 08/31/2015 release in part b6 sent: thursday, january 21, 2010 7:26 pm subject re: great job at the foot of the master. i learned. cdm original message-- sent: thursday, january 21, 2010 7:25 pm subject: re: great job and well-deserved. you're a rock star! original message --- sent: thu jan 21 19:21:57 2010 subject: fw: great job nice sent: thursday, january 21, 2010 6:57 pm subject: great job dearest  - you are so good at what you do. i was reminded of it this morning when i heard you on npr. you're the perfect person to be on the ground dealing with the operation and also translating for the public what is going on. i know you don't enjoy doing press, but you are very good at it and i think it is important for the american public to understand the mission of the u.s. government and the high respect and deference you are giving to the haitian government. you really got that across this morning. sending you lots of love and good luck in your incredibly important mission. xo, ann unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05769266 date: 08/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05768545 date: 08/31/2015 release in part b6 sent: sunday, april 18, 2010 6:11 pm subject tomorrow unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05768545 date: 08/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05762522 date: 06/30/2015 release in full mir sent: thursday, june 25, 2009 2:11 pm subject: fw: blog response to elliott's wsj article fyi below - did not come up at the briefing. sent: thu jun 25 13:38:19 2009 subject: fw: blog response to elliott's wsj article though the top part obviously has stuff that is not relevant, once she gets to substance of the piece, it has a more detailed tit for tat that offers more research than our quick points did this morning... http://peacenowconversation.org/?p=219 the settlers' lawyer (or, elliott abrams is at it again) june 25, 2009, posted by lara friedman on may 23, 2005, the washington post ran a an incisive op-ed by former state department negotiator and middle east advisor aaron miller, entitled\"israel's lawyer,\" in which aaron argued \"for far too long, many american officials involved in arab-israeli peacemaking, myself included, have acted as israel's attorney...\" i was reminded of that article when i read today's piece by elliott abrams in the wall street journal, which should, i believe, have been entitled \"the west bank settlers' lawyer.\" before anyone accuses me of casting aspersions on mr. abrams' honor or motivations, let me be clear: i have no doubt he has taken the case pro bono. for him, advocating for the settlers is clearly a labor of love. and the settlers are fortunate to have elliott volunteering for the job. he brings a unique combination of expertise and experience, combined, it would seem, with a shameless willingness to cherry-pick the facts and, when the facts don't support his argument, to fall back on the \"i was there and i know what happened.\" an interesting approach from a man who does not have a spotless record when it comes to truth-telling and foreign policy (for anyone who has forgotten the history: \"elliott abrams  pleaded guilty october 7, 1991, to two misdemeanor charges of withholding information from congress about secret government efforts to support the nicaraguan contra rebels during a ban on such aid. u.s. district chief judge aubrey e. robinson, jr., sentenced abrams november 15, 1991, to two years probation and 100 hours community service. abrams was pardoned december 24, 1992.\") but that was a long time ago. let's forgot the ugly and embarrassing iran-contra history and focus on the \"facts\" in the current case, as elliott sees them: in today's wsj article, elliott offers an almost completely unverifiable history of what he says transpired between june 2003 and august 2005 (the date of israel's \"disengagement\" from gaza). predictably, he focuses on the letter president bush gave to prime minister ariel sharon on april 14, 2004. in that letter, elliott notes (correctly), bush wrote: \"in light of new realities on the ground, including already existing major israeli populations centers, it is unrealistic to expect that the outcome of final status negotiations will be a full and complete return to the armistice lines of 1949.\" 61 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05762522 date: 06/30/2015 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05762522 date: 06/30/2015 what elliott neglects to mention is that in the letter bush also re-stated his commitment to the roadmap (\"the united states remains committed to my vision and to its implementation as described in the roadmap\"), which in stage i states that \"consistent with the mitchell report, goi freezes all settlement activity (including natural growth of settlements).\" elliott then goes on to assert that \"on settlements we also agreed on principles that would permit some continuing growth.\" his evidence of such an agreement? exhibit a: a statement by prime minister sharon, not president bush: \"mr. sharon stated these clearly in a major policy speech in december 2003: 'israel will meet all its obligations with regard to construction in the settlements. there will be no construction beyond the existing construction line, no expropriation of land for construction, no special economic incentives and no construction of new settlements.\" is this extremely experienced lawyer and foreign policy professional seriously arguing that a statement by sharon should be understood as an accurate articulation of us policy, even in the absence of any corroborating statement by the us president? even when that lengthy policy speech went into a range of issue where - at least officially - there was public disagreement with the us? (for example, in this same speech sharon makes clear israel views the roadmap commitments as sequential - the palestinians do everything they have to do, and only then does israel act. ) apparently so. but it gets better. for further evidence, elliott asserts that, really, the us agreed with everything sharon was saying. his evidence? exhibit b: a letter from arid sharon's chief of staff, dov weissglas, secretary of state rice.. it is like saying \"your honor, i swear my client did not sideswipe that car in the parking lot. i was there and i saw the whole thing. and as proof i give you my statement and a statement from my client and his wife, written to the owner of the damaged car, making clear that they were not the ones who hit his car. i rest my case.\" so there are not quotes from president bush or secretary rice to support elliott's narrative - only statements by israeli officials. but elliot has more proof to bring before the court: media reports. exhibit "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05762251 date: 07/31/2015 release in part b6 sent: tuesday, june 09, 2009 5.46 am subject: fw thoughts? will call you around 720 am sent: mon jun 08 16:35:35 2009 subject: dear , i just spoke to interest in 0 who had called me last week. was following up to visit about and confirm his , i think this is a major development in my opinion and would strongly recommend you and secretary clinton promptly consider i assume secretary clinton and favorably from have been friends for a good number of years now i worked closely during my time in the white house is a unique fellow in some respects, he is a serious and thoughtful person and obviously knows the issues of the hemisphere in a depthful manner, as you would expect . i think he can be particularly constructive on the and frankly just the overall latin america agenda. i don't want to be too strong in my recommendation or involve myself inappropriately in your and the secretary's decision making regarding personnel, is a person of real accomplishment and has a standing that is similar to senator mitchell, richard holbrooke and dennis ross. of course as someone dedicated to hemispheric affairs i would certainly like to see the special envoy to the region be a person of distinction and recognized accomplishment. please call me as soon as you can on this one. i think it's quite an important development, as i noted, and would like to have a brief conversation about it with you and perhaps the secretary. as always thank you for your consideration. personally, mack ps secretary clinton was superb in her interview with george stephanopoulos, although i must admit i don't remember conversations in 1993 between the two of them being conducted in the same style or manner.  unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05762251 date: 07/31/2015  "
"release in part b6 sent: monday, november 30, 2009 7:58 am subject fw: buenos aires, argentina: w/w: missing amcit roberto yaryura's body found fyi unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05767506 date: 07/31/2015 sent: monday, november 30, 2009 7:51 am subject: fw: buenos aires, argentina: w/w: missing amcit roberto yaryura's body found so sad... sent: mon nov 30 07:44:45 2009 subject: fw: buenos aires, argentina: w/w: missing amcit roberto yaryura's body found dear ms. toiv, following up on your 11/16 email inquiry to a/5 jacobs, we learned friday that roberto yaryura's body was found in argentina. embassy buenos aires has notified his family; details below. please let me know if you have any questions. regards, drew haldane ca/ocs/acs/wha 6-4996 this message unclassified per e.o. 12958 sent: friday, november 27, 2009 10:38 am subject: re: buenos aires, argentina: w/w: missing amcit roberto yaryura's body found sent: wednesday, november 25, 2009 7:25 pm susana m; nellis, jonathan j; mcconn, beth d; orjales, rodolfo; burton, wade w; fisk-telchi, mary f (montevideo); meron, david m; gustafsondeandrade, karen l; rosker, patricia; howes, robert c; rose, susanne c; abisellan, ernest j (asuncion); haley, cynthia a; dub, sonia s subject: buenos aires, argentina: w/w: missing amcit roberto yaryura's body found ted and drew, this evening at approximately 5:30pm local time, i received a call from argentine judge federico summer of neuquen province (borders chile in southwest argentina). he advised me that on monday, november 23, 2009, a 16-year old unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05767506 date: 07/31/2015 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05767506 date: 07/31/2015 local boy discovered the decomposed body of a male in a remote wooded area overlooking the lake in the patagonian town of san martin de los andes. the judge mentioned he had seen last week's television interview (http://www.infobae.comkienera1/485486-601275-0-un-norteamericano-desaparecido-hace-casi-dos-meses-el- packcyadads) in which i described roberto yaryura's disappearance on september 19, 2009, and he remembered the photo of the unique tattoo on roberto's right arm mentioned in the interview and widely published in the national media here throughout argentina. the judge sent me the pictures of the body taken at the location where it was found, and i sent one picture, a close-up shot of the tattooed right arm to roberto's best friend (who recently flew down here for 10 days to search for him) for identification. he and the artist who designed the unique tattoo, also one of roberto's best friends, confirmed for me over the phone that it was, indeed, roberto's tattoo in the photo. i notified roberto's siblings, together with their families, and they asked me until after their sister had given her the news in person later tonight. i confirmed that i would wait until tomorrow to contact to discuss her preference for disposition of roberto's body and transfer of the remains. judge summer noted that they are conducting an autopsy on roberto's body to rule out foul play, and that the case is now considered an open criminal investigation until the autopsy results determine he died of natural causes. local medics estimate the time of death to be approximately thirty to forty days prior the body's discovery. the judge added that he would do everything possible to expedite any necessary paperwork with respect to disposition of the body once they have ruled out any criminal aspect to this case. would like to fly down next week, if possible, to pick up his remains to bring them back to the united states. i would like to thank my colleagues in uruguay, brazil, paraguay, and bolivia, copied here, for all their efforts to track down roberto. in my conversation with the siblings, they wanted me to pass on their gratitude to everyone for their efforts to find roberto. best, shannon shannon b. farrell american citizens services chief us embassy buenos aires direct line: 54-11-5777-4276, ivg: 878 \"never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.\" - margaret mead unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05767506 date: 07/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05769629 date: 08/31/2015 release in full sent: wednesday, june 2, 2010 10:02 pm subject out of office autoreply: votes i am currently traveling outside of the country with limited access to email. if you need immediate assistance, please contact nora toiv (toivnf@state.gov) or joanne laszczych, (laszczych.l@state.gov) at 202-647-5548. if it is an emergency after business hours, please reach out to our operations center to have them reach me. thank you cdm unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05769629 date: 08/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05764400 date: 07/31/2015 release in part b6 sent: thursday, september 03, 2009 3:23 pm subject: jo luck e-mailing you her numbers in case you want to save them to your contacts. i also have them in mine, updated them in your rolodex, and sent these to huma:   special assistant to secretary hillary rodham clinton lc@state.gov 49 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05764400 date: 07/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05766471 date: 08/31/2015 release in part b6 sent wednesday, january 27, 2010 4:40 am subject: re: maggie original message --- sent: wed jan 27 02:54:26 2010 subject: re: maggie i want to do dinner but discuss invites w me first. thx. original message --- sent: tue jan 26 20:39:34 2010 subject: fw: maggie thoughts sent: tuesday, january 26, 2010 9:30 am subject: maggie maggie is going to be down in dc on thursday, february 18th and could do a \"big think\" dinner that evening that date works well on hrc's calendar too. , if it's good on your end, should we run by hrc and move forward with invites? lona valmoro special assistant to the secretary of state (direct) unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05766471 date: 08/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05772385 date: 08/31/2015 release in full sent: wednesday, october 6,2010 11:01 am subject: statement you asked about this. it was walter isaacson. new bbg chief wants more money to combat \"enemies\" such as china and russia posted by josh rogin tuesday, october 5, 2010 - 4:43 pm the broadcasting board of governors (bbg) has a new chairman in walter isaacson, and the former cnn and time magazine chief is calling for even more money for the bbg to combat the public diplomacy efforts of america's \"enemies,\" which he identifies as iran, venezuela, russia, and china. the bbg, which oversees a $700 million annual budget to run such organizations as the voice of america, radio free europe, and radio free asia, funds breakthrough reporting in some of the most dangerous parts of the world, but at the same time is facing increased competition from other governments' forays into international broadcasting. isaacson said that other countries are stepping up their international broadcasting efforts and that the congress must allow the u.s. government to do the same. \"we can't allow ourselves to be out-communicated by our enemies,\" he said. \"you've got russia today, iran's press tv, venezuela's telesur, and of course, china is launching an international broadcasting 24-hour news channel with correspondents around the world [and has] reportedly set aside six to ten billion [dollars] -- we've to go to capitol hill with that number -- to expand their overseas media operations.\" isaacson said that combating internet censorship would be a major focus of the bbg under his leadership and that china and iran were the prime targets. \"china, iran, and other countries block democratic impulses using their later technologies, and beijing has deployed armies of cyber militias to go after their country's cyber dissidents,\" he said. \"the bbg is at the forefront of combating this. through constant innovation and technical evolution, our engineers are opening up the internet gateway for audiences in china and iran.\" \"we know where we stand in the fight for internet freedom,\" isaacson said. \"wherever there is a firewall, it's our duty to storm it, to denounce it and to circumvent it.\" isaacson was speaking at last week's 60th anniversary celebration for radio free europe, which he credited as contributing to the end of the cold war. he made it clear the bbg's outlets will stick to reporting the news objectively, even if that conflicts with the foreign policy of the obama administration. \"it's sometimes said that our international broadcasting is in a difficult position because by law and by tradition it's tasked with two separate missions that might conflict: first of all, covering the news with the highest journalistic standards and secondly, being a part of america's public diplomacy by accurately conveying its policies and values to the world,\" isaacson said. \"let me say to you, my fellow journalists, that i will stress and we will stress the primacy of the first of these missions, our mission of being credible journalists, because in fact, it's the only way to carry out the second mission. you can't do it unless you're credible and telling the truth, and in the end, the truth is on our side.\" pressed by the cable to explain exactly what that means, especially in light of reports that the obama administration sought to influence bbg reporting after the disputed iranian presidential elections, isaacson promised he wouldn't hesitate to air views that contradict american foreign policy on bbg stations. he said that the goals of american foreign policy and the objectives of credible journalism overlap about 90 percent of the time -- as for the other 10 percent, a choice must be made. \"i feel it's the role of the bbg to always make the choice on the side of credible journalism, just as you would in the private sector,\" isaacson said. \"we can never compromise our credibility. and in doing so, that will probably help further the foreign policy interests of the united states. but if it's ever a real conflict, our goal one is to protect our credibility.\" unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05772385 date: 08/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05770572 date: 08/31/2015 release in full sent: monday, may 17, 2010 8:19 am davutoglu called about iran. wants to speak sometime this morning. we are working to schedule. unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05770572 date: 08/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05768247 date: 08/31/2015 release in part b5 sent: sunday, april 11, 2010 4:01 pm subject fw: frank views: qddr -- prevention and complex crisis response fyi sent: sun apr 1113:37:48 2010 subject: fw: frank views: qddr -- prevention and complex crisis response  -- i think u shd see this too. sent: sun apr 11 13:31:11 2010 subject: frank views: qddr -- prevention and complex crisis response dear jack, anne-marie and jim: without prejudice to the deliberative process now underway, i owe you my unvarnished and very frank views on the qddr process -- and how the u.s. government must best organize itself to anticipate and respond effectively to crisis and conflicts. the stakes are huge, and because we are at the point where the working group i co-chair on this issue has to generate recommendations, this is the time for me to offer some basic perspectives directly to you -- informed by my experiences working on these issues at the nsc, at state, at the united nations and in the ngo community, as well as writing and teaching about them over the course of the last decade. the qddr process itself has also impacted my perspectives and, more importantly, raised serious concerns for me about mistakes we must avoid. i also realize that current bureaucratic and political realities may impose limitations (or compel adjustments) to the kinds of organizational arrangements we might make. but the starting point for me is what makes the most sense. my propositions: unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05768247 date: 08/31/2015 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05768247 date: 08/31/2015 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05768247 date: 08/31/2015 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05768247 date: 08/31/2015 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05768247 date: 08/31/2015 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05768247 date: 08/31/2015 best, eric unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05768247 date: 08/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05771936 date: 08/31/2015 release in full sent: tuesday, september 21, 2010 7:18 am subject: fw: (ap) netanyahu wants israeli troops at palestinian border sent: tue sep 21 04:20:37 2010 subject: (ap) netanyahu wants israeli troops at palestinian border jerusalem (ap) - prime minister netanyahu says israel wants to keep its troops on the eastern border of a future palestinian state. palestinians reject the idea and have proposed an international force along the west bank's border with jordan as part of a peace deal. netanyahu told u.s. jewish leaders in a conference call on september 20 that \"the only force that can be relied on to defend the jewish people is the israeli defense force.\" netanyahu says an international force can't ensure israel's security. he fears palestinian militants will attack israel from within a palestinian state if israeli troops are withdrawn from the west bank-jordan border. palestinian president abbas maintains that an israeli troop presence would infringe upon palestinian sovereignty. unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05771936 date: 08/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05769924 date: 08/31/2015 release in part b6 sent: monday, june 14, 2010 7:28 am subject mack mclarty today june 14th, is his birthday 202-419-1420 w main asst: katie asst. ali cell "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05765219 date: 07/31/2015 release in part b6 sent: friday, november 6, 2009 7:29 am subject: re: also want to credit john kornblum, bill drozdiak and ted widmer, all of whom i consulted. sid will do. to whom should i send addresses? lauren? huma? original message sent: fri, nov , 5 am subject: re: also want to credit john kornblum, bill drozdiak and ted widmer, all of whom i consulted. sid absolutely. pls thank them--and send me addresses so i can too. original message sent: thu nov 05 18:17:20 2009 subject: also want to credit john kornblum, bill drozdiak and ted widmer, all of whom i consulted. sid unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05765219 date: 07/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05775463 date: 08/31/2015 release in full sent: tuesday, october 26, 2010 6:38 pm subject: more bday wishes haim saban duke kinney binta brown vali nasr fred hochberg lisa perry diane von furstenberg leecia eve michael kives bill and ophelia rudin unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05775463 date: 08/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05765096 date: 07/31/2015 release in full sent: sunday, november 1, 2009 7:45 pm we just hung up. checked on you but you were sleeping if you want me to come give you download, i will be up for a while otherwise, can talk in am. unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05765096 date: 07/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05771555 date: 08/31/2015 release in part b6 sent: tuesday, november 23, 2010 3:39 am subject: fw: usglc qddr statement sent: mon nov 22 21:21:10 2010 subject: usglc qddr statement u.s. global leadership coalition for immediate release november 22, 2010 media contact richard parker tel: (202) 730-4163 e-mail: rparker@usglc.org qddr marks bold step forward in strengthening america's civilian power washington, dc the u.s. global leadership coalition today released the following statement from executive director liz schrayer on the preview of the quadrennial diplomacy and development review: \"as part of the usglc's impact '08 initiative, a bipartisan working group of foreign policy experts called on the next administration to conduct a quadrennial diplomacy and development review. we believed such a review was a vital step in modernizing our civilian-led tools of global engagement, and we congratulate secretary clinton and administrator shah for tackling this monumental and necessary task. \"the preview of the qddr released last week represents a bold step towards implementing a smart power foreign policy by elevating our civilian power and ensuring effective, results-driven programs. while we have not seen the full report and expect varying views on some of the recommendations, the initial outline includes several significant highlights that are essential for america to meet today's global challenges: increasing the resources and human capacity for state and usaid; reinstituting budget and planning authority for usaid; and putting in place monitoring and evaluation efforts with clear metrics and a guarantee of program transparency. \"today's global threats require the use of a wide range of tools, and the qddr can help ensure our international affairs programs continue to make a critical impact in advancing our national security and economic intersts.\" unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05771555 date: 08/31/2015 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05771555 date: 08/31/2015 the u.s. global leadership coalition (www.usglc.org) is a broad-based influential network of 400 businesses and ng0s; national security and foreign policy experts; and business, faith- based, academic and community leaders in all 50 states who support a smart power approach of elevating diplomacy and development alongside defense in order to build a better, safer world. "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05767140 date: 08/31/2015 release in part b6 sent: friday, february 12, 2010 1:58 pm subject: h: memo on saudi/chas freeman. glad bill is well. sid attachments: hrc memo saudi 021210.docx confidential february 12, 2010 for: hillary re: saudi arabia i have been in contact with chas freeman, former ambassador to saudi arabia, and he has sent me his most recent public speech on the subject. he says the policy part is toward the end, and that king abdullah's new university (kaust) is an important initiative. he also relates that the atmosphere is near toxic because of obama's failure to follow up his cairo speech and the rebuff from netanyahu. cynicism, at best, is pervasive among the saudi elite. saudi arabia: the end of progress without change remarks to the sarasota institute for lifetime learning ambassador chas w. freeman, jr. (usfs, ret.) sarasota, florida, february 11, 2010 i have been asked to speak to you about the kingdom of saudi arabia. this is a topic i have never before addressed to an american audience. why bother? we americans reserve the right to have strong opinions on the basis of little or no knowledge. there are few countries that better exemplify our assertive ignorance of foreign geography, history, and culture than saudi arabia. most of us are convinced that saudis are muslim zealots, control the world's oil prices, and are absurdly rich, anti-feminist, and undemocratic. they hate our values and want to destroy us. talk radio confirms this. what more needs to be said? unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05767140 date: 08/31/2015 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05767140 date: 08/31/2015 on reflection, a lot does. neither caricature nor a priori reasoning is a sound basis for policy. a distorted view of foreign realities precludes success at dealing with them. there is much at stake in our relationship with saudi arabia. we can ill afford to get it wrong. that country is, of course, the heartland of islam and the custodian of the world's largest oil reserves. it lies athwart transport routes between asia, europe, and a.frica. it is at the center of a. growing concentration of global capital. tinder any circumstances, the .kingdom of saudi arabia nv cut important. it is all the more so in an era when we americans are at war with ever more peoples in the islamic world, depend on ever greater amounts of imported energy, and need ever larger foreign loans to mil our government and sustain our life style. yet saudi arabia is little known.. it is the only society on the planet not to have been penetrated by western colonialism. no european armies breached its borders; no missionaries; no merchants. its capital, riyadh, was long off limits to infidels; the holy cities of mecca and medini. remain so to;:lay. 'when westeriaers finally came to saudi arabia, we came not as the vindicators of our presumed cultural superiority, but as hired help. as a result, some say that saudis secretly see the world's peoples as divided into two basic categories: (1) fellow saudis; and (2) potentita employees. 'be that as it may, foreigners, western, asian, or /krab, who have lived in sliudi arabi.a all see it as a -very strange place  one that is riot easy to itnclerstand and that remains at odds with many of the values non-saudis profess. the kingdom has long stood apart from global norms. its system of government draws on tribal and islamic traditions rather than western models. its king presides rather than rules over the royal family and saudi society. his responsibility is less to make decisions than to shape and proclaim consensus, while assuring a share of the national wealth to all. especially the leas;. 1ri.a.7ilege(. saudi arabia levies no taxes 011 t s citizens, other than the religious tithe known as \"zakat\" a two-and-a-half percent annual donation of private capital to charity and oilier public purposes. all saudis ,njoy free education and medi cal care fro piti rth to cleath and can pursue these sen, ices at home of abroad.. as they wish. the kingdom has no parliament. though it does have elaborate informal mechanisms for consultation with its citizens on policy matters. saudi arabia reverses and thereby affirms a basic principle of american political philosophy. \"no representation without taxation.\" unlike some other countries in the arab gulf, saudi .nra.bia has invested its oil wealth at home, not abroad, ii it it ilas long been generous v,fith foreign aid. (at one point it was donatin.g six 13:fa-cent of gdp to other, mostly muslim, nations.) the desecrate poverty of the pre-oil period is now, at most, a dim memory. over the lifetime of elderly sa.udis, the kingdom's oer caraa. ific0111 e has risen about one hundred fold. sparsely populated mud-walled villages have grown into huge air-conditioned. cities with 21 century architecture. today. saudis are not just literate: many have university degrees. there are more u.s. ph.d.'s in the saudi cabinet than in our cabinet and conpress put together. despite rapid development, the strong family structure that characterized traditional saadi society has remained largely intact. ii is truly rnoving to see how lovingly inn ha' and grandchildren care for their elders in the kingdom. saudi arabia's unique social stability is reflected in the flirt that almost none of its citizens emigrate, though many have second homes abroad, and. a few. like osama biniadin, have been exiled for deviant behavior. for a long time it was easier for journalists and academics to get a visa to tibet than to saudi arabia. perhaps this accounts for the near total lack of institutions and scholars that study the place. in the united states, q/1.1 v\fas followed by an avalanche of polemical tracts, but there are still very few books about the kingdom that reflect its realities rather than the authors' biases or propagandistic agendas. lack of personal familiarity with the kingdom helps explain the repeated prediction by pundits that the saudi monarchy is in jeopardy. generations of such pundits have passed away. the kingdom has not. when i was ambassador to riyadh. i was so struck by the apparent social stasis that i briefly thought the national motto should be unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05767140 date: 08/31/2015 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05767140 date: 08/31/2015 \"progress without change.\" but in fact change is a constant in saudi arabia. most of it comes from the top down. not all saudis are happy with the status quo. some are angry about the extent to which the kingdom is opening up and reforming. others are impatient to get on with reform. the ranks of the latter clearly include king abdullah bin abdulaziz al-sa'ud, the current ruler. now in his late eighties and on the throne only since 2005, he has surprised everyone with the vigor of his efforts to modernize saudi society and to reshape its relationships with the world beyond its borders. saudi arabia has plenty of problems to keep the king engaged. a lot of issues derive from the peculiar religious heritage of the saudi state, the current kingdom of saudi arabia (now over a century old) is the third political structure to ally the house of sa'ud with the family of the eighteenth century religious reformer shaykh al islam mohammed ibn 'abd al-wahhab al-tanaimi. ibn 'abd al-wahhab's writings form the doctrinal basis of so-called wahliabis-m, a notoriously intolerant and socially conservative form of islam -that is often confused with other reactionary religious traditions like that of the taliban. saudi history has mvolved a sustained efibrt by the kingdom's rulers to persuade us religious scholars and their puritanical followers to embrace change and to open up to the outside world. this struggle has mainly been peaceful and virtually invisible to outsiders. sometimes, however, it has engendered violence. in 1975, for example, .the late king faisal paid with his life for instituting public education for 2fris and for introducing television to his nation. both as -regent (from 1996 to 2005) and more recently as ruler, king abdullah has been so careful to avoid drama in his promotion of change that it is truly startling to review the cumulative results of his leadership. take women's issues, for example. in 2002, responsibility for girls' education was transferred from the religious authorities to the ministry of education. women now make up 58 percent of the enrollment in saudi universities. the new princess noun ii 'pint abduirahmari university for women, currently wider construction in riyadh, will enroll 40,000 students this fall. female participation in the labor force is rising rapidly. twenty-nine percent of women now work outside the home. (that is a low figure compared to our own but represents a remarkable advance for the kingdom.) one- -third of civil service positions have !peen reserved -for women. the first woman took her seat i.n the co modof ministers hist year. after a bit cilia kerfuffie, the .i',.iingdom's religious scholars ifinally endorsed coeducation at the new king abdullah univershv for science and technology. that was big blow to the 'legitimacy of gender apartheid. a saudi friend and i are betting that it will not be long before women in the kingdom can drive. we plan to clean up by building the separate road system tins may require. (that's a joke, i hope,) a word about the vision embodied in the king abdullah university for science and technology. founded by the king last septernber with an initial endowment of ten billion dollars. kaust is an international, graduate- level research university. it sits in a two-billion-dollar campus on the red sea about seventy-five miles northwest of mecca. on one level, it is the leading element in an effort to prepare the kingdom for a knowledge-based economy that can complement and eventually supercede the current reliance on energy exports. but on another level, it is a powerful answer to the religious zealotry that terrorist movements like al qa'ida espouse. let me explain. there is a broad consensus among the world's 1.6 billion muslims that the modern age is ethically corrupt and that religious faith needs reinvigoration and renewal. much like early christian protestants, many believe that the way to achieve this is to rediscover and reaffirm the values of their religion's earliest times. when he inaugurated kaust, king abdullah explained that he envisaged it as a reborn bayt al-hikma or \"house of wisdom.\" the original \"house of wisdom\" was founded in baghdad around 760 ce., in the second century of the muslim era. it was where the arabs incorporated greek, indian and other foreign knowledge into islam and conceived much of modern mathematics, astronomy, medicine, chemistry, zoology, and geography. it made islamic civilization the global leader in science and technology. the \"house of wisdom\" prospered in an age of tolerance, when jews and christians served alongside muslims as ministers of government. though unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05767140 date: 08/31/2015 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05767140 date: 08/31/2015 destroyed by the mongols in 1258, the knowledge it preserved and developed eventually found its way to europe, where it sparked the renaissance. today, like mainstream muslims, the extremists of al qa'ida and related movements argue that islam must return to its roots. but they portray early islam as puritanical, xenophobic, intolerant, and oppressive of women.. kaust is a living rebuttal of this historical fallacy and the ideology of hatred derived from it. it was conceived as a new \"house of wisdom.\" it stands for the principle that islam was founded as and can only be reborn as the religious guide to a society open to ideas from other traditions. it represents a call for return to an islam tolerant of foreign ways, respectful of women, dedicated to the scientific study of god's handiwork, and committed to the development of new technologies to better the human condition. kaust is as much an instrument of religious renaissance and an answer to extremism as it is an academic institution. this brings me to the issue of religious tolerance. in 2003, king abdullah inaugurated what he called a \"national forum for intellectual dialogue.\" this ongoing national dialogue is an unprecedented acceptance of religious diversity in the kingdom. it marks an end to longstanding official discrimination against its shiite minority. in 2007, king abdullah made an historic call on the pope in the vatican, the first time a muslim leader of his stature had done so. in 2008 he organized two unprecedented international interfaith conferences between muslims, jews, christians. buddhists, and others at madrid and new york. he intends this dialogue, too, to be a continuing process. there are other major domestic reform initiatives in progress, like a complete revamping of the saudi educational system and curriculum, experiments with elections at lower levels of government and civil society, efforts to shift the kingdom toward reliance on alternative sources of energy, the development of a huge new petrochemical industry to complement the production of energy in its primary form. time will not permit me to describe these developments. my point is simply that there is a great deal more going on in saudi arabia than our press and pundits seem to realize. that said, everything is, of course, relative. sadly, to many saudis, the history of their nation suggests that the more religiously uptight they are, the more oil comes out of the ground. the kingdom continues in many ways to belie god's admonition in the holy ()limn that \"there can be no compulsion in religion.\" the open practice of religions other than islam remains banned. the status and role of wonien in &tudi society is controversial and far from settled. despite efforts at \"saudiization,\" foreign workers continue to dominate the employment market, while demanding a premium to compensate for the discomfort and stress that saudi arabia's religiously sanctioned mores impose on them. methods of political consultation that worked in a more cohesive and less populous saudi arabia can no longer produce consensus. the fiscal basis of the state continues to be oil exports, and oil is a commodity whose price fluctuates unpredictably. there is, in other words, a very long list of problems for saudis to work out in coming years. let me turn briefly to saudi arabia's foreign relations before reviewing the state of our country's interaction with it. in foreign even more than domestic affairs, king abdullah's impact has been little short of revolutionary. he has overseen the negotiated settlement of the kingdom's long-disputed borders with all of its neighbors. he brought saudi arabia into the world trade organization, ensuring that its trade arid investment activities for the first time follow internationally agreed rules. in 1982, at beirut, he led the arab league in an historic reversal. of policy toward the israel-palestine issue. saudi arabia had long insisted that it would be the last state in the region to recognize and establish relations with israel. at beirut, king abdullah committed to be the first to normalize relations with israel upon its achievement of a mutually acceptable arrangement for coexistence with the palestinians. he persuaded all other arab countries to promise they would do the same. to his great frustration. israel did not respond. since then, hope for a two-state solution that could gain acceptance for israel in the region has dimmed. unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05767140 date: 08/31/2015 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05767140 date: 08/31/2015 many of saudi arabia's foreign policy challenges stem from recent american policies in the region. these policies have had the effect of liberating israel from all constraints on its settlement activities and belligerent intervention in its arab neighbors, installing iran as the dominant political influence in both iraq and lebanon, consolidating rather than eroding the syrian-iranian alliance, pushing hama.s into the arms of the iranians, and raising regional tensions over tehran's nuclear program while doing nothing effective about it. then there is afghanistan, where the united states now seems to be engaged in a crusade against militant islam  one that many in the region now fear may soon extend to yemen. saudi counter-terrorism specialists, who have a well- deserved international reputation for effectiveness, are convinced that the most efficient way to radicalize muslim populations and encourage terrorism against the united states and its foreign policy partners is to invade, occupy, and humiliate them. they believe that the panick.ed militarism of the u.s. response to 9/11 was exactly what groups like al qa'ida, hoped for. they see no sign that the united states is about to abandon actions and policies that metastasize extremism and stimulate terrorist reprisal against americans and our foreign friends. no longer willing to be publicly associated with u.s. policies in the holy land, iraq, afghanistan, and elsewhere that radicalize the region and menace the kingdom's own security, saudi arabia is actively attempting to reduce its historic dependence on america. to this end, it is building new relationships with countries like china, india, and. russia, while strengthening cooperation with longstanding partners in europe and asia like britain, france, germany, japan, and south korea. it is not that the kingdom has given up on the united states. as the king's scholarship program for saudi students in this country evidences., saudi arabia continues to reach out and seek improved relations with america. but saudis no longer trust us to take their interests into account or to protect them from their enemies. in december 2002, as the u.s. prepared to invade iraq against the forcefully expressed advice of then crown prince abdullab, saudi aramco (the world's largest oil company) quietly abandoned a decades-old subsidy for the cost of shipping oil to the north american market. within months, china replaced the united states as the kingdom's biggest overseas market for oil. u.s. exports have remained relatively constant as the saudi arabian economy has boomed, dramatically' reducing our market share in our largest middle eastern market. ironically, the best element of the us-saudi relationship is now cooperation against terrorists. this is a task in which the saudis have perforce learned to excel. american policies ensure an endless supply of angry young muslim men in the region, including in saudi arabia. the united states is now said to have entered a \"long war.\" the last time we did so, in 1947 with soviet communism the enemy was obvious, george ketman gave us a strategy, and skillful american diplomacy gave us the allies we needed to pursue it. kennan's \"long telegram\" from moscow outlined a comprehensive approach to the political, economic, cultural, and military containment of the threat to our survival and our values posed by the soviet union. we followed his outline. forty years later, as kerman forecast, without our having to go to war with the ussr, ohr soviet enemy collapsed of its own infirmities. this time, our \"long war\" is with various islamic extremists, tribes, sects, and societies. were not quite sure who our enemy is. no k.ennan has emerged to give us a strategy for winning without fighting or, indeed, any \"strategy\" at all. instead, we are flailing about with our superbly lethal military in response to events. lacking a strategy, we have been unable to recruit foreign partners to support one. we are now alone in iraq. we are isolated internationally on the israel-palestine issue. our nato allies are with us in afghanistan out of consideration for nato, not because they think we know what we are doing. many of them have already announced their intention to withdraw-. pakistan is with us only because all its alternatives are worse. saudi arabia and america head al qaida's enemies list. the kingdom has, however, been successfully vilified in the eyes of the american elite and public. to deal effectively with islamic extremism, we need muslim allies. there is none more potent that the kingdom of saudi arabia. yet we have made no effort to seek its advice about how to address the challenges of islamic extremism. we have not sought its help to legitimize an unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05767140 date: 08/31/2015 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05767140 date: 08/31/2015 effective political, informational, cultural, and economic strategy for productive engagement with the islamic world. meanwhile, however, many things now happening in the kingdom  like the implicit message of the king's vision for kaust  suggest that such a partnership with saudi arabia and arab nations of like mind is possible. such a partnership could be the basis for a strategy to bring victory- in this latest \"long war.\" the common interests on which to forge an alliance are clearly there. last june in cairo, president obama brilliantly articulated a credible basis for sound relations with the islamic world. his vision was persuasive, but it remains a mirage, not a reality. et is past time to implement it. an intensive effort to reset the relationship with saudi arabia and to craft a common antiterrorist strategy with its king would be a good place to start. unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05767140 date: 08/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05766224 date: 08/31/2015 release in part b6 sent: subject:  wednesday, december 16, 2009 5:48 pm h: in case you haven't seen, but don't give yourself a grade if asked. sid poll: clinton approval soars by: eamon lavers december 16, 2009 03:00 pm est a new poll of avid news watchers shows that secretary of state hillary clinton has a much higher approval rating than the man she once campaigned against and now works for, president barack obama. in the poll of 800 registered voters who are self-identified \"news watchers,\" clinton had a 75 percent approval rating and a 21 percent disapproval rating overall. obama, in contrast, had a 51 percent approval and a 45 percent disapproval rating. the secretary of state has conducted several well-received foreign trips in recent months and has not been as closely identified with the more contentious elements of the administration's agenda, including the health care fight, the federal deficit and the wall street bailouts. and she has not been subjected to nearly the same media and partisan scrutiny as the president. obama, meanwhile, has been on national television on a _ daily basis tackling a wide range of difficult issues. the poll was conducted by the unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05766224 date: 08/31/2015 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05766224 date: 08/31/2015 nonpartisan clarus research group from december 7th to the 12th, and it asked for opinions of the top cabinet secretaries and white house officials. its finding on obama and clinton mirrors that of earlier polls  in october, for example, a gallup poll found that clinton had become more popular than the president. clarus president ron faucheux said one reason for clinton's high poll numbers is her high approval among republicans  numbers he said position her well to run for president again in the future, if she chooses. clinton had 96 percent approval among democrats, a healthy 57 percent approval among republicans, and 65 percent approval among independents. obama was nearly as popular among democrats  93 percent  but his numbers among republicans and independents fell off dramatically, at 19 percent and 33 percent respectively. clinton's republican numbers are striking, given how intensely disliked she has been in the past among gop voters. in fact, part of obama's appeal to democratic primary voters in 2008 was that he was more likely to be able to bridge the partisan divide than clinton, who was by then a well-known figure dating to her time as first lady in the 1990s. \"republicans may see her as being more hawkish than other democrats on foreign policy issues,\" said faucheux. \"it may be a way for them to bolster that position within the administration.\" asked about any future clinton presidential bid, he said, \"she's in good shape now.\" unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05766224 date: 08/31/2015 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05766224 date: 08/31/2015 the next highest-rated cabinet secretary in the survey was defense secretary robert gates, who notched a 69 percent overall approval rate with a 78 percent approval among democrats and 63 percent among both republicans and independents. \"both clinton and gates did well across the partisan board,\" said faucheux. \"everybody else did well among democrats but fell off among republicans.\" another trend spotted by the pollsters: approval ratings inside the beltway were higher than in the rest of the country. \"these results show that the 'beltway echo chamber' does not reflect the rest of the country, even among news watchers,\" said faucheux. among white house staffers and advisors, press secretary robert gibbs  who is often seen on television  had the highest overall rating at 50 percent. economic advisor larry summers had the lowest approval, at 25 percent. summers and treasury secretary timothy geithner  who are both closely associated with the economy  both posted higher disapproval numbers than approval. summers' disapproval rating was 41 percent. geithner's disapproval rating was 45 percent, one point higher than his approval rating. the poll also found that white house chief of staff rahm emanuel, who is often viewed as having sharp partisan elbows, scored much higher among democrats, at 72 percent, than republicans, at 13 percent. among other major administration unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05766224 date: 08/31/2015 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05766224 date: 08/31/2015 officials, vice president joe biden had a 50 percent approval and 41 percent disapproval rating; attorney general eric holder and hhs secretary kathleen sebelius both posted 41 percent approval and 35 percent disapproval; presidential adviser david axelrod scored 38 percent approval and 36 percent disapproval; and national security adviser james jones had a 30 percent approval and 23 percent disapproval rating. el-  2009 capitol news company, llc unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05766224 date: 08/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05764322 date: 07/31/2015 release in part b5 sent: wednesday, september 02, 2009 7:26 am subject: re: 9/1 senior staff and deputies meetings fine with me -- i'll give him a call - he won't have an opinion on who should be his deputy though. original message sent: wednesday, september 02, 2009 6:05 am subject: re: 9/1 senior staff and deputies meetings ok. also, what about inviting yohannes (mcc nominee) to come to observe mcc mtg next week, meet people and be briefed. he may develop his own opinion about who he wants as his deputy. let's discuss. original message sent: wed sep 02 05:55:24 2009 subject: fw: 9/1 senior staff and deputies meetings sent: tue sep 01 12:33:05 2009 subject: 9/1 senior staff and deputies meetings sensitive but unclassified somalia   noted that she needed to hear further from the secretary on the proposed changes to the ofac letter with respect to humanitarian assistance to somalia and the potential for diversion. she indicated she would let eric schwartz know where things stand. afghanistan 24 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05764322 date: 07/31/2015 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05764322 date: 07/31/2015 no one has yet seen the mcchrystal report. iraq  jack stressed his continued concern over funding for the transfer of police training responsibilities from defense to state, noting that it remains \"highly ambiguous.\" (the estimated cost is an initial $500 million, with an additional $700 million a year in expenses.) defense is insisting it does not have money to transfer to state for this purpose, and the idea of a supplemental is problematic, not the least because the timing would not coincide with the transfer of responsibilities. jack is concerned that we will look like we are holding up the transfer. chinese tires  jim reported that there had been another meeting on chinese tire imports yesterday where there was interagency agreement on the \"first best option,\" but disagreement over other options. the chinese are in town for negotiations and there will be another meeting tomorrow after the first round. baghdad management issues eric boswell noted that the department would extend eric also noted that the roof of the usaid building in baghdad had collapsed. congressional issues rich said that he met with senator demint yesterday to discuss the holds on valenzuela and shannon. rich thinks demint is prepared to let valenzuela go forward, but would like to speak to jim steinberg regarding honduras. he will 25 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05764322 date: 07/31/2015 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05764322 date: 07/31/2015 insist on a debate and roll call vote for tom shannon. demint apparently warned, however, that any \"substantive change\" in our current policy vis--vis honduras would jeopardize both nominations.  codel levin will be heading to afghanistan, pakistan and iraq, but will not overlap with jack lew's stay in those places. legal issues  harold said that one fallout from the renewed focus on libya is that some former claimants are coming back seeking new relief. hurricane jimena  i noted that hurricane jimena is expected to make landfall in baja early tomorrow morning as a powerful category 4 or 5 hurricane. embassy mexico city and consulate general tijuana have issued warden messages and consular affairs has put out a travel alert advising citizens to avoid the areas likely to be hit. many hotels in the path of the storm have been largely evacuated, but there are still many americans who could be affected. the ops center is in close touch with our missions in mexico to monitor conditions. public affairs  pj anticipates questions about iran's alleged willingness to restart talks and whether the secretary will meet with zelaya. deputies meeting highlights sri lanka  the war crimes office said that the report to the hill on alleged war crimes in sri lanka is due by september 21. they have prepared a 60-page draft which is now circulating for clearance. the report covers the period up to may, but jack encouraged the office to consider including later material if it would be helpful. unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05764322 date: 07/31/2015 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05764322 date: 07/31/2015 pakistani internally displaced persons  eric schwartz said that the op-ed in today's post by morton abramowitz criticizing the u.s. and pakistan for allegedly forcing the return of idps into swat and other areas is simply not true. eric said he would call mort to discuss this. export controls  andrew shapiro noted that the interagency process aimed at \"reforming\" export controls gets underway today. the goal is to have something to present to deputies in six weeks. brazilian oil development  david goldwyn said that brazil's proposed regulations for developing its vast offshore petroleum reserves were disappointing. brazil seems to have opted for a nationalist model that will substantially delay bringing on line the most promising non-opec source of oil in years. h1n1  oes reported that the administration will release its report on h1n1 inthe southern hemisphere today. the analysis of the virus in several developed countries in the region suggests that it has not mutated and that the vaccine being developed should be effective. it is still not clear, however, whether one or two doses will be required. 27 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05764322 date: 07/31/2015 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05764322 date: 07/31/2015 la unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05764322 date: 07/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05777829 date: 08/31/2015 release in part b6 sent: wednesday, december 8, 2010 2:09 pm subject: fw: qddr breakfast fyi sent: wed dec 08 14:08:19 2010 subject: fw: qddr breakfast i spoke to liz this morning and explained where we are in terms of the interagency and green lighting invitations (i.e., very close, but not there yet). she said that at this point we will probably not be able to attract the number and level of corporate leaders we originally envisioned for next tuesday. liz certainly could pull together something with usglc board members and some military leadership, but if she is to only get one bite of the apple with hrc her recommendation is to \"do it right\" and move this to january (either the week of the 10th or 241. the idea in january would be to include members of congress and frame the event as the qddr making the case for state/usaid's mission and resources in the new environment. we could take the event in a number of directions (liz would love to get gates together with clinton) but the idea to launch the qddr in january with usglc as the blueprint for supporting international affairs and the 150 account. thoughts? -d sent: wednesday, december 08, 2010 11:17 am subject: i am sure you are all scrambling to release this next week  i assume we are off for next tuesday -- please confirm liz schrayer i president schrayer & associates, inc. 1129 20th street nw, suite 600 washington, dc 20036 www.schrayer.com unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05777829 date: 08/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05772931 date: 08/31/2015 release in full sent: thursday, november 11, 2010 6:06 am subject: fw: korus this was bubbling in news reports... original message --- sent: thu nov 11 04:51:30 2010 subject: korus you may know this already but the negotiations broke down. plan is to reconvene in several weeks. no specific date. will have more details shortly. just arrived seoul. regards, bob unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05772931 date: 08/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05769248 date: 08/31/2015 release in full sent: thursday, july 1, 2010 6:27 pm subject re: bomb at sufi shrine yep original message sent: thu jul 01 18:25:22 2010 subject: re: bomb at sufi shrine can you get me more info about the shrine? original message --- sent: thu jul 01 18:24:02 2010 subject: fw: bomb at sufi shrine fyi original message --- sent: thu jul 01 18:07:11 2010 subject: fw: bomb at sufi shrine jake please pass to hillary. i will call. she may want to, especially given forthcoming trip. r ps--tell her i had a good (i think)u talk with misha s today. hope it helps trip. original message --- sent: thu jul 01 17:32:48 2010 subject: bomb at sufi shrine richard 3 bombs devastated the shrine of data ganjbakhsh (the most sacred muslim place in all of south asia, and the shrine s was supposed to go to). aside from loss of life, this is a major blow to pakistan. i recommend that you call qureshi, nawaz and pasha (who will be here tomorrow). this will either break pakistanis or will get them into the fight. this shrine is deeply tied to the foundation of islam in pakistan. vali nasr unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05769248 date: 08/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05767016 date: 08/31/2015 release in full sent: sunday, january 17, 2010 10:45 pm subject fw: final communique attachments: final communique spanish.docx; final communique english.docx; final communique french.docx; final communique portuguese.docx; finalcommuniquecreole_revision.docx fyi sent: sun jan 17 22:33:15 2010 subject: fw: final communique attached is the final communique. it will be released publicly at 10:45 pm. sent: sun jan 17 22:28:41 2010 subject: fw: final communique the creole translator had some tweaks so i have subbed in a new creole communiqu. we are now final in our five languages. sent: sunday, january 17, 2010 8:59 pm subject: final communique the final version of the joint communiqu and its translations. should i forward to the same people in port-au-prince as last night? jon unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05767016 date: 08/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05765213 date: 07/31/2015 release in part b6 sent: thursday, november 5, 2009 10:20 pm subject re: memo: berlin speeches. sid tomicah, with sid continuing to collaborate. original message ---- sent: thu nov 05 21:14:40 2009 subject: re: memo: berlin speeches. sid i hope we can achieve both power and poetry. who is doing the short monday remarks? original message ---- sent: thu nov 05 20:01:22 2009 subject: fw: memo: berlin speeches. sid the speechwriting crew is taking sid's points below and massaging them into a set of remarks. sent: thursday, november 05, 2009 6:07 pm subject: memo: berlin speeches. sid confidential unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05765213 date: 07/31/2015 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05765213 date: 07/31/2015 november 5, 2009-11-05 for hillary: cc: lissa re: berlin speeches below are my notes for speeches in berlin. the themes i stress are these: the importance of berlin and the brandenburg gate as symbols of freedom; the weight of history (always felt by germans); the contribution of the us and the salience of the western alliance; the meaning of 1989 to today and especially the continuity of the western alliance; and segue from past to future. what i have not done here but might be added are references to angela merkel (a courageous woman from the east who embodies the highest values of the west); and specific policies. those can be fitted in. so, some ideas and language: twenty years ago the wall fell. here, in berlin, the moment when tens of thousands of citizens tore it down with hammers and picks and bare hands is called \"die wende,\" a phrase that means more than simply a change but a turning point in history. it was not only a turning point for germany and europe but also for the united states because the wallthe reason for its construction and the reason for its destructionis central to our common historyand to our common future. richard von weizsaecker said, \"as long as the brandenburg gate is closed, the german question will remain open.\" today i can say with finality, the german question is closed, because the brandenburg gate is wide open! the gate is open, europe is open, and our future together is open. in the forty years from the berlin airlift to the fall of the berlin wall, the atlantic partnership proved itself the most successful alliance for freedom in history. that alliance was, is and shall be the crowning achievement of american foreign policy. and the german  american relationship has always served as its foundation. our alliance represents the unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05765213 date: 07/31/2015 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05765213 date: 07/31/2015 reconciliation of former enemies, an inspiration to other peoples and continents devastated by war and hatred, and it must never be taken for granted. in the twenty years since the fall of the wall we have created architecture for an enduring peace. instead of a wall we have built a gateway to the future. president kennedy said in 1963 that in the future free men everywhere will say, \"ich bin ein berliner.\" today berlin has gained a new and even more powerful meaning. forever into the future, the opening of this gate will be the symbol of the return of the dream of freedom, not only to berlin and germany, but to the entire world. the gate, we must remember, was not built as a symbol of freedom. and each of the tyrannies that used the gate as a symbol believed it represented their eternal power. the gate was first erected as a symbol against the french revolution; then it became a symbol of the imperial ambitions of napoleon who marched his army through. it was a symbol of prussian militarism and monarchy. it was seized by the nazi party as the symbol of its 1000 year rule. and then it became a symbol of the communist totalitarianism that built a wall to separate the people of berlin as though freedom could be contained in only one part of the city. here, in berlin, the cold war was coldest. we celebrate the fact that the wall that marred this proud city was taken down by the world's most enthusiastic wrecking crew. the united states always believed in the freedom of berlin because we believed in the future of freedom. the courageous citizens of east germany, poland and other nations of the communist bloc demonstrated their dedication to free and peaceful solution of conflicts through their stand against dictatorship. america stood resolutely as an ally at every moment of this struggle and moved swiftly to help the peoples of europe reunite after 1989. we celebrate the steadiness of purpose, the restraint and respect for ultimate goals that allowed the cold war to end in peace. for how the victory was won was essential to the triumph. 1989 was special. it was that rarest of historical events: a revolution that did not descend into violence. as a result the gate survives not as a cautionary monument to history's darkest moments but to its brightest. today we celebrate the revolution of 1989, the turning point that transformed the brandenburg gate into the symbol of the hope of democracy and the promise of freedom. berliner luft, the air of berlin, has always been unique. i can feel and smell the spirit of freedom in your streets. the great american poet carl sandburg called berlin the chicago of europe. chicago is where i was born and raised. i can sense the same energy, openness and dedication to hard work in both great cities. another chicagoan, president barack obama, was drawn to berlin last july, a city that he said made him feel like a citizen of the world and a citizen of the future. i was very proud to visit our new embassy at the brandenburg gate, located exactly where the wall used to run. our presence here will forever underscore our determination that the spark of freedom from this city in 1989 will help light the torches of freedom throughout the world. unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05765213 date: 07/31/2015 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05765213 date: 07/31/2015 the revolution of 1989 did not mark the end of history. having made history together, we are summoned to secure freedom for future generations. as vital at the beginning of the 21st century as it was in the last half of the 20th, the western alliance is called to new tasks. the dreams of 1989 reached farand have farther to reach. old hatreds and conflictsin the balkins, the caucauses, in the middle east, east asia, and africastill simmer. we have much to demonstrate what we have learned from the last century. without freedom, without the rule of law, without the opportunity for people to support themselves and their families  without basic human rights-- anger, aggression and violence will prevail. today we are faced with difficult and often dangerous conflicts arising not from conflicts between nations but within them, conflicts exploited by zealots who make the false claim that violence will purify the world and open the gates of heaven. once zealots tried to use this gate to symbolize that message. but through the courage and determination of the people of berlin and their stalwart allies, this gate now stands for a true revolution of the spirit. the long twilight struggle to tear down this wall to make europe whole and free inspires us, in this new century, to help other peoples gain the same measure of security, respect and progress. we need berlin more than ever today. we need your courage, your fortitude, your commitment to the rights of men and womenwe need your example. we are hardly at the end of the history of the west. standing here, where a wall once stood but is no more, in the light from the gate, we have learned from history's deepest lessons. our alliance, linked by shared struggle, dedicated to the ideals of freedom and democracy, strong from the world we have built, now faces a new world of challenges. and we are ready to meet and conquer them. we know it has been done before. we are free menand womenand proud to say, we are all berliners. unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05765213 date: 07/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05770949 date: 08/31/2015 release in part 1.4(b),b1,1.4(d),b6 sent: thursday, august 12, 2010 8:56 pm subject: fw: conversation with president john atta mills re kosmos-exxonmobil deal fyi - johnnie's conversation w prez of ghana. sent: thu aug 12 20:48:09 2010 subject: conversation with president john atta mills re kosmos-exxonmobil deal classified by das, a/gis, dos on 08/27/2015  class: confidential  reason: 1.4(b), 1.4(d)  declassify on: 08/11/2035 jake: i told the secretary that i would give her a brief readout of my conversation with president mills about the bi kosmos-exxonmobil deal. can you pass this brief summary to her? we will send a full im later. 1.4(b) madam secretary: 1.4(d) i spoke to president john atta mills for about fifteen minutes on thursday evening, august 12. i agreed to meet mills and his ambassador next tuesday. president mills is currently in the u.s. on vacation and to respectfully, johnnie carson b6 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05770949 date: 08/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05771722 date: 08/31/2015 release in full sent: wednesday, november 24, 2010 1:44 pm subject: fw: (ap) us jury convicts 5 somali men in navy ship attack sent: wed nov 24 13:41:30 2010 subject: (ap) us jury convicts 5 somali men in navy ship attack norfolk (ap) - a jury in virginia has convicted five somali men of piracy for their attack on a u.s. navy ship off the coast of africa. jurors returned the guilty verdict november 24 in norfolk after deliberating 10 hours over two days. the verdict is the first piracy conviction in a u.s. courtroom in nearly 200 years. the conviction carries a mandatory life term. the defendants were charged with attacking the uss nicholas on april 1 as it patrolled off the coast of somalia. the men claimed they were fishermen who were kidnapped, beaten and forced into piracy. unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05771722 date: 08/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05769099 date: 08/31/2015 release in full sent: sunday, june 20, 2010 1:07 pm subject: statement this is what we propose to put out, with rs putting out similar: today, secretary clinton spoke by telephone with russian foreign minister lavrov. they discussed preparations for the upcoming june 24 summit between president obama and president medvedev. secretary clinton and foreign minister lavrov reveiwed developments in kyrgyzstan and stressed their shared concern over the recent violence and continuing interethnic tensions. the ministers agreed that the issue of the upcoming referendum us the sovereign decision of kyrgyzstan to make and agreed to encourage the authorities of kyrgyzstan to conduct it according to international standards with the monitoring support of osce and others. the ministers also discussed coordination of u.s. and russian humanitarian assistance and other support to kyrgyzstan to help its authorities restore security, stability, and reconciliation among all citizens of kyrgyzstan. unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05769099 date: 08/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05770583 date: 08/31/2015 release in full sent: subject fyi ,  <h@state.gov> monday, may 17, 2010 9:58 pm fw: (ap) extradition rumors close jamaica businesses early sent: mon may 17 19:58:42 2010 subject: fw: (ap) extradition rumors close jamaica businesses early to all: latest we have on following is that goj plans to make an announcement at 9:30 edt tonight that govt is proceeding with extradition request. separately, we are hearing that government may move to arrest him very soon  even tonight or tomorrow. coke could well resist, so this could turn violent. we will see what the announcement says and then take stock. even if govt announces, the follow-on legal process is lengthy. ck sent: monday, may 17, 2010 6:51 pm subject: fw: (ap) extradition rumors close jamaica businesses early sent: mon may 17 18:46:05 2010 subject: (ap) extradition rumors close jamaica businesses early kingston, jamaica - (ap) police say businesses in jamaica's capital have been closing early as rumors spread that the government has signed extradition papers for christopher \"dudus\" coke, a man described by the u.s. as a major drug kingpin. police commissioner owen ellington says officers are monitoring the situation and there is no threat to public safety. local media say the government has denied signing extradition papers. adam packer watch officer state department operations center (202) 647-1512 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05770583 date: 08/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05772325 date: 08/31/2015 release in full sent: sunday, october 17, 2010 3:14 pm subject: fw: (reuters) israeli air strike kills militant in gaza strip sent: sun oct 17 06:07:31 2010 subject: (reuters) israeli air strike kills militant in gaza strip gaza (reuters) - an israeli air strike killed a palestinian militant in the northern gaza strip when he and others attempted to launch a rocket or mortar shell towards israel, the israeli army and palestinian medics said. palestinian medical officials at a gaza hospital said the dead man had been identified as a member of the islamic jihad militant group. it was the first killing in an israeli attack on militants in the gaza strip since september 27. unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05772325 date: 08/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05769101 date: 08/31/2015 release in full sent: sunday, june 20, 2010 1:57 pm subject re: statement russian mfa plans to release a parallel press statement shortly and is faxing us the text. original message sent: sun jun 20 13:13:07 2010 subject: re: statement ok but be sure it's proofread original message --- sent: sun jun 20 13:07:04 2010 subject: statement this is what we propose to put out, with rs putting out similar: today, secretary clinton spoke by telephone with russian foreign minister lavrov. they discussed preparations for the upcoming june 24 summit between president obama and president medvedev. secretary clinton and foreign minister lavrov reveiwed developments in kyrgyzstan and stressed their shared concern over the recent violence and continuing interethnic tensions. the ministers agreed that the issue of the upcoming referendum us the sovereign decision of kyrgyzstan to make and agreed to encourage the authorities of kyrgyzstan to conduct it according to international standards with the monitoring support of osce and others. the ministers also discussed coordination of u.s. and russian humanitarian assistance and other support to kyrgyzstan to help its authorities restore security, stability, and reconciliation among all citizens of kyrgyzstan. unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05769101 date: 08/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05766279 date: 07/31/2015 release in full sent: monday, september 28, 2009 9:23 am subject: mini schedule 9/28/09 monday 8:45 am depart private residence *en mute waldorf astoria hotel 9:45 am arrive waldorf astoria hotel 10:00 am meeting w/afghan foreign minister spanta suite 34h 10:35 am personal/staff time 10:55 am private suite 11:00 am meeting w/armenian foreign minister nalbandian 11:30 am suite 34h 11:35 am personal/staff time 11:55 am suite 34h 12:00 pm meeting w/turkish foreign minister davutoglu 1:00 pm suite 34h 1:00 pm 1:10 pm personal/staff time private suite 1:15 pin meeting w/cambodian deputy prime minister/ 1:45 pm foreign minister namhong suite 34h 1:45 pm 2:05 pin personal/staff time private suite 2:10 pin depart waldorf astoria hotel *en route laguardia airport 2:35 pm arrive laguardia airport 3:00 pin depart laguardia airport via us airways "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05768873 date: 08/31/2015 release in part b6 sent: thursday, march 25, 2010 9:20 am subject fw: call with secretary clinton fyi sent: wednesday, march 24, 2010 10:40 pm subject: re: call with secretary clinton dear mack: thank you for following up on this matter. i know she appreciated your conversation and has been concerned about this matter. i will flag for lona  this week is relatively hectic so it may be a weekend or next week call but will flag now as this issue is ripe. best. cdm sent: wednesday, march 24, 201 10:24 am subject: call with secretary clinton dear , good morning on a consequential and indeed historic week in the life of our country given the passage of health care reform. president obama was courageous, persevering and skilled in his leadership and efforts. having said that, in my humble opinion, he would not have been successful had it not been for president clinton's, hillary's and our efforts in 1994. that's my story and i'm sticking to it, and i believe it's true. i know this has been a particularly demanding week in the life of the secretary and in your life as well. having netanyahu, aipac and a major trip to mexico to fight the narco-traffickers is a formidable task even for hillary clinton. , i would like to respectfully request a brief meeting or phone call with secretary clinton following up on the conversation she initiated with me at the vital voices event regarding the idb. it's my sense and belief that this matter needs to be carefully handled for a number of reasons including the longstanding friendship that both the secretary and president clinton have with luis alberto moreno. i also have another important and timely matter (personal not business) that i would like to discuss with hillary in our time together. as i think you know, i try to be very judicious about these types of requests. i think 15 minutes either in person or by phone will be adequate to cover both of these subjects. as always, i appreciate your consideration relating to my request. thank you and i'll await your guidance and direction. unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05768873 date: 08/31/2015 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05768873 date: 08/31/2015 personally, mack unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05768873 date: 08/31/2015  "
"b5 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2015-04841 doc no. c05739591 date: 05/13/2015 state dept. - produced to house select benghazi comm. subject to agreement on sensitive information & redactions. no foia waiver. release in part b5 sent: sunday, march 27, 2011 12:32 pm subject: fw: chris stevens mission see note below sent: sun mar 27 12:12:03 2011 subject: fw: chris stevens mission jake and , please find below a status report on chris stevens mission to benghazi. thanks. tim sent: sunday, march 27, 2011 12:00 pm subject: chris stevens mission status update on the chris stevens mission to benghazi: the current game plan is for mr. stevens to move no later than wednesday from malta to benghazi. he will stage off shore initially for a one day visit during which he will have meetings with tnc interlocutors and get a sense of the situation on the ground. the goal of this one day trip is for him to lay the groundwork for a stay of up to 30 days. he will be accompanied by a ds team, a staff member from embassy tripoli and the leader of usaid's dart team. with the support of ambassador cretz and embassy tripoli, mr stevens is in contact with tnc members on the ground in benghazi and elsewhere; the team is also in contact with other diplomatic missions and ngos in benghazi. we expect to get support in particular from the turks who have a consulate in benghazi. mr. stevens team has been in touch with africom planners on the details of the mission. we have made the official request for support from osd but have yet to get approval. once we have that  and we hope that will be very soon -- we will be able to move forward with the planning. rena bitter director, state department operations center 202 647 2522 bitterr@state,gov unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2015-04841 doc no. c05739591 date: 05/13/2015 state dept. - produced to house select benghazi comm. subject to agreement on sensitive information & redactions. no foia waiver. state-scb0045017  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05769408 date: 08/31/2015 release in part b5 sent: sunday, january 24, 2010 9:12 am subject fw: trust fund the trust fund sent: friday, january 22, 2010 7:26 pm subject: re: trust fund to all: in response to the query to me from meghann, below, here are some key issues that the administration should consider regarding a trust fund: unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05769408 date: 08/31/2015 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05769408 date: 08/31/2015 best, eric sent: friday, january 22, 2010 5:37 pm subject: trust fund eric, elizabeth, attached is what i drafted for the secretary. it is pretty straightforward; lifted more or less from their website. to the extent that you have editorial commentary, please send it our way. i'll be traveling with s on monday for the montreal conference and we expect the trust fund concept to be a big topic of conversation. s is very interested in using aceh fund as a model. meghann unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05769408 date: 08/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05769968 date: 08/31/2015 release in full sent: tuesday, june 22, 2010 8:23 pm subject: jake asking to talk. unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05769968 date: 08/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05767064 date: 08/31/2015 release in part b6 sent: wednesday, december 30, 2009 6:57 pm subject fw: amb eikenberry fyi sent: wed dec 30 18:23:55 2009 subject: amb eikenberry , jake, best, paul unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05767064 date: 08/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05778420 date: 08/31/2015 release in part b6 sent: wednesday, december 15, 2010 12:06 am subject: fw: "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05768902 date: 08/31/2015 release in part b5 sent: sunday, march 21, 2010 4:40 pm subject re: china currency memo okay -- working on that. original message sent: sunday, march 21, 2010 4:39 pm subject: re: china currency memo i don't have memo. original message sent: sun mar 21 16:32:02 2010 subject: china currency memo you should have bob's memo on china currency, which he worked through with bill. see below his further elaboration: unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05768902 date: 08/31/2015 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05768902 date: 08/31/2015 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05768902 date: 08/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05769547 date: 08/31/2015 release in full sent: sunday, july 11, 2010 11:05 am subject: fw: pls clear: 15th anniversary of srebrenica genocide fyi - we are putting out the following today. original message sent: sun jul 11 09:35:52 2010 subject: pls clear: 15th anniversary of srebrenica genocide statement by secretary clinton 15th anniversary of srebrenica genocide today we remember the tragic events in srebrenica fifteen years ago. i join president obama and the people of the united states in offering our deepest condolences on this most solemn occasion. we honor the memories of the victims and mourn with their families. the united states stands with bosnia and herzegovina, and all countries in the region who wish to foster peace and reconciliation. we remain committed to ensuring that those responsible for these crimes face justice. we recognize that there can be no lasting peace without justice. it is only by bringing all responsible parties to account for their crimes that we will truly honor srebrenica's victims. we are duty-bound  to the victims, to their surviving family members, and to future generations  to prevent such atrocities from happening again. our common faith in the value of freedom and peace unifies us and drives us to act. that is why we are committed to working with all the communities that make up bosnia and herzegovina to move forward and build a pluralistic, democratic state that can take its rightful place in the euro-atlantic community. a prosperous, free, and unified bosnia and herzegovina is the most worthy monument to those who lost their lives at srebrenica and the best guarantee against such a tragedy ever repeating itself. "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05768259 date: 08/31/2015 release in part b5 sent: saturday, march 20, 2010 11:32 am subject re: abu mazen oh i apologize. jake said he spoke with you about it and that you'd agreed to do it if mitchell recommended it. he does recommend it, these are points from him about what to say. and they asked if you would do today. iii follow up. original message ---- sent: sat mar 20 11:26:34 2010 subject: re: abu mazen not until i have a report from mitchell. no one asked mer to call and i don't know what i'd say. original message sent: sat mar 20 11:25:37 2010 subject: abu mazen i understand you are ok making the abu mazen call. everyone agrees you should make it and they want you to do it today. can you do after marianne? below are points. b5 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05768259 date: 08/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05762754 date: 06/30/2015 release in full sent: friday, may 29, 2009 5:38 am subject: fw: latest iteration confidential fyi original message sent: thu may 28 17:24:41 2009 subject: re: latest iteration , 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 original message sent: wednesday, may 27, 2009 11:05 am subject: latest iteration ams: this document is the latest iteration i understand from justin (who works at chappaqua). i also understand that last night she was making changes to it but justin did not get them so they may not be reflected in this draft. cdm 59 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05762754 date: 06/30/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05760667 date: 06/30/2015 release in full sent: friday, march 27, 2009 1:51 pm subject: fw: learning the hard way fyi sent: friday, march 27, 2009 12:07 pm subject: learning the hard way learning the hard way mar 26th 2009 from the economist print edition barack obama may at last be getting a grip. but he still needs to show more leadership, at home and abroad hillary clinton's most effective quip, in her long struggle with barack obama for the democratic nomination last year, was that the oval office is no place for on-the-job training. it went to the heart of the nagging worry about the silver-tongued young senator from illinois: that he lacked even the slightest executive experience, and that in his brief career he had never really stood up to powerful interests, whether in his home city of chicago or in the wider world. might mrs clinton have been right about her foe? not altogether. in foreign policy in particular mr obama has already done some commendable things. he has held out a sincere hand to iran; he has ordered guantanamo closed within a year; he has set himself firmly against torture. he has, as the world and this newspaper wanted, taken a less strident tone in dealing with friends and rivals alike. but at home mr obama has had a difficult start. his performance has been weaker than those who endorsed his candidacy, including this newspaper, had hoped. many of his strongest supportersliberal columnists, prominent donors, democratic party stalwartshave started to question him. as for those not so beholden, polls show that independent voters again prefer republicans to democrats, a startling reversal of fortune in just a few weeks. mr obama's once-celestial approval ratings are about where george bush's were at this stage in his awful presidency. despite his resounding electoral victory, his solid majorities in both chambers of congress and the obvious goodwill of the bulk of the electorate, mr obama has seemed curiously feeble. empty posts, weak policies 6 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05760667 date: 06/30/2015 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05760667 date: 06/30/2015 there are two main reasons for this. the first is mr obama's failure to grapple as fast and as single-mindedly with the economy as he should have done. his stimulus package, though huge, was subcontracted to congress, which did a mediocre job: too much of the money will arrive too late to be of help in the current crisis. his budget, though in some ways more honest than his predecessor's, is wildly optimistic. and he has taken too long to produce his plan for dealing with the trillions of dollars of toxic assets which fester on banks' balance-sheets. the failure to staff the treasury is a shocking illustration of administrative drift. there are 23 slots at the department that need confirmation by the senate, and only two have been filled. this is not the senate's fault. mr obama has made a series of bad picks of people who have chosen or been forced to withdraw; and it was only this week that he announced his candidates for two of the department's four most senior posts. filling such jobs is always a tortuous business in america, but mr obama has made it harder by insisting on a level of scrutiny far beyond anything previously attempted. getting the treasury team in place ought to have been his first priority. second, mr obama has mishandled his relations with both sides in congress. though he campaigned as a centrist and promised an era of post-partisan government, that's not how he has behaved. his stimulus bill attracted only three republican votes in the senate and none in the house. this bodes ill for the passage of more difficult projects, such as his big plans for carbon-emissions control and health-care reform. keeping those promises will soon start to bedevil the administration. the republicans must take their share of the blame for the breakdown. but if mr obama had done a better job of selling his package, and had worked harder at making sure that republicans were included in drafting it, they would have found it more difficult to oppose his plans. if mr obama cannot work with the republicans, he needs to be certain that he controls his own party. unfortunately, he seems unable to. put bluntly, the democrats are messing him around. they are pushing pro-trade-union legislation (notably a measure to get rid of secret ballots) even though he doesn't want them to do so; they have been roughing up the bankers even though it makes his task of fixing the economy much harder; they have stuffed his stimulus package and his appropriations bill with pork, even though this damages him and his party in the eyes of the electorate. worst of all, he is letting them get away with it. lead, dammit there are some signs that mr obama's administration is learning. this week the battered treasury secretary, tim geithner, has at last come up with a detailed plan to rescue the banks (see article and article). its success is far from guaranteed, and the mood of congress and the public has soured to the point where, should this plan fail, getting another one off the drawing-board will be exceedingly hard. but the plan at least demonstrates the administration's acceptance that it must work with the bankers, instead of riding the wave of popular opinion against them, if it is to repair america's economy. and it's not just in the domestic arena that mr obama has demonstrated his willingness to learn: on iraq, he has intelligently recalibrated his views, coming up with a 7 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05760667 date: 06/30/2015 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05760667 date: 06/30/2015 plan for withdrawal that seeks to consolidate the gains in iraq while limiting the costs to america. but mr obama has a long way to travel if he is to serve his countryand the worldas he should. take the g20 meeting in london, to which he will head at the end of next week. the most important task for this would-be institution is to set itself firmly against protectionism at a time when most of its members are engaged in a game of creeping beggar-thy-neighbour. yet how can mr obama lead the fight when he has just pandered to america's unions by sparking a minor trade war with mexico? and how can he set a new course for nato at its 60th-anniversary summit a few days later if he is appeasing his party with talk of leaving afghanistan? in an accomplished press conference this week, mr obama reminded the world what an impressive politician he can be. he has a capacity to inspire that is unmatched abroad or at home. he holds a strong hand when it comes to the democrats, many of whom owe their seats to his popularity at last year's election. now he must play it. copyright c) 2009 the economist newspaper and the economist group. all rights reserved. _ _ nora toiv office of the secretary 202-647-8633 8 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05760667 date: 06/30/2015  "
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"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05764653 date: 07/31/2015 release in full sent: tuesday, september 08, 2009 8:59 am subject: school event don't think oscar was able to get this to you before you left. its a few ny notes from chris falvo before the school event: to: secretary clinton from: chris falvo date: september 8, 2009 re: ny local issues schools - nyc public schools open on wednesday, september 9th. as a result, you will be visiting a charter school that opened a couple of weeks ago instead of a public school. mike mulgrew, who took over as president of the uft when randi left for aft, will be present at the event and should be acknowledged in your remarks. his aides who you have met numerous times, dick riley and bridget rein, will also be present. mike appointed dick as his press secretary last month. h1n1 - mayor bloomberg did a rollout earlier this week on nyc's plans to handle this health concern, and a significant portion discusses schools. unlike what was done in the spring, this time closing schools will be a last resort. reason is that they found kids still contaminate each other by going to movies and playgrounds when the schools are closed, so instead they are asking sick kids to stay home. and if four percent of a student body experiences the flu on a single day, a doctor will visit to monitor the situation. every student in a nyc school will be offered free h1n1 flu shots or mist once a vaccine is available. primary day - september 15th is primary day. in addition to bill thompson for mayor, the primary races that have been closely followed are public advocate and city comptroller. running for public advocate are councilmember eric gioia, councilmember bill deblasio, former public advocate mark green, and civil rights lawyer norman siegel. running for comptroller are four councilmembers: john lui, melinda katz, david yassky, and david weprin. rangel - as of last week house speaker pelosi plans to allow rep. rangel to keep his chairmanship of the ways and means committee despite his ethics problems. according to amended forms recently filed with the house, rangel failed to disclose at least $800,000 in assets and income since 2002. this comes amid a house ethics investigation into his failure to report income from and pay taxes on a villa in the dominican republic and his ties to a real-estate developer who leased him four rent-stabilized apartments in new york. the panel is also looking into rangel's fundraising and whether he improperly used his office to raise money for a public policy center in his name at the city university of new york. rangel has denied any wrongdoing and says its accounting mistakes and simple oversights. the ny post and buffalo news have called for his resignation. speaking at a health-care forum in washington heights last tuesday, rangel said that bias and prejudice toward obama are fueling opposition to health-care reform. \"some americans have not gotten over the fact that obama is president of the united states. they go to sleep wondering, 'how did this happen?' \" rangel said. rangel then likened the battle over health-care expansion for the uninsured to the fight for civil rights. \"why do we have to wait for the right to vote? why can't we get what god has given us? that is the right to live as n beings and not negotiate with white southerners and not count the votes. just do the right thing,\" he said. after the forum, rangel insisted he was not smearing opponents as racists. \"what i'm saying is, if you watch the town-hall meetings, people were angry and did not care what the answer was to some of their questions. they were angry with their member of congress, period,\" he said. rangel's comments came less than two weeks after governor paterson claimed he has been the victim of a racist white media -- and also suggested that opposition to obama's plan is racially driven. the white house disagreed with paterson's comments. 120 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05764653 date: 07/31/2015 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05764653 date: 07/31/2015 little league world series - staten island's little league team, the south shore nationals, made it to the little league world series, but they lost the title two weeks ago with a 4-1 loss to the southwest regional champs, mcallister park american, from san antonio. 9/11 - jay winuk, founder of the my good deed organization, and brother of 9/11 victim, glenn winuk, notified us that doj has finally award his brother the 9/11 heroes medal of valor. you were very supportive of jay's efforts and wrote letters to doj. glenn worked at a law firm near the wtc, but was also a volunteer ff. after helping to evacuate his building he went to the wtc area to help and unfortunately died when the south tower fell. senator schumer and rep pete king held a press conference on tuesday making the announcement at a park named in glenn's honor in their hometown of jericho, long island. fyi, jay will be at friday's 9/11 servicenation event. 121 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05764653 date: 07/31/2015  "
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"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05768241 date: 08/31/2015 release in part b5 sent: saturday, march 20, 2010 3:12 am subject: re: conversation w/ dan kurtzer peres said something similiar recently. let me track down. original message sent: fri mar 19 20:04:11 2010 subject: fw: conversation w/ dan kurtzer original message -- sent: thu mar 18 15:51:49 2010 subject: conversation w/ dan kurtzer i had breakfast w/ dan this morning, who weighed in strongly and to my mind compellingly for unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05768241 date: 08/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05764318 date: 07/31/2015 release in part b6 sent: thursday, october 8, 2009 10:14 am subject: h: afghan. sid hillary: fyi: i found this one of the most sensible and informed brief articles on afghanistan. patrick cockburn, of the london independent, is one of the best informed on-the-ground journalists. he was almost always correct on iraq. sid patrick cockburn: to say this war must be won in a year is nonsense http://www.independent co.uk/opinion/commentators/patrick-cockbum-to-say-this-war-must-be-won- in-a-year-is-nonsense-1799296.html thursday, 8 october 2009 sponsored links: eight years ago i was standing on a hill 50 miles north of kabul watching the flashes in the night sky as the us air strikes started again st the taliban front line. there were a few ineffective puffs of fire from taliban anti-aircraft guns which could do nothing against the bombs and missiles raining down on them. it was a strange war to cover, not least because so little real fighting took place. the reputation of the afghan fighting man is partly based on agilely joining the winning side at the right moment. in the meantime they don't fight too hard for anybody and try to avoid getting killed. the us and british press mostly reported the war of 2001 as a real military conflict and rather missed the point that the taliban had just gone home. i remember visiting the former headquarters of a taliban armoured brigade in the city of ghazni south west of kabul. the tanks and armoured vehicles had all been smashed to pieces by american bombs, but when i asked local people how many men the taliban had lost, i was told \"none at all. they could see what was going to happen so they just ran away.\" just as the us military victory of 2001 was overstated, so eight years later is the sense of military crisis which is being busily stoked by gen stanley a mcchrystal, the top us and nato commander in afghanistan. in washington military officials are quoted as saying that the war will be won or lost in the next twelve months. this is nonsense. the taliban have been able to advance so rapidly in the last three years because they have pakistani backing and because of the spectacular political and military weakness of president hamid karzai's government. but the taliban draw all their strength from the pashtun community, which makes up 42 per cent of the afghan population. they will have great difficulty advancing into areas occupied by the other 58 per cent of the population where there is a tajik, hazara or uzbek majority. unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05764318 date: 07/31/2015 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05764318 date: 07/31/2015 squads of six or eight taliban on motorcycles might be harassing the roads around kabul, but there is no need to treat them as if they were north vietnamese divisions at the gates of saigon in 1975. the strength of the taliban is that not that they can take and hold territory, but that they can inflict quite small military losses on the us which are politically unacceptable back home. they can do this through roadside bombs, something the us army speaks as i f it were a new device, though it was being used against the british army in ireland in 1921. if the americans and british try to hold territory supposedly cleared of taliban with penny packets of troops then these are vulnerable to being suddenly targeted by the other side. it is to prevent this happening that gen mcchrystal has asked for an extra 40,000 soldiers. but afghans tell me that more foreign troops will simply mean more violence and dead afghans as more of the country becomes a battlefield. it is absurd to imagine that the world's most heavily equipped military force is not going to use its weapons when it comes under attack. polls also show that taliban support is at its height in just those areas where afghan civilians have been killed by american shells and bombs. so what should obama do? first of all he has time. he is not going to win or lose the war in the next year. like it or not he is stuck with mr karzai and he should get used to the idea. it is reasonable to suggest helping to produce a larger afghan army and police force but this cannot be done overnight. most military recruits are there for the money and are too malnourished even to wear american flack jackets. speeding up security training f or afghan police meant over the summer that terrified men, often on heroin, were being sent to man dangerous and isolated police posts with just three weeks training. many of them did not come back. one way obama could strengthen the afghan army and police is to make sure their men are paid properly. in kabul many facilities are being guarded by policemen earning $70 a month, which is not enough to live on unless supplemented with bribes. this contrasts with $250,000 a year paid to foreign consultants who lurk inside heavily defended compounds. paying the iraqi army properly really did make a difference in baghdad and might do the same in afghanistan where 40 per cent of men are unemployed. a difference is that iraqi oil revenues last year were $62 billion while the afghan government is dependent on foreign aid. the us and its allies will have to pay. it is carefully thought out measures like this that obama should be considering and not the panicky dispatch of us special forces or tens of thousand of more troops. unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05764318 date: 07/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05770170 date: 08/31/2015 release in part b6 sent: friday, may 7, 2010 12:20 pm subject: h: latest, as of 5:15 pm, london time. sid attachments: hrc memo latest uk 050710.docx confidential may 7, 2010 for: hillary re: latest on uk (5:15 pm, friday, london); plus euro and tony everyone has their favorite scenario, but it seems fairly obvious that it will be almost impossible for gordon to hang on. this process may take some days. jonathan, who knows clegg, says he's basically not who his voters think he is but a pro-europeanist tory. when clegg was contemplating a political career he consulted jonathan. clegg comes from a tory family. jonathan told him to become a tory, join a real political party rather than the lib dems, but clegg thought he would advance further with lds. so several theories: 1. clegg makes an outright deal with cameron, including for some form of proportional representation (giving lds more seats in future elections) and cabinet positions. clegg might become foreign secretary under this scenario. this is the scenario jonathan believes may well happen. 2. clegg supports cameron to form a minority government, but doesn't go into a coalition. instead his deal involves cameron dropping almost the whole tory program but a joint program on financial recovery to be proposed in the queen's speech (equivalent of state of the union). i find this far-fetched. but who knows? 3. clegg supports cameron to form government, makes no deals. jonathan freedland, who spent last week with clegg, told me today that clegg told him a deal with gordon would appear dirty. yet making a deal with cameron would also make clegg to be a dealmaker, even without a deal on program. these are the convolutions people are going through waiting for resolution. then, gordon: gordon is trying to figure out how to form a coalition. clegg is refusing him. gordon may propose clegg's maximum demands to him to see if he will publicly refuse them. hard to know when this comes to a head and if and when gordon departs. jonathan told me that tony's view is that gordon will go but that he couldn't see how gordon would understand it or exactly how he would go. barring any clear process, skipping ahead, david appears to be frontrunner for successor as leader of opposition. he would be well positioned to be the future pm if he plays it right under these circumstances. more to come... also: 1. you might consider making a statement on europe and the financial crisis, not a detailed policy statement but unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05770170 date: 08/31/2015 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05770170 date: 08/31/2015 a general statement, a little music to position support for merkel, which she would greatly appreciate, especially facing a harsh regional election in north rhineland. i would make it short and sweet, simply something about the us commitment to the european project, there from the beginning, is as strong and steadfast as ever; that the us supports merkel's efforts (and mention sarkozy) to stabilize europe and the euro, etc. timing tbd, but soon. 2. tony says he ready and willing to do more on the middle east if you want to use him. unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05770170 date: 08/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05762715 date: 06/30/2015 release in part b6 sent: thursday, july 9, 2009 9:10 am subject: fyi... sid attachments: hrc memo rothkopf piece 070909.docx confidential july 9, 2009 for: hillary, cheryl re: the drift fyi: this is the first of what will likely soon be other analyses in the same vein as i am led to understand. http://rothkopf.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2009/07/08/the_problem_whenthe_president_isthe_policy foreign policy the problem when the president is the policy... by david j. rothkopf wed, 07/08/2009 - 11:25arn you could tell it wasn't going well. the conversations with medvedev and putin were tense, the body language awkward. the speech at the new economic school laid an egg. the press seemed bored with the visit of america's rock star president. and as for real results, well, there weren't any. looking for explanations in an article clifford levy and ellen barry in today's new york times called \"in russia, obama's star power does not translate,\" a range of possible answers were rolled out: russians are jaded, russians don't go for u.s. political posturing, obama's speeches don't translate well, and, according to one person who ought to understand politics, a russian circus designer, \"russians are the smartest people in the unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05762715 date: 06/30/2015 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05762715 date: 06/30/2015 world.\" (a fact they have carefully hidden behind a veil of hundreds of years of economic and political catastrophe.) somehow, the formula that has been working for barack obama since early in 2007 suddenly seems to have gone cold. it is not enough simply to be him or to roll out michelle and the girls (all of whom joined him in moscow...unlike say, his top two state department officials). what's more, it's not just russia. oh sure, the press still swoon in most corners of the world and crowds and political leaders still get all fluttery when first exposed to america's charming, thoughtful, intelligent, young president. but we are now starting to see what happens when being barack obama is not enough. we are now starting to see the shortcomings of the new administration's approach wherein the president has actually been the policy. he has said we had changed and offered himself as evidence. he has been what we have offered to friends in terms of visits, access and calls. he has been the headline grabber, the spokesperson, the new voice of america. he has enabled the administration to take inherited policies and wrap them in obama-paper with obama-glitter all over it and all of a sudden, the old was repackaged into appearing new. where there have been differences, as with the concept of engagement, the change has been sold as a difference between him and his predecessor, with his speeches describing what was new and the possibility of interacting with him being the potential pay- off. this played big during his early trips overseas, the novelty value was high and the eagerness to move on from the painful prior era was great. at the g20 meeting, at the summit of the americas, in cairo, the concept of \"president as policy\" seemed to be working. but now we see where it is not. not in russia. not with the iranians who are happy to accept engagement and anything else that will be given to them but no strings, please not with hugo chavez, who hammed it up with obama in trinidad but led his misfit chorus in reflexively hammering the united states after the coup in honduras. certainly not in north korea. it seems that having the president as policy works best with the people who are pre-disposed to like us and to some extent with the young and the disenfranchised. but with the hard cases, with our enemies, it falls painfully and dangerously flat. in these instances, the new president is discovering that something much more than personal diplomacy and smile from the genuinely appealing obama clan is needed. in these instances, we are going to need to go back to the drawing board and do the grunt work of foreign policy, the tough negotiations, the nuanced position changes, the threats, the cajoling. it's a very different game from american politics and, in fact, is often completely unconnected to it. what works here, very often does not play at all overseas. there is a problem with this new reality. it requires a coordinated, multi-tiered, high-functioning foreign policy establishment. it needs the state department to be in a central role. it needs the nsc to work both as a policy development and policy implementation mechanism and the national security advisor to be seen and respected.. .like the secretary of state.. .as key advisors. it requires that the foreign policy of the united states is not centered too heavily either the president or the executive office of the president -- although the president will always remain the ultimate key. it is perfectly appropriate for the president to be part of the product, part of the rewards offered, and the mastermind...but he needs to move beyond campaign mode to something new. it is much akin to the entrepreneur of a successful company recognizing that for the company to grow further, to become a mature organization, he is going to need a mature structure that depends less on him and more on delegation of power to effective lieutenants and their teams. we're not there yet. the secretary of state and the state department have been visibly marginalized. she has become a kind of behind the scenes player. she's not on the sunday morning shows. the president or the vice president handles the big media assignments (often not sounding exactly like they were on the same page). the national security advisor, for all his personal strengths, is viewed as a bit of a lost cause five months into the presidency. one of his predecessors in the job said to me when asked whether he viewed general jones as failing in the job, \"to me, on that issue, where there is smoke, there is fire.\" tom donilon, jones's deputy, is seen to be managing the nsc process. denis mcdonough and mark lippert, obama confidantes, are seen to be working closely with him and his inner office team (rahm emanuel, the vp, david axelrod, greg craig and others) to play the leading role in shaping policy. clearly neither hillary clinton nor jim jones is a weak person. but all power in the u.s. national security apparatus flows from the president. and there is no denying that, despite the fact that they show up at work unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05762715 date: 06/30/2015 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05762715 date: 06/30/2015 every day and go through the motions, that their roles don't measure up to many of their predecessors and the structure that is emerging suggests problems to come. it's time to move out of campaign mode and into governing mode. it's time recognize that it really does take a big team of empowered leaders to make the complex foreign policy of the u.s. work and evolve in the right directions. it's time to recognize that it does not reflect badly on the president if we all agree he cannot transform the world single handedly, that however different he may be from his predecessors, that alone is not enough. alexey druzhinin/afp/getty images david rothkopf i permalink i i comments? login or register ( filed under:  obama administration i russia i u.s. foreign policy stay cool with this summer's hottest movies. moviefone brings you trailers, celebrities, movie showtimes and tickets! unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05762715 date: 06/30/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05768869 date: 08/31/2015 release in part b6 sent: sunday, march 21, 2010 3:58 pm subject: re: espinosa news to me they want you to call the new ukrainian foreign minister but that's all i know. original message sent: sun mar 21 15:57:10 2010 subject: espinosa am i supposed to call her tomorrow? unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05768869 date: 08/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05768059 date: 08/31/2015 release in part b5 sent: friday, april 2, 2010 1:16 pm subject: re: i would simply reiterate the need for a statement *fast* and say that the embassy can follow up. this will help both of us. original message sent: friday, april 02, 2010 1:14 pm subject: re: anything to add to this. original message sent: fri apr 02 12:56:32 2010 subject: unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05768059 date: 08/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05771227 date: 08/31/2015 release in full sent: thursday, september 16, 2010 5:47 pm subject: fw: (reuters) arab league chief: talks no use if settlements built sent: thu sep 16 16:54:35 2010 subject: (reuters) arab league chief: talks no use if settlements built cairo (reuters) - the arab league backs the palestinians' refusal to continue direct peace talks if israel resumes building settlements, the organization's chief said september 16. \"if settlement construction does not stop, then there is no use for continuing negotiations,\" amr moussa told a press conference, saying this was the opinion of the arabs and palestinian president abbas. \"negotiating with occupation is simply a waste of time.\" unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05771227 date: 08/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05761901 date: 06/30/2015 release in part b6 sent: wednesday, may 13, 2009 7:50 pm john kerry called. didn't give subject matter. said he's on cell. unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05761901 date: 06/30/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05775493 date: 08/31/2015 release in full sent: friday, october 29, 2010 11:49 am subject: fw: (reuters) vietnam to award japan nuclear plants deal sent: fri oct 29 11:39:49 2010 subject: (reuters) vietnam to award japan nuclear plants deal tokyo (reuters) - vietnam has decided to award japan contracts to build two of four nuclear power plants it plans to set up by the early 2020s, japan's kyodo news agency reported, citing sources familiar with the matter. prime minister nguyen tan dung is expected to relay the vietnamese leadership's decision on october 31 when he and japanese prime minister naoto kan meet for bilateral talks at a regional summit in hanoi, kyodo said. earlier this month japan said it had agreed with vietnam to cooperate on nuclear power plant technologies and materials. japan, the world's third- biggest nuclear power generator after the united states and france, is stepping up efforts to tap the nuclear power development market overseas. in an effort to sell its atomic technologies abroad with the help of the government, a joint venture of 13 japanese firms including toshiba corp, hitachi ltd and mitsubishi heavy industries was formed this month. unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05775493 date: 08/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05765966 date: 08/31/2015 release in full sent: monday, december 7, 2009 11:27 pm subject: fw: for s -- a family plea sent: mon dec 07 18:19:30 2009 subject: for s -- a family plea this is probably entirely inappropriate, but i had gathered that you were thinking possibly of taking off on dec 21. i would urge you to  for your own sake. the pace is absolutely killing and you deserve it. but it will also mean that a lot of folks who would like to take some time off with their family before xmas (e.g. moms like me who are necessary to make xmas happen) would feel much freer to do so. am anne-marie slaughter director of policy planning u.s. department of state (202) 647-2972 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05765966 date: 08/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05766180 date: 08/31/2015 release in part b6 sent: monday, december 14, 2009 7:36 pm subject fw: amnesty intl on secretary clinton's speech attachments: larry cox statement on clinton speech.docx fyi sent: monday, december 14, 2009 6:18 pm subject: amnesty int'l on secretary clinton's speech amnesty international usa statement on secretary clinton's speech monday, december 14, 2009 larry cox, executive director, amnesty international usa, on monday welcomed secretary of state hillary clinton's affirmation that protecting human rights is central to helping countries worldwide achieve the goal of reducing or eliminating poverty. calling her speech \"historic,\" cox said clinton's commitment to a broad spectrum of human rights offers new hope in solving the desperation caused by poverty. \"by advancing the idea that human rights, development and participatory and accountable governance, are goals that mutually reinforce one another, secretary clinton has charted a course of leadership recognizing the indivisibility of human rights that has been missing in our government's mission abroad and at home,\" said cox. \"her statement today is an essential foundation for relieving the suffering of billions in poverty, especially now when millions upon millions more people worldwide are experiencing economic hardship.\" \"we welcome secretary clinton's affirmation that the \"basics\" of well being -- food, shelter, health and education are not only human rights in and of themselves, but are also essential for the exercise of other human rights. only by addressing both freedom from want and freedom from fear will it be possible to achieve genuine development for all.\" cox, who attended secretary clinton's speech on the administration's 21st century human rights agenda at georgetown university, said he was especially grateful to hear secretary clinton outline her determination to make a real and long-term difference by tackling human rights and development as mutually reinforcing goals and affirm that the \"united states must lead by example in this area.\" cox also welcomed secretary clinton's commitment to stand with human rights defenders worldwide by shining a spotlight on their work and the legitimacy of their efforts. in her speech secretary clinton highlighted the work of women of zimbabwe arise, whose founders were recently honored at the white house, and noted the state department had sent high-level diplomatic missions to meet with aung san suu kyi in myanmar. it is important that the administration continue to champion human rights defenders around the world, especially those in powerful countries like china and russia. unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05766180 date: 08/31/2015 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05766180 date: 08/31/2015 cox also praised the secretary for raising the question of accountability abroad and at home. \"secretary clinton rightly identifies accountability as the centerpiece of any successful human rights agenda for the united states. but if the administration means what it says, then it needs to appoint a bipartisan commission to investigate the abuses connected to counterterrorism policies since september 11, 2001, follow through on the executive orders it already has committed to, close the prison at guantanamo and abide by international legal commitments to end torture.\" \"the administration can't insist that other countries adhere to human rights protections while continuing to detain people outside the rule of law at home,\" cox continued. \"discussion of human rights can't be an empty rebranding exercise. the administration should promptly bring charges against the guantanamo detainees who can be legitimately charged with a crime, and release the rest without further delay.\" to date, 116 individuals have already been cleared for release but remain unjustly detained in guantanamo. noting that in his nobel prize speech in oslo, president obama stated that \"no nation can insist that others follow the rules of the road if we are not willing to follow those rules ourselves,\" cox stated, \"amnesty international commends the administration for its commitment to engage closely on human rights. this is welcome change, but to make measurable progress we must prioritize accountability for torture, implementation of human rights treaties, a strong executive order on human rights, and the establishment of a national human rights commission.\" amnesty international is a nobel peace prize-winning grassroots activist organization with more than 2.2 million supporters, activists and volunteers in more than 150 countries campaigning for human rights worldwide. the organization investigates and exposes abuses, educates and mobilizes the public, and works to protect people wherever justice, freedom, truth and dignity are denied. please visit www.amnestyusa.org for more information. unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05766180 date: 08/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05765899 date: 07/31/2015 release in full . , sent: subject: ,  <h@state.gov> sunday, september 13, 2009 8:17 am h holbrooke says he needs to talk to you before wh mtg. 21:13 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05765899 date: 07/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2015-04841 doc no. c05739702 date: 05/13/2015 state dept. - produced to house select benghazi comm. subject to agreement on sensitive information & redactions. no foia waiver. sent: friday, may 6, 2011 2:07 am subject: re: h: ubl, aq & libya. sid release in part b6 strikes me as a little strange. but certainly disturbing. i will pass info on. prom: h [mailto:hdr220dintonernall.corn] sent: friday, may 06, 2011 01:52 am subject: fw: h: usl, aq & libya. sid more to pass on--disturbing, if true. from sent: monday, may 02, 2011 09:12 am subject: h: ubl, aq & libya. sid b6 confidential may 2, 2011 for: hillary re: bin laden, aq & libya latest report: during the early morning of may 2, 2011 sources with access to the leadership of the libyan rebellion's ruling transitional national council (tnc) stated in confidence that they are concerned that the death of al qa'ida leader osama bin laden will inspire al qa`ida in the islamic maghreb (aqim) to use weapons they have obtained, which were originally intended for the rebels in libya, to retaliate against the united states and its allies for this attack in pakistan. these individuals fear that the use of the weapons in this manner will complicate the tnc's relationship with nato and the united states, whose support is vital to them in their struggle with the forces of muammar al qaddafi. in this regard they are concerned that u.s. officials will believe reports, often created by the tripoli government, regarding the degree of influence exercised by aqim on the tnc. these individuals note that the tnc officials are reacting to reports received during the week of april 25 from their own sources of information, the french general directorate for external security (dgse), and british external intelligence service (mi-6), stating that aqim has acquired about 10 sam 7- grail/streela man-portable air-defense systems unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2015-04841 doc no. c05739702 date: 05/13/2015 state dept. - produced to house select benghazi comm. subject to agreement on sensitive information & redactions. no foia waiver. state-scb0045072 unclassified state dept. - produced to house select benghazi comm. u.s. department of state subject to agreement on sensitive information & redactions. no foia waiver. case no. f-2015-04841 doc no. c05739702 date: 05/13/2015 or mpads) from illegal weapons markets in western niger and northern mali. these weapons were originally intended for sale to the rebel forces in libya, but aqim operatives were able to meet secretly with these arms dealers and purchase the equipment. the acquisition of these sophisticated weapons creates a serious threat to air traffic in southern morocco, algeria, northern mali, western niger, and eastern mauritania. (source comment: according to very sensitive sources, the libyan rebels are concerned that aqim may also obtain spigott wire-guided anti-tank missiles and an unspecified number of russian anti-tank mines made of plastic and undetectable by anti-mine equipment. this equipment again was coming through niger and mali, and was intended for the rebels in libya. they note that aqim is very strong in this region of northwest africa.) in the opinion of these knowledgeable individuals, libyan rebel commanders are also concerned that the death of bin laden comes at a time when sensitive information indicates that the leaders of aqim are planning to launch attacks across north africa and europe in an effort to reassert their relevance during the ongoing upheavals in libya, as well as the rest of north africa and the middle east. they believe the first stop in this campaign was the april x) bombing of a cafe in marrakesh, morocco that is frequented by western tourists. these individuals point out that aqim also maintains a wide reach in europe. the inc leaders are also concerned that, with the death of salt al-arab qaddafi, the youngest son of muammar qaddafi, the tripoli government may pursue retaliation against the united states and its western allies through surrogate terrorist groups, particularly herbmk while the deaths of bin laden and saif al-arab are completely unrelated, two separate and very dangerous groups will now be looking for revenge against the u.s. and its allies. (source comment: these knowledgeable sources believe that the loaders of the inc are also worried about the reaction to the death of bin laden among rebel fighters and their supporters in libya and egypt, where the al qa'ida leader was very popular. these inc officials do not want the death of bin laden to affect their relations with the west or their support from nato, the u.s., france, or great britain.) unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2015-04841 doc no. c05739702 date: 05/13/2015 state dept. - produced to house select benghazi comm. subject to agreement on sensitive information & redactions. no foia waiver. state-scb0045073  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05764374 date: 07/31/2015 release in full sent: subject: ,  <h@state.gov> sunday, august 23, 2009 9:17 am h fw: south korea's lee meets north korean delegation (ap) sent: sat aug 22 21:40:55 2009 subject: south korea's lee meets north korean delegation (ap) seoul, south korea (ap) an official says south korea's president is meeting a visiting high-level delegation from north korea amid signs of warming ties on the divided peninsula. a presidential blue house official says talks between president lee myung-bak and the delegation from pyongyang are being held at the president's office sunday morning. the north korean delegation flew to seoul on friday to pay respects to former president kim dae-jung who died last week. their visit provided a rare opportunity for dialogue between the two koreas, whose relations have been largely frozen since lee took office last year with a tougher line on the north. speaking on condition of anonymity citing government policy the official says she could not provide further details. unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05764374 date: 07/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05771349 date: 08/31/2015 release in full sent: wednesday, august 25, 2010 2:27 pm for donilon, he can do from 9:45-12 on fri. what time do u want to do? also, they did phone and ringer test and it worked fine. but can only go secure thru ops 647 1512. with red switch, it was dropping a few times. unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05771349 date: 08/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05773062 date: 08/31/2015 release in part b6 sent: friday, november 12, 2010 9:12 pm subject: re: (reuters) saudi king told to rest over slipped disc call confirmed for 930 bill wants to do in person netanyahu letter still isn't done, just checked. will get to u when it is. original message --- sent: fri nov 12 20:24:54 2010 subject: re: (reuters) saudi king told to rest over slipped disc i'll talk to dennis at 9:30am tomorrow. i'd be willing to talk by phone w bill burns either by phone over the weekend or on monday whichever he wants. and i will decide tomorrow about what, if any, of the foreign calls i'll make. i'm supposed to get faxed to me tonight a letter for netanyahu from the specials. can you find out when it's coming? i hope you were convincing wfand am happy jen is doing well. b6 original message sent: fri nov 12 19:41:20 2010 subject: re: (reuters) saudi king told to rest over slipped disc been a pretty slow day. can u reply all on this email? - dennis ross asking to do secure call at 9:30 instead of 10. is that ok? - bill burns wants to give you trip download in person so he will come see you monday. - i just got a call sheet for netanyahu which i'm told you may do over weekend. - i sent draft remarks for dorothy height service for your review. - geoff morell just reported that wash post is going to run your/gates start oped on monday. - also a new call list coming your way. only new call is ted deutch returned your call. the rest of the outstanding foreign calls are in your folder but we haven't done anything with them. - i connected with ntoday who said offered to keep her job for 2 more years. still seems inclined to want to come to you but i encouraged her to stay - we got our allotment for wh holiday tour tickets so we have been offering to people - i saw jen hanley today who is doing very very well and sends her best to you. original message sent: fri nov 12 15:44:41 2010 subject: re: (reuters) saudi king told to rest over slipped disc unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05773062 date: 08/31/2015 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05773062 date: 08/31/2015 anything else going on? original message sent: fri nov 12 14:16:54 2010 subject: fw: (reuters) saudi king told to rest over slipped disc sent: fri nov 12 14:08:14 2010 subject: (reuters} saudi king told to rest over slipped disc riyadh (reuters) - saudi arabia's king abdullah has been told by doctors he had to rest because he had a slipped disc, the state-news agency spa reported on november 12. spa quoted a royal court statement as saying doctors had ordered the king, who is in his 80s, to rest under a treatment plan. unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05773062 date: 08/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05764209 date: 07/31/2015 release in full sent: saturday, october 3, 2009 11:35 pm subject: can i call u? unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05764209 date: 07/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2015-04841 doc no. c05739846 date: 05/13/2015 state dept. - produced to house select benghazi comm. subject to agreement on sensitive information & redactions. no foia waiver. release in full sent: tuesday, december 18, 2012 10:02 pm subject fw: inquiry into libya attack is sharply critical of state dept. (nyt) sent: tuesday, december 18, 2012 09:s1 pm subject: inquiry into libya attack is sharply critical of state dept. (nyt) washington (new york times) - an independent inquiry into the attack on the united states diplomatic mission in libya that killed four americans on sept. 11 sharply criticizes the state department for a lack of seasoned security personnel and relying on untested local militias to safeguard the compound, congressional and state department officials said tuesday night the investigation into the attacks on the diplomatic mission and c.la. annex that killed ambassador i. christopher stevens and three others also faulted state department officials in washington for ignoring requests from officials at the american embassy in tripoli for more guards and safety upgrades to the diplomatic mission. the panel also blamed the state department for waiting for specific warnings of imminent attacks to act rather than adapting security procedures and protocols to a deteriorating security environment by this spring, benghazi, a hotbed of militant activity in eastern libya, had experienced a string of assassinations and attacks, including one on a british envoy's motorcade. finally, the report also blamed two major state department bureaus  diplomatic security and near eastern affairs  for failing to coordinate and plan adequate security at the mission. the panel also determined that a number of officials had shown poor leadership. in response to the panel's findings, secretary of state hillary rodhana clinton said in a letter to congress that she was acceptiung all 29 of the panel's recommendations, several of which are classified. mrs. clinton is taking specific steps to correct the problems, according to officials. they say the state department is asking permission from congress to transfer $1.3 billion from funds that had been allocated for spending in iraq. this includes $553 million for additional marine security guards; $130 million for diplomatic security personnel; and $691 million for improving security at installations abroad. on monday, an independent panel that was established to investigate the attack presented the report to the state department. the panel, called an accountability review board, is led by thomas r. pickering, a veteran diplomat. it includes four other members, among them mike mullen, the retired admiral who served as chairman of the joint chiefs of staff. the board is authorized by a 1986 lavv intended to strengthen security at united states diplomatic missions. the state department sent a lengthy classified version of the report to congress on tuesday. mr. pickering and admiral mullen are scheduled to meet with members of the senate foreign relations committee and house foreign affairs committee in closed session on wednesday. on thursday, william j. burns and thomas r nides, both deputy secretaries of states, will testity to both panels. mrs. clinton, who is stillrecovering from a concussion she suffered last week after fainting while sick from a stomach flu, is at home this week. the head of the house panel, representative ileana ros-lehtinen, a florida republican, however, has made clear that she planned to ask mrs. clinton to testify at a future time unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2015-04841 doc no. c05739846 date: 05/13/2015 state dept. - produced to house select benghazi comm. subject to agreement on sensitive information & redactions. no foia waiver. state-scb0045828 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2015-04841 doc no. c05739846 date: 05/13/2015 state dept. - produced to house select benghazi comm. subject to agreement on sensitive information & redactions. no foia waiver. biewsrickers wert senior department officials ta breaking neela this item appears; es t dfd in its original publication end does not contain enahmis of commentary by department somas. unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2015-04841 doc no. c05739846 date: 05/13/2015 state dept. - produced to house select benghazi comm. subject to agreement on sensitive information & redactions. no foia waiver. state-5cb0045829  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05764352 date: 07/31/2015 release in part b6 sent: thursday, october 8, 2009 10:38 pm subject: re: are you still awake? sure, just call original message sent: oct 8, 2009 10:35 pm subject: are you still awake? i will call if you are. sent via cingular xpress mail with blackberry unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05764352 date: 07/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05771839 date: 08/31/2015 release in full sent: monday, september 20, 2010 6:00 pm subject: fw: jimmy carter fyi sent: mon sep 20 17:50:33 2010 subject: jimmy carter just won't stop... new york, ny -- september 20, 2010  \"nbc nightly news\" anchor and managing editor brian williams interviewed president jimmy carter to discuss the release of his new book \"white house diary.\" the interview airs tonight on \"nbc nightly news with brian williams.\" brian williams: the last photo of you with your-- fellow former presidents, you were well off to the side on the right. and i thought to myself, well, there's-- there's a possible metaphor. (laughter) what is it-- about you, you think, the way you've-- decided to conduct your life and post-presidency? do you feel listened to? do you feel-- that you receive your due? or do you feel, in fact, apart from the crowd? jimmy carter: no. i-- i feel that my role as a former president is probably superior to that of other presidents. primarily because of the activism and the-- and the injection of working at the carter center and in international affairs, and to some degree, domestic affairs, on energy conservation, on-- on environment, and things of that kind. we're right in the midst of the-- of the constant daily debate. and-- and-- and the carter center has decided, under my leadership, to fill vacuums in the world. when-- when the united states won't deal with troubled areas, we go there and we meet with leaders who can bring an end to a conflict, or an end to a human rights abuse, and so forth. so i-- i feel that have an advantage over many other former presidents in being involved in daily affairs that have shaped the policies of our nation and the world. unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05771839 date: 08/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05773363 date: 08/31/2015 release in part b6 sent: monday, december 20, 2010 4:42 pm subject: fw: lockerbie report tomorrow fyi sent: monday, december 20, 2010 3:03 pm subject: fw: lockerbie report tomorrow first of all, heads up on menendez tomorrow. we could punt today and simply say we look forward to receiving the committee's recommendations without commenting further. regarding the brits, all we need to say is that the british government, like the u.s. government, believe that the release was a mistake. i do not see a need to feed this, but we will be asked about it tomorrow. pi this email is unclassified. sent: monday, december 20, 2010 2:56 pm subject: lockerbie report tomorrow pj-- senator menendez and company are released their report on lockerbie/megrahi release timed for tomorrow, the 22nd anniversary of the bombing. one of their recommendations that is that the state department \"launch its own inquiry into al-megrahi's release\" to \"exhaustively identify and interview sources\" to determine how and why megrahi was released. looking for comment... im also led to believe that the british govt. inquiry promised by cameron has in fact uncovered additional documents showing there may have additional communcations by the brits to the scots about the importance of releasing megrahi. im assuming that state department has been informed about some of this and you might be able to shed some light... mike isikoff unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05773363 date: 08/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05761906 date: 06/30/2015 release in part b5,b6 sent: subject: ,  d <cdstate.gov> wednesday, may 13, 2009 8:55 pm fw: invite: building a national strategy for global development sent: wednesday, may 13, 2009 5:09 pm subject: fwd: invite: building a national strategy for global development fyi forwarded message date: wed, may 13, 2009 at 4:05 pm subject: invite: building a national strategy for global development problems viewing this email? view the mobile edition i online edition error! filename not specified. please join the center for american progress for a special presentation: marlene cooper vasilic eventsa americanprociress.orq building a national strategy for global development may 19, 2009, 10:00am  11:30am admission is five. rsvp to attend this event introduction: rudy deleon, senior vice president for national security and international policy, center for american progress briefing: reuben brigety, director, sustainable security program, center for american progress sabina dewan, associate director for international economics, center for american progress director of outreach and special events 1333 h street, nw 10th floor washington, dc 20005 tel: 202.741.6246 fax: 202.682.1867 americanorogress.orq unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f 1 -2014-20439 doc no. c05761906 date: 06/30/2015 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05761906 date: 06/30/2015 response: james kunder, senior fellow at the german marshall fund and former acting deputy administrator, u.s. agency for international development the united states is the largest national donor of foreign aid in the world. it is engaged in two major wars, each of which require improving local economic conditions to achieve success. and it faces a variety of challenges around the worldfrom responding to natural disasters to promoting democratic governancethat demand effective responses. despite these circumstances, the united states does not have a comprehensive, coherent strategy to guide its development assistance programs. with the advent of a new administration, the time is ripe to have a serious policy discussion about the merits of a national strategy for global development. the sustainable security program at the center for american progress has written a national strategy for global development, which it hopes will spark debate. the authors of the document, dr. reuben e. brigety, ii and sabina dewan, will discuss their proposal for an nsgd at this event. they will be joined by mr. james kunder, senior fellow at the german marshall fund and former acting deputy administrator of the u.s. agency for international development. may 19, 2009, 10:00am  11:30am space is extremely limited. rsvp required. seating is on a first-come, first-served basis. center for american progress 1333 h st. nw, 10th floor washington, dc 20005 map & directions nearest metro: blue/orange line to mcpherson square or red line to metro center rsvp to attend this event for more information, call 202-682-1611. the center for american progress is a nonpartisan research and educational institute dedicated to promoting a strong, just and five america that ensures opportunity for all. we believe that unclassified u.s. department of state case no. .-2014-20439 doc no. c05761906 date: 06/30/2015 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05761906 date: 06/30/2015 americans are bound together by a common commitment to these values and we aspire to ensure that our national policies reflect these values. we work to find progressive and pragmatic solutions to significant domestic and international problems and develop policy proposals that foster a government that is \"of the people, by the people, and for the people.\" center for american progress 11333 h street, nw, 10th floor 1washington, dc 20005 unsubscribe from center for american progress event notifications. error! filename not specified.error! filename not specified. unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05761906 date: 06/30/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05770169 date: 08/31/2015 release in part b6 sent: friday, may 7, 2010 9:10 am subject: re: noon, state of play going now to jonathan's office, will hear from shaun as soon as downing st meeting breaks up. on way from guardian. think clegg misplaying, doesn't get his moment or power, will explain more later... original message sent: may 7, 2010 2:02 pm subject: re: noon, state of play pls keep the updates coming! original message sent: fri may 07 07:22:31 2010 subject: noon, state of play shaun is going to downing st to meet with gordon, peter, and two others (stuart woods, sue nye, gordon's aides) to discuss what to do, will learn outcome as soon as meeting is over. sid sent via cingular xpress mail with blackberry unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05770169 date: 08/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05761562 date: 06/30/2015 release in part b6 sent: friday, may 22, 2009 4:51 pm subject: re: miliband... ok now, sent via cingular xpress mail with blackberry original message date: fri, 22 may 2009 16:48:49 subject: re: miliband... very sorry to read this confirmation. email if and when it would be convenient to call you. original message sent: fri may 22 12:49:39 2009 subject: 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 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 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05761562 date: 06/30/2015 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05761562 date: 06/30/2015 at last, a great mobile device for under $50. take a peek! <http://pr.atwola.com/promoclk/100122638x1222626752x1201458773/aol?redir=http://www.getpeek.com/aol> unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05761562 date: 06/30/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05762520 date: 06/30/2015 release in full sent: thursday, june 25, 2009 8:41 am subject: fw: kudos and thanks to the secretary fyi  nice. cdm sent: wednesday, june 24, 2009 10:36 am subject: kudos and thanks to the secretary thirty years i am a fso and for the first time i feel really really proud to be part of a secretary's team. examples 1,bringing back farah pandith. when she left with the change of administration i thought what a waste and figured there was no chance a democrat would bring back someone form a republic administration. but you did! 2,the respect for the input of career officers by the secretary and the u/ses is just amazing. it will really help improve our foreign relations. 3. the secretary's understanding of the little things and their importance, such as holiday statements. well, there are more but we are under staffed and have to get back to work. many thanks to you all for being there. merrie blocker, program coordinator office of public diplomacy, bureau of south and central asia affairs room 4440, u.s. department of state, 2201 c st. nw, washington dc 202-647-5337; blockermd2@state.gov 60 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05762520 date: 06/30/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05767039 date: 08/31/2015 release in full sent: wednesday, december 30, 2009 2:37 pm subject fw: kerry: \"no plans\" to go to iran sent: wednesday, december 30, 2009 12:45 pm subject: kerry: \"no plans\" to go to iran kerry: \"no plans\" to go to iran yesterday, iranian media reported comments from the iranian foreign ministry spokesman that the iranian parliament was considering an alleged request filed by sen. john kerry (d-ma) to travel to iran. today, fred jones, spokesman for the senate foreign relations committee, told politico that \"john kerry has no plans to visit iran.\" jones added that \"we never discuss the senator's private or diplomatic conversations.\" asked if that implied that kerry was exploring the possibility of meeting iranian officials elsewhere in a third country, jones said. no. \"there are no plans to meet with any iranian officials abroad.\" interestingly, for the past week, kerry's office has used variations of \"unaware of plans\" or \"no plans\" to discuss these iran meetings rumors -- rather than \"no.\" and at face value, jones' statement today does not seem to be the kind of flat denial that kerry had filed such a request, but doesn't seem to indicate such a meeting is imminent. it also does not seem to close the door that such plans have been or are being or will be explored. has occurred to me that having a non administration lawmaker showing willingness to keep a channel open with tehran could serve several purposes, in that it's not the administration offering to send an envoy. it could also distract a lot of attention away as a kind of decoy from other conversations that might or might not be going on. unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05767039 date: 08/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05769303 date: 08/31/2015 release in full sent: friday, january 22, 2010 8:16 am subject mini schedule 1/22/10 friday 8:25 am presidential daily briefing 8:30 am secretary's office 8:30 am daily small staff meeting 8:45 am secretary's office 8:45 am daily senior staff meeting 9:15 am secretary's conference room 9:15 am weekly meeting w/regional bureau secretaries 10:00 am deputy secretary's conference room 10:15 am meeting w/s&ed team 10:45 am secretary's outer office 10:45 am staff meeting 11:15am secretary's outer office 11:15 am office time 12:00 pm secretary's office 12:00 pm bilateral w/moldovan pm vladimir filat 12:30 pm secretary's conference room *official photo in east hall preceding. 12:30 pm mcc signing ceremony w/government of moldova 12:50 pm benjamin franklin room, 8th floor 1:00 pm meeting w/haiti team 1:30 pm secretary's office 1:30pm office time 2:00pm secretary's office 2:00 pm remarks to the wha chiefs of mission conference 2:30 pm george c. marshall conference center 2:30 pm bilateral w/canadian fm lawrence cannon 3:00 pm secretary's conference room *press avail following. 3:05 pm press pre-brief 3:10 pm secretary's outer office 3:15 pm joint press availability w/fm cannon 3:35 pm madison room 4:00 pm meeting w/unesco director-general irina bokova 4:15 pm secretary's office *official photo in anteroom preceding. 4:15pm meeting w/mike fuchs and cheryl mills 4:30pm secretary's office 4:30 pm office time 5:00 pm secretary's office 5:05 pm private meeting w/ sara ehrman 5:15 pm secretary's office 5:20 pm depart state department *en route washington national airport 5:40 pm arrive washington national airport 6:00 pm depart washington national airport via us airways shuttle "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05774071 date: 08/31/2015 release in full sent: sunday, november 14, 2010 3:17 pm subject: holbrooke requesting to talk. unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05774071 date: 08/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05762335 date: 06/30/2015 release in full sent: monday, june 15, 2009 7:14 am subject: dennis ross returned your call 98 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05762335 date: 06/30/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05772118 date: 08/31/2015 release in part b6 sent: wednesday, ep em er 8, 2010 3:48 pm subject: h: fyi. sid jim mann, who wrote the rise of the vulcans, is writing a history of democrats and foreign policy since vietnam. he's also a china expert, having covered china for the la times. he's favorably disposed to you, a serious person and concerned about the policies. i know him well. i think you ought to consider talking to him on the record for his book. i've enclosed his bio from johns hopkins sais , where he's on the faculty, and his email. james mann, b.a. foreign policy institute author-in-residence expertise geographic areas east asia i china i taiwan issues american foreign policy i diplomacy i domestic influences on foreign policy i human rights i media and foreign policy i strategic and security issues i u.s. congress and foreign policy background and education was senior writer-in-residence at the center for strategic and international studies; served as staff writer for the los angeles times, including positions as beijing bureau chief, national security correspondent and foreign affairs columnist; was staff writer for the new haven journal-courier, the washington post, philadelphia inquirer and the baltimore sun; received the national press club edwin m. hood award for diplomatic correspondence in 1993 and 1999, the edward weintal prize for diplomatic reporting in 1999, the new york public library helen bernstein award for best book of the year by a journalist in 2000 and the asia-pacific award for best book about asia in 2000; was finalist for the lionel gelber prize for books on international relations in 2000 and the arthur ross book prize in 2005; is a member of the council on foreign relations; formerly a guest scholar at the woodrow wilson international center for scholars and fellow of the american academy in berlin; serves as guest commentator for television and radio networks; b.a., sociology, harvard university publications the rebellion of ronald reagan: a history of the end of the cold war (2009); the china fantasy: how our leaders explain away chinese repression (2007); rise of the vulcans: the history of bush's war cabinet (2004); about face: a history of america's curious relationship with china, from nixon to clinton (1999); beijing jeep (1989); \"congress and taiwan\" in making china policy (2001); numerous articles in the atlantic monthly, the new republic and the washington post original message sent: wed, sep 8, 2010 3:30 pm subject: (no subject) sid, my requests for a book interview with the secretary unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05772118 date: 08/31/2015 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05772118 date: 08/31/2015 of state are still going nowhere. i have no idea whether the reason is sheer bureaucracy (lots of requests) or personal (someone didn't like something i wrote?). i would think that the subject matter -- foreign policy after the vulcans -- is a natural one for her. while it's not absolutely necessary, it would certainly add insight. i don't know if you can do anything to help, but if so, i'd certainly appreciate it. best, jim unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05772118 date: 08/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05767832 date: 08/31/2015 release in part b6 sent: wednesday, january 13, 2010 9:37 am subject: fw: haiti fyi original message _ _ sent: wednesday, january 13, 2010 9:35 am subject: re: haiti btw, the text messaging fundraising for haiti us a true example of 21st century statecraft. kudos to your team! sent from my iphone on jan 13, 2010, at 8:46 am, \"dowd, katie w\" <dowdkw@state.gov> wrote: > shervin, would be great to talk further here. let me know when is > good. > original message > sent: wed jan 13 08:42:03 2010 > subject: re: haiti > great idea - connecting folks who can make that real. > cdm original message > sent: wednesday, january 13, 2010 8:06 am > subject: haiti > dear , > it was so nice to sit next to you at the dinner last week. > what more can we do i'm the tech community to help in haiti right now? > i want to do all that i can. > cheers, b6 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05767832 date: 08/31/2015 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05767832 date: 08/31/2015 > shervin > > sent from my iphone unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05767832 date: 08/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05767976 date: 08/31/2015 release in part b6 sent: sunday, january 17, 2010 12:43 am subject out of office autoreply: help for dying patients i will be traveling today without access to my email. if you need to reach me urgently please contact nora toiv. toivnf@state.gov o thank you! unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05767976 date: 08/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05771717 date: 08/31/2015 release in full sent: monday, september 20, 2010 9:15 am subject: island names senkaku is the japanese name diayou is the chinese name (the diayoutai guesthouse is named after the islands) i've seen reference to both in articles. we say senkaku. unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05771717 date: 08/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05764296 date: 07/31/2015 release in full sent: tuesday, october 6, 2009 11:59 pm to: subject: fw: draft email to the secretary on guinea fyi sent: tuesday, october 06, 2009 11:44 am jacob j subject: fw: draft email to the secretary on guinea jake or dan: could one of you pass the following note from me to the secretary on the guinea-conakry situation. we will be sending forward an info memo later this afternoon. but in view of the secretary's interest, i thought this note my be useful to pass on to her at some point during the day. we are also doing some press guidance. regards, johnnie madam secretary, i know you are deeply concerned about reports of ongoing violence and attacks against women that have occurred in guinea-conakry. i want to let you know what actions the africa bureau is taking to address this crisis. i met with guinean foreign minister alexandre cece loua this morning at 9:00. i expressed our deep outrage at the brutal actions of guinean security forces against protesters on september 28, which resulted in 157 deaths, hundreds more injured, and the widespread rape of women. i will separately provide you with a formal readout of the meeting. i have also sent one of my deputies, bill fitzgerald, to conakry, where he met yesterday with president dadis camara and expressed the same outrage. we are pressing the government to take immediate actions to stop the violence and to restore constitutional order. we have asked dadis camara to step aside and to seek exile in morocco or another french-speaking country. we have also asked guinea to invite in observers from the economic community of west african states (ecowas) to monitor the actions of the military and developments toward a democratic transition. in addition, we have indicated that we will seek an international investigation in order to arrest and punish the perpetrators of the violence. we have indicated that if the government of guinea does not act rapidly, we will pursue sanctions against government officials. in all of these actions, we are consulting with the french, whose views and actions closely mirror ours, as well as with several west african states, including liberia and senegal. regards, johnnie unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05764296 date: 07/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05778304 date: 08/31/2015 release in full sent: sunday, december 12, 2010 10:38 pm subject: fw: (cnn) fayyad: peace talks may need stronger u.s. mediation role sent: sun dec 12 21:22:29 2010 subject: (cnn) fayyad: peace talks may need stronger u.s. mediation role washington (cnn) -- the united states may have to expand its role from middle east peace talks facilitator to become a broker on specific core issues, palestinian prime minister salam fayyad said on december 12. appearing on the abc program \"this week,\" fayyad indicated that progress toward a peace settlement could occur in the short-term despite israel's refusal to halt construction of new settlements in the west bank and east jerusalem. however, israel must provide specifics about its position on core issues such as what a palestinian state would entail, the status of jerusalem and the return of refugees, fayyad said, adding that the lack of a new settlement freeze erodes trust in the process. asked if the united states would need to offer so-called \"bridging\" proposals on specific issues to try to stimulate negotiations, fayyad said that \"may be necessary.\" \"it may be unavoidable, actually, for the united states, acting as a broker at some point, to come in with bridging proposals so we make this happen,\" he said. the interview, which included israeli opposition leader and former foreign minister tzipi livni, took place two days after u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton outlined a direction for the peace process after giving up on trying to persuade israel to again freeze settlement construction as a condition for the direct talks to resume. http://edition.cnn.com/2010/us/12/12/mideast.talks/ unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05778304 date: 08/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05773768 date: 08/31/2015 release in full sent: monday, december 27, 2010 4:19 pm subject: fw: gallup survey: hillary clinton again \"most admired\" woman sent: mon dec 27 15:21:37 2010 subject: gallup survey: hillary clinton again \"most admired\" woman secretary of state hillary rodham clinton finished first for the ninth straight year on gallup and usa today's \"most-admired\" list. she was followed by sarah palin, oprah winfrey, michelle obama, condoleezza rice, and queen elizabeth. president obama remains the nation's most-admired man for the third straight year, despite falling approval ratings. unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05773768 date: 08/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05768707 date: 08/31/2015 release in full sent: wednesday, march 24, 2010 6:38 am subject: mini schedule 3/24/10 wednesday note: national geographic will be taping b-roll footage throughout the day. 7:50 am depart private residence *en route state department 8:00 am arrive state department 8:00 am opening session of us-pakistan strategic dialogue 9:15 am benjamin franklin room, 8th floor *open press for first 30 minutes 9:15 am office time 9:35 am secretary's office 9:40 am mcc board prep 9:55 am secretary's office 10:00 am chair millennium challenge corporation 12:00 pm (mcc) board meeting principals conference room 7516 12:00 pm office time 1:00 pm secretary's office 1:00 pm videos (2) 1:05 pm john jay room, 751 floor 1:10 pm conference call w/senators shaheen and voinovich 1:25 pm secretary's office 1:30 pm pre-brief meeting unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05768707 date: 08/31/2015 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05768707 date: 08/31/2015 1:45 pm secretary's office 1:45 pm prep call w/defense secretary gates 2:15 pm secretary's office 2:30 pm bilateral w/pakistani f.m. maim- doom shah mehmood 3:00 pm qureshi secretary's conference room *official photo in east hall preceding. 3:00 pm press pre-brief 3:05 pm secretary's office 3:05 pm joint press conference w/pakestani fm qureshi 3:25 pm treaty room, 7th floor 3:45 pm hearing prep w/rich verma and team 4:30 pm secretary's office 4:30 pm drop-by at the reception for the us-pakistan 4:45 pm strategic dialogue benjamin franklin room, 8th floor *aprox. 270 ppl. expected. 4:55 pm depart state department *en route admiral mullen's residence 5:00 pm arrive mullen residence 5:00 pm us-pakistan small group discussion 7:00 pm admiral mullen's residence, quarters aa 7:00 pm us-pakistan working dinner 9:00 pm admiral mullen's residence, quartets aa 9:05 pm (t) depart mullen's residence *en route private residence 9:15 pm (t) arrive private residence unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05768707 date: 08/31/2015 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05768707 date: 08/31/2015 fyi: 7:30 am us-pakistan strategic dialogue breakfast 8:00 am thomas jefferson room, 81h floor 12:30 pm us-pakistan strategic dialogue lunch 2:00 pm benjamin franklin room, 8thfloor 1:30 pm us-pakistan strategic dialogue meeting 3:30 pm henry clay room, 8th floor "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05766114 date: 08/31/2015 release in full sent: sunday, december 13, 2009 10:46 am subject followup issues answers under each: will i receive a full notebook for approps hearings tonight? yes, and a draft of the testimony. i'd like a call this afternoon or evening to go over the draft af-pak regional strategy. who should be on call? it is quite good but lacks \"milestones\" and budgets for each section. sounds good. huma and i will work to set it up. the budget issue is complicated we've had several discussions about it. it's hard to put down numbers with confidence. call should be with jack, piper, rich, paul jones, and sean misko. re the required report for kerry-lugar, i want to be sure that the language in both our report and this one echo the same language. paul, sean, and rich are going back over to make sure of that. our chief method is to use framing language from the strategy to frame the klb report as well. i never called patricia espinosashould i? will check with wha. also, have we rec'd a memo from shaun woodard for robinson and mcguinness calls? huma should have this memo for you. there will also be a pc on af-pak tuesday and i want to be sure our report is ready. yes -- this is consistent with our timeline. unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05766114 date: 08/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05770384 date: 08/31/2015 release in full sent: monday, august 9, 2010 8:22 am subject: on a call - can you talk at 8:40am? unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05770384 date: 08/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05762993 date: 06/30/2015 release in part b6 sent: ,  <h@state.gov> friday, june 12, 2009 6:53 pm h; oscar flores wants to come at 8:30am sunday to see you ok? 77 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05762993 date: 06/30/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05764387 date: 07/31/2015 release in full sent: sunday, august 23, 2009 4:10 pm subject: holbrooke asking to talk to you. unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05764387 date: 07/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05761529 date: 06/30/2015 release in full sent: wednesday, april 01, 2009 5:33 am subject: fw: attached letter attachments: scan3561_000.pdf you can't likely read the attachment but it is a long letter to jim saying he's sorry he has missed jim's calls (nothing about mine) and that he is taking job with energy. copying huma to print for you. cdm sent: tue mar 3119:03:48 2009 subject: attached letter please pass the attached letter to deputy secretary steinberg and chief of staff . many thanks, dp scan3561_000.pdf 1 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05761529 date: 06/30/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05763834 date: 07/31/2015 release in full sent: wednesday, august 19, 2009 2:05 pm subject: zebari call sheet i can set this up thru ops if u want to call. the secretary's call sheet for iraqi foreign minister hoshyar zebari purpose of call: to express your condolences regarding the deaths of iraqi mfa personnel in the august 19 attack on the iraqi foreign ministry. mi want to personally express my heartfelt condolences to you for the savage attack on the iraqi ministry of foreign affairs today and for the tragic loss of so many iraqi lives around baghdad and particularly at the ministry of foreign affairs. al i remember fondly our meeting at the mfa in april  i was proud to be the first senior u.s. official to attend a meeting there, and i was deeply saddened to hear that your ministry was attacked. di this is a trying day for iraqis and the government of iraq, but brutal attacks like these only deepen the need for dedicated iraqi like you and those in your ministry, to remain committed to the new iraq. 1:11 know that the united states will continue to stand by iraq as it faces these challenges. background: on wednesday, august 19, what appears to be a series of vbied and additional rocket attacks in baghdad resulted in the bloodiest day in baghdad since the june 30 withdrawal of u.s. forces from urban areas. although exact numbers have not been confirmed, media is reporting that approximately 75 people were killed across baghdad with over 100 injuries. the most devastating attack appears to have been against the iraqi mfa, where a vbied was exploded in front of the main gate. zebari's chief of staff estimated that there were 35-40 fatalities and up to 40 injuries resulting from this attack, with 70% of the building damaged. in april, you were the first senior u.s. official to hold a meeting at the mfa. deputy foreign minister labid abbawi, who attended your meeting at the mfa and who's wife led your meeting with iraqi war widows, was reportedly slightly injured and quite shaken by the attack. he may have lost a number of staff members. at this point, we do not know if other senior-ranking mfa officials were killed or wounded in the attack. unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05763834 date: 07/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05776347 date: 08/31/2015 release in part b6 sent: wednesday, december 1, 2010 8:57 am subject: re: (reuters) hamas would honor referendum on peace with israel yes. original message sent: wed dec 01 08:55:46 2010 subject: re: (reuters) hamas would honor referendum on peace with israel original message sent: wed dec 01 08:17:09 2010 subject: fw: (reuters) hamas would honor referendum on peace with israel sent: wed dec 01 08:13:22 2010 subject: (reuters) hamas would honor referendum on peace with israel gaza (reuters) - the islamist hamas movement, whose charter advocates the elimination of israel, would accept the outcome of a palestinian referendum on a future peace treaty with the jewish state, its gaza leader said on december 1. ismail haniyeh, addressing a rare news conference in the israeli-blockaded enclave, signaled a softening of hamas's long-standing position prohibiting the ceding of any part of the land of what was british-mandated palestine until 1948. \"we accept a palestinian state on the borders of 1967, with jerusalem as its capital, the release of palestinian prisoners, and the resolution of the issue of refugees,\" haniyeh said, referring to the year of middle east war in which israel captured east jerusalem and the palestinian territories. \"hamas will respect the results (of a referendum) regardless of whether it differs with its ideology and principles,\" he said, provided it included all palestinians in gaza, the west bank and the diaspora. the hamas charter, drafted in 1988, regards all of the land of palestine, including what is now israel, as the heritage of muslims. the idea of a referendum on a future peace accord with israel was rejected by some hamas leaders when it was proposed by palestinian president abbas several months ago. unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05776347 date: 08/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05763589 date: 07/31/2015 release in part b6 sent: subject: ,  <h@state.gov> thursday, august 13, 2009 10:52 am h fw: mr.yoo original message sent: thu aug 13 10:29:42 2009 subject: fw: mr.yoo original message sent: thu aug 13 10:28:52 2009 subject: mr.yoo this is huge news. it was presumed that he was dead because he was never allowed a consular visit or phone calls. nk went radio silent on him. let's hope a return to 6 party talks is next. go 42! north korea frees detained south korea worker by kwang-tae kim (ap)  2 hours ago seoul, south korea  north korea has freed a south korean worker detained for months in the communist country, officials said thursday, brightening prospects for improved relations on the peninsula. the release came days after hyundai group chairwoman hyun jung-eun traveled to pyongyang in an effort to secure the employee's freedom, and a week after the isolated regime freed two u.s. journalists sentenced to 12 years of hard labor for entering the north illegally in march. that release followed a surprise visit by former president bill clinton, who held talks with north korean leader kim jong ii. the 44-year-old technician, surnamed yoo, worked at an industrial zone in the north's border city of kaesong, where about 110 south korean-run factories employ about 40,000 north korean workers. he was detained in march for allegedly denouncing the north's political system. though one of the few joint projects still running, the complex's viability has come under questions in recent months as the north refused to release yoo and demanded a massive increase in payments and recent at the industrial park. it now has only a skeletal south korean staff. unification ministry spokeswoman lee jong-joo said yoo  an employee of the hyundai group's north korean business arm, hyundai asan  had been released and was expected to return to south korea later thursday. \"it's fortunate that yoo is returning to his family, though it's rather late,\" presidential spokesman lee dong-kwan said in a statement. he added that the south korean government will maintain a \"consistent policy\" toward north korea. ' unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 -2014-20439 doc no. c05763589 date: 07/31/2015 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05763589 date: 07/31/2015 lee did not elaborate, but south korean president lee myung-bak's government has taken a hard-line approach toward north korea, and the north responded by cutting off most ties and halting or curtailing key joint projects except for the kaesong complex. a council made up of south korean companies operating in kaesong welcomed yoo's release and expressed hope it would \"improve frozen south-north relations and revitalize\" the troubled complex. the north, however, is still holding four south korean fishermen whose boat was seized last month after straying accidentally into northern waters. north korea told the south earlier thursday that its investigation into the case is still continuing, unification ministry spokesman chun hae-sung told reporters. no details were given. ahead of the news of yoo's release thursday, about 100 demonstrators gathered in central seoul to demand the release of the detained worker and the fishermen. some burned a north korean flag and photos of kim. hyundai has poured hundreds of millions of dollars into the industrial zone and a joint tourist project promoted by more liberal south korean governments in the past. but renewed tension between the rivals has seen a suspension of trips to the north by south korean tourists and a dramatic reduction in the number of south koreans working in the industrial zone. the two koreas technically remain at war since the 1950-53 korean conflict ended in a cease-fire, not a peace treaty. associated press writer hyung-jin kim contributed to this report. unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05763589 date: 07/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05772646 date: 08/31/2015 release in full sent: sunday, october 10, 2010 5:42 pm subject: representation jake - re the matter we discussed - no on-going representation since 2001. cdm unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05772646 date: 08/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05771745 date: 08/31/2015 release in full sent: sunday, august 22, 2010 5:04 pm subject: fw: (ap) wyclef jean not giving up presidential bid sent: sun aug 22 16:43:47 2010 subject: (ap) wyclef jean not giving up presidential bid port-au-prince (ap) - hip-hop singer wyclef jean said he is not abandoning his presidential bid just yet and will try to get the courts to overturn a decision disqualifying him from the race. his lawyers will file an appeal with the national electoral dispute office. jean said he has a document \"which shows everything is correct\" and that he and his aides \"feel that what is going on here has everything to do with haitian politics.\" \"they are trying to keep us out of the race,\" he said, referring to haiti's political establishment. unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05771745 date: 08/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05771326 date: 08/31/2015 release in part b6 sent: thursday, november 18, 2010 2:36 am subject: fw: good news and next steps see b/i traffic sent: thu nov 18 02:14:39 2010 subject: re: good news and next steps hi  - i think we are in good shape right now so i won't bug you. we'll know more by friday - when we learn whether reid files the cloture on goodwin this week or whether he is waiting to file it until after thanksgiving. i'll keep you posted. thanks so much for all or your support!! xxoo. on wed, nov 17, 2010 at 1:46 pm, ,  d <cd@state.gov> wrote: great news my work cell is i will try you ton ite sent: wed nov 17 14:28:38 2010 subject: good news and next steps hi  - goodwin is in dc and met with reid's staff. it looks like he is really going to go ahead and file cloture!! see also the article from the blt today. goodwin also met with feinstein, which was a difficult meeting. if you have time, i'd like to confidentially discuss with you. i can set my alarm to get up and talk to you at 6 or 6:30 a.m. in the morning your time if that is the best time to reach you. are you still at thanks! xxoo, unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05771326 date: 08/31/2015 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05771326 date: 08/31/2015 ann the blt: the blog of the legal times november 17,2010 http://lega1times.typepad.com/b1t/2010/11/democrats-plan-votes-on-controversial-nominees-senator-says.html democrats plan votes on controversial nominees, senator says president barack obama's nominees for the federal judiciary have stalled for months in part because of heated disagreement over a handful of nominees. now, senate democrats are looking at forcing votes on four of them. sen. sheldon whitehouse (d-r.i.) said today that democrats could move soon to end debate on the nominees. he said that majority leader harry reid (d-nev.) was lining up support this morning for what's known as a cloture petition  the necessary paperwork before holding a vote to end debate. \"he's lining up the signatures,\" whitehouse said after a meeting of the senate judiciary committee. such a petition requires 16 signatures. whitehouse is a vocal supporter of one of the nominees who have drawn fire: john mcconnell jr., a motley rice partner who's been nominated for federal district court in rhode island. the u.s. chamber of commerce is opposing mcconnell's nomination, citing his work as a plaintiffs' lawyer on lead paint litigation and other cases. the other three nominees whom reid is trying to force votes on, whitehouse said, are goodwin liu for the u.s. court of appeals for the 9th circuit, edward chen for the northern district of california and louis butler for the western district of wisconsin. republicans have targeted all three because of what they call the nominees' extreme views, while the nominees' home-state senators and other supporters argue they're being treated unfairly. a fifth nominee whom republicans oppose, judge robert chatigny for the 2nd circuit, is pending before the senate judiciary committee. a committee vote is planned for thursday. though senators have many other priorities during their \"lame duck\" session, whitehouse said he thinks there is time to consider the stalled nominees. otherwise, he said, \"there'd be no point getting the signatures\" for the cloture petition. senate rules require 60 votes to end debate on a nominee or a bill, unless senators agree to waive a vote entirely. democrats control 59 senate seats until january. on monday, conservatives sent a letter to reid asking him not to force votes on any nominees between the midterm elections and the start of the next congress. \"any lame-duck' confirmations would be a gross abuse of congressional authority in a last gasp attempt to perpetuate an agenda that the american people have already rejected,\" the letter says. posted by david ingram on november 17, 2010 at 01:10 pm in other courts, politics and government i permalinki comments (0)i trackback (0) unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05771326 date: 08/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05761656 date: 06/30/2015 release in full sent: saturday, may 23, 2009 12:03 pm subject: fw: s.m. krishna named indian minister of external affairs fyi sent: sat may 23 11:25:56 2009 subject: s.m. krishna named indian minister of external affairs (sbu) s.m. krishna has been officially named indian minister of external affairs, succeeding pranab mukherjee, embassy new delhi reports. mulcherjee, who had been dual-hatted as minister of external affairs and minister of finance, will keep the finance portfolio. 3 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05761656 date: 06/30/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05769660 date: 08/31/2015 release in part b5 sent: friday, june 4, 2010 5:20 pm subject fw: civil claims in us courts based on flotilla incident fyi per your question yesterday. sent: friday, june 04, 2010 5:09 pm subject: civil claims in us courts based on flotilla incident dear jake  unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05769660 date: 08/31/2015 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05769660 date: 08/31/2015 please let us know if you would like additional details. joan unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05769660 date: 08/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05763587 date: 07/31/2015 release in part b6 sent: thursday, august 13, 2009 7:19 am subject: re: time with s yes 5:00pm. lona is all over this one. original message sent: thu aug 13 04:03:28 2009 subject: re: time with s i think lona already confirmed swearing in for monday. i'd also be happy to see him then too.  will check. original message sent: thu aug 13 03:55:08 2009 subject: fw: time with s fyi sent: wed aug 12 16:12:14 2009 subject: time with s cheryl  well, i finally made it. quite a start to be able to ride in with the president in af1 and then roll into meetings with calderon and the leadership of the mexican government. i will spend this week in mexico. i will be back next week to pack out, but will also follow up on a number of other issues while i am there. i wanted to ask if you thought it might be possible to get a bit of time with the secretary. there are two requests going through the system. one is for a formal swearing in. i understand that she has one swearing in at 4:00 on monday in the ben franklin room, so one option would be if she could do the same for me in the treaty room at 4:30. i know this is short notice  this has been one of those cases where planning has alluded us. unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05763587 date: 07/31/2015 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05763587 date: 07/31/2015 the second request is for a meeting with the secretary. i would very much appreciate the chance to go over priorities moving forward, as well as provide a few initial observations. sorry to have to bother you with this. if it were not for the short timeframe and i would not want to trouble you with this kind of thing. many thanks, carlos unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05763587 date: 07/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05760826 date: 06/30/2015 release in part b6 sent: monday, april 13, 2009 8:13 am subject: fw: note for secretary re office of overseas buildings attachments: document.pdf print for hrc original message sent: wednesday, april 01, 2009 6:13 pm subject: fw: note for secretary re office of overseas buildings  per discussion regards - pat 44 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05760826 date: 06/30/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05772114 date: 08/31/2015 release in part b6 sent: wednesday, september 8, 2010 2:32 pm subject: h: one more bit of evidence... sid more evidence on why focusing on boehner is important: nbciwsj: do you think if republicans win control of congress in november they will return to the economic policies of george w. bush or do you think they will have different ideas for how to deal with the economy? policies of george w. bush 35 different ideas 58 not sure 7 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05772114 date: 08/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05765974 date: 08/31/2015 release in part b6 sent: friday, january 1, 2010 12:22 pm subject: re: happy new year! happy new year to you and bill--and chelsea! congrats on the upcoming marriage. a good sign, i hope, that this year will be better. onward, upward. sid original message sent: jan 1, 2010 12:08 pm subject: happy new year! thx for sending the emails about the nigerian. we are working on all of the issues raised. i hope you, jackie and the boys (men??) have a happy, healthy, prosperous 2010. i will look forward to seeing more of you in the upcoming months. all the best, h sent via cingular xpress mail with blackberry unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05765974 date: 08/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05769373 date: 08/31/2015 release in full sent: saturday, january 23, 2010 7:00 am subject fw: note to s on haiti tip.docx resending attachments: note to s on haiti tip.docx fyi: sensitive but unclassified january 22, 2010 note for the secretary from: g/tip  luis cdebaca subject: child trafficking in haiti g/tip is gravely concerned about the potential for human trafficking (tip) in the wake of the earthquake, both as a result of the displacement of the population and the influx of troops and aid workers. even before the earthquake, there were in haiti up to 300,000 restaveks (children given away or sold by their parents and enslaved as domestic servants), as well as reports that members of minustah used trafficked women in prostitution. in the 2009 tip report haiti was classified as a special case country with governance so dysfunctional it could not be ranked. the initial disaster response is focusing on immediate needs of food, shelter, and medical care, but has thus far not addressed tip prevention and protection issues. while attention is being paid to the problems of orphans and adoptees, tip was not adequately addressed in the un's initial flash appeal, so it is unclear which agency in the international system has the lead on the ground. unicef has the child protection lead, unfpa leads prevention of sexual and gender-based violence, and iom is tasked with shelter and camp management. we will work to remedy, in a subsequent appeal, the omission of tip from the operational plan. we are moving to redirect $1 million of program funds that g/tip has on hispaniola and to reprogram an additional $550,000; we will work with prm to identify other funding possibilities. working through existing grantees and other experienced ng0s, it is our intention to help resuscitate police child protection brigades that already exist in haiti, to rebuild capacity of haitian organizations that protect restaveks, to prevent traffickers in the dominican republic from enslaving displaced haitians on farms and in prostitution, and to educate haitian parents of the risks of giving their children away in this time of crisis. we will consult with partner agencies to ensure that the u.s. presence does not contribute to unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05769373 date: 08/31/2015 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05769373 date: 08/31/2015 trafficking. it will be important for the department's messaging to convey our commitment to fighting human trafficking in both the immediate and long term. sensitive but unclassified sent: friday, january 22, 2010 9:38 pm subject: fw: note to s on haiti tip.docx resending hello folks. we just sent this up, through the line. lou ambassador luis cdebaca office to monitor & combat trafficking in persons u.s. department of state 1800 g. street, nw washington, dc 20520 (202) 312-9640 cdebacal@state.gov unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05769373 date: 08/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05771316 date: 08/31/2015 release in full sent: wednesday, november 17, 2010 10:39 pm subject: are you still awake? unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05771316 date: 08/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05761129 date: 06/30/2015 release in full sent: saturday, may 02, 2009 9:23 am subject: today this is what you will be receiving today: - 11am: one intel piece that will come over the classified fax and will include one update for karzai call. - 12pm: phone call from ops connecting you to karzai. your call sheet was in louis last night. unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05761129 date: 06/30/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05765848 date: 07/31/2015 release in full sent: saturday, september 12, 2009 8:53 am subject: tonite we tentatively told the plane 9nm wheels up. do u want to leave earlier? later? 1p4 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05765848 date: 07/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05768220 date: 08/31/2015 release in full sent: saturday, april 10, 2010 7:01 am subject fw: poland sitrep from lee b/i sent: sat apr 10 06:57:48 2010 subject: fw: poland sitrep colleagues, the latest from amb. feinstein of embassy warsaw. in short, the crash took the lives of many of poland's senior civilian and military leadership; succession/transition will be the first major test of poland's constitution. the speaker of the lower house of parliament, bronislaw komorowski, will temporarily assume the presidency. the constitution requires he call for presidential elections within 14 days and that elections take place within 60 days. an unofficial manifest is included. rgds, h. sent: saturday, april 10, 2010 6:44 am alexander; heidt, william a; glantz, mary e; sainz, francisco d; ses-0 subject: poland sitrep all, this is going out as a cable momentarily. the main point is that the crash killed not only the president and his wife but a broad swath of poland's top national security leadership. in this sense it is an unprecedented governmental tragedy, and a test of poland's constitution. the sitrep follows. shortly before 1000 warsaw time, a polish government tu-154 plane carrying a delegation headed by polish president lech kaczynski crashed in heavy fog at the airport in smolensk, russia. russian officials have told the press that there were no survivors; the foreign ministry spokesman said there were 88 passengers on board. the delegation was en route to ceremonies hosted by the russian government to commemorate the 70t1, anniversary of the katyn massacres. there is as yet not government confirmation of the deaths, but there is no expectation of survivors. speaker of the polish sejm (the lower house of parliament) bronislaw komorowski is en route to warsaw to take over the powers of the presidency and those of the commander in chief, according to press reports. according to the polish constitution, if the president dies in office, the speaker temporarily assumes the presidency, and has 14 days to announce the date of special presidential elections. the elections must be held within 60 days of his announcement. this is the first major test of the polish constitution, and the government is itself sorting out the details of the procedure in this unprecedented circumstance. prime minister tusk is returning from gdansk to warsaw, and will chair a meeting of the council of ministers at 1p local time. tusk has received condolence telephone calls from russian prime minister putin, german chancellor angela merkel, and other world leaders. unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05768220 date: 08/31/2015 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05768220 date: 08/31/2015 the magnitude of the loss is difficult to overstate including, in addition to the president and the first lady, the top national security leadership of the presidential chancellery, the head of poland's armed forces, all or nearly all of poland's military chiefs, a deputy minister of defense, a deputy foreign minister, a presidential candidate, and members of parliament. crowds of people with candles and flowers have started to assemble in front of the presidential palace in downtown warsaw. a mass in honor of those who died will be held later this afternoon. poland is in shock and entering a period of deep national mourning. below is an unofficial and incomplete manifest of those who are on the plane. among them are: president lech kaczynski first lady maria kaczynska former president ryszard kaczorowski wladislaw stasiak, chief of the chancellery of the president of the republic of poland aleksander szczyglo, state secretary, chancellery of the president of the republic of poland and chief of the office of national security gen franciszek gagor, chief of national defense jerzy szmajdzinski, vice speaker of the sejm and democratic left alliance presidential candidate andrzej kremer, under secretary of state, ministry of foreign affairs stanislaw komorwoski, under secretary of defense, ministry of defense mariusz handzlik, under secretary of state, chancellery of the president of the republic of poland slawomir skrzypek, chairman of the national bank of poland lista sob na pokladzie tupolewa tragiczne informacje naplywaja ze smolefiska, gdzie rozbif sic rzadowy samolot z prezydentem lechem kaczynskim na pokfadzie. wraz z prezydentem na poldadzie samolotu byto wiele najwainiejszych sob w paristwie polskim, miqdzy innymi: prezes nbp, wiceszef msz, wicemarszatek sejmu jerzy szmajdziriski, szef ipn, postowie, biskupi, szef twiatowego zwikzku ak. wedfug programu rady ochrony pamiqci walk i mqczeristwa, na ligcie pasa2erow prezydenckiego samolotu tu-154 powinni znajdowaa siq: lech kaczyriski maria kaczyriska delegacia oficjalna 1. pan ryszard kaczorowski b. prezydent rp na uchodictwie 2. pan krzysztof putra wicemarszatek sejmu rp 3. pan jerzy szmajdzinski wicemarszalek sejmu rp 4. pani krystyna bochenek wicemarszalek senatu rp 5. pan jerzy bahr ambasador rp w federacji rosyjskiej 6. pan wtadystaw stasiak szef kancelarii prezydenta rp 7. pan aleksander szczyglo szef biura bezpieczeristwa narodowego 8. pan jacek sasin sekretarz stanu, zastqpca szefa kancelarii prezydenta rp 9. pan paw& wypych sekretarz stanu w kancelarii prezydenta rp 10. pan mariusz handzlik podsekretarz stanu w kancelarii prezydenta rp 11. pan andrzej kremer podsekretarz stanu w ministerstwie spraw zagranicznych unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05768220 date: 08/31/2015 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05768220 date: 08/31/2015 12. pan stanislaw komorowski podsekretarz stanu w mon 13. pan tomasz merta podsekretarz stanu w mkidn 14. gen. franciszek gagor szef sztabu generalnego wojska polskiego 15. pan andrzej przewo2nik sekretarz ropwim 16. pan maciej plazykiski prezes stowarzyszenia wspolnota polska\" 17. pan mariusz kazana dyrektor protokotu dyplomatycznego msz przedstawiciele parlamentu rp 1. pan leszek deptula poset na sejm rp 2. pan grzegorz dolniak poset na sejm rp 3. pani graiyna gksicka poset na sejm rp 4. pan przemystaw gosiewski poset na sejm rp 5. pan sebastian karpiniuk posel na sejm rp 6. pani izabela jaruga - nowacka poset na sejm rp 7. pan zbigniew wassermann poset na sejm rp 8. pani aleksandra natalli - wiat poset na sejm rp 10. pan arkadiusz rybicki poset na sejm rp 11. pani jolanta szymanek - deresz poset na sejm rp 12. pan wiestaw woda poset na sejm rp 13. pan edward wojtas poset na sejm rp 14. pani janina fetlikiska senator rp 15. pan stanislaw zajac senator rp osoby towarzyszace 1. pan janusz kochanowski rzecznik praw obywatelskich 2. pan stawomir skrzypek prezes narodowego banku polskiego 3. pan janusz kurtyka prezes instytutu pamiqci narodowej 4. pan janusz krupski kierownik urzgdu do spraw kombatantow i osob represjonowanych przedstawiciele kotciolow i wyznan religijnych 1. ks. bp. gen. dyw. tadeusz ploski ordynariusz polowy wojska polskiego 2. abp gen. bryg. miron chodakowski prawostawny ordynariusz wojska polskiego 3. ks. plk adam pilch ewangelickie duszpasterstwo polowe 4. ks. pplk jan osikiski ordynariat polowy wojska polskiego przedstawiciele rodzin katykiskich i innych stowarzyszeki 1. pan edward duchnowski sekretarz generalny zwigzku sybirakow unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05768220 date: 08/31/2015 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05768220 date: 08/31/2015 2. ks. pratat bronistaw gostomski 3. ks. jozef jon iec prezes stowarzyszenia parafiada 4. ks. zdzistaw kr6l kapelan warszawskiej rodziny katyriskiej 1987-2007 5. ks. andrzej kwatnik kapelan federacji rodzin katyriskich 6. pan tadeusz lutoborski 7. pani boiena lojek prezes polskiej fundacji katyriskiej 8. pan stefan melak prezes komitetu katyriskiego 9. pan stanistaw mikke wiceprzewodniczacy ropwim 10. pani bronistawa orawiec - loffler 11. pani katarzyna piskorska 12. pan andrzej sariusz - skapski prezes federacji rodzin katyriskich 13. pan wojciech seweryn 14. pan leszek solski 15. pani teresa walewska - przyjalkowska fundacja golgota wschodu\" 16. pani gabriela zych 17. pani ewa bakowska wnuczka gen. bryg. mieczystawa smorawiriskiego 18. pani maria borowska 19. pan bartosz borowski 20. pan dariusz malinowski przedstawiciele sil zbrojnych rp 1. gen. broni bronistaw kwiatkowski dow6dca operacyjny sit zbrojnych rp 2. gen. broni pil. andrzej btasik dowodca sit powietrznych rp 3. gen. dyw. tadeusz buk dowodca wojsk l4dowych rp 4. gen. dyw. wtodzimierz potasinski dowodcawojsk specjalnych rp 5. wiceadmirat andrzej karweta dowodca marynarki wojennej rp 6. gen. bryg. kazimierz gilarski dowodca garnizonu warszawa lee. feinstein ambassador to poland +4822 504-2900 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05768220 date: 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"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05764161 date: 07/31/2015 release in full liltitscramirmarairron sent: friday, september 18, 2009 9:32 am subject: mini schedule 9/18/09 friday 10:10 am depart private residence *en route brookings institution 10:20 am arrive brookings institution ip:25 am speech at the brookings institution 11:30 am location: falk auditorium \"approx. 110 ppl expected. you take 08..a. i:i .:15 en depart brookings institution *en in r.to &tn.; dcpsitmelt 11:35 am (t) phone call w/quartet envoy tony bilair (t) en route state department 11:50 am arrive state department 17:0; pm swearing in ceremony for 'ii'.;.tipcy powell, 12:20 nm dfriector. cei:fraii. of the foreign service and director oe human _resources benjamin franklin room, 8'h floor at..pc7':l 75 ppl expected. 12:3j prri i.> jncii. w./jim s'ieinberg , 1:30 pm jam room, fith finer  ;!, ;1(4 op vi.1)+.:'.'i1 .cral y 71t1e0 f!$1.11.i,t,en.ge winners !.:tam trir...11 preps. 1:45 pm hriev.iing :cr. 1.11,miri4 2:00 pm sei.iretary's office 2:a0 min !depart state department *en route foreign service institute \" 2:\" instir'ite 3:00 pi). *v2i..;y.0 1- 0 '1he .i't)1f4,..eigni service institute (fsi)  , fni-eigr affairs t-aining center *open, press. i'..118 i licreig..i sak 1, 101.14: si 5:10 nm 8:so 6.4l . 101..,.:' a:111.111.s .a,i7b . l' mireixs afb 9:00 ror. fa epa nr.pews afb via 0-5 air force aircraft tail "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05775466 date: 08/31/2015 release in part b6 sent: tuesday, october 26, 2010 8:47 pm subject: fw: usglc praises secretary clinton scroll down to her note sent: tue oct 26 20:46:18 2010 subject: re: usglc praises secretary clinton you are so relentless helpful - shepherding us when we need it, reminding us when we need it and supporting us when we need it. we are grateful - thank you. cdm sent: tue oct 26 20:44:21 2010 subject: usglc praises secretary clinton hi , here is our statement praising the secretary's foreign policy article and preview of qddr. fabulous article  congratulations and thank you for your leadership. liz schrayer liz schrayer i president 202-689-8900 schrayer & associates, inc. 1129 20th street nw, suite 600 washington, dc 20036 www.schrayer.com unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05775466 date: 08/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05767382 date: 08/31/2015 release in full sent: wednesday, february 24, 2010 5:56 am subject: fw: haitian judge says american missionaries will be freed this week (u) fyi sent: tue feb 23 17:37:48 2010 subject: fw: haitian judge says american missionaries will be freed this week (u) sent: tuesday, february 23, 2010 4:42 pm subject: fw: haitian judge says american missionaries will be freed this week (u) according to post this info has not been confirmed. they report: \"the judge said he's made a decision but that he will not announce it until after he receives some paperwork. the next session is tomorrow and he may announce then.\" post is working to coordinate departure arrangements in case a decision to allow the two women to depart occurs tomorrow. michele unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05767382 date: 08/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05770503 date: 08/31/2015 release in full sent: sunday, july 18, 2010 9:18 am subject: 150-page doc vail felt that anne's assessment of the new pakistani submission was too negative. he believes it is their opening position - that it is quite sophisticated - and that it represents a real step forward from their initial 56-page list of demands. he acknowledges that it is lighter on the things we care about, but notes for example that productive items like the strategic dialogue get far more space than unproductive items like civ-nuke. he very much agrees with your concept of annotating the document. unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05770503 date: 08/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05764084 date: 07/31/2015 release in full sent: subject: ,  <h@state.gov> thursday, august 20, 2009 7:53 pm h fw: russia to help ecuador develop nuclear energy sent: thu aug 20 19:50:45 2009 subject: russia to help ecuador develop nuclear energy russia to help ecuador develop nuclear energy quito (reuters) - russia will help ecuador develop a nuclear energy program for peaceful purposes according to a new energy cooperation agreement between the two countries, the ecuadorean government said thursday. \"yesterday the ministry of electricity and renewable energy signed a memorandum of understanding with the russian state atomic energy corporation (rosatom) ... to carry out research in technologies and nuclear devices that may effectively be used in our country,\" the ministry said in a statement. the ministry said that rosatom would provide \"support and assistance\" to help ecuador draft a set of laws that will limit the use of nuclear energy to peaceful purposes only. the statement says the deal calls for the governments of the two countries to appoint a team that would identify \"the most interesting projects to develop a nuclear industry\" in the andean country. andrea gorda watch officer department of state operations center 202-647-1512 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05764084 date: 07/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05762235 date: 06/30/2015 release in part 1.4(b),b1,b5,1.4(d) sent: saturday, may 16, 2009 12:39 pm subject: fw: sri lanka update importance: high sent: sat may 16 12:31:22 2009 subject: sri lanka update sir, 1.4(b) 1.4(d) b1 gautam classified by das, a/gis, dos on 06/30/2015 - class: confidential - reason: 1.4(b), 1.4(d) - declassify on: 05/15/2029 8 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05762235 date: 06/30/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05775498 date: 08/31/2015 release in full sent: friday, october 29, 2010 2:13 pm subject: fw: ashton fyi. sent: fri oct 29 14:07:52 2010 subject: ashton see s has requested to speak to ashton. assume it's about nato-eu stuff, but on iran, latest is that letter from jalili's office to ashton today was pretty vacuous  no firm answer on dates or venue for 5+1 meeting. cooper following up . with iranian amb in brussels and chinese (who thought they had a more specific answer). par for course. unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05775498 date: 08/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05772025 date: 08/31/2015 release in part b6 sent: subject: see wi ,  d <cd@state.gov> friday, november 5, 2010 5:41 am fw: original message sent: fri nov 05 05:39:36 2010 subject: fw: well deserved praise re: miguel from tom... original message sent: thursday, november 04, 2010 5:51 pm subject: just to let you know miguel has been a total star. everyone likes him and totally trust him. i feel terrible that he should be at home... notice: morgan stanley is not acting as a municipal advisor and the opinions or views contained herein are not intended to be, and do not constitute, advice within the meaning of section 975 of the dodd-frank wall street reform and consumer protection act. if you have received this communication in error, please destroy all electronic and paper copies and notify the sender immediately. mistransmission is not intended to waive confidentiality or privilege. morgan stanley reserves the right, to the extent permitted under applicable law, to monitor electronic communications. this message is subject to terms available at the following link: http://www.morganstanley.com/disclaimers. if you cannot access these links, please notify us by reply message and we will send the contents to you. by messaging with morgan stanley you consent to the foregoing. unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05772025 date: 08/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05773945 date: 08/31/2015 release in part b1 1.4(b) 1.4(d) sent: thursday, september 23, 2010 1:12 pm subject: fw: g8 fms lunch fyi original message sent: thu sep 23 13:10:18 2010 subject: g8 fms lunch b1 1.4(b) 1.4(d) mostly uneventful. all other fm's there. straightforward discussion on af-pak, ct, global partnership, lat am-west af- eur drug connection, etc. new japanese fm pres unga speech well-received. s efforts on pal-lsr much appreciated. mins agreed to weigh in with both parties on need to continue. b1 1.4(d) bill b1 1.4(b) 1.4(d) classified by das, a/gis, dos on 08/27/2015  class: confidential  reason: 1.4(b), 1.4(d)  declassify on: 09/22/2035 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05773945 date: 08/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05778350 date: 08/31/2015 release in part b1,1.4(d) sent: monday, december 13, 2010 7:09 am subject: fw: wiki/ranneberger fyi classified by das, a/gis, dos on 08/27/2015  class: confidential  reason: 1.4(d)  declassify on: 12/12/2035 dante x sent: mon dec 13 06:31:05 2010 subject: re: wiki/ranneberger i am following this closely. and we will have some press guidance for ri this morning. regards, johnnie sent: monday, december 13, 2010 6:11 am subject: wiki/ranneberger kenya president kibaki and prime minister odinga warned ambassador ranneberger they would not tolerate his activities in the country. the statements come after reports ranneberger has been funding youth groups to influence kenya's political direction and described in leaked cables the kenyan leadership as steeped in corruption. (daily nation) sent: mon dec 13 05:00:05 2010 subject: morning press highlights 12/13/i (u) executive secretariat operations center s/es-0 morning press highlights monday, december 13, 2010 0500 est b1 1.4(d) : i spoke to ranneberger several times yesterday and i have a call in tc) primp minicter ()dim:in tn talk ahnlit thic and other issues. unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05778350 date: 08/31/2015 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05778350 date: 08/31/2015 western hemisphere costa rica/nicaragua nicaraguan president ortega said he is willing to meet with costa rican president chinchilla to discuss the border dispute in the presence of \"friendly\" nations, but without the presence of organization of american states officials. ortega suggested cuba, venezuela, and mexico, and said the dialogue must be free of conditions. (inside costa rica) haiti/nepal nepal's army denied nepalese soldiers introduced cholera into haiti. army spokesperson chettri said three independent studies demonstrated no nepalese soldier carried the disease into haiti, disputing a report by a french physician. (latin american herald tribune) europe united kingdom/sweden british police searched a property near london in connection with the bombing in stockholm. scotland yard said there were no arrests and no hazardous materials were found at the property, but the search is expected to resume later. (bbc) united kingdom the government is considering whether to ban controversial american preacher terry jones from entering the united kingdom. jones was invited to speak at a rally in february organized by the english defense league. interior minister theresa may said she is actively looking into the case. (al jazeera) africa kenya president kibaki and prime minister odinga warned ambassador ranneberger they would not tolerate his activities in the country. the statements come after reports ranneberger has been funding youth groups to influence kenya's political direction and described in leaked cables the kenyan leadership as steeped in corruption. (daily nation) sudan minni minnawi declared dead the darfur peace agreement he signed in 2006 with the sudanese government, and disclosed talks with abdel wahid al-nur about the reunification of the sudan liberation movement. (sudan tribune) south and central asia bangladesh grameen bank chief muhammad yunus said he will not file any cases against the media over reports he diverted foreign aid even though he had been hurt by such reports. (bdnews24) pakistan the sui northern gas pipelines suspended supply to industry in punjab to meet domestic heating demands. (dawn) unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05778350 date: 08/31/2015 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05778350 date: 08/31/2015 middle east iran asia's first aid convoy for gaza arrived in tehran. the asian people's solidarity for palestine consists of 150 members from japan, india, malaysia, thailand, and bangladesh. the convoy will stop next in turkey. (/ran daily) united arab emirates economists said the government of dubai will be able to meet its obligations on $18 billion of debt next year. (gulf news) east asia and pacific the republic of korea a rok fishing vessel sank off antarctica, leaving at least five crew members dead and 17 missing. a nearby rok vessel rescued 20 crew members. the rok asked new zealand for help in rescue operations. (korea herald) philippines the government is considering a general amnesty for all political prisoners as proposed by former speaker venecia. president aquino dropped charges on a group of health workers arrested in february on suspicion of being communist rebels. the communist party of the philippines said about 400 political prisoners are still being held. (inquirer) drafted: eacasteel approved: pmvaldez *** morning press highlights alerts senior department officials to breaking news items and is a synopsis of select media stories from around the world. it solely reflects the gist of the stories as presented in their original publications and does not contain analysis or commentary by department sources. *** unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05778350 date: 08/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05769609 date: 08/31/2015 release in part b6 sent: tuesday, june 1,2010 11:48 am subject: h: additional thought. sid confidential june 1,2010 for: hillary re: one more thought... without \"tough love,\" any support for israel will lack credibility. unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05769609 date: 08/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05772858 date: 08/31/2015 release in full sent: monday, november 8, 2010 5:52 pm subject: tomorrow this is your day tomorrow. anything you want to add or take off? 8:15 am depart private residence en route state department [drive time: 10 minutes] 8:25 am arrive state department 8:25 am presidential daily briefing 8:30 am secretary's office 8:45 am daily senior staff meeting 9:15 am secretary's conference room participants: jack lew, pat kennedy, p.j. crowley, cheryl mills, steve mull, harold koh, anne-marie slaughter, rich verma and joe macmanus 9:15 am monday meeting w/assistant secretaries 10:00 am principals conference room 7516 10:00 am office time 11:30 am secretary's office 11:30 am videos 12:00 pm george marshall room, 7th floor staff: case note: room reserved from 10:15 am to 12:00 pm - international education week - finca 25th anniversary - mobile money policy forum - freedom fields usa gala 12:00 pm office time 2:00 pm secretary's office 2:00 pm staff meeting* 3:00 pm secretary's outer office participants: ellen tauscher, jack lew, cheryl mills, philippe reines, jake sullivan, derek chollet, kurt campbell, rich verma unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05772858 date: 08/31/2015 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05772858 date: 08/31/2015 note: meeting called for 2:00 pm unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05772858 date: 08/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05771659 date: 08/31/2015 release in full sent: sunday, september 19, 2010 5:24 pm subject: fw: (ap) interview: ahmadinejad says future is iran's sent: sun sep 19 17:21:03 2010 subject: (ap) interview: ahmadinejad says future is iran's new york (ap) - iranian president mahmoud ahmadinejad says \"the future belongs to iran,\" and challenged the united states to accept that his country has a major role in the world. the comment came in an hour-long interview with the associated press on the first day of his visit to the united states to attend the annual general assembly at the united nations. he restated that his government does not want an atomic bomb and is only seeking peace and a nuclear-free world. he gave no indication when iran would resume talks on its nuclear program and said any anti-nuclear sanctions against his government would have no effect on his government's policies. appearing calm and self-assured, he said he was pleased by the release of american hiker sarah shourd. justin deyo u.s. department of state operations center (s/es-0) 202-647-1512 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05771659 date: 08/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05765610 date: 07/31/2015 release in full sent: tuesday, november 10, 2009 9:33 am subject fw: police: bomb kills 5 in northwest pakistan sent: tue nov 10 07:17:49 2009 subject: police: bomb kills 5 in northwest pakistan peshawar (ap) - a police officer said a bomb near a crowded market in northwest pakistan has killed at least five people. the bombing is the third attack in as many days in or close to peshawar, the capital of pakistan's north west frontier province. police officer maazullah khan said tuesday's bombing in charsada city also wounded at least 20 people. the city is some 25 miles north of peshawar. local tv footage showed a destroyed car and several badly damaged stalls and shops. ambulances ferried the dead and injured to the hospital along roads littered with debris. unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05765610 date: 07/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05767361 date: 08/31/2015 release in part b6 sent: subject:  friday, february 5, 2010 7:11 am h re: bravo! brava! issue your statement! sid will find out. why not invite uk and irish ambassadors to state to brief press with you today? sent via cingular xpress mail with blackberry original message date: fri, 5 feb 2010 07:06:39 subject: re: bravo! brava! issue your statement! sid i will be doing a press event at 8:30. do you know if gordon mentioned me? can you find out? is shaun still coming monday? if so, i want to take you both out to dinner! original message sent: fri feb 05 06:58:04 2010 subject: bravo! brava! issue your statement! sid northern ireland agrees power-sharing deal gordon brown hails historic deal which will see justice and policing powers be devolved to stormont from 12 april * henry mcdonald <http://www.guardian.co.uk/profile/henrymcdonald> * guardian.co.uk <http://www.guardian.co.ukh , friday 5 february 2010 11.42 gmt * <http://www.guardian.co.uk/help/accessibility> gordon brown, peter robinson and martin mcguinness <http://static.guim.co.uk/sys- images/guardian/pix/pictures/2010/2/5/1265368562294/gordon-brown-peter-robins-001.jpg> gordon brown, the dup leader, peter robinson, and sinn fein's martin mcguinness (i to r) talk to the press after the northern ireland power-sharing deal was announced. photograph: julien behal/pa justice and policing powers will be devolved to northern ireland <http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/northernireland> 's power-sharing government from 12 april in a historic deal agreed by the main parties that \"opens a new chapter\" after decades of violence, gordon brown said today. standing alongside his irish counterpart, brian cowen, at a press conference at hillsborough castle outside belfast, the prime minister said the \"inspirational\" agreement between sinn fein <http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/sinn-fein> and the democratic unionist party (dup) <http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/dup> was a foundation for lasting peace. unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05767361 date: 08/31/2015 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05767361 date: 08/31/2015 the deal  finally agreed to by the dup <http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2010/feb/05/northern-ireland-dup-ulster- deal> last night and described as a final piece in the jigsaw after a long search for peace  comes after two weeks of round-the-clock negotiations and brings an end to fears that the power-sharing government might collapse. it will see policing and justice powers devolved from westminster to the assembly within weeks and includes new plans on overseeing parades. brown, who travelled to belfast this morning, said the agreement had been possible because of \"a new spirit of mutual co-operation and respect\". the deal meets a key sinn fein demand and prevents the republican party from walking out of the power-sharing executive. in return, the dup has secured reforms to the way loyalist marches are handled in northern ireland, including the abolition of the parades commission, a body most unionists regard as biased in favour of nationalists. a cross-community vote will now be held in the stormont assembly on 9 march before the policing and justice powers are devolved from london on 12 april. brown told reporters: \"the achievements have been as great as they are inspirational. this moment and this agreement belongs to the people of northern ireland, all of the people, and now more than ever before so does their future ... this is the last chapter of a long and troubled story and the beginning of a new chapter after decades of violence, years of talks, weeks of stalemate.\" cowen praised both unionists and nationalists for making \"fair and balanced compromises\" to bridge the divisions and said the quality of the negotiations meant that the \"devolved institutions can and will work\". the northern ireland secretary, shaun woodward, said the deal would further isolate republican dissidents who have launched three separate gun and bomb attacks against police stations in the province over the last 10 days. the deal would \"absolutely\" make northern ireland a safer place, he said. the dup leader, peter robinson, said the agreement \"will be more enduring because of the time spent\" in forming it. referring back to the belfast agreement of 1998 <http://www.nio.gov.uk/the-agreement> when negotiations bore fruit at the 11th hour, the sinn fein president, gerry adams, described the current deal and the rescue of power-sharing as \"yet another very good friday\". jeffrey donaldson told the guardian the dup's 36-strong assembly team was now unanimously in favour of the deal. but the ulster unionist party (uup) has yet to officially back the package which will allow the assembly to set up legislation to change the way parades are judged. a uup spokeswoman said members wanted to see the proposed agreement before giving their response to the two governments. \"we have not had sight of this agreement and until we do we will not be signing up to it,\" she said. the talks, which centred on hillsborough castle, outside belfast, are the longest set of continuous negotiations held in the near 20-year peace process. sinn fein had accused the dup of stalling on the transfer of policing powers for the last three years and it was feared that failure to find agreement could see the collapse of the power-sharing government led by the two parties. the agreement finally came near midnight at stormont's parliament building. earlier in the evening sinn fein had said the basis of a deal was on the table and it was giving the dup leadership the time to persuade its party to accept it. robinson emerged from a meeting of party colleagues to confirm that he had secured unanimous support for the proposals. earlier in the week up to 14 dup assembly members had opposed a proposed deal because it did not give unionists enough concessions. robinson said he would now look to gain the support of the community and the smaller assembly parties for the deal. \"we have a basis upon which we can go forward and recommend it [the deal] to our party, to the other parties in northern ireland and to the community. \"an essential element of the democratic unionist party's manifesto is the requirement for community confidence; we believe this can be the basis for gaining that confidence.\" however the leader of the hardline traditional unionist voice (tuv), jim allister, questioned why the 14 dup rebels had changed their minds. \"the deal hasn't changed, only the snowmen of the dup, who melted once the heat came on,\" allister said. the dup now faces a struggle to ward off the tuv threat in the forthcoming general election. allister will portray the deal as a sell-out of unionist principles and a sop to republicanism. unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 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"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05767479 date: 07/31/2015 nonawsnosarass. sent: subject: release in part b6  sunday, november 29, 2009 12:24 pm h re: another memo on backdrop to this week. sid mcd v unpopular with key members of press was so incensed by his dealings that he nearly wrote a column on it. people collecting string. hoagland chief among them sent via cingular xpress mail with blackberry original message date: sun, 29 nov 2009 12:04:27 subject: re: another memo on backdrop to this week. sid i didn't read the mcd reference that way. i actually thought it was complimentary of his spin skills. what am i missing? original message sent: sun nov 29 11:51:28 2009 subject: re: another memo on backdrop to this week. sid it's there, just scroll down sent via cingular xpress mail with blackberry original message date: sun, 29 nov 2009 11:38:00 subject: re: another memo on backdrop to this week. sid can you send me the hoagland piece? original message sent: sun nov 29 10:58:16 2009 subject: another memo on backdrop to this week. sid confidential november 29, 2009 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05767479 date: 07/31/2015 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05767479 date: 07/31/2015 for: hillary re: backdrop to your coming week below is a piece published today in the observer, the sunday newspaper of the guardian, on the chilcot inquiry, summarizing the testimony so far and what is expected this week while you are drumming up support for the afghanistan initiative. britain and europe are riveted by chilcot, especially official circles. the objective correlative, of course, is trust in any u.s. administration and deep skepticism about the afghanistan project. yet another undercurrent among the mandarins is disdainful resentment of indifference to britain, a sentiment beyond labour or the tories but what has emerged as the view of the permanent establishment at whitehall and elsewhere. mandelson watch: after miliband declined to reach for the eu foreign secretaryship (though sarkozy wanted him to take it and brown was not averse, even favorable), mandelson personally campaigned on his own for it among the europeans. mandelson was eager to miliband to take the eu post, allowing mandelson to be appointed foreign minister. when miliband refused, mandelson's ambition was thwarted, and tried to seize the eu position for himself, but without any backing in europe or from gordon. the europeans thought him mad. suddenly, they recalled his bad or strange behavior as uk commissioner to the eu. when christine ashton was named, mandelson briefed the press on her lack of credentials, etc. ashton, as it happens, had worked the press to try to help mandelson when he had gotten into the mess that led to his first resignation. those inside the government who remember this see it as an illustration of the principle that no good deed goes unpunished. mandelson, in a snit, is now not speaking to gordon as though his rejection were gordon's fault. one more item: did you read jim hoagland in the washington post today? he nails mcdonough for trashing biden, among other things. enclosed below story on chilcot: http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/nov/29/iraq-war-inquiry-chilcot-blair chilcot inquiry: mandarins take revenge on tony blair over iraq civil servants and diplomats are lining up to stick a knife into former pm's reputation * toby helm <http://www.guardian.co.uk/profile/tobyhelm> and rajeev syal <http://www.guardian.co.uk/profile/rajeev-syal> * the observer <http://observerguardian.co.uk> , sunday 29 november 2009 * whitehall mandarins are supreme masters of subtle evasion. but they do not rise to the top of their trade without also knowing how to stick in the knife. at times the chilcot inquiry into britain's involvement in iraq since 2001, which opened last week, resembled a gentlemen's club moved to the sanitised surroundings of the queen elizabeth ii conference centre in westminster. oxbridge-educated pillars of the establishment politely questioned other oxbridge-educated pillars of the establishment about who said what to whom in which memo. the inquiry is a peculiar mixture of the old and the new, the open and closed. it is conducted in the language of whitehall, yet beamed live by webcam to the world. critics are convinced that, for all sir john chilcot's promises to the contrary, it will turn out to be another whitehall whitewash. for the cognoscenti, little new information has yet emerged, and when the final report is written it will not seek to apportion blame. yet beneath the equivocation and mandarin-speak, whitehall seems, in as much as it knows how, to be using chilcot to wield the scalpel. throughout the first week the pent-up frustrations of diplomats and career civil servants over the way tony blair <http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/tonyblair> and george bush secretly plotted to oust saddam hussein, bypassing the \"official channels\" in which they operate, has been there for all to see. unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05767479 date: 07/31/2015 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05767479 date: 07/31/2015 chilcot is said to have been warned by his whitehall friends that many witnesses will be ready to unburden themselves - finally to take revenge. in session after session they have appeared to do that. blair's reputation has been sliced like salami day after day. sir william ehrman, the foreign office's former director of international security, volunteered last wednesday that the threat from saddam's supposed weapons of mass destruction was known to be limited. in the gentlest way he drove in the dagger. \"we did, i think on 10 march [2003], get a report that chemical weapons might have remained disassembled and saddam hadn't yet ordered their assembly. there was a suggestion that iraq might lack warheads capable of effective dispersal of agents.\" ever the diplomat, however, ehrman went on to say that the intelligence warnings had not made any difference to the case for war. \"i don't think it invalidated the point about the programmes he had. it was more about use,\" he said. but he had set the tone. on thursday, sir christopher meyer, uk ambassador in washington from 1997 to 2003, who has already criticised the government over iraq in his memoirs, went for blair, mercilessly comparing his qualities as a war leader to those of margaret thatcher. \"i'm not trying to make a party political point here whatsoever, but quite often i think about this: what would margaret thatcher have done?\" meyer asked. \"i think she would have insisted on a coherent political and diplomatic strategy and she would have demanded the greatest clarity about what the heck happened if, and when, you removed saddam hussein.\" a former press secretary to john major who can speak like a mandarin but, equally, can talk like a layman, he said blair had failed miserably to extract a price from george bush for his loyalty. \"we could have achieved more by playing a tougher role... if, for example... tony blair had said: 'i want to help you, george, on this, but i have to say, in all honesty, that i will not be able to take part in any military operation unless we have palpable progress on the [middle east] peace process and we have absolute clarity on what happens in iraq if it comes up.' i think that would have changed the nature -- it would not have led to a rupture  it would have changed the nature of american planning. \" even when defending uk policy, he was on the offensive. asked if policy had been adapted to stay in line with washington's, meyer added: \"i wouldn't say it was as extremely poodle-ish as that.\" on friday, sir jeremy greenstock, britain's former ambassador to the united nations, told chilcot he had threatened to resign in 2002 if at least one security council resolution was not passed. he added: \"i regard our participation in the military action in iraq in march 2003 as legal but of questionable legitimacy, in that it did not have the democratically observable backing of the great majority of [un] member states, or even perhaps of the majority of people inside the uk.\" today new arguments are raging over whether the inquiry will have access to, and publish, the most sensitive documents  including legal advice given to the government by the former attorney general, lord goldsmith, during the lead-up to war. nick clegg, the liberal democrat leader, has written to gordon brown saying that, unless all such material is published, the inquiry will be a sham and the public's sense that it has been denied the facts will remain. but it will still be essential viewing nonetheless. this week will see more key witnesses. the most revealing testimony could come tomorrow when sir david manning, blair's former foreign policy <http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/foreignpolicy> adviser, is certain to be asked about his authorship of a memo which purportedly revealed details of a secret meeting between bush and blair in january 2003. according to reports, the five pages of secret documents, known as the manning memo, recorded the white house meeting on 31 january which allegedly shows that bush and blair made a deal to carry out an invasion regardless of whether weapons of mass destruction were discovered by un weapons inspectors. it appears to be in direct contradiction with statements that blair made to parliament afterwards that saddam would be given a final chance to disarm. the memo also disclosed that bush floated the idea of painting a u-2 spyplane in un colours and letting it fly low over iraq to provoke saddam into ordering it to be shot down, providing a pretext for the subsequent invasion by america and britain. manning, educated at oriel college, oxford, and a career diplomat, is fiercely independent. he may choose to say more than blair would like, according to one former colleague. he could also be asked to either confirm or deny meyer's evidence that meyer received \"new instructions\" in early 2005 indicating that it was a \"complete waste of time\" to oppose regime change, so strong was the us determination to go down that road. on tuesday, edward chaplin, the foreign office middle east director at the time of the invasion, and sir peter ricketts, the top official in the foreign office, will appear. ricketts, a former chairman of britain's powerful joint intelligence committee, has already given evidence to the inquiry alleging that officials in london knew even before bush came to office in 2001 that there were \"voices\" in washington calling for saddam to be removed from power. ricketts also told unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05767479 date: 07/31/2015 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05767479 date: 07/31/2015 the inquiry that, until march 2002, whitehall distanced itself from regime change. only one month later, blair told bush that he would support military action \"to bring about regime change\". according to documents leaked five years ago, ricketts described the us in 2002 as \"scrambling to establish a link between iraq and al-qaida\"  a connection that was \"so far, frankly unconvincing\". on thursday, sir kevin tebbit, the ministry of defence's permanent secretary during the invasion, will be asked to give evidence about the military planning. chilcot will, most likely, want to know when the government first began to amass resources for the war and what, if any, preparations were made for the aftermath of an invasion. tebbit could also be urged to divulge the level of intelligence he received on the likelihood of an attack with chemical or biological weapons. after tebbit, a succession of heavy-hitting military men will give evidence. the former chief of the defence staff, admiral the lord boyce, could be asked whether he believes that the invasion was legal. on friday, lieutenant general sir anthony pigott, former deputy chief of the defence staff, and major general david wilson, senior british military adviser to the us military's central command between 2002 and 2003, will be questioned about military planning for the conflict. the last witness to appear this week will be dominic asquith, britain's ambassador to iraq between 2006 and 2007, who will come armed with knowledge of the view from baghdad. when chilcot has made his way through the officials, he will turn in the new year to former ministers, including jack straw, the former foreign secretary, and blair himself. the panel has said that it will also begin to examine the highly controversial issue of whether the invasion was legal  which may turn out to be the focal point of the whole inquiry  in january. in his final report, which is not expected until late 2010 at the earliest, chilcot has said he will not seek to attribute blame. but after only one week it is already clear where much of whitehall believes that lies. the washington post afghanistan: the speech you'll miss by jim hoagland sunday, november 29, 2009 dec. 1, 2009: my fellow americans, this is not the speech you expected to hear. but my wordsmiths are tied in knots writing an acceptance speech for the only nobel peace prize ever awarded for making speeches. so i am going to tell you how i really feel about afghanistan. which is: steamed. i want to accomplish three goals tonight without naming them. first, to let those know-it-alls, generals petraeus and mcchrystal, know one more thing: this is the last big troop increase you get, so make it work. am not going down the incrementalist road that wrecked lyndon johnson's presidency. this is not july 1965, when westmoreland jumped the shark of escalation in vietnam and then never stopped asking for more troops. for all the trouble he has been, dick holbrooke helped by recalling that history in the shadowboxing that dominated my long war council meetings. joe biden has been good in there, too. he's been willing, though not happy, to be characterized in the media as being ready to bug out now. this helped us push back against mcchrystal's effort to box me in at 40,000 additional u.s. soldiers. denis mcdonough, my strategic communications man, sold biden-as-dove brilliantly. wasn't somebody just saying i should promote denis? maybe it was denis? never mind. that tactic won me room to maneuver toward a more realistic number of, say, 23,000 new combat troops, 5,000 additional trainers and a \"nato surge\" of 5,000 foreign troops. that's my second unspoken goal: to come out of this buildup speech without losing the left of the democratic party -- while being able to refute john mccain's charges that i ignored my own generals. triangulation lives. bush put the generals in the limelight to sell the iraq surge after he lost all credibility, and david petraeus's performance was dazzling. which presents two big problems. petraeus is the only person who could get the republican nomination in 2012 and make a serious run against me. (i get paid to think ahead.) and if the generals box me in, civilian control of the military in this country becomes a mockery. clinton was afraid of the military; bush was deep in hock to it. i've got to get the right balance back. unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05767479 date: 07/31/2015 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05767479 date: 07/31/2015 that's why i need bob gates and jim jones. those who scoffed at my keeping on bush's defense secretary, and then making a retired marine four-star i hardly knew my nsc guy, were not thinking that moments like this would come. i already was. gates has maneuvered flawlessly through my waterboarding-by-leaks on afghanistan. he will sell my final number to the uniforms as the \"floor\" for u.s. troops that petraeus argues we need for three years. but gates knows i will make it a ceiling. we can't afford an open-ended commitment. i put peter orszag, as good a budget overseer as you can find, front and center for the photographers in that last war council. many missed it, but nbc's andrea mitchell got it right away. no wonder she's married to alan greenspan. i will bet that stan mcchrystal never drew up a budget in his life. jones tells me these special operations commanders are used to getting whatever they ask for, especially since september 11th. nobody on the hill will deny them anything. jones is also squeezing the europeans to join the battle and is getting results, even from the germans. what is it jones says? maybe the worst thing of all would be to be perceived to lose in afghanistan and then have the europeans say: well, you never asked for more help at the crucial time. makes sense to me. we have sent nato members the numbers we think they can and should provide, country by country. that new secretary general, anders fogh rasmussen, is pulling out the stops, visiting the capitals to get commitments. \"say it now, pay it later,\" we tell the europeans. they have until mid-2010 to deploy their new units. but i need pledges now so i can get across tonight that this is nato's war, not obama's war. that's unspoken-goal number three. so i have frontloaded the speech with allusions to this being about an exit strategy, without boxing myself in on timing, and am presenting the \"civilian surge\" as being as essential as the troop buildup. that helps set up my oslo speech. and who knows? it may even work out that way. if god blesses us all. unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05767479 date: 07/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05764915 date: 07/31/2015 release in part b6 sent: saturday, august 29, 2009 9:35 pm subject: re: oprah he's not calling you. gave us windows he's available but does want to get a time so he's at a landline. oprah can do monday in the hamptons. you could just use house. its close and will have good spaces to use. original message sent: sat aug 29 21:29:58 2009 subject: re: oprah i can't do tonight and not sure about tomorrow morning. is he calling me or does he think i'm calling him? original message sent: sat aug 29 21:28:25 2009 subject: re: oprah checking i am sure they will mitchell just responded. he can talk before 10:30 tonite or before noon tomorrow. what do u want to do? original message sent: sat aug 29 21:18:36 2009 subject: re: oprah i thought you meant next sunday or monday. what about this wed afternoon or thurs in dc? i told cheryl and philippe i wouldn't leave early. if the oprah team want to come out here and one of our friends is willing to let us use their house out here this monday, i would do that. original message sent: sat aug 29 20:56:45 2009 subject: re: oprah the dates are tomorrow or monday. not next week. its why i asked cheryl to discuss with you because it meant interrupting your vacation which i wasn't prepared to do. original message 336 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05764915 date: 07/31/2015 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05764915 date: 07/31/2015 sent: sat aug 29 20:38:30 2009 subject: re: oprah but i'm leaving here on wed and i'll be at home over the weekend so i'd rather get it over w in the morning. can they do it in the barn? original message sent: sat aug 29 20:37:56 2009 subject: re: oprah lisa ling. she's an oprah correspondant. we can do late monday afternoon so u don't have to be rushed getting out of here. maybe offer her 3 or 4pm? will get a makeup person. original message sent: sat aug 29 20:31:42 2009 subject: re: oprah who will interview me? original message sent: sat aug 29 20:27:52 2009 subject: oprah for oprah, monday is better. i'm going to confirm for chappaqua monday. oscar, can u make sure she sees this? 337 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05764915 date: 07/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05764469 date: 07/31/2015 release in part b6 sent: monday, august 24, 2009 1:38 pm subject: re: one more thing do that this week. original message sent: mon, aug 24, 2009 12:40 pm subject: re: one more thing can he or you drop it off at my dc house? original message sent: mon aug 24 12:36:30 2009 subject: one more thing forget to mention that max's book, \"republican gomorrah,\" is coming out sept 1. we gave bill our copy on the vineyard. have you seen it? carville has started readin gand is blown away. where should max send you a copy so you get it? sid unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05764469 date: 07/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05772167 date: 08/31/2015 release in full sent: tuesday, september 21, 2010 5:12 pm subject: fw: (reuters) all 9 killed in afghan crash are american-us official sent: tue sep 2117:09:20 2010 subject: (reuters) all 9 killed in afghan crash are american-us official washington (reuters) - all nine of the nato troops killed in a helicopter crash september 21 in southern afghanistan were americans, a u.s. defense official told reuters. the nato-led force had not previously disclosed the nationalities of the victims, but said there were no reports of enemy fire before the crash. unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05772167 date: 08/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05767850 date: 08/31/2015 release in part b6 sent: subject: ,  d <cd@state.gov> wednesday, january 13, 2010 4:10 pm fw: good job! fyi sent: wednesday, january 13, 2010 3:58 pm subject: good job! ms , i got your email address in a message from my good friend, kathleen townsend, several months ago but have never wanted to bother you directly. however, as the former head of humanitarian operations at usaid under pres. clinton, i thought it appropriate to commend you and your colleagues on the excellent job that is being done in the early days of the usg response to the tragedy in haiti. the deployment of coast guard and southcomm resources, the immediate organization of an interdepartmental group to coordinate usg efforts, the deployment of multiple usaid urban search and rescue units as well as a dart, and the ability to make these decisions without delay is impressive. managing information flow with early statements by the pres. and sec. followed by your press conference on relief plans effectively focused attention on the us leadership role. please pass on my \"good job\" to whomever has been leading this effort. it's as good as i have seen from the usg. let me know if there is anyway i can be of help. hugh hugh parmer unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05767850 date: 08/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05761283 date: 06/30/2015 release in full sent: . thursday, may 07, 2009 7:06 am subject: re: calls times just didn't work. we are looking for different times today. original message sent: thu may 07 06:09:32 2009 subject: re: calls do you know why? original message sent: thu may 07 06:08:17 2009 subject: calls calls with turks will not take place this morning. 74 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f 1 -2014-20439 doc no. c05761283 date: 06/30/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05766229 date: 07/31/2015 release in full sent: sunday, september 27, 2009 6:09 pm subject re: checking in yes at 10. was checking to see if i needed to make arrangements for you to do anything earlier. original message sent: sun sep 27 18:06:53 2009 subject: re: checking in aren't i supposed to be there? is it at 9 or 10? original message sent: sun sep 27 18:00:48 2009 subject: checking in lisa is coming at 7:15 tomorrow. will you come to nyc in time for first bilat? unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05766229 date: 07/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05772026 date: 08/31/2015 release in full sent: monday, september 6, 2010 7:44 pm subject: sen mitchell has asked to speak with you. "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05765873 date: 07/31/2015 release in part b5 sent: saturday, september 12, 2009 7:06 pm subject: re: question drl did not have any more definitive sourcing on this. does the below provide what you need? original message sent: sat sep 12 14:57:43 2009 subject: re: question original message sent: sat sep 12 14:55:42 2009 subject: re: question still working this through, but here is where we are thus far: the majority of all countries that have direct presidential elections use a two-round system. the number appears to be at least 58. france, most latin american countries, all five post-soviet central asian republics, and many countries in francophone africa use trs to elect their presidents. elsewhere in africa the system is used by angola, cape verde, gambia, ghana, guinea-bissau, kenya, mozambique, namibia, nigeria, sso tome and principe, the seychelles, sierra leone, sudan, tanzania, uganda and zimbabwe; in europe, apart from france, it is used by armenia, azerbaijan, austria, belarus, bulgaria, croatia, cyprus, finland, georgia, lithuania, macedonia, poland, portugal, romania, russia, slovakia, slovenia and ukraine; and it is found in afghanistan, haiti, indonesia, iran, timor-leste and yemen. original message sent: sat sep 12 11:45:32 2009 subject: question can you find out for me how many countries require a run off election for their presidents or prime ministers. thx. unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05765873 date: 07/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05775217 date: 08/31/2015 release in full sent: wednesday, september 29, 2010 8:06 am subject: mini schedule 9/29/10 wednesday 8:15 am depart private residence *en route state department 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 secretary's office 8:45 am daily meeting w/senior staff 9:15 am secretary's conference room 9:15 am office time 9:40 am secretary's office 9:45 am remarks to the historic conference on the american 10:00 am experience on southeast asia marshall conference center 10:30 am bilat. mtg. w/european union high rep. catherine ashton 11:30 am secretary's conference room *official photo in east hall preceding. 11:35 am joint press availablity w/lady catherine ashton 11:45 am treaty room, 7.floor 11:45 am private meeting w/ lois quam 12:00 pm secretary's office 12:00 pm office time 12:25 pm secretary's office 12:25 pm pre-brief w/treasury secretary tim geithner 12:30 pm secretary's outer office 12:35 pm press announcement on iran human rights designations 12:50 pm wfireasury secretary tim geithner state department press briefing room 1:00 pm working lunch w/german foreign minister guido westerwelle 2:00 pm james monroe room, 8th floor *official photo preceding. 2:05 pm joint press availability w/german foreign minister 2:15 pm guido westerwelle treaty room, 75 floor 2:30 pm bilateral meeting w/el salvador president mauricio funes 3:15 pm secretary's conference room *official photo preceding. 3:15 pm joint press statement w/ el salvador president mauricio funes 3:25 pm treaty room, th floor 3:40 pm drop-by national interreligious leadership initiative 3:50 pm for peace in the middle east group d conference room 4:00 pm office time 5:00 pm secretary's office tbd pm depart state department *en route private residence tbd pm arrive private residence "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05769819 date: 08/31/2015 release in full sent: wednesday, february 10, 2010 12:22 pm subject: just got the blair thing for whatever reason unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05769819 date: 08/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2015-04841 doc no. c05739562 date: 05/13/2015 state dept. - produced to house select benghazi comm. subject to agreement on sensitive information & redactions. no foia waiver. release in full sent: wednesday, september 12, 2012 6:08 pm subject: fvv: secretary's remarks fyi sent: wednesday, september 12, 2012 5:37 pm to daniel, joshua 3; benaim, daniel; rooney, megan; schwerin, daniel b subject an secretary's remarks don't know if you guys have seen this, but there is an article on slate right now that describes the below as \"her most eloquent news conference as secretary of state.\" really nice work guys. htto://www.slate.comiarticlesinews arid politics/war stories/2012/09/libya u s embassy attack hillarv clinton was eloquent regarding ambassador stevens mitt romnev smirked ,htrni sent: wednesday, september 12, 2012 5:31 pm subject: secretary's remarks for anyone who missed the secretary's remarks this morning, they are worth a read: htto://www,state.govisecretary/rm/2012/09/197654.htm remarks on the deaths of american personnel in benghazi, libya remarks hillary rodham clinton secretary of state treaty room washington, dc september 12, 2012 yesterday, our u.s. diplomatic post in benghazi, libya was attacked. heavily armed militants assaulted the compound and set fire to our buildings, american and libyan security personnel battled the attackers together, four americans were killed, they included sean smith, a foreign service information management officer, and our ambassador to libya chris stevens. we are still making next of kin notifications for the other two individuals. this is an attack that should shock the conscience of people of all faiths around the vvorld. we condemn in the strongest terms this senseless act of violence, and we send our prayers to the families, friends, and colleagues of those we've lost. all over the world, every day, america's diplomats and development experts risk their lives in the service of our country and our values, because they believe that the united states must be a force for peace and progress in the world, that unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2015-04841 doc no. c05739562 date: 05/13/2015 state dept. - produced to house select benghazi comm. subject to agreement on sensitive information & redactions. no foia waiver. state-scb0045254 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2015-04841 doc no. c05739562 date: 05/13/2015 state dept. - produced to house select benghazi comm. subject to agreement on sensitive information & redactions. no foia waiver. these aspirations are worth striving and sacrificing for. alongside our men and women in uniform, they represent the best traditions of a bold and generous nation. in the lobby of this building, the state department, the names of those who have fallen in the line of duty are inscribed in marble. our hearts break over each one. and now, because of this tragedy, we have new heroes to honor and more friends to mourn. chris stevens fell in love with the middle east as a young peace corps volunteer teaching english in morocco. he joined the foreign service, learned languages, won friends for america in distant places, and made other people's hopes his own. in the early days of the libyan revolution, i asked chris to be our envoy to the rebel opposition. he arrived on a cargo ship in the port of benghazi and began building our relationships with libya's revolutionaries. he risked his life to stop a tyrant, then gave his life trying to help build a better libya. the world needs more chris stevenses. i spoke with his sister, ann, this morning, and told her that he will be remembered as a hero by many nations. sean smith was an air force veteran. he spent 10 years as an information management officer in the state department, he was posted at the hague, and was in libya on a brief temporary assignment. he was a husband to his wife heather, with whom i spoke this morning. he was a father to two young children, samantha and nathan. they will grow up being proud of the service their father gave to our country, service that took him from pretoria to baghdad, and finally to benghazi. the mission that drew chris and sean and their colleagues to libya is both noble and necessary, and we arid the people of libya honor their memory by carrying it forward. this is not easy. today, many americans are asking indeed, i asked myself  how could this happen? how could this happen in a country we helped liberate, in a city we helped save from destruction? this question reflects just how complicated and, at times, how confounding the world can be but we must be clear-eyed, even in our grief. this was an attack by a small and savage group  not the people or government of libya. everywhere chris and his team went in libya, in a country scarred by war and tyranny, they were hailed as friends and partners. and when the attack came yesterday, libyans stood and fought to defend our post, some were wounded. libyans carried chris' body to the hospital, and they helped rescue and lead other americans to safety. and last night, when i spoke with the president of libya, he strongly condemned the violence and pledged every effort to protect our people and pursue those responsible. the friendship between our countries, borne out of shared struggle, will not be another casualty of this attack. a free and stable libya is still in america's interest and security, and we will not turn our back on that nor will we rest until those responsible for these attacks are found and brought to justice. we are working closely with the libyan authorities to move swiftly and surely. we are also working with partners around the world to safeguard other american embassies, consulates, and citizens. there will be more time later to reflect, but today, we have work to do. there is no higher priority than protecting our men and women wherever they serve. we are working to determine the precise motivations and methods of those who carried out this assault. some have sought to justify this vicious behavior, along with the protest that took place at our embassy in cairo yesterday, as a response to inflammatory material posted on the internet. america's commitment to religious tolerance goes back to the very beginning of our nation. but let me be clear there is no justification for this, none. violence like this is no way to honor religion or faith. and as long as there are those who would take innocent life in the name of god, the world will never know a true and lasting peace. unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2015-04841 doc no. c05739562 date: 05/13/2015 state dept. - produced to house select benghazi comm. subject to agreement on sensitive information & redactions. no foia waiver. state-scb0045255 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2015-04841 doc no. c05739562 date: 05/13/2015 state dept. - produced to house select benghazi comm. subject to agreement on sensitive information & redactions. no foia waiver. it is especially difficult that this happened on september 11th. it's an anniversary that means a great deal to all americans. every year on that day, we are reminded that our work is not yet finished, that the job of putting an end to violent extremism and building a safe and stable world continues. but september 11th means even more than that. it is a day on which we remember thousands of american heroes, the bonds that connect all americans, wherever we are on this earth, and the values that see us through every storm. and now it is a day on which we will remember sean, chris, and their colleagues. may god bless them, and may god bless the thousands of americans working in every corner of the world who make this country the greatest force for peace, prosperity, and progress, and a force that has always stood for human dignity  the greatest force the world has ever known. and may god continue to bless the united states of america. thank you. unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2015-04841 doc no. c05739562 date: 05/13/2015 state dept. - produced to house select benghazi comm. subject to agreement on sensitive information & redactions. no foia waiver. state-scb0045256  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05774112 date: 08/31/2015 release in part b6 sent: sunday, november 14, 2010 8:03 pm subject: re: tomorrow added jake to manifest just realized tomicah is on his way to astana to prep for osce. original message sent: sun nov 14 19:21:06 2010 subject: re: tomorrow yes of course. original message sent: sun nov 14 19:13:09 2010 subject: tomorrow i'd like to add tomicah to the lithuania fm mtg. and pls add jake to the eikenberry mtg. unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05774112 date: 08/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05763066 date: 06/30/2015 release in full sent: saturday, june 13, 2009 10:59 pm subject: re: cornwall port of entry tom and i started working to confirm this afternoon. i've talked to miguel and once we know for sure we'll pass along. original message sent: sat jun 13 22:52:45 2009 subject: cornwall port of entry will you check what the canadians told us about the bridge being open and, if true, be sure schumer and gillibrand are told. 86 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05763066 date: 06/30/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2015-04841 doc no. c05739703 date: 05/13/2015 state dept. - produced to house select benghazi comm. subject to agreement on sensitive information & redactions. no foia waiver. release in full from: ,  0 <cdstate.gov> sent: sunday, october 14, 2012 9:01 am subject fw: bloomberg: libyan ambassador's death not a political issue, says dad sent: sunday, october 14, 2012 08:19 am cc ,  d; reines, philippe i subject: fw: bloomberg: libyan ambassador's death not a political issue, says dad sent: sunday, october 14, 2012 07:58 am to pa-monitoring-group-di; moe, grace t; mason's, melinda 3; atchison, mark c; nea-press-dl; ds pa media; shore, rhonda h; batenger, de'ara n subject: bloomberg: libyan ambassador's death not a political issue, says dad libyan ambassador's death not a political issue, says dad by margaret talev on october 14, 2012 businessweek bloomberg news the father of christopher stevens, the u.s. ambassador to libya who was killed in the attack in benghazi last month, said his son's death shouldn't be politicized in the presidential campaign. \"it would really be abhorrent to make this into a campaign issue,\" jan stevens, 77, said in a telephone interview from his home in loomis, california, as he prepares for a memorial service for his son next week. mitt romney, the republican nominee, has criticized president barack obama for not providing adequate security in libya, saying the administration has left the country exposed to a deadly terrorist attack. the ambassador's father, a lawyer, said politicians should await the findings of a formal investigation before making accusations or judgments. \"the security matters are being adequately investigated,\" stevens said. \"we don't pretend to be experts in security. it has to be objectively examined. that's where it belongs. it does not belong in the campaign arena.\" stevens said he has been getting briefings from the state department on the progress of the investigation. 'very optimistic' stevens said while he was close with his son, \"we weren't that familiar with the day-to-day activities' he undertook in libya. on the occasions when his son called home, stevens said, he didn't share many details about his work other than to say that \"he was very optimistic about the results of the election and the new government.\" they last spoke by phone in august and by e-mail days before his son's death. unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2015-04841 doc no. c05739703 date: 05/13/2015 state dept. - produced to house select benghazi comm. subject to agreement on sensitive information & redactions. no foia waiver. state-scb0045702 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2015-04841 doc no. c05739703 date: 05/13/2015 state dept. - produced to house select benghazi comm. subject to agreement on sensitive information & redactions. no foia waiver. stevens, a registered democrat, said he isn't politically active. he declined to say how he'll vote in the presidential election. he said his son, who was a career diplomat and had worked for republican and democratic presidents, hadn't expressed concerns to him about security or support from the administration. \"he felt very strongly about secretary clinton,\" stevens said, referring to secretary of state hillary clinton. \"he felt she was an extremely able person.\" as for whether he had the tools and protection he needed for his job, stevens said of his son: \"we didn't get into that\" sort of discussion. \"i never heard him say a critical word about the state department or the administration, or any administration for that matter. he came up through the foreign service, not politics.\" obama call stevens said neither of the two presidential campaigns reached out to him, and that he is grateful for that. he said obama telephoned him after his son's death to express his regrets and talk about identifying the perpetrators who should be brought to justice, and that the conversation was in the context of his presidential duties and not political. while polls indicate that voters say obama would do a better job on foreign policy issues, republicans see an opportunity to cut into that advantage, pointing to surveys showing that voters have grown less satisfied since the sept. 11 assault in libya. stevens stopped short of directly criticizing either candidate. \"i'm not sure exactly what he's been saying and not saying, but our position is it would be a real shame if this were politicized,\" stevens said, referring to romney. \"our concern now is memorializing chris and remembering his contribution to the country.\" campaign shift romney's current foreign policy position marks a shift in tone from a campaign that has focused almost exclusively on economic issues and jobs. the romney team is attempting to link two campaign messages by charging obama with weakening american interests abroad at the same time as he's failed to boost the economy back home. speaking to voters on oct. 12 in richmond, virginia, romney chastised vice president joe biden for his defense of the administration's actions in the libya attack. \"he's doubling down on denial, and we need to understand exactly what happened as opposed to just having people brush this aside,\" romney said. during last week's vice presidential debate, biden said the white house wasn't told of a request for additional security at the mission in benghazi the month before the incident. state department official eric nordstrom, who served as a regional security officer in tripoli until july, told a congressional committee that he was turned down when he requested an extension of a 16-member security support team that was scheduled to leave libya in august. 'mission creep' unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2015-04841 doc no. c05739703 date: 05/13/2015 state dept. - produced to house select benghazi comm. subject to agreement on sensitive information & redactions. no foia waiver. state-scb0045703 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2015-04841 doc no. c05739703 date: 05/13/2015 state dept. - produced to house select benghazi comm. subject to agreement on sensitive information & redactions. no foia waiver. romney hasn't specified what he would do differently than the administration in libya. in a speech at the virginia military institute earlier last week, he called for support of libya's \"efforts to forge a lasting government\" and to pursue the \"terrorists who attacked our consulate.\" that view is at odds with the position romney took more than a year ago, when he opposed expanding the intervention in libya to capture muammar qaddafi, calling it \"mission creep and mission muddle\" in april 2011. neither the administration's initial public report that the attack began with a spontaneous demonstration against an anti- islamic video clip nor republican suggestions that it was a planned attack tied to al-qaeda are supported by u.s. intelligence reports or by accounts of the night provided to a bloomberg reporter by benghazi residents. white house press secretary jay carney told reporters that \"the president wants to get to the bottom of what happened.\" carney also sought to minimize questions about why the president and other administration officials were slow to publicly acknowledge the role of terrorism in the attack. \"as time went on, additional information became available,\" carney said. \"clearly, we know more today than we did on the sunday after the attack. but as the process moves forward and more information becomes available, we will be sure to continue consulting with you.\" haider karzai pa/prs unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2015-04841 doc no. c05739703 date: 05/13/2015 state dept. - produced to house select benghazi comm. subject to agreement on sensitive information & redactions. no foia waiver. state-scb0045704  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05765032 date: 07/31/2015 release in full sent: sunday, october 18, 2009 5:09 pm subject mitchell asking to talk. unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05765032 date: 07/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2015-04841 doc no. c05739901 date: 05/13/2015 state dept. - produced to house select benghazi comm. subject to agreement on sensitive information & redactions. no foia waiver. release in full sent wednesday, september 12, 2012 12:14 am subject: fw: (sbu) update: benghazi sent: tuesday, september 11, 2012 11:54 pm to kennedy, patrick f; jones, beth e; dibble, elizabeth l; ,  d; nulane!, victoria 3; sullivan, stephanie 5; sullivan, jacob j; zeya, uzra s; sherman, wendy r; austin-ferguson, kathleen t subject: fw: (sbu) update: benghazi fyi, fresh attacks on benghazi sent: tuesday, september 11, 2012 23:51 pm subject: fw: (sbu) update: benghazi ambassador mull: please see update from rso benghazi below. we are also preparing an alert now. sent: tuesday, september 11, 2012 11:41 pm cc ds command center; dscc_management team subject: (sbu) update: benghazi alcon: the ds command center is sharing the following event information foryour situational awareness. please contact the ds command center directly for any follow-up requests for information. per telcall with rso in benghazi. their current shelter location is now under attack by mortar fire. three to four rounds have impacted on their location. there are new injuries to com staff. update to follow. this is an initial incident report from the ds command center. the information contained in this report is provided only for immediate situational awareness. .4dditional reports may follow, updating and correcting information, if necessary. please protect accordingly. ds command center unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2015-04841 doc no. c05739901 date: 05/13/2015 state dept. - produced to house select benghazi comm. subject to agreement on sensitive information & redactions. no foia waiver. state-scb0045233 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2015-04841 doc no. c05739901 date: 05/13/2015 state dept. - produced to house select benghazi comm. subject to agreement on sensitive information & redactions. no foia waiver. sbu this email is unclassified. unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2015-04841 doc no. c05739901 date: 05/13/2015 state dept. - produced to house select benghazi comm. subject to agreement on sensitive information & redactions. no foia waiver. state-5cb0045234  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05772953 date: 08/31/2015 release in full sent: thursday, november 11, 2010 1:42 pm subject: fw: (ap) hezbollah: we won't accept arrests sent: thu nov 1113:36:48 2010 subject: (ap) hezbollah: we won't accept arrests beirut (ap) - the leader of hezbollah says his militant group will \"cut the hand\" of anyone who tries to arrest any member of the party. sheik hassan nasrallah said in a speech the group will not accept any accusation against any of its fighters or leaders in the 2005 assassination of former prime minister rafik hariri. he said the group would defend itself anyway it chooses. he did not elaborate. unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05772953 date: 08/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05769695 date: 08/31/2015 release in full sent: monday, february 8, 2010 8:06 am subject: from embassy london this is from the political officer in london: david cameron will be given the right of reply after the pm's statement this afternoon -- followed by q&a. uup mp sylvia hermon is likely to be \"unhelpful\" during the q&a. the conservatives are becoming exasperated by the rumors that appear in the press and elsewhere that they are unsupportive of the agreement. our contacts say the tories have been completely consistent in supporting the government on devolution, though they don't believe hmg handled the issue well (i.e. allowing the exclusion of the uup and sdlp). reg empey is scheduled to meet his mlas tonight to review the document and prepare for the working group with sdlp's margaret ritchie. unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05769695 date: 08/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05777470 date: 08/31/2015 release in full sent: sunday, december 5, 2010 11:10 am subject: fw: (ap) mediators try to intervene in ivory coast chaos sent: sun dec 05 10:55:54 2010 subject: (ap) mediators try to intervene in ivory coast chaos abidjan (ap) - international mediators tried to intervene in ivory coast's growing political crisis after both candidates in the disputed election said they were now president, raising fears the country could again be divided along the lines established during its 2002-2003 civil war. in the northern opposition stronghold of bouake, several hundred people marched down a main boulevard, calling for incumbent laurent gbagbo to stand down. villagers wielding machetes also created their own checkpoint in protest along one major road in the region. unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05777470 date: 08/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05761139 date: 06/30/2015 release in part b6 inv' sent: ,  <h@state.gov> saturday, may 02, 2009 12:42 pm b6 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. r2014-20439 doc no. c05761139 date: 06/30/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05774076 date: 08/31/2015 release in full sent: sunday, november 14, 2010 3:54 pm my sense is that all will be fine with working the changes. tom was just blowing off steam. unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05774076 date: 08/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05771085 date: 08/31/2015 release in part b6 sent: tuesday, august 24, 2010 6:00 pm subject: re: call: amb. holbrooke has a call into you via ops i did not. very aggravating. there is some kind of disconnect. we are still waiting to hear back on mashabane's availability. nothing yet scheduled for tomorrow, but we still have menendez and alexander outstanding. menendez's staff owes us a call back. alexander is free up until lpm tomorrow. original message sent: tue aug 24 17:55:15 2010 subject: fw: call: amb. holbrooke has a call into you via ops --did you ever receive this email? original message sent: tue aug 24 15:58:49 2010 subject: re: call: amb. holbrooke has a call into you via ops ,  c ok. is the south african call scheduled yet? are there any calls outstanding for today or tomorrow? original message sent: tue aug 24 15:55:46 2010 subject: call: amb. holbrooke has a call into you via ops "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05765879 date: 07/31/2015 release in part b5 sent: saturday, september 12, 2009 7:06 pm subject: re: question drl did not have any more definitive sourcing on this. does the below provide what you need? original message sent: sat sep 12 14:57:43 2009 subject: re: question original message sent: sat sep 12 14:55:42 2009 subject: re: question still working this through, but here is where we are thus far: the majority of all countries that have direct presidential elections use a two-round system. the number appears to be at least 58. france, most latin american countries, all five post-soviet central asian republics, and many countries in francophone africa use trs to elect their presidents. elsewhere in africa the system is used by angola, cape verde, gambia, ghana, guinea-bissau, kenya, mozambique, namibia, nigeria, sao tome and principe, the seychelles, sierra leone, sudan, tanzania, uganda and zimbabwe; in europe, apart from france, it is used by armenia, azerbaijan, austria, belarus, bulgaria, croatia, cyprus, finland, georgia, lithuania, macedonia, poland, portugal, romania, russia, slovakia, slovenia and ukraine; and it is found in afghanistan, haiti, indonesia, iran, timor-leste and yemen. original message sent: sat sep 12 11:45:32 2009 subject: question can you find out for me how many countries require a run off election for their presidents or prime ministers. thx. unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05765879 date: 07/31/2015  "
"sent: subject:  sunday, november 29, 2009 12:20 pm h re: another memo on backdrop to this week. sid 8119110, unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05767434 date: 07/31/2015 release in part b6 did you read nyt lead editorial yesterday? sent via cingular xpress mail with blackberry original message date: sun, 29 nov 2009 12:04:27 subject: re: another memo on backdrop to this week. sid i didn't read the mcd reference that way. i actually thought it was complimentary of his spin skills. what am i missing? original message sent: sun nov 29 11:51:28 2009 subject: re: another memo on backdrop to this week. sid it's there, just scroll down sent via cingular xpress mail with blackberry original message date: sun, 29 nov 2009 11:38:00 subject: re: another memo on backdrop to this week. sid can you send me the hoagland piece? original message sent: sun nov 29 10:58:16 2009 subject: another memo on backdrop to this week. sid confidential november 29, 2009 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05767434 date: 07/31/2015 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05767434 date: 07/31/2015 for: hillary re: backdrop to your coming week below is a piece published today in the observer, the sunday newspaper of the guardian, on the chilcot inquiry, summarizing the testimony so far and what is expected this week while you are drumming up support for the afghanistan initiative. britain and europe are riveted by chilcot, especially official circles. the objective correlative, of course, is trust in any u.s. administration and deep skepticism about the afghanistan project. yet another undercurrent among the mandarins is disdainful resentment of indifference to britain, a sentiment beyond labour or the tories but what has emerged as the view of the permanent establishment at whitehall and elsewhere. mandelson watch: after miliband declined to reach for the eu foreign secretaryship (though sarkozy wanted him to take it and brown was not averse, even favorable), mandelson personally campaigned on his own for it among the europeans. mandelson was eager to miliband to take the eu post, allowing mandelson to be appointed foreign minister. when miliband refused, mandelson's ambition was thwarted, and tried to seize the eu position for himself, but without any backing in europe or from gordon. the europeans thought him mad. suddenly, they recalled his bad or strange behavior as uk commissioner to the eu. when christine ashton was named, mandelson briefed the press on her lack of credentials, etc. ashton, as it happens, had worked the press to try to help mandelson when he had gotten into the mess that led to his first resignation. those inside the government who remember this see it as an illustration of the principle that no good deed goes unpunished. mandelson, in a snit, is now not speaking to gordon as though his rejection were gordon's fault. one more item: did you read jim hoagland in the washington post today,? he nails mcdonough for trashing biden, among other things. enclosed below story on chilcot: http://www.guardian.co.uk/lik/2009/nov/29/iraq-war-inquiry-chilcot-blair chilcot inquiry: mandarins take revenge on tony blair over iraq civil servants and diplomats are lining up to stick a knife into former pm's reputation * toby helm <http://www.guardian.co.uk/profile/tobyhelm> and rajeev syal <http://www.guardian.co.uk/profile/rajeev-syal> * the observer <http://observer.guardian.co.uk> , sunday 29 november 2009 * whitehall mandarins are supreme masters of subtle evasion. but they do not rise to the top of their trade without also knowing how to stick in the knife. at times the chilcot inquiry into britain's involvement in iraq since 2001, which opened last week, resembled a gentlemen's club moved to the sanitised surroundings of the queen elizabeth ii conference centre in westminster. oxbridge-educated pillars of the establishment politely questioned other oxbridge-educated pillars of the establishment about who said what to whom in which memo. the inquiry is a peculiar mixture of the old and the new, the open and closed. it is conducted in the language of whitehall, yet beamed live by webcam to the world. critics are convinced that, for all sir john chilcot's promises to the contrary, it will turn out to be another whitehall whitewash. for the cognoscenti, little new information has yet emerged, and when the final report is written it will not seek to apportion blame. yet beneath the equivocation and mandarin-speak, whitehall seems, in as much as it knows how, to be using chilcot to wield the scalpel. throughout the first week the pent-up frustrations of diplomats and career civil servants over the way tony blair <http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/tonyblair> and george bush secretly plotted to oust saddam hussein, bypassing the \"official channels\" in which they operate, has been there for all to see. unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05767434 date: 07/31/2015 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05767434 date: 07/31/2015 chilcot is said to have been warned by his whitehall friends that many witnesses will be ready to unburden themselves - finally to take revenge. in session after session they have appeared to do that. blair's reputation has been sliced like salami day after day. sir william ehrman, the foreign office's former director of international security, volunteered last wednesday that the threat from saddam's supposed weapons of mass destruction was known to be limited. in the gentlest way he drove in the dagger. \"we did, i think on 10 march [2003], get a report that chemical weapons might have remained disassembled and saddam hadn't yet ordered their assembly. there was a suggestion that iraq might lack warheads capable of effective dispersal of agents.\" ever the diplomat, however, ehrman went on to say that the intelligence warnings had not made any difference to the case for war. \"i don't think it invalidated the point about the programmes he had. it was more about use,\" he said. but he had set the tone. on thursday, sir christopher meyer, uk ambassador in washington from 1997 to 2003, who has already criticised the government over iraq in his memoirs, went for blair, mercilessly comparing his qualities as a war leader to those of margaret thatcher. \"i'm not trying to make a party political point here whatsoever, but quite often i think about this: what would margaret thatcher have done?\" meyer asked. \"i think she would have insisted on a coherent political-and diplomatic strategy and she would have demanded the greatest clarity about what the heck happened if, and when, you removed saddam hussein.\" a former press secretary to john major who can speak like a mandarin but, equally, can talk like a layman, he said blair had failed miserably to extract a price from george bush for his loyalty. \"we could have achieved more by playing a tougher role... if, for example... tony blair had said: 'i want to help you, george, on this, but i have to say, in all honesty, that i will not be able to take part in any military operation unless we have palpable progress on the [middle east] peace process and we have absolute clarity on what happens in iraq if it comes up.' i think that would have changed the nature  it would not have led to a rupture  it would have changed the nature of american planning. \" even when defending uk policy, he was on the offensive. asked if policy had been adapted to stay in line with washington's, meyer added: \"i wouldn't say it was as extremely poodle-ish as that.\" on friday, sir jeremy greenstock, britain's former ambassador to the united nations, told chilcot he had threatened to resign in 2002 if at least one security council resolution was not passed. he added: \"i regard our participation in the military action in iraq in march 2003 as legal but of questionable legitimacy, in that it did not have the democratically observable backing of the great majority of [un] member states, or even perhaps of the majority of people inside the uk.\" today new arguments are raging over whether the inquiry will have access to, and publish, the most sensitive documents  including legal advice given to the government by the former attorney general, lord goldsmith, during the lead-up to war. nick clegg, the liberal democrat leader, has written to gordon brown saying that, unless all such material is published, the inquiry will be a sham and the public's sense that it has been denied the facts will remain. but it will still be essential viewing nonetheless. this week will see more key witnesses. the most revealing testimony could come tomorrow when sir david manning, blair's former foreign policy <http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/foreignpolicy> adviser, is certain to be asked about his authorship of a memo which purportedly revealed details of a secret meeting between bush and blair in january 2003. according to reports, the five pages of secret documents, known as the manning memo, recorded the white house meeting on 31 january which allegedly shows that bush and blair made a deal to carry out an invasion regardless of whether weapons of mass destruction were discovered by un weapons inspectors. it appears to be in direct contradiction with statements that blair made to parliament afterwards that saddam would be given a final chance to disarm. the memo also disclosed that bush floated the idea of painting a u-2 spyplane in un colours and letting it fly low over iraq to provoke saddam into ordering it to be shot down, providing a pretext for the subsequent invasion by america and britain. manning, educated at oriel college, oxford, and a career diplomat, is fiercely independent. he may choose to say more than blair would like, according to one former colleague. he could also be asked to either confirm or deny meyer's evidence that meyer received \"new instructions\" in early 2005 indicating that it was a \"complete waste of time\" to oppose regime change, so strong was the us determination to go down that road. on tuesday, edward chaplin, the foreign office middle east director at the time of the invasion, and sir peter ricketts, the top official in the foreign office, will appear. ricketts, a former chairman of britain's powerful joint intelligence committee, has already given evidence to the inquiry alleging that officials in london knew even before bush came to office in 2001 that there were \"voices\" in washington calling for saddam to be removed from power. ricketts also told unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05767434 date: 07/31/2015 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05767434 date: 07/31/2015 the inquiry that, until march 2002, whitehall distanced itself from regime change. only one month later, blair told bush that he would support military action \"to bring about regime change\". according to documents leaked five years ago, ricketts described the us in 2002 as \"scrambling to establish a link between iraq and al-qaida\"  a connection that was \"so far, frankly unconvincing\". on thursday, sir kevin tebbit, the ministry of defence's permanent secretary during the invasion, will be asked to give evidence about the military planning. chilcot will, most likely, want to know when the government first began to amass resources for the war and what, if any, preparations were made for the aftermath of an invasion. tebbit could also be urged to divulge the level of intelligence he received on the likelihood of an attack with chemical or biological weapons. after tebbit, a succession of heavy-hitting military men will give evidence. the former chief of the defence staff, admiral the lord boyce, could be asked whether he believes that the invasion was legal. on friday, lieutenant general sir anthony pigott, former deputy chief of the defence staff, and major general david wilson, senior british military adviser to the us military's central command between 2002 and 2003, will be questioned about military planning for the conflict. the last witness to appear this week will be dominic asquith, britain's ambassador to iraq between 2006 and 2007, who will come armed with knowledge of the view from baghdad. when chilcot has made his way through the officials, he will turn in the new year to former ministers, including jack straw, the former foreign secretary, and blair himself. the panel has said that it will also begin to examine the highly controversial issue of whether the invasion was legal  which may turn out to be the focal point of the whole inquiry  in january. in his final report, which is not expected until late 2010 at the earliest, chilcot has said he will not seek to attribute blame. but after only one week it is already clear where much of whitehall believes that lies. the washington post afghanistan: the speech you'll miss by jim hoagland sunday, november 29, 2009 dec. 1, 2009: my fellow americans, this is not the speech you expected to hear. but my wordsmiths are tied in knots writing an acceptance speech for the only nobel peace prize ever awarded for making speeches. so i am going to tell you how i really feel about afghanistan. which is: steamed. i want to accomplish three goals tonight without naming them. first, to let those know-it-alls, generals petraeus and mcchrystal, know one more thing: this is the last big troop increase you get, so make it work. i am not going down the incrementalist road that wrecked lyndon johnson's presidency. this is not july 1965, when westmoreland jumped the shark of escalation in vietnam and then never stopped asking for more troops. for all the trouble he has been, dick holbrooke helped by recalling that history in the shadowboxing that dominated my long war council meetings. joe biden has been good in there, too. he's been willing, though not happy, to be characterized in the media as being ready to bug out now. this helped us push back against mcchrystal's effort to box me in at 40,000 additional u.s. soldiers. denis mcdonough, my strategic communications man, sold biden-as-dove brilliantly. wasn't somebody just saying should promote denis? maybe it was denis? never mind. that tactic won me room to maneuver toward a more realistic number of, say, 23,000 new combat troops, 5,000 additional trainers and a \"nato surge\" of 5,000 foreign troops. that's my second unspoken goal: to come out of this buildup speech without losing the left of the democratic party -- while being able to refute john mccain's charges that i ignored my own generals. triangulation lives. bush put the generals in the limelight to sell the iraq surge after he lost all credibility, and david petraeus's performance was dazzling. which presents two big problems. petraeus is the only person who could get the republican nomination in 2012 and make a serious run against me. (i get paid to think ahead.) and if the generals box me in, civilian control of the military in this country becomes a mockery. clinton was afraid of the military; bush was deep in hock to it. i've got to get the right balance back. unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05767434 date: 07/31/2015 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05767434 date: 07/31/2015 that's why i need bob gates and jim jones. those who scoffed at my keeping on bush's defense secretary, and then making a retired marine four-star i hardly knew my nsc guy, were not thinking that moments like this would come. i already was. gates has maneuvered flawlessly through my waterboarding-by-leaks on afghanistan. he will sell my final number to the uniforms as the \"floor\" for u.s. troops that petraeus argues we need for three years. but gates knows i will make it a ceiling. we can't afford an open-ended commitment. i put peter orszag, as good a budget overseer as you can find, front and center for the photographers in that last war council. many missed it, but nbc's andrea mitchell got it right away. no wonder she's married to alan greenspan. i will bet that stan mcchrystal never drew up a budget in his life. jones tells me these special operations commanders are used to getting whatever they ask for, especially since september 11th. nobody on the hill will deny them anything. jones is also squeezing the europeans to join the battle and is getting results, even from the germans. what is it jones says? maybe the worst thing of all would be to be perceived to lose in afghanistan and then have the europeans say: well, you never asked for more help at the crucial time. makes sense to me. we have sent nato members the numbers we think they can and should provide, country by country. that new secretary general, anders fogh rasmussen, is pulling out the stops, visiting the capitals to get commitments. \"say it now, pay it later,\" we tell the europeans. they have until mid-2010 to deploy their new units. but i need pledges now so i can get across tonight that this is nato's war, not obarna's war. that's unspoken-goal number three. so i have frontloaded the speech with allusions to this being about an exit strategy, without boxing myself in on timing, and am presenting the \"civilian surge\" as being as essential as the troop buildup. that helps set up my oslo speech. and who knows? it may even work out that way. if god blesses us all. unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05767434 date: 07/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05762872 date: 06/30/2015 release in full sent: wednesday, april 29, 2009 3:46 am subject: fw: mexico city to suspend public gatherings (sbu) fyi sent: tue apr 28 12:33:03 2009 subject: mexico city to suspend public gatherings (sbu) mexico city mayor ebrard told reports that all restaurants, bars, discos, night clubs, cinemas, movie theaters, theaters, gyms, and convention centers will suspend activities. 2$1 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05762872 date: 06/30/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05766604 date: 08/31/2015 release in part b6 sent: saturday, january 30, 2010 8:22 am subject: fw: 4636 and state getting a lot of good press -- now in the guardian fyi sent: sat jan 30 05:37:21 2010 subject: fw: 4636 and state getting a lot of good press -- now in the guardian sent: fri jan 29 23:21:03 2010 subject: 4636 and state getting a lot of good press -- now in the guardian http://www.guardian.co.uldnews/datab1og/2010/jan/29/haiti-crowdsourcing even has a screen shot of dipnote! how to friday: how to build a crisis reporting system developers, technologists and volunteers around the world came together to build a crisis reporting for haiti. here's how they did it  comments (1)  buzz up! digg it the ushahidi crowdsourced crisis reporting in haiti technologists around the world came together and rapidly built a system for haitians to request help in the wake of devastating earthquake. using the internet to organise themselves, developers, communications experts and humanitarian organisations created a system to gather emergency requests using text messages that won praise from emergency officials and support from the us state department. hours after the quake, josh nesbit, who heads up a non-profit using mobile phones to help deliver medical care in africa, heads sent this tweet: reaching out to frontlinesms users in "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05761137 date: 06/30/2015 release in part b5 sent: saturday, may 02, 2009 11:57 am subject: fw: steinberg original message sent: sat may 02 11:37:55 2009 subject: steinberg unclassified u.s. department of state case no. v-2014-20439 doc no. c05761137 date: 06/30/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05760763 date: 06/30/2015 release in part b5 sent: tuesday, april 07, 2009 7:57 am subject: fw: s polar speech april 6 per my earlier email. cdm -^ my- ----- sent: monday, april 06, 2009 5:03 pm subject: re: s polar speech april 6 sent: monday, april 06, 2009 4:55 pm subject: re: s polar speech april 6 sent: mon apr 06 15:05:31 2009 subject: re: s polar speech april 6 cdm unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05760763 date: 06/30/2015 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05760763 date: 06/30/2015 sent: monday, april 06, 2009 2:47 pm subject: fw: s polar speech april 6 hi  and jake  thank you! sent: monday, april 06, 2009 2:32 pm subject: s polar speech april 6 dear megan, first, thanks for producing a terrific speech for the secretary. i do have one question. many thanks. evan evan t. bloom deputy director 4 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05760763 date: 06/30/2015 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05760763 date: 06/30/2015 office of ocean and polar affairs (oes/opa) tel (202) 647-3925 fax (202) 647-9099 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05760763 date: 06/30/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05764188 date: 07/31/2015 release in part b6 sent: tuesday, september 1, 2009 3:55 pm subject: re: tuesday we think. original message sent: tue sep 01 15:54:08 2009 subject: re: i'll wait to see him in person next week. do we know when that would be? original message sent: tue sep 01 15:48:40 2009 subject: re: thx few other notes: - wh is asking if u want to speak with potus tomorrow during the meeting time? would be 10:20am. would you like to do a call with him or wait and meet with him in person? - cdm can explain the document i just asked oscar to print for you. original message sent: tue sep 01 15:37:28 2009 subject: re: ok. thx. enjoy the itfar. see you in dc. original message sent: tue sep 01 14:38:23 2009 subject: wanted to let you know i decided to go to dc for the wh iftar tonite and big unga meeting tomorrow morning. unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05764188 date: 07/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05764169 date: 07/31/2015 release in part b6 sent: friday, august 21, 2009 1:19 pm subject: re: sept 9 we will push them to adjust. they shouldn't do this without you. original message sent: fri aug 21 13:14:22 2009 subject: re: sept 9 yes, jack can have your proxy if they can't adjust the time. i will see if moving the time is an option. original message sent: fri aug 21 12:14:45 2009 subject: sept 9 i really want to go to cronkite's service. can we change time for mcc to late afternoon? if not, can jack preside? unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05764169 date: 07/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05775134 date: 08/31/2015 release in full sent: monday, september 27, 2010 8:55 am subject: fw: (reuters) sarkozy calls for october mideast talks in paris sent: mon sep 27 08:49:16 2010 subject: (reuters) sarkozy calls for october mideast talks in paris paris (reuters) - french president sarkozy said he would ask palestinian president abbas, israeli pm netanyahu, and egyptian president mubarak to peace talks in paris before the end of october. abbas said the construction of jewish settlements, subject of a moratorium that expired on september 26, should be frozen for another 3-4 months, a position sarkozy backed as crucial. \"the settlements must stop,\" the french president said. unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05775134 date: 08/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05770324 date: 08/31/2015 release in full sent: tuesday, may 11, 20107:11 pm subject: fw: updates on baker and kissinger fyi. sent: tuesday, may 11, 2010 5:31 pm subject: fw: updates on baker and kissinger jake, please pass onto s. thanks, ellen sent: tue may 11 17:26:43 2010 subject: updates on baker and kissinger good afternoon ellen, i wanted to give you the latest on the new start briefings for baker and kissinger. baker: i've arranged for a phone briefing for baker with gary samore, jim miller, mike elliott, and tom dagostino tomorrow at 11:30 am. the briefing with last 30 minutes and they are prepared to answer any questions he has. baker is fairly familiar with the main issues, having already spoken with john kerry and others. kissinger: i secured a 45 minute briefing for kissinger on the 19th (next wednesday) from 2:30 to 3:15. if you agree, you can host it here in your office. let me know if you have any questions, simon chief of staff under secretary for arms control and international security u.s. dept. of state room 7208 (202) 647-1749 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05770324 date: 08/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05773683 date: 08/31/2015 release in part b5 sent: thursday, december 23, 2010 11:33 pm subject: fw: feedback fyi sent: thu dec 23 22:23:28 2010 subject: feedback frank  the secretary's call was extraordinarily well-received. good morale boost as we enter the holiday seasons which, as you know, can be a difficult time for those serving in tough assignments far from home. please pass on our collective gratitude to her for spending the time with the mission. also  would like to recommend happy holidays to all, karl unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05773683 date: 08/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05771218 date: 08/31/2015 release in full sent: tuesday, november 2, 2010 9:43 am subject: fw: fyi fw: uss iwo jima deploys to haiti as tropical storm approaches attachments: uss iwo jima deploys to haiti as tropical storm approaches.doc hurricane tomas in route to haiti to hit 4 nov right now on southern claw. southcom's announcement: uss iwo jima deploys to haiti as tropical storm approaches miami - u.s. southern command directed the amphibious ship uss iwo jima (lhd 7) to steam toward haiti today in preparation for the forecasted arrival of tropical storm tomas later this week. iwo jima will deploy to haiti from suriname, where it arrived thursday on its final country visit for continuing promise 2010, a four-month, humanitarian civic assistance deployment to eight nations in the caribbean region. the ship is scheduled to arrive in haiti later this week. large amphibious ships, like iwo jima, resemble small aircraft carriers and include the ability to support helicopter and landing craft operations to quickly move personnel and cargo, making it an ideal platform to support humanitarian-relief missions on short notice. a crew of 1,600 military and civilian medical, engineering, aviation, logistical and other support personnel are embarked aboard iwo jima, including u.s. navy engineers, a contingent of 500 marines with logistical-support expertise, volunteers from the u.s. public health service and various non-governmental organizations (ng0s), as well as medical, dental and engineering professionals from europe, north america and south america. eight ch-46 sea knight, medium-lift, dual-rotor helicopters; two mh-60 knight hawk helicopters and two amphibious landing craft units (icu's) are on iwo jima to support the ship's operations. iwo jima is a wasp-class amphibious ship capable of speeds in excess of 20 knots that can provide robust ship-to-shore, as well as shore-to-shore logistics support during contingencies ranging from traditional military operations to humanitarian and disaster-relief missions. because of the caribbean region's history of severe-weather events during the peak months of the hurricane season, the ship has remained in the area throughout its present deployment, ready to support u.s. disaster relief efforts when directed. iwo jima was in port-de-paix, haiti, from july 24 through aug. 3. it was the first stop on cp10 and the crew provided medical assistance to more than 4,000 haitian citizens, performed 32 surgeries, completed six engineering projects, and delivered 231 pallets of humanitarian-assistance supplies donated by ng0s. in september 2008, the amphibious ship uss kearsarge deployed to haiti to support u.s. relief efforts after a succession of storms (fay, gustav, hanna and ike) devastated the country. kearsarge provided robust air and sealift support, delivering 3.3 million pounds of food, water and other aid to communities impacted by the disasters. "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05768303 date: 08/31/2015 release in part b6 sent: sunday, march 7, 2010 4:26 pm subject: new polls from ni shaun writes me: two polls tomorrow will show massive support in ni for hc agreement. also two thirds of uup voters support the agreement and also devolution now. reg isin effect totally detached and in danger of no longer leading his party! sent via cingular xpress mail with blackberry unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05768303 date: 08/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05761792 date: 06/30/2015 release in full sent: monday, may 25, 2009 8:51 pm subject: 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? 16 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05761792 date: 06/30/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05769795 date: 08/31/2015 - release in full sent: tuesday, february 9, 2010 10:32 pm mitchell/mara/jake agree best thing for mohlo to be told that you got full debrief on their meeting and given the schedule challenges for tomorrow, would not be able to do mtg. unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05769795 date: 08/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05770557 date: 08/31/2015 release in full sent: sunday, may 16, 2010 8:53 pm subject: fw: (reuters) turkish pm to go to iran during nuclear mediation sent: sun may 16 12:04:31 2010 subject: (reuters) turkish pm to go to iran during nuclear mediation ankara (reuters) - turkish prime minister erdogan will go to tehran on may 16, a government official said, to join brazilian and turkish negotiators trying to convince iran to revisit a stalled un-backed nuclear fuel swap deal. negotiations were underway on may 16 between iranian officials and brazilian president lula da silva and turkish foreign minister davutoglu. jeff shelstad watch officer department of state operations center (s/es-0) sheistadj@state.gov (202) 647-1512 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05770557 date: 08/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05762253 date: 06/30/2015 release in part b6 mir sent: tuesday, june 09, 2009 6:19 am subject: fw: thank you...again fyi sent: mon jun 08 15:45:16 2009 subject: thank you...again secretary clinton's remarks at her friday press conference with the turkish foreign minister continued this administration's excellent efforts to restore the credibility of the u.s. with greece and cyprus  which will lead to important progress in the region. as you know, the bush administration consistently hid and defended actions by turkey that were injurious to cyprus and greece, inconsistent with american values and principals, and also not in turkey's best interests. we highlighted for the top leaders in our community that secretary clinton once again in front of the turkish foreign minister, called for a \"bi-zonal and bi-communal federation\" for cyprus as well as expressed the united states' strong support for \"freedom of religion.\" with secretary clinton and others doing these kinds of things, america is moving to correct the biggest road block to a cyprus settlement  restoring american credibility with the greek-cypriots which was badly lost during the bush administration. keep up the great work! andy manatos and mike manatos the national coordinated effort of hellenes (ceh) 1100 new hampshire avenue, n.w., washington, d.c. 20037 (202) 393-7790 [fax] (202) 628-0225 e-mail: coordinatedeffort@ivianatos.com remarks with turkish foreign minister ahmet davutoglu hillary rodham clinton secretary of state treaty room washington, dc june 5, 2009 secretary clinton: good afternoon. minister davutoglu and i just had a very productive, broad-ranging, comprehensive discussion. and it is a great privilege to welcome him here to the state department within the very first weeks of his having been appointed foreign minister. of course, i was very honored to have gone to turkey very early in my term as secretary of state, and president obama had a wonderful visit to turkey. and all of that is to confirm the strength and importance of our partnership and alliance. we have a lot of work to do together. turkey, the united states, and the entire global community certainly face a great number of challenges, but we also see opportunities. so our message coming out of the meeting today and our prior meetings is that we're going to deepen and strengthen our cooperation on an ongoing basis, because we believe that both turkey and the united states have unique roles to play. unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05762253 date: 06/30/2015 b6 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05762253 date: 06/30/2015 now, we obviously already collaborate. not only are we both members of nato, but we are working with the g-20 to respond to the global economic crisis, we're exploring ways to enhance our trade and commerce between our two countries, we're working to develop new energy sources, including resources from the caucasus and central asia. we're partners in the fight against global terrorism. we share the goal of a stable pakistan and afghanistan, and to deny al-qaida safe haven that can threaten our countries and many others. we support turkey in its fight against the terrorist activities of the pkk, which has been a very important cooperation. and i underscored again today the united states' strong support for turkey's bid to become a member of the european union. turkey has made significant progress toward membership. it's been in a process of reform that is generated by its own internal decisions but which has certainly responded to many of the concerns regarding the strength of the bid that turkey had. and so we applaud what turkey has already done and pledge our efforts to continue working with turkey. and so we ranged across a broad number of issues, and i want to just make a special note. as president obama said yesterday in cairo, the united states is committed to broad engagement with muslims everywhere across the globe based on mutual interests and mutual respect. we believe strongly in the freedom of religion and expression, in vibrant civil societies, and we know that those are values that turkey shares. and i want to thank the minister and his government for the role that turkey plays as a force for peace and stability. this is important, and it's already been demonstrated in the work that turkey has done for a number of years and continues with respect to comprehensive peace in the middle east. and we are strongly supportive of the turkish efforts to normalize relations with armenia, and we are also very strongly supportive of the efforts to resolve the nagomo-karabakh conflict. we discussed cyprus, which is an issue that the president also addressed when he was in turkey in april. the two cypriot leaders have an opportunity through their commitment to negotiations under the united nations good offices missions, and the united states is willina to help the parties. we want to work toward a settlement that reunifies cyprus into a bi-zonal and bi-communal federation. we discussed many, many concerns, and i'm just grateful for the commitment by the minister and by his government to play an active role in our dynamic world. our relationship is not just about security; it is about seizing these opportunities, and i look forward to working with you. 7$1 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05762253 date: 06/30/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05771183 date: 08/31/2015 release in part b6 sent: monday, november 1, 2010 1:44 pm subject: fw: can the dude abide? (not that i like her...) sent: monday, november 01, 2010 1:36 pm subject: can the dude abide? (not that i like her...) the;kewfork mines october 30, 2010 can the dude abide? by maureen dowd washington barack obama became president by brilliantly telling his own story. to stay president, he will need to show he can understand our story. at first it was exciting that obama was the sort of brainy, cultivated democrat who would be at home in a \"west wing\" episode. but now he acts like he really thinks he's on \"west wing,\" gliding through an imaginary, amber-lit set where his righteous self-regard is bound to be rewarded by the end of the hour. hey, dude, you're a politician. act like one. as the head of the democratic party, the president should have supported the democratic candidate for governor in rhode island, the one the democratic governors association had already lavished more than $1 million in tv ads on. if obama was going to refuse to endorse frank caprio out of respect for lincoln chafee, the former republican who endorsed him for president and is now running as an independent, the president should have at least stayed out of providence. reductio ad absurdum: after two years of taking his base for granted, the former pied piper of america's youth had to spar with jon stewart to try to get the attention of young people who once idolized him. obama still has the killer smile, but he's more often sniffy than funny. when stewart called white house legislation \"timid,\" obama got defensive and offered a less-than-thrilling new mantra: \"yes, we can but ...\" \"we have done things that people don't even know about,\" said obama, who left his great communicator mantle back in grant park on election night. unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05771183 date: 08/31/2015 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05771183 date: 08/31/2015 in 2008, the message was him. the promise was him. and that's why 2010 is a referendum on him. with his coalition and governing majority shattering around him, president obama will have to summon political skills  starting wednesday  that he has not yet shown he has. his arrogance led him to assume: if i build it, they will understand. he can't get the gratitude he feels he deserves for his achievements if no one knows what he achieved and why those achievements are so vital. once it seemed impressive that he was so comfortable in his own skin. now that comfort comes across as an unwillingness to be wrong. we want the best people to govern us, but many voters are so turned off by obama's superior air that they're rushing into the arms of disturbingly inferior pols. obama admitted to the times's peter baker: \"there is probably a perverse pride in my administration  and i take responsibility for this; this was blowing from the top  that we were going to do the right thing, even if short term it was unpopular.\" but who defines what's \"right\"? with the exception of obama, most americans seemed to agree that the \"right\" thing to do until the economy recovered was to focus on jobs instead of getting the congress mired for months in making over health insurance and energy policy. and the \"right\" thing to do was to come down harder on the big banks for spending on bonuses instead of lending to small businesses that don't get bailouts. many of us thought the \"right\" thing to do was to ratify the civil rights of gay americans in marriage and the military. (a new pentagon study shows that most u.s. troops and their families don't care if gays are allowed to serve openly.) in an interview with progressive bloggers, the president was asked why he was lagging behind republicans like ted olson on gay marriage. noting that he has a lot of friends and staffers in committed gay relationships, obama conceded only that his attitude was evolving. \"i think it's pretty clear where the trend lines are going,\" the president said. trend lines? really inspiring, dude. one top aide told me that the president  who perversely tried to marginalize a once-captivated press corps  was beginning to realize that he had not used his charm as effectively as he could have. his inner circle believed too much in the power of the aura and in protecting the brand. they didn't think they needed to sell anything or fight back when the crazies started sliming them. they didn't care that the average citizen needed an m.b.a. to understand the financial plan and a ph.d. to fathom what the health care plan would mean. because obama stayed above it all on health care and delegated to max baucus, he missed the moment in august of 2009 when sarah palin and the tea party got oxygen with their loopy rants on death panels. it never occurred to the icon that such wildness and gullibility would trump lofty rationality. as the president tries to ride the tea party tiger, let's hope for this change: that he puts some audacity in his audacity. unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05771183 date: 08/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05771612 date: 08/31/2015 release in part b6 sent: wednesday, november 3, 2010 9:44 pm subject: fw: fm kevin rudd and sec state clinton/invitation to rudd to speak at oxy. fyi sent: wed nov 03 16:16:08 2010 subject: fm kevin rudd and sec state clinton/invitation to rudd to speak at oxy. lauren/, and--please let hillary know that i have invited australian foreign minister kevin rudd to speak at occidental in the coming year--on china or whatever topic he pleases. his chief of staff philip green has responded with some interest, and the australian cg in la is very excited to make it happen. consulate here has invited me to speak at conference in january in la on the us and australia in asia, and i have accepted (a good topic too if embassy canberra wanted to invite me down as pd speaker). it would be helpful, if hillary can work it in to her informal time with rudd to mention me and oxy in a favorable way and encourage him to accept the invitation to speak on our campus. i'd certainly appreciate it. thanks as ever, derek i just saw the news reports on the program that hillary will be doing with young australians in melbourne o sunday. looks great. and perhaps she will get to meet my friend glyn davis, head of university of melbourne on margins of event. unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05771612 date: 08/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05760717 date: 06/30/2015 release in part b5 sent: monday, april 06, 2009 7:36 am subject: re: note to s on summit preparation sent: monday, april 06, 2009 6:08 am subject: re: note to s on summit preparation this is very good. i would like to give set up speech next week-on wed--the day potus goes to mexico. date: mon, 6 apr 2009 05:38:27 -0400 subject: fw: note to son summit preparation a preview of memo coming to you officially in hard copy today: sensitive but unclassified note for the secretary from: wha  thomas a. shannon white house advisor on the summit  jeffrey s. davidow s/p  anne-marie slaughter subject: climbing to the summit of the americas so unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05760717 date: 06/30/2015 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05760717 date: 06/30/2015 51 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05760717 date: 06/30/2015 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05760717 date: 06/30/2015 az . unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05760717 date: 06/30/2015 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05760717 date: 06/30/2015 --  sent: sunday, april 05, 2009 5:01 pm 53 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05760717 date: 06/30/2015 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05760717 date: 06/30/2015 subject: note to s on summit preparation dear  and jake, attached pse find my additions to the memo that tom and jeff sent on friday afternoon. they have not had a chance to go over this  i sent it a couple of hours ago but i'm hoping people have better things to do on sunday afternoon. i don't think there is anything i added that they would disagree w/ so propose that this go to s tonight. am 54 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05760717 date: 06/30/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05769391 date: 08/31/2015 release in part b5,b6 sent: saturday, january 23, 2010 1:05 pm subject: fw: aceh background attachments: lessons from aceh multi donor trust fund.docx fyi: from one of the folks we hired who had been working with pierre louis: lessons from the aceh and nias multi-donor trust fund 1. the government of indonesia (g01) responded to the tsunami by issuing a series of government decrees, and immediately organized both overview and relief efforts to ensure a rational and coordinated response. the first task was to produce a damage and loss assessment (dla). the dla was followed by a more detailed master plan for rehabilitation and reconstruction (mprr). the mprr provided in-depth sector plans, spatial planning, the governance and supervision arrangements of finances with considerable attention to how to avoid or minimize corruption. the process behind the mprr was consultative, with a wide range of local stakeholders and public offices being heard. the mprr was presented on 26 march, only 3 months after the tsunami. 2. the mprr was to form the basis for a general three-stage strategy. the relief phase was originally set to six months, but was then reduced to three: january- march 2005. the rehabilitation phase is to run for about 21 months, through december 2006, and the reconstruction phase from july 2006 through december 2009. the mprr provides a well defined phasing of interventions. 3. the objectives for the relief efforts were humanitarian relief: rescue; food and medicine; emergency infrastructure and temporary shelter; and burying the dead. the rehabilitation phase is to restore services to minimum level: public services; economic facilities; banking and financial institutions; trauma treatments; secure land rights; law and order; and temporary shelter. finally, reconstruction is to rebuild the region: rebuilding the economy (production, trade and banking); the transportation, telecommunications, and social and cultural systems; improving institutional capacity; and housing. 4. the government set up a ministerial-level agency to manage the mprr program from aceh itself, the rehabilitation and reconstruction agency for aceh and nias. the brr was formally established end april 2005 and became operational early may. the world bank board on 30 march 2005 formally established the multi-donor trust fund (mdf) with a steering committee comprised of brr, goi, donors and civil society. having a credible local coordinators was key to success. 5. the ec channels nearly 93% of its funds through the mdf, while only 2.5% of usd 400 million from the us goes to the mdf. while payments into the fund were slow, disbursements out of it were to begin with even slower. by october 2005, project agreements for about usd 200 million had been signed, but only usd 3 million had actually been disbursed. disbursements picked up the pace thereafter. the delay was caused by two principal impediments: first, donors were quick to pledge funds, but getting all the unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05769391 date: 08/31/2015 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05769391 date: 08/31/2015 exact written agreements in place took time. this points to the need for donors to be flexible regarding formal agreements, and accept simple, generic paragraphs that can contribute to speedy resolution of slightly differing phrasings and concerns. second, the processing time for project approval and implementation was a concern. since the mdf was to have funded projects on-budget, they had to be implemented by government institutions. this crated bottlenecks. 6. smaller donors joined because they wished to support the reconstruction efforts in aceh but do not have own capacity and often not strong views on how best to pursue this. they want the bank to assume fiduciary responsibilities for the funds in a high-risk environment, and also to take a lead in ensuring that the funds go to prioritized activities. the mdf is thus seen a well-managed bank account with some paid- for administrative services. however, the all-inclusive steering committee made membership large and to some extent unwieldy, and forced it to discuss both policy and operational issues. 7. the multi donor fund secretariat has developed an outreach strategy that includes regular radio talk shows, field visits to meet and discuss with beneficiaries and communication through advertisements as well as a telephone hotline. 8. mdf received praise for engaging the government of indonesia (g01) in policy dialogue. the mdf is thus an entry point for engaging on conditions for sustainability, relevance and impact. 9. because the mdf does not accept strict ear marking of donor contributions  though it does allow for preference indications  it means that the funds are freely available for programming according to the criteria and priorities that the mdf agrees to. given strong goi participation, the mdf is seen as the most successful instrument for harmonization and coordination in an environment that has been criticized for a lack of coordination. the mdf's mid term review conducted in 2008-2009 found that the mdf had made a positive contribution to harmonizing donor efforts and to increasing the effectiveness and efficiency of the reconstruction effort. 10. the mdf did not sufficiently engage the private sector and did not have a coherent job creation strategy. the mdf lacked executive rights, but goi and brr are credited with leveraging a decisive response. sent: saturday, january 23, 2010 8:16 am subject: aceh background jim see below. meghann unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05769391 date: 08/31/2015 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05769391 date: 08/31/2015 cdm sent: friday, january 22, 2010 6:16 pm subject: fw: what is the deadline on aceh fund brief from jean-louis on aceh multi donor trust fund. it's interesting. sent: friday, january 22, 2010 6:15 pm subject: re: what is the deadline on aceh fund brief meghann please see attached a few quick notes based largely on the trust fund's progress report and an independent evaluation commission by the world bank, dfid, norad and others. i spoke to kathleen. i did have to cancel a piece for canada's main evening news at cbc, which they plan to air on sunday before the montreal summit. i understand that media appearances, especially if higher profile, can cause sensitivities. best wishes jean-louis lessons from the aceh and nias multi-donor trust fund 11. the government of indonesia (g01) responded to the tsunami by issuing a series of government decrees, and immediately organized both overview and relief efforts to ensure a rational and coordinated response. the first task was to produce a damage and loss assessment (dla). the dla was followed by a more detailed master plan for rehabilitation and reconstruction (mprr). the mprr provided in-depth sector plans, spatial planning, the governance and supervision .arrangements of finances with considerable attention to how to avoid or minimize corruption. the process behind the mprr was consultative, with a wide range of local stakeholders and public offices being heard. the mprr was presented on 26 march, only 3 months after the tsunami. 12. the mprr was to form the basis for a general three-stage strategy. the relief phase was originally set to six months, but was then reduced to three: january- march 2005. the rehabilitation phase is to run for about 21 months, through december 2006, and the reconstruction phase from july 2006 through december 2009. the mprr provides a well defined phasing of interventions. 13. the objectives for the relief efforts were humanitarian relief: rescue; food and medicine; emergency infrastructure and temporary shelter; and burying the dead. the rehabilitation phase is to restore services to minimum level: public services; economic facilities; banking and financial institutions; trauma treatments; secure land rights; law and order; and temporary shelter. finally, reconstruction is to rebuild unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05769391 date: 08/31/2015 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05769391 date: 08/31/2015 the region: rebuilding the economy (production, trade and banking); the transportation, telecommunications, and social and cultural systems; improving institutional capacity; and housing. 14. the government set up a ministerial-level agency to manage the mprr program from aceh itself, the rehabilitation and reconstruction agency for aceh and nias. the brr was formally established end april 2005 and became operational early may. the world bank board on 30 march 2005 formally established the multi-donor trust fund (mdf) with a steering committee comprised of brr, goi, donors and civil society. having a credible local coordinators was key to success. 15. the ec channels nearly 93% of its funds through the mdf, while only 2.5% of usd 400 million from the us goes to the mdf. while payments into the fund were slow, disbursements out of it were to begin with even slower. by october 2005, project agreements for about usd 200 million had been signed, but only usd 3 million had actually been disbursed. disbursements picked up the pace thereafter. the delay was caused by two principal impediments: first, donors were quick to pledge funds, but getting all the exact written agreements in place took time. this points to the need for donors to be flexible regarding formal agreements, and accept simple, generic paragraphs that can contribute to speedy resolution of slightly differing phrasings and concerns. second, the processing time for project approval and implementation was a concern. since the mdf was to have funded projects on-budget, they had to be implemented by government institutions. this crated bottlenecks. 16. smaller donors joined because they wished to support the reconstruction efforts in aceh but do not have own capacity and often not strong views on how best to pursue this. they want the bank to assume fiduciary responsibilities for the funds in a high-risk environment, and also to take a lead in ensuring that the funds go to prioritized activities. the mdf is thus seen a well-managed bank account with some paid- for administrative services. however, the all-inclusive steering committee made membership large and to some extent unwieldy, and forced it to discuss both policy and operational issues. 17. the multi donor fund secretariat has developed an outreach strategy that includes regular radio talk shows, field visits to meet and discuss with beneficiaries and communication through advertisements as well as a telephone hotline. 18. mdf received praise for engaging the government of indonesia (g01) in policy dialogue. the mdf is thus an entry point for engaging on conditions for sustainability, relevance and impact. 19. because the mdf does not accept strict ear marking of donor contributions  though it does allow for preference indications  it means that the funds are freely available for programming according to the criteria and priorities that the mdf agrees to. given strong go1 participation, the mdf is seen as the most successful instrument for harmonization and coordination in an environment that has been criticized for a lack of coordination. the mdf's mid term review conducted in 2008-2009 found that the mdf had made a positive contribution to harmonizing donor efforts and to increasing the effectiveness and efficiency of the reconstruction effort. unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05769391 date: 08/31/2015 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05769391 date: 08/31/2015 20. the mdf did not sufficiently engage the private sector and did not have a coherent job creation strategy. the mdf lacked executive rights, but goi and brr are credited with leveraging a decisive response. unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05769391 date: 08/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05765160 date: 07/31/2015 release in part b6 sent: subject:  thursday, november 5, 2009 10:18 am h fyi: has some valuable info on af/pak. sid tittp://www.qpi.corn/ton newsianalvsis/2009111104/corranentary-wariords-r-usitip1-16551?57351379/ ornment- nanot t i s u arnaud de borchgrave upi editor at large washington, nov. 4 (upi) -- if we are successful beyond president obama's wildest dreams -- e.g., the taliban is wiped out and a tough new afghan government does not allow al-qaida or other terrorists to conspire against us on their territory -- would that make us safer from radical islam? the answer, of course, is no, because this is riot about geography. two veteran intelligence operatives with much middle eastern and afghan experience, speaking not for attribution, agreed a stable, secure afghanistan doesn't change the equation, at least not significantly. the popular perception of al-qaida in afghanistan is the same propaganda news clip, shown a gazillion times over the last eight years, replete with terrorist \"trainees\" in shalwar-kameez (knee-length shirts over baggy pantaloons) running through obstacle courses and emerging from tunnels, presumably to kill us all in our beds. al-qaida doesn't need commando-steeled volunteers to attack the united states and its allies. for the next sept. 11, the chances are they have already selected highly motivated, brainwashed wackjobs among the graduates of pakistan's madrassas, who look forward to a one button push to the land of plenty in the sky where 72 impatient maidens await their arrival. al-qaida's \"martyrs\" don't need afghan training camps for wmd terrorism. in fact, to be inconspicuous, they should not have the physique of an avoid-at-all-cost likely to arouse suspicion. al-qaida does not need afghanistan for its next terrorist objective. in fact, those who follow events in afghanistan closely were taken aback when obama said afghanistan was a war of necessity because that's where al-qaida. is. they haven't been there since afghanistan was liberated in october 2001. they moved to pakistan's tribal areas where they attracted volunteers from the middle east and europe. when a reconstituted taliban insurgent force re-entered afghanistan in large numbers in 2004, al-qaida was not interested in its now insecure old training camps. even if pakistan's current offensive.against the taliban and al-qaida in the tribal areas is successful, al-qaida is not an entity that can be captured or destroyed. its clandestine operatives are widely scattered in the middle east, africa, europe, north and south america. as alternatives to afghanistan and pakistan, yemen, in the vernacular of the intelligence community, will do/is doing it. somalia will do/is doing it. west african states whose writ doesn't extend much beyond their capitals will do/are doing it. grimy north african suburbs of major french cities will do/are doing it. british provincial towns with pakistani enclaves will do/are doing it. and the internet's thousands of pro-al-qaida web sites will do/are doing it. osama bin laden and his deputy ayman al-zawahiri are believed to be comfortably installed in a tribal chiefs compound somewhere near quetta, the capital of pakistan's constantly rebellious baluchistan province, which unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05765160 date: 07/31/2015 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05765160 date: 07/31/2015 has 48 percent of the country's land with. only 10 million of its 175 million people. there is no al-qaida central issuing orders to thousands of adherents the world over. if the:re is no connection between afghanistan and the core problem of \"no more sept. lls,\" what are the united states and 41 friendly nations doing there? even in the event of a taliban victory in the years to come, the taliban would not be stupid enough to invite al-qaida back. three months prior to sept. 11, 2001, there was palpable tension between taliban leader mullah omar and bin laden. omar complained that bin laden was issuing \"too many fatwas (religious edicts) which he has no business doing as he didn't complete his religious education.\" omar also prevented journalists from seeing bin laden. the taliban leader knows he lost power and his country because of what bin laden and his terrorists did to the united states. in today's afghanistan almost everything turns out to be corruption and mismanagement. the average citizen has seen little benefit from expenditures in the $250 billion range -- on top of $1 trillion in iraq. the .u.s. effort has been plagued by fraud, laced with mismanagement and bereft of strategic focus. one example among many others came in 2007 when the united states awarded a massive contract worth some $300 million to a:ey, a florida-based company, to supply the afghan army with 52 types of ammo, chiefly bullets for ak-47s. all requirements for safety inspections, mandatory for all ammo delivered to u.s. forces, were removed. thus aey was able to shop around in eastern europe for the cheapest ammo available. millions of rounds of old chinese ammo made in the 1960s turned out to be substandard. and dangerous. the state department was aware of what was going on but did not object as speed was the only criterion. aey and its officers were eventually indicted in florida. but u.s. officials involved got off with a slap on the wrist. wherever u.s. inspectors look, they find fraud and abuse. there are even cases -- reported by globalpost reporter jean mackenzie -- of american contractors paying bribes to the taliban to ensure aid projects are not disrupted. this is a recipe for a war without end. she also reports a disguised taliban office in kabul that reviews all aid projects and determines the amount to be paid to the taliban. if true, the united states is paying the afghan government to fight the taliban while also paying the taliban to fight the afghan government. the key lies in pakistan. almost all terrorist trails in europe lead back to pakistan -- and its madrassas. these are the free koranic schools that have stepped into the vacuum of no education system for the poor as the military takes up 50 percent of government revenue. a fraction of what the united states has spent in iraq and afghanistan would go a long way to turning pakistan around. instead, congress, in its infinite wisdom, after authorizing $1.2 trillion in both wars allocated $7.5 billion to pakistan over five years -- with umpteen caveats. in a country of 175 million, a drop in the proverbial bucket. unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05765160 date: 07/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05775236 date: 08/31/2015 release in part b5 sent: thursday, september 30, 2010 7:41 am subject: abbas we just finished more on secure line when you are available. unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05775236 date: 08/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05767532 date: 08/31/2015 release in part b5 sent: saturday, february 6, 2010 6:25 pm subject re: us-eu statement on iran's human rights situation text not set. among other things, they're still working through whether to mention detainees. original message sent: sat feb 06 18:16:42 2010 subject: re: us-eu statement on iran's human rights situation of course i will do. is the text set? original message --- sent: sat feb 06 18:14:15 2010 subject: fw: us-eu statement on iran's human rights situation fyi. the latest thinking is that this would be a clinton-ashton statement. we'll make sure you have a chance to see/approve final, and we can work to incorporate any changes you have now. sent: sat feb 06 17:46:41 2010 subject: us-eu statement on iran's human rights situation hi jake/huma: hope you're not too snowed in wherever you are. unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05767532 date: 08/31/2015 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05767532 date: 08/31/2015 here is the draft statement that we're trying to put out with the eu: please let me know if you have any concerns, or need further information. thanks! steve unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05767532 date: 08/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05766585 date: 08/31/2015 release in full sent: saturday, january 30, 2010 3:32 am subject: fw: haiti tents fyi original message sent: fri jan 29 23:43:31 2010 subject: haiti tents hrc will surely follow up but kouchner raised again the need for 200k tents and said france only has 1k to send. assume you're all over this, but fyi. unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05766585 date: 08/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05765809 date: 07/31/2015 release in part b6 sent: friday, september 11, 2009 7:55 am 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 "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05765054 date: 07/31/2015 release in full sent: monday, october 19, 2009 7:16 am subject see blame the gate keeper ctikoliingtonvo't news i politics i opinions i business i local i sports i arts & living i going out guide i jobs i cars i real estate shopping ad..  us. kl reasonable people can disagree on whatever it was by al kamen monday, october 19, 2009 they call it the world's greatest deliberative body (wgdb), part i. the senate judiciary committee last week was reviewing an amendment by sen. richard durbin (d-i11.) to the usa patriot act to clarify the legal standard needed for an investigation under the act. the amendment was intended to provide greater protections from abuse by investigators. his colleague, sen. amy klobuchar (d-minn.), spoke in opposition, agreeing with committee chairman patrick leahy (d-vt.) and ranking republican jeff sessions (ala.) that additional protections are not needed. \"i would just point to the actual language in here,\" klobuchar said, \"which is, it's not like this is some pie-in- the-sky standard here. i mean, it specifically says,\" she noted approvingly, reading aloud from the bill, that there have to be \"reasonable grounds to believe that the information sought is relevant to an authorized national security investigation,\" and you can't investigate someone just for exercising free speech rights and there's got to be some suspected foreign agent involved. \"so i just, for anyone listening to this, it is not like there is no standard,\" she concluded. \"there is a standard in place here.\" \"that's the standard that is in the bill now?\" sessions asked. klobuchar nodded that it was. no it's not, durbin interrupted. \"senator klobuchar, you just read my amendment,\" not the bill, he said -- \"and i think it's critically important that you understand what we're establishing here.\" whatever. klobuchar voted against the amendment, which got only a handful of votes anyway. blame the gatekeeper the usual pattern at the state department is that the new secretary arrives at foggy bottom for the first day of work and enters to rousing cheers from career foreign service folks hoping the new boss will actually heed their expert advice. (they are, by nature, an optimistic crowd.) unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05765054 date: 07/31/2015 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05765054 date: 07/31/2015 then, after 7 months, 8 days and 12 hours, on average, the grumbling begins that the secretary is \"not accessible\" to senior career folks, that she's overly protected by her personal staff, that the promised \"open door\" has slammed shut. the fingers start pointing, usually at the secretary's chief of staff. these days, that's  , who holds that post for secretary of state hillary rodham clinton. we're hearing complaints even from members of the inner circle that the overworked  -- chief of staff, counselor, overseer of haiti policy and food security policy and the department motor pool (okay, not really) -- has made entry to clinton's suite something like penetrating the green zone in baghdad. not so, says undersecretary of state william burns, the department's top career official. \"this secretary is in touch every day with as many people across the department as possible, and  is a big part of making that happen.\" another senior state official said clinton has been on the road a lot: asia in july and africa in august and ireland and moscow just the other day, and soon she'll be back on the road, pretty much until thanksgiving. there have also been a bunch of meetings of late on afpak matters. hey, just telling you what we're hearing. in a timely fashion ... the loop better-late-than-never award this year goes to the state department's personnel bureau. the bureau, in an oct. 13 notice, said it had awarded a $1.6 million contract to campion services inc. in west lafayette, ind., to \"assist the department in ensuring that all examinations for foreign service [jobs] have been professionally validated and constitute a reliable means of identifying those applicants with the greatest possibility of success in the foreign service.\" well, good thing the department's only been hiring for a couple of hundred years. the rest of the rsum the white house last week announced that president obama had selected jessie h. roberson, a nuclear expert and senior vice president of environmental affairs for the atlantic sea island group, to be a member of the defense nuclear facilities safety board. the bio notes her previous jobs, even her undergraduate degree in nuclear engineering. name sounds familiar. roberson, roberson: wasn't she dubya's appointee as assistant secretary of the energy department for environmental management, the $6 billion-a-year weapons cleanup program? that's not mentioned in the white house release, but she was there from 2001 to 2004. waterboarding for kids? wgdb, part ii: sen. tom coburn (r-okla.) must be feeling stressed these days over the travails of his pal, sen. john ensign (r-nev.). for those who missed it, coburn took to the senate floor last week to decry federal deficits, which are not, for him, an abstraction. \"it is deeply personal with me,\" coburn explained. \"i have five grandchildren. i look in their eyes, and i see the potential of their lives and all of these other children who are out there. you know what? we are going to waterboard them. that is what we are going to do. we are going to waterboard them. we are going to flood them with debt. we are going to shackle their opportunities. we are going to limit their possibilities because we don't have the courage to make the difference for their future.\" unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05765054 date: 07/31/2015 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05765054 date: 07/31/2015 wait a minute! it's just a dunk in the water.  2009 the washington post company unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05765054 date: 07/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05764128 date: 07/31/2015 release in full sent: friday, august 21, 2009 10:50 am secure fax coming now. eikenberry call will have to be on yellow phone. they will call u on it there. unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05764128 date: 07/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05771569 date: 08/31/2015 release in full sent: saturday, october 2, 2010 10:16 am subject: fw: syrian leader: mideast talks only to help obama sent: sat oct 02 09:46:41 2010 subject: syrian leader: mideast talks only to help obama tehran (ap) - syrian president bashar assad offered dim hopes saturday for any success in middle east peace talks, saying the white house is only using its mediation between israelis and palestinians to score political points in the united states. the comments by assad during a one-day visit to tehran followed talks with iranian president mahmoud ahmadinejad. both leaders pledged to support \"resistance\" in the region, an apparent reference to palestinian militants and others opposing israel. unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05771569 date: 08/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05769048 date: 08/31/2015 release in part b5,b6 sent: subject ,  d <cd@state.gov> friday, march 26, 2010 6:33 pm ,  d fw: wynn resorts as sponsor sent: fri mar 26 17:25:30 2010 subject: fw: wynn resorts as sponsor cm thghts kris sent: friday, march 26, 2010 3:51 pm subject: fw: wynn resorts as sponsor what do you think? sent: friday, march 26, 2010 3:02 pm subject: wynn resorts as sponsor robert, are you sure that the usa pavilion would not be in a sponsorship by wynn resorts (specifically wynn macau)? there cfo, matt maddox, has expressed strong interest. the wynn macau well known brand in china and steve wynn is an extremely popular figure in china. in addition, he is well respected and well though of by the chinese leadership and business leaders. a sponsorship by wynn would be well received. i should be able to get an answer by early next week, but don't want to look foolish if they would be rejected. tj unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05769048 date: 08/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05766291 date: 07/31/2015 release in part b6 sent: monday, september 28, 2009 11:15 am subject re: friday presentation on urgent threat - bill burns will not be at the retreat he indicated he will not be back until friday night or saturday am -- are you saying postpone the entire retreat? original message----- sent: monday, september 28, 2009 10:56 am subject: re: friday presentation on urgent threat - bill burns will not be at the retreat --we should postpone until we get bill there. original message sent: mon sep 28 10:26:39 2009 subject: fw: friday presentation on urgent threat - bill burns will not be at the retreat fyi below sent: monday, september 28, 2009 10:21 am subject: re: friday presentation on urgent threat , i'll be in geneva with p5+1 and iranians oct 1-2. won't get back at earliest until late evening oct 2  more likely oct 3. bill sent: monday, september 28, 2009 10:19 am unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05766291 date: 07/31/2015 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05766291 date: 07/31/2015 subject: friday presentation on urgent threat dear gentlemen: on friday, oct 2, 2009, the secretary is hosting leadership retreat. would you each kindly give 5 minutes overview in your respective areas of leadership on a panel regarding the following urgent threats, in particular: iran: bill burns middle east: george mitchell af/pak: richard holbrooke north korea: eric bosworth would you please advise nora toiv, who is copied on this message if you cannot present. thanks so much. cdm unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05766291 date: 07/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05768074 date: 08/31/2015 release in full sent: saturday, april 3, 20104:50 pm subject: out of office autoreply: strategic dialogue press coverage (3/22 - 3/31) i will be outo f the office through monday, april 5th. i will be checking e-mail periodically. if you need immediate assistance, please call 202-647-9572. unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05768074 date: 08/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05771142 date: 08/31/2015 release in full sent: thursday, august 19, 2010 7:42 am subject: mini schedule 8/19/10 thursday 8:15 am depart private residence en route state department 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 secretary's office 8:45 am daily senior staff meeting 9:15 am secretary's conference room 9:15 am weekly meeting w/regional bureau secretaries 10:00 am deputy secretary's conference room 10:00 am office time 10:30 am secretary's office 10:30 am taped television interview w/anvvar iqbal, dawn news 10:40 am marshall room 10:45 am taped television interview w/sami abraham, geo tv 10:55 am marshall room 11:00 am office time 11:40 am secretary's office 11:45 am depart state department en route andrews afb 12:10 pm arrive andrews afb 12:20 pm depart andrews afb via us air force military aircraft tail "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05772973 date: 08/31/2015 release in part b6 sent: thursday, november 11, 2010 5:43 pm subject: re: let me know when we can talk. will call shortly. original message sent: thu nov 11 17:20:11 2010 subject: let me know when we can talk. ,  j unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05772973 date: 08/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05767117 date: 08/31/2015 release in full sent: thursday, december 31, 2009 12:18 pm subject: fw: (ap) cia base chief killed in attack sent: thu dec 31 12:16:44 2009 subject: (ap) cia base chief killed in attack washington - the associated press has learned that the chief of the cia's base in the khost province of afghanistan was among those killed by a suicide bomber along the afghan-pakistan frontier. igor krayman operations specialist department of state operations center 202-647-1512 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05767117 date: 08/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05764291 date: 07/31/2015 release in full sent: saturday, august 22, 2009 9:11 am subject: espinosa she has been confirmed for 10am. unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05764291 date: 07/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05765823 date: 07/31/2015 release in part b5 11111111 sent: friday, september 11, 2009 4:52 pm subject: fw: nk update importance: high just following up on a few items. first, see below on nagorno-karabakh. third, on qme, gates and barak are meeting the week of unga and we are holding until then if you are comfortable with that. fourth, declan kelly is going to be in belfast monday and tuesday with lou susman. i will be there tuesday for all of the official meetings. declan and i will stay tuesday night after lou leaves and have dinner with a broad cross-section of folks. fifth, i'm working with holbrooke's and lew's shops on the materials for af/pak, and we'll have a concept paper over the weekend on the unga curtain raiser. sixth, mike fuchs and i met with team wha on mexico, following up on carlos' memo. mike is working with wha to ensure that we create a productive agenda and outcomes for the merida meeting you will participate in at unga. (sbu) reports about an alleged lethal incident along the line of contact in nagorno-karabakh remain unconfirmed. the potential implications on the peace process are not yet clear. at the moment, regional leaders are responding cautiously and the impact on other regional processes does not appear significant. the armenian ministry of defense denied any unusual activity along the line of contact; the azerbaijan ministry of defense told media that incidents are frequent along the line of contact. embassy yerevan reports that it is customary to deny reports of sniper incidents along the line of contact, but that an incident of this magnitude would be difficult to cover up. embassy baku notes that president aliyev is in kazakhstan and local authorities could be waiting for his return before deciding on how to proceed. neither of our embassies have been able to confirm local media reports. john l. espinoza deputy director office of caucasus affairs and regional conflicts bureau of european and eurasian affairs department of state 17: unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05765823 date: 07/31/2015 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05765823 date: 07/31/2015 tel: 202-647-6795 fax: 202-736-7915 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05765823 date: 07/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05767533 date: 08/31/2015 release in part b6 sent: saturday, february 6, 2010 8:14 pm subject: re: did you get home in the blizzard? how about 830am? original message -- sent: sat feb 06 18:17:42 2010 subject: re: did you get home in the blizzard? can we do in morning? what time works for you? original message -- sent: sat feb 06 18:14:08 2010 subject: re: did you get home in the blizzard? it took 19 hours but i got home at noon today. i can talk at 830pm tonight if that works for you? i cam also do tomorrow am. cdm original message --- sent: sat feb 06 17:08:57 2010 subject: did you get home in the blizzard? ,  d hope all is well. let me know if and when you can talk yonight or tomorrow. unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05767533 date: 08/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05766581 date: 08/31/2015 release in full sent: tuesday, december 22, 2009 8:33 pm subject: fw: thank you nice sent: tue dec 22 19:24:10 2009 subject: thank you , thank you again for a wonderful lunch today. along with the food (which was great!) i really appreciated the chance to sit down with everyone informally and just chat and eat. while we work with each person here on an individual basis, it is rare to have the opportunity for all of us to be in the same place at the same time with no formal agenda. you have assembled a great team -- which has both an abundance of smarts and personality  and i'm grateful that we had a chance to see each other one more time before we all dispersed for the holidays. looking forward to 2010, zia. unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05766581 date: 08/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05762788 date: 07/31/2015 release in part b5,b6 ww sent: subject: ,  d <cd@state.gov> sunday, april 26, 2009 9:55 pm h fw: vet: arturo valenzuela cdm sent: friday, april 24, 2009 12:56 pm subject: vet: arturo valenzuela , 3 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05762788 date: 07/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05763055 date: 07/31/2015 release in part b5 sent: ,  <h@state.gov> saturday, august 01, 2009 3:35 pm h; oscar flores in case u call iavrov. oscar, can u print? points for call: 1 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05763055 date: 07/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05762955 date: 06/30/2015 release in full imf sent: sunday, july 12, 2009 7:37 pm subject: fw: (reuters) micheletti speaks out about zelaya sent: sun jul 12 19:22:35 2009 subject: (reuters) micheletti speaks out about zelaya tegucigalpa (reuters) honduran interim president micheletti told reuters in an interview july 12 that ousted president zelaya cannot return to power under any circumstance, but that zelaya might be granted amnesty if he were to return quietly to honduras to face justice. president micheletti has promised elections on or before november 29. amber m. oliva operations specialist state ops center, s/es-0 ph: (202) 647-1512 in accordance with the policies and procedures outlined in executive order 12958, this e-mail is unclassified. 176 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05762955 date: 06/30/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05764730 date: 07/31/2015 release in part b6 sent: friday, august 28, 2009 4:35 pm subject: re: call list great - i'm updating it as we speak and will send a revised shortly. original message sent: friday, august 28, 2009 4:33 pm subject: call list i have spoken to the following so they can be removed from list: reed podesta kasit wiesel rothschild rapoport 278 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05764730 date: 07/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05765891 date: 07/31/2015 release in full sent: thursday, december 3, 2009 12:49 pm subject fw: for s -- a stunning fact sent: thu dec 03 12:48:23 2009 subject: for s -- a stunning fact the quadrennial \"america's place in the world\" survey conducted both generally among the american public and among council on foreign relations members found that \"a plurality of the (american) public now says that china, not the united states, is the world's leading economic power. currently, 44% of the public says china is the world's leading economic power, while just 27% name the united states. as recently as the beginning of last year, 41% said the u.s. was the top economic power while 3 0 % said china.\" on the brighter side, 'despite widespread anxiety over the economy, public support for free trade agreements has increased since 2008. a modest plurality now sees free trade agreements as good for the u.s.; in april 2008, a plurality said such agreements were bad for the country.\" the two sentiments may well be related, of course. anne-marie slaughter director of policy planning u.s. department of state (202) 647-2972 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05765891 date: 07/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05761412 date: 06/30/2015 release in part b6 sent: subject: sbwhoeor wednesday, may 20, 2009 7:41 pm from rome... sid 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 (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. sid dell inspiron 15 laptop: now in 6 vibrant colors! shop dell's full line of laptops. unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05761412 date: 06/30/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05769896 date: 08/31/2015 release in full sent: sunday, june 13, 2010 11:26 am subject fw: (ap) thousands flee ethnic riots in kyrgyzstan; russia sends troops to base sent: sun jun 13 11:17:20 2010 subject: (ap) thousands flee ethnic riots in kyrgyzstan; russia sends troops to base bishkek, kyrgyzstan (ap) - as minority uzbeks flee the central asian nation of kyrgyzstan by the thousands, russia is sending in a battalion of paratroopers to protect its air base in the country. more than 100 people have been killed and about 1250 wounded in four days of ethnic violence spreading across southern kyrgyzstan. doctors and rights activists say the actual toll is likely far higher than that official count, because wounded uzbeks are too afraid of being attacked again to go to hospitals. mobs of ethnic kyrgyz have been reportedly torching uzbek villages and neighborhoods, slaughtering residents. authorities in uzbekistan says more than 75,000 refugees have fled its neighbor. most are said to be women, children and the elderly, and many have gunshot wounds. while the kremlin has refused kyrgyzstan's request for military help quelling the violence, the interfax news agency reports russia has sent about 300 paratroopers to reinforce security at its air base. kyrgyzstan hosts both u.s. and russian military air bases, but they are in the north, away from the ethnic rioting. justin deyo u.s. department of state operations center (s/es-0) 202-647-1512 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05769896 date: 08/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05764953 date: 07/31/2015 release in full sent: monday, august 31, 2009 12:51 pm susan rice would rather meet with you thurs so no call needed today wwi unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05764953 date: 07/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05771758 date: 08/31/2015 release in part b1,1.4(d),b6 sent: thursday, november 25, 2010 9:30 am subject: fw: parliamentary election update fyi - see below. sent: thu nov 25 09:24:42 2010 subject: fw: parliamentary election update pls forward to s. the situation is fraught, she should know. happy turkey day. hope you are with your family. mata, joseph p sent: thu nov 25 05:43:25 2010 subject: parliamentary election update on wednesday, the iec certifies the final results for 34 out of 35 constituencies in the parliamentary elections. the chairperson of the iec noted that while results for ghazni elections were not included in the final results due to \"technical issues,\" they would be announced in the upcoming three to five days. the un and us embassy issued statements welcoming the results and commending the work of the iec and ecc. while the palace has not made any public comments, the attorney general's officewhich has served as the government's mouthpiece to challenge the election institutionscontinues to question the election outcome, criticizing the un for endorsing the results and vowing that it will continue to investigate allegations of corruption and fraud in the iec and ecc. in a last minute effort to influence the election announcement, the attorney general had called for the suspension of the iec and ecc spokesmen. the embassy has reported that the iec and ecc have dismissed the attorney general's comments as political posturing intended to influence the outcome in ghazni. demonstrations have been taking place in various parts of the country are likely to grow, given the attorney general's comments. the political leadership appears to be split along ethnic lines, with a number of prominent hazara and tajik leadersincluding amrullah saleh and abdullah abdullahinsisting that the election results in all 34 provinces being upheld, while pashtun leadersincluding ashraf ghaniquestioning the legitimacy of the election results in a number of provinces. the president has noted that he will confer with his two vice presidents and jihadi leaders before commenting on the results. vice president khalili has been the key hazara leader working with the un to broker a deal to resolve the ghazni elections. classified by das, a/gis, dos on 08/27/2015  class: confidential  reason: 1.4(d)  declassify on: 11/24/2025 b6 1.4(d) b1 i will continue to update you with further developments. best, unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05771758 date: 08/31/2015 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05771758 date: 08/31/2015 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05771758 date: 08/31/2015  "
"< unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05765232 date: 07/31/2015 release in part b6 sent: friday, november 6, 2009 5:21 pm subject: re: fyi: charlie rose thanks! see you then and in the meantime happy trails and i'll send notes along the way sent: nov 6, 2009 5:14 pm subject: re: fyi: charlie rose original message ok. and, by the way, we'll celebrate in december. original messa e sent: fri nov 06 10:38:35 2009 subject: fyi: charlie rose i ran into charlie in ny this week. he talked about his upcoming interview with you. he said he wanted to focus a lot on china. that he will be in berlin will help focus him, too, on the transatlantic relationship, which i would also bring up if he doesn't. sid sent via cingular xpress mail with blackberry unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05765232 date: 07/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05765150 date: 07/31/2015 release in part b6 sent: thursday, november 5, 2009 5:50 am subject fw: fyi original message sent: wednesday, november 04, 2009 9:18 pm subject: hi , i'm just checking on you hope you are doing well. i loved what i heard about the secretary's statements in pakistan - very refreshing. keep doing all the good things you're doing. steve sent from my verizon wireless blackberry unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05765150 date: 07/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05766060 date: 08/31/2015 release in part b6 sent: friday, december 11, 2009 11:19 pm subject: fw: japan open skies fyi original message anna m; ,  j; seiden, maya d; cue, lourdes c; smith, david b; verma, richard r; smitham, thomas d; fitzgerald, betsy a; urs, krishna raj; roche, timothy p; walcott, naomi; limaye-davis, y viki; kiingi, elizabeth m; humphrey, kerry 5; stewart, tucker richmond sent: fri dec 11 23:14:40 2009 subject: japan open skies we initialled the text of an open skies agreement with japan at about 10 tonight. i owe enormous thanks to so many of you for a true team victory. from secretary clinton on the seventh floor to my tireless secretary in eeb, tucker richmond stewart, we pulled together to make a bit of aviation history and, much more important, to do something good for our consumers, communities, and national economy. i was able to contact the offices of about ten key senators and members of congress before the signing, with a focus on those who, with a strong delta presence at home, had expressed concerns about proceeding. i stressed that we'd negotiated provisions that offer delta assurances of fairness and the potential to grow. i also emphasized that the decision to proceed was taken only after careful consideration at very senior levels of state, dot, and white house. thanks, again, to all for your support. john byerly with help i'll make more calls next week and will arrange briefings for all who are interested. unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05766060 date: 08/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05763584 date: 07/31/2015 release in part b5,b6 row sent: subject: see traffic b/i ,  d <cd@state.gov> thursday, august 13, 2009 4:06 am h fw: guidance please sent: wed aug 12 14:32:39 2009 subject: re: guidance please  hope to discuss this with you further regards pat sent: wednesday, august 12, 2009 11:43 am subject: re: guidance please i have not had occasion to spaek with him and owe him a call. there is not a ske c slot slated for india so i will give him a call. thanks cdm (pat - see b/i) unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05763584 date: 07/31/2015 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05763584 date: 07/31/2015 sent: wed aug 12 10:21:22 2009 subject: guidance please : b5 i am told the white house liaison office handles all the clearances and vetting connected with schedule c appointments, including contacting references. but before passing all this to them, i wanted to be sure you were aware of this proposed one-year appointment and comfortable with it. b6 many thanks! bob 114 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05763584 date: 07/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05773025 date: 08/31/2015 release in part b6 sent: thursday, september 16, 2010 8:46 am subject: fyi, more later on campaign... sid the daily mail catty carla bruni lifts lid on michelle obama's 'hellish' job by peter allen and michael seamark last updated at 1:26 am on 16th september 2010 michelle obama thinks being america's first lady is 'hell', carla bruni reveals today in a wildly indiscreet new book. miss bruni reveals that mrs obama replied when asked about her position as the u.s. president's wife: 'don't ask! it's hell. i can't stand it!' details of the private conversation, which took place at the white house during an official visit by nicolas sarkozy last march, emer ed in carla and the ambitious, a book written in collaboration with miss bruni. no secrets: michelle obama, left, and carla bruni last year. bruni made the revelations about the u.s. first lady's feelings in a wildly indiscreet new book in it, she says one term as french president `will be enough' for her husband and suggests he might take tips from his friend tony blair: why not start making money?' more...  france hits back at eu after accusations sarkozy government acted 'like nazis' in treatment of roma according to a friend quoted in the book, the sarkozys have been 'impressed and inspired' by mr blair's fortune built up since he left downing street. miss bruni also takes a thinly veiled swipe at princess diana when talking about a visit to an african hospital full of aids victims earlier this year. she says she refused requests by french cameramen for a photograph of her carrying a baby in her arms 'like lady di', adding: 'there's something obscene in promoting yourself when you are giving of yourself.' unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05773025 date: 08/31/2015 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05773025 date: 08/31/2015 time limit: carla with husband nicolas sarkozy. she claims one term as french president will be enough for him disagreements: sarkozy with former wife cecilia in 2006. carla recounts a telephone row with her in her new book in the book, the italian model 42, accuses french government officials of trying to 'kill' her husband with too much work, and claims mr sarkozy lets himself be 'bullied' into complying. comparing herself to other leaders' wives, miss bruni says: 'i'm so different. i was a model. i sing, and i want to continue to sing. and on top of that you expect me to be subtle?' and she admits: 'i am a femme fatale, my dear.' she also recounts a telephone row with mr sarkozy's ex-wife cecilia, who warned her that mr sarkozy had 'not yet turned a new page' after their marriage. miss bruni replied: 'not only has he turned a page but he's changed books altogether. and you are the only person on earth not to have noticed it.' read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1312462/michelle-obama-thinks-first-lady-hell-savs- carla-bruni.html"
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05773650 date: 08/31/2015 release in full sent: wednesday, december 22, 2010 8:33 pm subject: re: nides confirmed ok. rich confirms we got nides, brownfield, the mcc reps, and the unga reps. usaid got paige alexander. original message sent: wed dec 22 20:17:58 2010 subject: re: nides confirmed i already thanked him when he told me on the floor. original message sent: wed dec 22 20:12:28 2010 subject: fw: nides confirmed what do u think about calling mcconnell? original message sent: wed dec 22 20:09:30 2010 subject: re: nides confirmed if she is amenable, a call to mcconnell would go a long way. tom was the only person confirmed tonight...miguel can confirm that...so it was a big deal. original message sent: wednesday, december 22, 2010 08:06 pm subject: re: nides confirmed thanks! just passed to hrc too. original message sent: wed dec 22 20:05:24 2010 subject: nides confirmed unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05773650 date: 08/31/2015 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05773650 date: 08/31/2015 tom nides was just confirmed by the senate. unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05773650 date: 08/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05767642 date: 07/31/2015 release in part b6 sent: subject: from our dawn friend. sent: thu oct 29 14:24:53 2009 subject: from anwar ,  <h@state.gov> thursday, october 29, 2009 11:03 pm h fw: from anwar \"al-qaeda has had safe haven in pakistan since 2002. i find it hard to believe that nobody in your government knows where they are and couldn't get them if they really wanted to.\" right on the target. it was much needed. i think it will have a positive impact. let her be more open, more forthcoming. anwar unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05767642 date: 07/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05771394 date: 08/31/2015 release in full sent: thursday, august 26, 2010 8:20 am subject: re: mashabane call update no problem! i'm on it original message sent: thu aug 26 08:19:02 2010 subject: re: mashabane call update sorry--i'm just seeing this. original message sent: thu aug 26 05:59:20 2010 subject: mashabane call update mashabane has offered a call time of 8:00 this morning. if that is amenable to you, i can set it up. "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05761280 date: 07/31/2015 release in part b5,b6 sent: monday, april 20, 2009 7:56 am subject: fw fyi sent: monday, april 20, 2009 7:04 am subject: re: margaret carpenter 2853 ontario road nw, "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05770150 date: 08/31/2015 release in part b6 sent: friday, may 7, 2010 5:57 am it seems to me that clegg feels he's weak, can't form a grand progressive coalition--the lib dems have lost seats-- clegg's so-called \"modernizing\" has failed. so clegg is saying no deal with labour, tories must govern without acting on their program. he's plalying for another election relatively soon, perhaps a year, hoping to do better, but will do even worse having played the spoiler. and if labour goes out, so does gordon and labour will have a new face, probably david. sid = unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05770150 date: 08/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05777696 date: 08/31/2015 release in part b6 sent: wednesday, december 8, 2010 5:52 am subject: fw: embassy statement this is the statement we released late last night. election results order manigault, celestin, martieily. may be good to have tom adams give you a quick update today. cdm reynoso, julissa; gray, eugene sent: tue dec 07 17:46:05 2010 subject: embassy statement ,  d; lindwall, david e; merten, kenneth h; b61 as haiti enters the period of electoral contestation, it is essential that all political actors remain calm and encourage their supporters to do the same. the united states, together with haiti's international community partners, stands ready to support efforts to thoroughly review irregularities in support of electoral results that are consistent with the will of the haitian people expressed in their votes. like others, the government of the united states is concerned by the provisional electoral council's announcement of results from the november 28 national elections that are inconsistent with the published results of the national election observation council (cno), which had more than 5,500 observers and observed the vote count in 1,600 voting centers nationwide, election-day observations by official u.s. observers accredited by the cep, and vote counts observed around the country by numerous domestic and international observers. haiti's transition to democracy over the past 24 years has seen many successes, overcoming major challenges. the 2010 elections represent a critical test of whether the haitian people will determine their destiny through their vote. the united states is committed to the consolidation of democracy in haiti and calls on the government of haiti, the cep and all political forces to ensure that the will of the people is fully reflected in the outcome of this election. sbu this email is unclassified. unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05777696 date: 08/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05766878 date: 08/31/2015 release in part b6 sent: friday, december 25, 2009 6:28 am subject fw: happy holidays! fyi and happy christmas original message ---- sent: thu dec 24 19:38:14 2009 subject: happy holidays! dear , i want you to know that last month a friend of mine convinced me to apply for a fellowship at harvard/institute of politics, and i did. a few days ago, i got a call from the program director who informed me that i was accepted. i am very excited about it and think it will be a very good opportunity to share my experience with students who are learning theories about democracy and development. , i am going to be bold and ask you if you would accept my invitation to come and speak to the students while i am there. i am asked and encouraged to invite important personalities who can talk of their experience in government and i thought of you. i would be thrilled if you accept. i will be there from end of january until the beginning of may next year. i have also invited president moreno of idb who accepted and i am waiting for an answer from michaelle jean, the general governor of canada. i wish you the very best, to you and your family for christmas and the new year. i hope our roads cross again as we thrive to better the lives of so many people who deserve it. please extend my wished to the secretary of state. i admire her and her work. warm regards, michele michele duvivier pierre-louis unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05766878 date: 08/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05765844 date: 07/31/2015 release in full sent: saturday, september 12, 2009 4:03 am subject reminder peres call confirmed for 8:30am. unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05765844 date: 07/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05761040 date: 06/30/2015 release in part b5 sent: tuesday, april 14, 2009 10:37 pm subject: re: questions taken at the 04-14-09 daily press briefing adding melanne who is addressing. sent: tuesday, april 14, 2009 7:00 pm subject: re: questions taken at the 04-14-09 daily press briefing sent: tuesday, april 14, 2009 5:32 pm subject: fw: questions taken at the 04-14-09 daily press briefing fyi  how comfortable are you with us thinking about doing something more with this sent: tuesday, april 14, 2009 2:45 pm subject: fw: questions taken at the 04-14-09 daily press briefing pi sent: tuesday, april 14, 2009 1:57 pm subject: questions taken at the 04-14-09 daily press briefing for press guidance (and for tomorrow's briefing book):  l/north korea: regarding the presidential statement adopted yesterday by the united nations security council, that condemns north korea for its recent missile launch, is it considered \"legally binding?\" 7n unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05761040 date: 06/30/2015 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05761040 date: 06/30/2015  drl/nea/saudi arabia: concerning the report of an eight-year girl being raped in saudi arabia, what is the u.s. response? (additionally, prepare guidance that, from a human rights violation perspective, could be used when responding to future questions that are similar in nature) thanks,' fcl the duty press officer tonight is megan mattson.  71 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05761040 date: 06/30/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05771694 date: 08/31/2015 release in part b1,1.4(b),1.4(d),b6 sent: saturday, august 21, 2010 7:19 pm subject: fw: flotilla sent: sat aug 21 19:16:14 2010 subject: fw: flotilla fyi william 3 sent: sat aug 21 10:14:35 2010 subject: flotilla enjoy the beach, and all best. b1 1.4(b) 1.4(d) classified by das, a/gis, dos on 08/27/2015 - class: confidential - reason: 1.4(b), 1.4(d) - declassify on: 08/21/2020 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05771694 date: 08/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05774139 date: 08/31/2015 release in full sent: saturday, september 25, 2010 11:06 am subject: nasser judeh saying he urgently needs to talk to u. unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05774139 date: 08/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05767277 date: 08/31/2015 release in part b6 sent: thursday, february 4, 2010 11:17 am subject: fw: many thanks fyi sent: thursday, february 04, 2010 11:14 am subject: many thanks the secretary's speech was warm, heartfelt and very much appreciated by a lot of us who are fighting the ugandan law. please let her know she touched a current of hope and energy. cheers, michael guest hotmail: trusted email with powerful spam protection. sign up now. unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05767277 date: 08/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05773762 date: 08/31/2015 release in part b5 sent: monday, december 27, 2010 8:01 am subject: re: khodorkovsky verdict me too! on way to airport now - think dc is okay. original message sent: mon dec 27 07:55:36 2010 subject: re: khodorkovsky verdict hope you can get back all right. original message sent: mon dec 27 07:52:14 2010 subject: re: khodorkovsky verdict flying back this morning. back this afternoon. original message sent: mon dec 27 07:50:21 2010 subject: re: khodorkovsky verdict ok. are you back in the office? original message sent: mon dec 27 07:45:48 2010 subject: khodorkovsky verdict embassy moscow and bill recommend that we put out the below statement in your name. statement by secretary clinton statement on the verdict in the khodorkovsky/lebedev case unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05773762 date: 08/31/2015 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05773762 date: 08/31/2015 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05773762 date: 08/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05771945 date: 08/31/2015 release in full sent: thursday, november 4, 2010 3:46 pm subject: fw: (reuters) syria rejects u.s. criticism over lebanon sent: thu nov 04 11:14:20 2010 subject: (reuters) syria rejects u.s. criticism over lebanon damascus (reuters)  syria rejected u.s. accusations that it was destabilizing lebanon and said it did not need u.s. advice on how to deal with its smaller neighbor. president bashar al-assad assad told al-hayat newspaper in an interview published last week that the u.s. \"created chaos in every place it entered.\" two days later the u.s. ambassador to the united nations susan rice accused damascus of joining forces with iran and the lebanese shi'ite movement hezbollah to undermine lebanon. u.s. undersecretary of state for near eastern affairs jeffrey feltman also told the washington post there would not be significant improvement in ties with syria \"as long as syria's friends are undermining stability in lebanon\", a reference to hezbollah. an official syrian statement published on thursday said: \"we do not need feltman's advice because syria is exercising its role through an independent decision to serve the interests of its people and the stability and security of the region.\" unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05771945 date: 08/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05778229 date: 08/31/2015 release in full sent: saturday, december 11, 2010 9:00 am subject: fw: human rights day original message sent: sat dec 11 08:59:12 2010 subject: re: human rights day thanks! -- secretary clinton was terrific yesterday -- both in presenting the eleanor roosevelt awards and at the town hall -- please convey our appreciation. people in drl were really energized by the whole day mp original message sent: saturday, december 11, 2010 7:10 am subject: re: human rights day here here! ----- original message sent: fri dec 10 15:33:18 2010 subject: human rights day mike and all drl staff: just a word to acknowledge you and express appreciation for all your dedicated work to improve the practice of human rights around the world. your contribution is very important, and i recognize each of you on this human rights day. best, u/s maria otero unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05778229 date: 08/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05766945 date: 08/31/2015 release in part b6 sent: wednesday, february 3, 2010 5:26 am subject: fw: final: international family planning budget statement attachments: statement - international fy11 budget.doc abedin, huma; reines, philippe i sent: tue feb 02 17:35:11 2010 subject: fw: final: international family planning budget statement ,  d; you guys are totally great. please thank secy clinton for us - we know it wouldn't have happened without her and all of you. we are also posting a video from cecile on our website about this. best, laurie sent: tue feb 02 16:05:36 2010 subject: final: international family planning budget statement statement below and attached just sent to reporters. for immediate release contact: ppfa media relations 202-973-4882 february 2, 2010 statement from cecile richards on international family planning in the obama administration budget washington, dc the women of the world have true friends in secretary of state hillary rodham clinton and the obama administration. after years of inadequate funding during the previous administration, yesterday's fiscal year 2011 budget request for an increase in international family planning is a critical step forward in demonstrating our nation's renewed commitment to ensuring that women worldwide have access to safe and effective reproductive health care. the obama administration has sent a strong signal that the status quo is unacceptable. every year more than half a million women  nearly all of whom live in developing countries  die of pregnancy-related causes. moreover, one in three deaths related to pregnancy and childbirth could be avoided if women who wanted effective contraception had access to it. to strengthen our working relationships with partners around the world, as well as our image, the united states must increase access to family planning. by ensuring that women have increased access to the family planning they need, our nation is working to make good on its commitment to promote the health of all women and their families. an investment in family planning is an investment that reaps significant dividends. by providing education, counseling and contraceptives to women and couples, we are working to strengthen families worldwide. we also will help achieve major reductions in infant and maternal mortality, hiv infections and global poverty. as secretary clinton has said, \"there's a direct connection between a woman's ability to plan her family, space her pregnancies, and give birth safely, and her ability to get an education, work outside the home, support her family, and participate fully in the life of her community.\" unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05766945 date: 08/31/2015 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05766945 date: 08/31/2015 planned parenthood works with partners across the globe to eliminate barriers to basic reproductive health care that is essential to the health and well-being of women, men and children everywhere. limited access to health care, lack of political will, legal and regulatory restrictions, cultural taboos, and harsh gender inequality all put women at risk of unintended pregnancy, unsafe abortion and childbirth, and hiv and other sexually transmitted infections. the commitment of secretary clinton and the obama administration to international family planning will further the efforts of planned parenthood and others to help women overcome barriers to accessing needed reproductive health care. as the fiscal year 2011 budget and appropriations process moves forward, we look forward to working with congress to build on this request so that we may adequately address the global health challenges facing women worldwide. "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05761845 date: 06/30/2015 release in part b6 sent: subject: ,  <h@state.gov> wednesday, may 27, 2009 6:58 am h today 13 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05761845 date: 06/30/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05764566 date: 07/31/2015 release in full sent: thursday, august 27, 2009 1:37 pm subject: cheryl free now if u can talk. unclassified u.s. department of state case no. - f-2014-20439 doc no. c05764566 date: 07/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05767769 date: 08/31/2015 release in part b6 sent: sunday, february 28, 2010 4:59 pm subject: re: schedule zach talked to me about it last night as well. will be between april 21st and may 2nd. he will let us know as soon he gets the date. cdm did tell us to hold the 9th at whitehaven so we are doing that. original message sent: sun feb 28 16:54:59 2010 subject: schedule march 9--i may need to host a small dinner for pres. preval, maybe at my house. zach iscol's movie was accepted for the tribeca film festival and will be shown btw dates in late april and early may. can we find out when? unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05767769 date: 08/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05772420 date: 08/31/2015 release in part b5 sent: subject: ,  j <n@state.gov> thursday, september 23, 2010 10:24 am h israel flights flight from jfk leaves 725pm tonight and gets in at 1215pm tomorrow. i told hale blair was thinking of unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05772420 date: 08/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05764192 date: 07/31/2015 release in part b6 sent: tuesday, september 1, 2009 3:57 pm subject: re: original message sent: tue sep 01 15:54:08 2009 subject: re: i'll wait to see him in person next week. do we know when that would be? original message sent: tue sep 01 15:48:40 2009 subject: re: thx few other notes: - wh is asking if u want to speak with potus tomorrow during the meeting time? would be 10:20am. would you like to do a call with him or wait and meet with him in person? - cdm can explain the document i just asked oscar to print for you. original message sent: tue sep 01 15:37:28 2009 subject: re: ok. thx. enjoy the itfar. see you in dc. original message sent: tue sep 01 14:38:23 2009 subject: wanted to let you know i decided to go to dc for the wh iftar tonite and big unga meeting tomorrow morning. unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05764192 date: 07/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05761474 date: 07/31/2015 release in part b6 sent: thursday, may 21, 2009 2:10 pm subject: fw: fourth speechwriter update fyi sent: thursday, may 21, 2009 12:11 pm subject: fourth speechwriter update fyi: i have now seriously reviewed 9 candidates (and explored a handful of others who, for various reasons, i didn't feel would be what we were looking for). two have acceted other jobs that were already on the table before i spoke to them (and for which they were better suited). one ( who i love) has decided her legal future requires her to come here in a capacity other than speechwriting, and i think she's right about that none of these candidates is over 32 years old. the best writer among them is the youngest  24. she is intellectually extremely mature and the only professional writer in the group. on the other hand, she's extremely smart and an excellent writer. i have two more candidates who are working on second rounds of mock speeches. i need to see how quickly and effectively they grasp directions and feedback. hopefully one of them will work out for us. one other prospect materialized yesterday; am waiting to get a better feel for her suitability. i'm also re-mining journalistic contacts to see if i can possibly find a more seasoned writer from a newspaper or magazine who wants to make the switch to government. so far that has proven futile; the few journalists who i've reached out to were not interested in coming. will keep you posted. 27 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05761474 date: 07/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05772438 date: 08/31/2015 release in full sent: tuesday, september 14, 2010 11:59 am subject: fw: here's iran hiker statement original message sent: tue sep 14 11:56:36 2010 subject: here's iran hiker statement statement by secretary clinton release of sarah shourd i welcome sarah shourd's release from detention in iran, and am pleased that she will soon be reunited with her family. i appreciate the efforts of all those who have worked for her release, in particular the swiss protecting power in tehran, the omani government, and the many other world leaders who have raised this case and the cases of other detained or missing american citizens. sarah's fianc shane bauer, joshua fattal, and other u.s. citizens remain detained or missing in iran. we urge iranian authorities to extend the same consideration to them by resolving their cases without delay and allowing them to immediately return to their families. "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05775405 date: 08/31/2015 release in part b6 sent: sunday, october 24, 2010 12:27 pm subject: h: brock memo here, have many more ideas on this. s attachments: memo on clarence thomas.docx; memo on clarence thomas.docx confidential october 24, 2010 re: memo on impeaching clarence thomas lillian mcewen  a former prosecutor, law professor and administrative law judge --says publicly for the first time she was romantically involved with clarence thomas during the entire time that anita hill worked for thomas. she was subpoenaed neither by the democrats nor the republicans during the hearings (even though she wrote a personal note to biden, for whom she had once worked on the judiciary committee, telling him that she had personal knowledge of thomas). her recent interviews with the washington post (10-22) and the ny times (10-23) and the abc washington affiliate (10-23) are the first record of her information. (personal note: during my reporting for the real anita hill, every potential friendly witness for thomas was made available to me through close thomas associates. they held mcewen forth to me as evidence that her relationship with thomas negated the possibility that he pressured hill to date him and also that hill's knowledge of the relationship made hill angry that she could not attract thomas's romantic attention. in his senate testimony thomas himself had made that suggestion in an exchange with specter. thomas said he had tensions with hill because of \"the complexion of the woman i dated.\" mcewen is light-skinned. mcewen, assumed by me to be a friendly witness, was not made available to me by the thomas associates, however. it is now obvious why. they knew better). pornography in the workplace nyt: ms. mcewen said that pornography for justice thomas was \"just a part of his personality structure.\" she said he kept a stack of pornographic magazines, \"frequented a store on dupont circle that catered to his needs\" and allowed his interest in pornography to bleed into his professional relationships. dowd (10/24): in her interviews mcewen confirmed thomas's obsession with women with \"huge, huge breasts,\" with scouting the women he worked with as possible partners and with talking about porn at work while he was the head of the federal agency that polices sexual harassment. thomas testimony: leahy: let me ask you  she has asked whether this happened  let me ask you: did you ever have a discussion of pornographic films with professor hill? thomas: absolutely not. unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05775405 date: 08/31/2015 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05775405 date: 08/31/2015 leahy: have you ever had such discussions with any woman? thomas: senator, i will not get into any discussion that i might have had about my personal life or my sex life with any person outside the workplace. leahy: i'm not asking  thomas: i will categorically say that i have not had any such discussions with professor hill. leahy: please don't misunderstand my question judge. i am confining it to the workplace. i have no interest in what may be your personal life in this. that's yours. what i'm asking is within  she alleges within the workplace. make sure i fully understandi'm asking you this question so that you can give the answer. am i correct in understanding your answer, within the workplace with professor hill, you never had such a discussion? thomas: right. leahy: you never had such discussions within the workplace with any other women? thomas: that's right. leahy: or with anyone for that matter? thomas: right. workplace behavior wp: to mcewen, hill's allegations that thomas had pressed her for dates and made lurid sexual references rang familiar. \"he was always actively watching the women he worked with to see if they could be potential partners. it was a hobby of his.\" wp: according to mcewen, thomas would also tell her about women he encountered at work. he was partial to women with large breasts, she said. in an instance at work, thomas was so impressed that he asked one woman her bra size, mcewen recalled him telling her. mcewen told abc news (10-22): \"he was constantly evaluating women in terms of whether they would be a good sex partner or not.\" thomas testimony: \"senator [biden] my attitude at work was in my work environment my staffs were almost invariably predominantly women. the senior person on my staff was a woman. i could not tolerate individuals making that environment uncomfortable or hostile. i could tolerate individuals who had to segregate their language or conduct in order to get along. the conduct had to be purged of offensive attitudes and i made a constant effort, and that was something that i was proud of and it was something i am sure the people who worked for me felt comfortable with and understood.\" wp: in her senate testimony, hill, who worked with thomas at two federal agencies, said that thomas would make sexual comments to her at work, including references to scenes in hard-core pornographic films. thomas testimony: \"if i used that kind of grotesque language with one person it would seem to me that there would be traces of it throughout the employees who worked closely with me; there would be other individuals who heard it, or bits and pieces of it, or various levels of it.\" suppressed evidence there were five other individuals, including now mcewen, who had first-hand knowledge of thomas's behavior as hill described it, but none testified in the hearing. nyt: ms. mcewen has generally kept a low profile all these years, largely, she explains, out of respect for the wishes of justice thomas, who asked her to \"take the same position toward him as his first wife had take\" and not speak publicly about their relationship. a former prosecutor and judge, she is now retired. unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05775405 date: 08/31/2015 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05775405 date: 08/31/2015 wp: mcewen recalls writing thomas a short note before the confirmation hearings, curious about what she should say if she were quizzed about their relationship. she said thomas preferred that she would take the same attitude of his first wife\" who never talked publicly about their relationship. wp: angela wright, who in 1984 worked as a public affairs director at the equal opportunity employment commission  which polices sexual harassment claims  during thomas's long tenure as chairman, shared similar accounts with senate investigators. once when walking into an eeoc seminar with thomas, he asked her \"what size are your breasts?\" according to the transcript of her senate interview. wp: her (wright's) story was corroborated by a former eeoc speechwriter, rose jourdain, who told senate investigators that wright had become increasingly uneasy around thomas because of his comments about her appearance. wp: another woman, sukari hardnett, who worked as a special assistant to thomas in 1985 and 1986, wrote in a letter to the judiciary committee: \"if you were young, black, female and reasonably attractive, you knew full well you were being inspected and auditioned as a female\" by thomas. neither wright, nor rose jourdain (her corroborator), nor sukari hardnett testified at the hearing. as he drew the hearing to a close, biden lifted a subpoena for wright to testify and instead transcripts of the interviews with wright and her corroborator were simply entered into the record then the hearing was concluded, and thomas was confirmed the next day. dowd: \"for the written record biden allowed negative accounts only from women who had worked for thomas. he also ruled out testimony from women who simply had personal relationships with thomas, and he did not respond to a note from mcewen  as a former us attorney who had once worked as a counsel for biden's committee  reminding him of her long relationship with thomas.\" intimidating a witness a fourth woman with knowledge of thomas's behavior, kaye savage, was first named in a 1994 book strange justice by jill abramson and jane mayer. savage was a close colleague of thomas's and hill's in the reagan administration. savage was interviewed by judiciary committee staff after she contacted the committee, and a staffer made notes, but she was never called to testify. her story did not become public until abramson and mayer obtained the staff notes and interviewed savage, who told the authors of visiting thomas's apartment during the time hill was working for thomas and observing stacks of pornographic magazines and all of the walls of the apartment papered with centerfolds of large- breasted nude women. from blinded by the right: \"the biggest problem raised by the strange justice authors for the thomas camp was the testimony of yet another woman, kaye savage, who had not been heard from during the first round of hearings.\" \"i called mark paoletta (a close thomas friend and former associate white house counsel under bush) at his washington law office and discussed the savage matter with him. mark had been helping me on all other aspects of (my) review (of strange justice for the american spectator) and we developed a plan for dealing with savage. i needed to find out quickly who she was and what negative information might exist about her before confronting her and trying to force her into backing off the story she had told the strange justice authors. i was intent on doing to savage what had been done to anita hill and angela wright during the thomas hearings. mark said he would call clarence thomas (then a sitting justice) and see what he could find out.\" \"within an hour or so that morning mark phoned me back. he said he had posed my question about how to discredit savage to thomas, who knew i was at work on a review of the mayer and abramson book. (personal note: i had personally told thomas this when i met him at a paoletta family event only days prior). mark told me that thomas had, in fact, some derogatory information on his former friend savage; he passed it along to mark so that mark could give it to me. quoting thomas directly, mark told me of unverified embarrassing personal information about savage that thomas claimed had been raised against her in a sealed court record of a divorce and child custody battle more than a decade ago. thomas also told mark where savage worked after mark related that i was eager to hunt her down as soon as possible. surely skirting the bounds of judicial propriety to intimidate and smear yet another witness against him, thomas was playing dirty and so was i.\" after an excerpt of blinded featuring the savage story was published in talk magazine in 2001, the nyt reported (6-27- 01): \"reached at home in washington last night, ms. savage said that mr. brock had tried to intimidate her but that he unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05775405 date: 08/31/2015 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05775405 date: 08/31/2015 had not told her the source of the negative information. 'i didn't think to ask,' she said. but she said that she had shared the information about her divorce with few people and that justice thomas and ms. hill were 'primarily' those to whom she had confided. 'he either got it from clarence or he got it from anita, ms. savage said. 'and anita's my friend.\" (personal note: though i confronted savage with the information in an effort to get her to recant, she never did, although i made it appear otherwise by journalistic sleight-of-hand involving a written statement savage had given me under duress about her interviews with mayer and abramson in my spectator review). frank rich, nyt (12-29-94): \"this time mr. brock's partisan desperation has led him to a tactic that is beyond the pale of even tabloid journalism and that would make any citizen think twice before speaking freely to any journalist: he tried to bully a source in strange justice, a one-time hill and thomas associate named kaye savage, to get her to sign a statement denying her own contribution to the book.\" jamin raskin, a law professor and associate dean at american university in washington, received a call seeking advice from ms. savage after her encounter with mr. brock a few weeks ago: \"she was distraught and said brock was threatening to reveal damaging information about her from a divorce situation unless she agreed to retract everything she had said to the authors of strange justice, he said in an interview. 'i told her this is a clear violation of journalistic ethics and might be blackmail and that she shouldn't give in to it. she was beside herself because she had told the truth.\" more confirmation on pornography blinded by the right: \"i next set out to blow away the mayer and abramson story that thomas had been a frequent customer of an x-rated video store near dupont circle, called graffiti, where in the early 1980s he was alleged to have rented x-rated videos of the type that hill claimed he had discussed with her in graphic terms. in the hearings thomas had pointedly refused to answer questions about his personal use of pornography, other than to categorically deny that he had ever talked about porn with hill (or with anyone in the workplace). the graffiti story was another theretofore unknown piece of evidence for hill's case...\" \"now that mark had opened up a channel directly to thomas, i asked him to find out for me whether thomas had owned the video equipment needed to view movies at home in the early 1980s...mark came back with a straightforward answer: thomas not only had the video equipment in his apartment, but he also habitually rented pornographic movies from graffiti during the years anita hill worked for him. here was the proof that senate investigators and reporters had been searching for during the hearings. nyt: (lillian mcewen) said he kept a stack of pornographic magazines, \"frequented a store on dupont circle that catered to his needs.\" calls for investigation partial transcript of cnn's crossfire, 6-28-2001, after talk published the excerpt from blinded on kaye savage: eleanor smeal, president of feminist majority foundation: \"i think there should be a hearing. not only do i think there should be a hearing, i think that we can get to the bottom of it. there's other people now involved. there's kaye savage, who was, in fact, discredited by brock. there are other authors who have written and were discredited by brock. there is  essentially what brock is saying they're very serious charges, they're not light charges. they are charges that he was fed information, and being fed this information, they discredited people wrongfully and knowingly. and this is serious. \"and let's face it, the supreme court these are life-time appointments. we are sitting here with a supreme court that elected this president by a five to four decision, but a supreme court that could reverse roe v wade and many many serious things affecting women... \"let's get right to  let's just get right to this, the problem with clarence thomas. there was a book that came out by two reputable reporters, jill abramson and jane mayer. and it collaborated  it confirmed a lot of what anita hill said. and we now know  of course we don't know this  it's alleged by brock that he knew when he attacked that book and attacked it systematically that he was saying a lie. and so basically that is a reputable account that substantiates what she said... \"why don't you just bring it before a senate judiciary committee and have paoletta there, and not only that, why don't you investigate? i mean in fact there were  it's not just one person's word against another. he said that he was a regular participator in buying videos from a certain store. i mean why can't...\" unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05775405 date: 08/31/2015 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05775405 date: 08/31/2015 robert novak: \"who said that? who said that?\" smeal: \"paoletta. paoletta said it to brock but what i'm saying is you can check it. i mean you don't have to...\" novak: \"he (paoletta) denies it.\" smeal: 'but that's a person's word. is there no such thing as investigations? is there no such thing as a hearing? i mean and why can't it be bipartisan? if in fact it's true that this man is just a liar, then you clear the name. but if it isn't we get at something also very serious. so  it's a serious allegation.\" unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05775405 date: 08/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05767926 date: 08/31/2015 release in full sent: thursday, january 14, 2010 8:54 pm subject fyi - colombian president uribe intends to travel to haiti january 17, international coordination  (u) colombian president uribe intends to travel to haiti january 17, according to press. his government will also send a naval hospital ship. (rendon news alerts) unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05767926 date: 08/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05762640 date: 06/30/2015 release in part b6 sent: monday, july 06, 2009 4:03 am subject: fw: time window for s meeting with zelaya tomorrow? fyi original message sent: sun jul 05 23:47:57 2009 subject: re: time window for s meeting with zelaya tomorrow? they are now saying that zelaya doesn't want to travel tomorrow because wants to participate (remotely) in the burial ceremony on monday for those who died in violence at the airport today. he said he will return to washington on tuesday in time to meet in the late afternoon. they are asking if it would be possible to have the meeting sometime on tuesday late afternoon instead. courtney original message sent: sun jul 05 23:14:40 2009 subject: re: time window for s meeting with zelaya tomorrow? she previously had indicated noon or later for a meeting original message sent: sun jul 05 22:54:40 2009 subject: time window for s meeting with zelaya tomorrow? huma and lona, sorry for the late email, but central america office director christopher webster just called me to inquire about a possible meeting between zelaya and the secretary tomorrow. he said they are trying to convince zelaya to return from san salvador to the u.s. and that a/s shannon indicated the secretary had said that she would be willing to meet with him tomorrow. they were wondering if they could give zelaya a window of time for a meeting (see email below from dcm in sal salvador). please advise. thanks, courtney original message 77 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05762640 date: 06/30/2015 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05762640 date: 06/30/2015 sent: sunday, july 05, 2009 10:47 pm subject: re: honduran coup -- managua sitrep "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05761689 date: 06/30/2015 release in full sent: saturday, may 23, 2009 7:55 pm subject: fyi by matthew lee 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 gays and lesbians in foreign affairs agencies organization. two department officials not affiliated with the organization confirmed its accuracy. the officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publically about the changes. unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05761689 date: 06/30/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05771226 date: 08/31/2015 release in full sent: thursday, september 2, 2010 4:58 pm subject: fw: eyes on hillary clinton as she leads mideast peace talks sent: thursday, september 02, 2010 4:09 pm subject: eyes on hillary clinton as she leads mideast peace talks news eyes on hillary clinton as she leads mideast peace talks opinions are split on whether secretary of state has skills necessary for negotiations by jake tapper washington, sept. 2, 2010  secretary of state hillary clinton today stepped into the international spotlight, assuming the day-to-day responsibility of trying to broker a mideast peace that has eluded her predecessors for decades. seated between israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu and palestinian president mahmoud abbas at the state department, clinton heralded the first direct negotiations between the parties in nearly two years. whether both sides can overcome a history of failed negotiations and dashed hopes will depend in large part on the individual leaders making difficult concessions, clinton said. \"we cannot and will not impose a solution. only you can make the decisions necessary to reach an agreement and secure a peaceful future for the israeli and palestinian people,\" she said. clinton appeared to embrace the opportunity and the symbolism of the moment 0 speaking slowly and authoritatively, embracing her partners on both sides, and reminding the world of the difficulties to be expected on the road ahead. \"those who oppose the cause of peace will try in every way possible to sabotage this process, as we have already seen this week,\" she said, referring to the killing tuesday of four israeli civilians by hamas. but \"the core issues at the center of these negotiations -- territory, security, jerusalem, refugees, settlements and others -- will get no easier if we wait, nor will they resolve themselves.\" unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05771226 date: 08/31/2015 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05771226 date: 08/31/2015 the talks, which also included jordan's king abdullah ii and egyptian president hosni mubarak, represent a formidable challenge for clinton, who has spent months coaxing both sides back to the negotiating table. they also raise the stakes for president obama, who has set a goal of creating a two-state solution. he met with netanyahu and abbas in private sessions at the white house wednesday and said he was \"cautiously hopeful\" a deal could be reached one year from now. but experts say success in the months ahead will also depend on clinton's skill as a diplomat and mediator. \"i think she has credibility. now whether that translates into diplomatic skills, i don't know,\" said shibley telhami, the anwar sadat professor for peace and development at the university of maryland. \"frankly, she's untested as a mediator.\" other observers see clinton's experience as a politician as an asset because she will be able to not only discuss the policies but understand the politics of how palestinian and israeli leaders \"sell\" the negotiations to their peoples at home. in an abc news exclusive interview, former british prime minister tony blair said clinton has the best type of political mind. \"[it] knows where you meet the point of principle and knows where you need the subtlety and the compromise,\" he said. 1979 camp david accords: the gold standard ahead of the talks, clinton had requested historical background materials concerning past efforts at peace in the region, the ultimately unsuccessful one led by her husband, a source close to the secretary of state said. \"she has this relationship with this fellow who has spent some time talking to leaders -- you know president clinton -- and she has benefitted from his direct experience,\" said state department spokesman p.j. crowley. clinton regards president jimmy carter's 1979 camp david accords brokered between israel and egypt as the gold standard for negotiations, the clinton source said. when then-israeli prime minister menachem begin refused to authorize the dismantling of any israeli settlements, carter's team suggested having the israeli parliament make the decision -- and it did. carter has credited thinking outside of the box and being innovative as the key. \"you have to be innovative and get a lot of outside help to find some alternative route that might bring you to the same goals,\" carter told interviewer don richardson in \"conversations with carter.\" \"you really need to look at life or the negotiation as if it were a chessboard. anticipating what the next move is and what the next move is after that,\" said aaron david miller, an adviser on the region to six secretaries of state. former secretary of state henry kissinger, who negotiated an end to the 1973 arab-israeli war, said that audaciousness was part of testing the limits. \"the art of statesmanship is to find a position between stagnation and overextension, hopefully at the outer limit of what is possible,\" he said during a june 2008 interview on cnn. unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05771226 date: 08/31/2015 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05771226 date: 08/31/2015 former president clinton once suggested that willpower also comes in handy. in his autobiography, \"my life,\" he described one very late night at wye river -- where he conducted his own mideast peace talks -- where his \"strategy for success had now boiled down to endurance; i was determined to be the last man standing.\" what the negotiators are doing when they're not negotiating might also play a role, carter has said. by holding peace talks at camp david, \"it was a harmonious environment because egyptians and israelis who had been devoting their adult life to killing each other were required to swim in the same swimming pool, watch the same movies, play on the same tennis courts, throw horseshoes together, sit on the same rock and talks. that was all part of it.\" abc news' kirit radia, enjoli francis and devin dwyer contributed to this report. copyright  2010 abc news internet ventures unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05771226 date: 08/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05769112 date: 08/31/2015 release in full sent: sunday, june 20, 2010 10:01 pm subject: am up and availabe until 1030pm unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05769112 date: 08/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05768909 date: 08/31/2015 release in full sent: sunday, march 21, 2010 8:33 pm subject re: dan... also, you'll get bibi points tonight, fresh from the road. original message sent: sun mar 21 20:31:51 2010 subject: dan... is ready to come pick up the speech when you have it done. just shoot him and email. i think it's really close. it's gone out to the team again for any serious flags or omissions, but they've been warned you're line editing. unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05768909 date: 08/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05764756 date: 07/31/2015 release in part b6 sent: friday, august 28, 2009 5:05 pm subject: re: declan kelly he's in the hamptons fyi. we walked by his place yesterday. original message sent: fri aug 28 17:00:39 2009 subject: declan kelly pis send me "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05764914 date: 07/31/2015 release in full sent: saturday, august 29, 2009 9:28 pm subject: re: oprah checking i am sure they will mitchell just responded. he can talk before 10:30 tonite or before noon tomorrow. what do u want to do? original message sent: sat aug 29 21:18:36 2009 subject: re: oprah i thought you meant next sunday or monday. what about this wed afternoon or thurs in dc? i told cheryl and philippe i wouldn't leave early. if the oprah team want to come out here and one of our friends is willing to let us use their house out here this monday, i would do that. original message sent: sat aug 29 20:56:45 2009 subject: re: oprah the dates are tomorrow or monday. not next week. its why i asked cheryl to discuss with you because it meant interrupting your vacation which i wasn't prepared to do. original message sent: sat aug 29 20:38:30 2009 subject: re: oprah but i'm leaving here on wed and i'll be at home over the weekend so i'd rather get it over w in the morning. can they do it in the barn? original message sent: sat aug 29 20:37:56 2009 subject: re: oprah lisa ling. she's an oprah correspondant. we can do late monday afternoon so u don't have to be rushed getting out of here. maybe offer her 3 or 4pm? will get a makeup person. .10,41 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05764914 date: 07/31/2015 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05764914 date: 07/31/2015 original message sent: sat aug 29 20:31:42 2009 subject: re: oprah who will interview me? original message sent: sat aug 29 20:27:52 2009 subject: oprah for oprah, monday is better. i'm going to confirm for chappaqua monday. oscar, can u make sure she sees this? 335 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05764914 date: 07/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05765211 date: 07/31/2015 release in part b6 sent: thursday, november 5, 2009 8:01 pm subject fw: memo: berlin speeches. sid attachments: hrc berlin speech notes 110509.docx the speechwriting crew is taking sid's points below and massaging them into a set of remarks. sent: thursday, november 05, 2009 6:07 pm subject: memo: berlin speeches. sid confidential november 5, 2009-11-05 for hillary: cc: lissa re: berlin speeches below are my notes for speeches in berlin. the themes i stress are these: the importance of berlin and the brandenburg gate as symbols of freedom; the weight of history (always felt by germans); the contribution of the us and the salience of the western alliance; the meaning of 1989 to today and especially the continuity of the western alliance; and segue from past to future. what i have not done here but might be added are references to angela merkel (a courageous woman from the east who embodies the highest values of the west); and specific policies. those can be fitted in. so, some ideas and language: twenty years ago the wall fell. here, in berlin, the moment when tens of thousands of citizens tore it down with hammers and picks and bare hands is called \"die wende,\" a phrase that means more than simply a change but a turning point in history. it was not only a turning point for germany and europe but also for the united states because the wallthe reason for its construction and the reason for its destructionis central to our common historyand to our common future. unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05765211 date: 07/31/2015 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05765211 date: 07/31/2015 richard von weizsaecker said, \"as long as the brandenburg gate is closed, the german question will remain open.\" today i can say with finality, the german question is closed, because the brandenburg gate is wide open! the gate is open, europe is open, and our future together is open. in the forty years from the berlin airlift to the fall of the berlin wall, the atlantic partnership proved itself the most successful alliance for freedom in history. that alliance was, is and shall be the crowning achievement of american foreign policy. and the german  american relationship has always served as its foundation. our alliance represents the reconciliation of former enemies, an inspiration to other peoples and continents devastated by war and hatred, and it must never be taken for granted. in the twenty years since the fall of the wall we have created architecture for an enduring peace. instead of a wall we have built a gateway to the future. president kennedy said in 1963 that in the future free men everywhere will say, \"ich bin ein berliner.\" today berlin has gained a new and even more powerful meaning. forever into the future, the opening of this gate will be the symbol of the return of the dream of freedom, not only to berlin and germany, but to the entire world. the gate, we must remember, was not built as a symbol of freedom. and each of the tyrannies that used the gate as a symbol believed it represented their eternal power. the gate was first erected as a symbol against the french revolution; then it became a symbol of the imperial ambitions of napoleon who marched his army through. it was a symbol of prussian militarism and monarchy. it was seized by the nazi party as the symbol of its 1000 year rule. and then it became a symbol of the communist totalitarianism that built a wall to separate the people of berlin as though freedom could be contained in only one part of the city. here, in berlin, the cold war was coldest. we celebrate the fact that the wall that marred this proud city was taken down by the world's most enthusiastic wrecking crew. the united states always believed in the freedom of berlin because we believed in the future of freedom. the courageous citizens of east germany, poland and other nations of the communist bloc demonstrated their dedication to free and peaceful solution of conflicts through their stand against dictatorship. america stood resolutely as an ally at every moment of this struggle and moved swiftly to help the peoples of europe reunite after 1989. we celebrate the steadiness of purpose, the restraint and respect for ultimate goals that allowed the cold war to end in peace. for how the victory was won was essential to the triumph. 1989 was special. it was that rarest of historical events: a revolution that did not descend into violence. as a result the gate survives not as a cautionary monument to history's darkest moments but to its brightest. today we celebrate the revolution of 1989, the turning point that transformed the brandenburg gate into the symbol of the hope of democracy and the promise of freedom. berliner luft, the air of berlin, has always been unique. i can feel and smell the spirit of freedom in your streets. the great american poet carl sandburg called berlin the chicago of europe. chicago is where i was born and raised. i can sense the same energy, openness and dedication to hard work in both great cities. another chicagoan, president barack obama, was drawn to berlin last july, a city that he said made him feel like a citizen of the world and a citizen of the future. i was very proud to visit our new embassy at the brandenburg gate, located exactly where the wall used to run. our presence here will forever underscore our determination that the spark of freedom from this city in 1989 will help light the torches of freedom throughout the world. the revolution of 1989 did not mark the end of history. having made history together, we are summoned to secure freedom for future generations. as vital at the beginning of the 21' century as it was in the last half of the 20th, the western alliance is called to new tasks. the dreams of 1989 reached farand have farther to reach. old hatreds and conflictsin the balkins, the caucauses, in the middle east, east asia, and africastill unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05765211 date: 07/31/2015 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05765211 date: 07/31/2015 simmer. we have much to demonstrate what we have learned from the last century. without freedom, without the rule of law, without the opportunity for people to support themselves and their families  without basic human rights-- anger, aggression and violence will prevail. today we are faced with difficult and often dangerous conflicts arising not from conflicts between nations but within them, conflicts exploited by zealots who make the false claim that violence will purify the world and open the gates of heaven. once zealots tried to use this gate to symbolize that message. but through the courage and determination of the people of berlin and their stalwart allies, this gate now stands for a true revolution of the spirit. the long twilight struggle to tear down this wall to make europe whole and free inspires us, in this new century, to help other peoples gain the same measure of security, respect and progress. we need berlin more than ever today. we need your courage, your fortitude, your commitment to the rights of menand womenwe need your example. we are hardly at the end of the history of the west. standing here, where a wall once stood but is no more, in the light from the gate, we have learned from history's deepest lessons. our alliance, linked by shared struggle, dedicated to the ideals of freedom and democracy, strong from the world we have built, now faces a new world of challenges. and we are ready to meet and conquer them. we know it has been done before. we are free menand womenand proud to say, we are all berliners. unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05765211 date: 07/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05762421 date: 06/30/2015 release in part b6 sent: thursday, june 18, 2009 9:53 am subject: fyi fyi, gary sick's latest analysis on iran below (posted on his blog). sick has independent sources and is very well informed. june 17, 2009 is this another iranian revolution? to someone who has watched and studied the iranian revolution of 1979 with fascination, developments in iran today have an eerie reminiscence. then there were massive protests that filled the streets, often marching in dignified but ominous silence; there was bloodshed as nervous security men with guns faced determined but unarmed crowds; there were sullen mourning parades;20there were catchy chants and ritual calls of \"down with the shah!\"; at night the rooftops rang with shouts of allahu akbar. you need only change \"shah\" to \"dictator,\" and you have a description of what is happening in iran today. but there is one very big difference. thirty years ago, iran had a charismatic cleric named ayatollah khomeini who had a refined sense of strategy and a willingness to risk everything for the cause he represented. on the other side was mohammed reza shah, who had been on the throne for some 37 years and who commanded one of the most powerful military and security regimes in the world. on the surface it appeared to be an uneven battle  guns against turbans  but the ruler with the guns wavered and the turbans grew in size and confidence until the old order collapsed. today the nominal leader of the opposition forces is a reformed radical, mir hossein mousavi, who is notably lacking in personal charisma. on the other side is the constitutional leader, ayatollah ichamene' i, who is widely perceived as a cautious political animal with limited qualifications for his religious post and who compensates for his own lack of charisma by manipulation of the political system and the institutions most loyal to him  particularly the politically minded clergy and the powerful security forces, including the revolutionary guards. neither of these men seems to be fully in control of their own forces, let alone the situation. the fraudulent election defeat of mousavi was a triggering event, but the energy behind these unprecedented demonstrations is due more to the sense of outrage and betrayal at the gross manipulation of numbers by the regime than it is about any undying devotion to mousavi. yesterday mousavi ordered that people stay home in face of a conflicting pro-regime demonstration. they marched anyway (and the daughter of former president rafsanjani joined them and urged them on). mousavi then \"ordered\" everyone to march the following day (which they were probably going to do with or without his orders). ichamene'i announced the \"divine assessment\" of the election outcome  even before it would probably have been physically possible to count the more than 40 million ballots. then, in the face of mass protests, he ordered an investigation of the results by the guardian council the same organization that was responsible for managing the election in the first place. no one believed him in either case, and no one expected anything of importance from the guardian council. khamene'i has ordered peace and reconciliation. no one paid any attention. i deliberately did not mention president-elect ahmadinejad. after celebrating his \"victory,\" he went off to a largely symbolic meeting in moscow. he seems to be out of the decision loop and more of a passive player than a major actor in these events. so who is calling the shots? mousavi seems to be running along after the crowd, not leading it. but that is probably all that is required to keep the protest in motion. unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05762421 date: 06/30/2015 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05762421 date: 06/30/2015 on the other side, the very little evidence we have suggests that the important decisions are being made by the ultra-conservative leadership of the revolutionary guards, whose political role has ballooned over the past decade, perhaps in cooperation with their extremist counterparts in the clergy. they are utterly ruthless and ideologically fueled. new york times columnist nick kristoff reminded us several days ago (see blog item on june 15 below) at the end of the day, as i saw at tiananmen 20 years ago, when might and right do battle, it's often prudent to bet on might, at least in the short run. the regime seems to have miscalculated badly. they seemed to believe that a sudden coup  the announcement of dramatic election results followed by a show of force  would intimidate and silence the opposition and consolidate their control. that is perhaps more understandable if the decisions were being made by military leaders who tend to see the battle in manichaean terms, rather than politicians such as ichamene'i who are accustomed to seeing shades of gray. in any event, it b ackfired and they now have a much larger crisis on their hands than if they had simply arranged for ahmadinejad to win by a slim margin (which was at least believable). all parties are now in uncharted territory. a significant portion of the iranian population seems to have concluded that their social contract with the rulers  accepting islamic rule in return for a respectful regard for the opinion of the governed, an islamic republic  is no longer valid. they do not trust their rulers. the rulers, whose support has been declining for years in the face of their own inept management of the country, are increasingly replacing popular support with repression. this election seems to have called that tactic into question. for the military, the obvious answer is more repression. so it would appear to be a moment to bet on might. but nobody is fully in command of events. decisions taken in the next weeks will be fateful and could determine the future path of the iranian revolution. there is another lesson as iran's leaders contemplate a tiananmen moment. when the tiananmen crackdown occurred almost exactly ten years ago, one of the leaders of china at the time was zhao ziyang, general secretary of the communist party. he was later fired and placed under house arrest. his smuggled memoirs have just appeared, revealing the depth of disagreements within the lea dership about how to proceed. is it possible that ten years from now we will have a volume describing the intense debates that one can only presume are underway today in the highest councils of the islamic republic of iran? dell days of deals! june 15-24 - a new deal everyday! unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05762421 date: 06/30/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05768263 date: 08/31/2015 sent: monday, april 12, 2010 6:16 pm subject fw: hrc meeting with the imf? release in full see below  thoughts. sent: monday, april 12, 2010 5:14 pm subject: hrc meeting with the imf? , jake, i received a call from masood ahmed, director of the middle east department at the imf. apparently at the haiti meeting in nyc, the secretary had a conversation with imf managing director dominique strauss-kahn in which she expressed an interest in meeting with him to discuss the imf's work in haiti and other places. a few weeks earlier, apparently she talked briefly with mr. ahmed at a meeting about pakistan, and also expressed an interest in meeting with the imf to discuss their work. the managing director would be very happy to meet with her. but i think they wanted to know whether she was really interested in meeting, or whether she was being diplomatic and polite. for what it's worth, i think a meeting could be very useful. someone from treasury would want to sit in. how should i respond to them? thanks. unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05768263 date: 08/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05774682 date: 08/31/2015 release in part b5 sent: subject: ,  j <jj@state.gov> tuesday, november 16, 2010 5:15 pm fw: (ap) fate of mideast talks in hands of polarizing rabbi worth reading. sent: tuesday, november 16, 2010 5:12 pm subject: (ap) fate of mideast talks in hands of polarizing rabbi jerusalem (ap) - the future of the mideast peace process could rest in the hands of one very undiplomatic man: an outspoken 90-year-old rabbi who recently sparked an uproar by saying the palestinian president should \"perish from the world.\" the ultra-orthodox shas party is expected to hold the swing vote when cabinet ministers decide on a u.s. proposal to resume mideast peace talks. the two shas ministers participating in the decision are waiting for instructions from the party's spiritual leader, rabbi ovadia yosef. \"all decisions go through the rabbi,\" said roi lachmanovitch, a spokesman for the shas interior minister. the drama has once again turned the enigmatic rabbi, who has managed to offend arabs, secular jews, holocaust survivors, women and gays with fiery comments over the years, into the familiar role of kingmaker. politicians from outside his party, including prime minister benjamin netanyahu, are now lobbying for his support. officials in netanyahu's office said his 15-member security cabinet - a group of senior government ministers - remains closely divided, with the outcome of the vote hinging on the two shas members. amid the uncertainty, israeli officials said a planned vote for november 17 had been put on hold. unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05774682 date: 08/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05771139 date: 08/31/2015 release in full sent: thursday, august 19, 2010 7:02 am subject: fw: (ap) us announces aid boost to pakistan after flooding sent: thu aug 19 04:30:48 2010 subject: (ap) us announces aid boost to pakistan after flooding ghazi air base (ap)  the united states will increase its aid to flood-ravaged pakistan to $150 million, u.s. sen. john kerry said, stressing that washington did not want islamist extremism to increase on the back of the crisis. the united states has deployed army helicopters to hard hit areas as part of a package worth $90 million. u.s. sen. john kerry, who is visiting pakistan to see the flood damage, said that would increase to $150 million. the figure is expected to be announced at a u.n. general assembly meeting in new york august 19. he was speaking after meeting u.s. military personnel taking part in helicopter relief missions. unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05771139 date: 08/31/2015  "
"b6 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05762459 date: 06/30/2015 release in part b6 sent: monday, june 22, 2009 8:00 am subject: fw: your june 22, 2009 article on the prague conference fyi sent: sunday, june 21, 2009 10:10 pm subject: fw: your june 22, 2009 article on the prague conference dear  and susan, below is a response from the american gathering of holocaust survivors, the largest and most well-known holocaust survivor group in the united states, strongly opposing a letter to secretary of state clinton, which was simultaneously sent to haaretz in israel, from a group of survivors based in south florida, asking that i be replaced as head of the u.s. delegation because of my association with the jewish claims conference. i will separately send their initial letter. i have talked with ambassador christian kennedy about this scurrilous and unrepresentative attack, made just before the prague conference is to begin. we agree it emanates from two related causes. first, it was instigated by sam dubbin, a class action lawyer in miami who has spent the better part of ten years trying to get congress to overturn the agreements i negotiated on behalf of the clinton administration, which obtained over $8 billion for holocaust survivors and other victims of nazi persecution around the world. he wants to be free to sue the very companies who paid these sums, in return for getting assurances of the u.s. government would do all it could to provide \"legal peace\" from future suits. several federal courts have upheld our agreements. he has lobbied for legislation last year and again this year. indeed, chairman frank held a hearing in 2008 on this matter. the second basis of the letter is a long-standing dispute between some survivors against the jewish claims conference, based in new york city, which was officially designated in the 1950s by the governments of germany and israel to be the negotiator with the german government on behalf of jewish holocaust survivors. the bulk of the $60 billion paid by the german government since the 1950s in reparations is passed through the claims conference, which then distributes it to survivors. their complaints range from a lack of transparency in their operations to the 80%-20% split, by which 80% of their proceeds go directly to survivors and 20% to various jewish organizations for projects of remembrance and education about the holocaust. my association with the jewish claims conference, which was fully disclosed during my vetting, is very tangential. i volunteered to lead their once a year negotiation with the german government to improve pensions for survivors, to provide new services like home care, and to increased the population of survivors covered by the german government. i have done this once, in march of this year, with, by the way, major breakthroughs for survivors. none of these issues is involved in the prague conference, and the german government has no problem with my participation. that is the only involvement i have with the claims conference. i do not participate in their governing bodies, and have no hand in their allocation or other decisions. i will not be involved again, until their next negotiation, in 2010, unless i decide not to continue my voluntary negotiation for them. moreover, the letter is unbelievably inaccurate. while i have only been involved for several weeks as the official head of the delegation, it is grossly inaccurate for them to allege that survivors have been left out of the process. ambassador kennedy has done remarkable outreach to the survivor community for many months, in preparation for the prague conference, and survivors are well represented on the delegation. in the period since i have been officially involved, i have met with the german insurance association to see if they would make a contribution for the social needs of survivors; have talked with judah gribetz, the special master for the swiss bank settlement, to see if any of the extra sums they will have left over can be given to survivors; have worked to get language in the terezin declaration to encourage countries to set up special funds for survivors and to use heirless property to assist them. unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05762459 date: 06/30/2015 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05762459 date: 06/30/2015 ambassador kennedy is preparing a press statement to be used if there is a question about the letter and the haaretz letter at the daily state department press briefing. best wishes, stu eizenstat sent: sunday, june 21, 2009 8:11 pm subject: your june 22, 2009 article on the prague conference dear mr. liphshiz, with respect to your article yesterday on the utterly unwarranted personal attack on ambassador stuart eizenstat by a group of american holocaust survivors, you should be aware that the leadership of the largest organization of survivors and descendants of survivors in the united states, the american gathering of jewish holocaust survivors and their descendants, in no way shares these sentiments. on the contrary, we hold ambassador eizenstat in the highest esteem, know him to be a man of the highest integrity and ethical standards, and are deeply grateful to him for everything he has done and continues to do on behalf of the survivors over many years. neither david schaecter nor leo rechter speak for anyone other than the groups they represent, and mr. rechter's statement that survivors have \"no confidence\" in ambassador eizenstat is, viewed most charitably, a gross overstatement in that he seeks to attribute his personal prejudices to the many thousands of survivors who do not share his views and who have never authorized him to speak in their name. the lives of thousands upon thousands of survivors throughout the world have been made easier over the past 15 years thanks to ambassador eizenstat's tireless work on their behalf. i cannot think of anyone more appropriate to head the u.s. delegation to the prague conference. the fact is that ambassador eizenstat's only association with the claims conference is a once a year, three day negotiation as a volunteer with the german government for the interests of the survivors. the first such negotiation took place earlier this year in march and resulted in 13,000 survivors who had previously been turned down becoming eligible for for reparations for the first time, and in the improvement in existing pension payments to survivors totaling over $50 million. moreover, the specific pension issues for which he volunteered to negotiate with the german government bear no relationship to the issues being covered by the prague conference. during the clinton administration, ambassador eizenstat was the special representative of the president and secretary of state on holocaust era issues and the lead negotiator on such issues with the swiss, german, austrian and french governments, as well as with various eastern and central european governments. in that capacity, he obtained over $8 billion dollars in compensation and restitution for holocaust survivors, including payments to slave and forced laborers, the return of thousands of jewish communal and private properties, the payments of tens of thousands of previously undisclosed bank accounts, the recovery of hundreds of pieces of looted art, and the payments on thousands of insurance policies. indeed, ambassador eizenstat is more responsible than any other single person for placing the issue of justice for holocaust survivors on the international agenda more than half a century after the end of world war ii. he has also headed the u.s. delegations to every one of the four previous international conferences dealing with holocaust era assets, beginning with the 1997 london conference on nazi gold. messrs. schaecter and rechter are well aware of all this, and the fact that they chose to engage in an ad hominem attack against ambassador eizenstat one week before the opening of the prague conference - his appointment as head of the u.s. delegation was publicly announced weeks ago - is unseemly and disingenuous in the extreme. 34 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05762459 date: 06/30/2015 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05762459 date: 06/30/2015 by way of introduction, i am vice president of the american gathering of jewish holocaust survivors and their descendants (i am the son of two survivors of auschwitz and bergen-belsen), and i am a member of the u.s. delegation to the prague conference. i would be pleased to discuss this issue further with you, as i am sure you do not want to provide an erroneous account of the facts to the readers of ha'aretz. i can be reached at any time after 6 am ny time). my email address is i very much hope that you will write a follow-up article to set the record straight. sincerely, menachem rosensaft menachem z. rosensaft, esq. 35 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05762459 date: 06/30/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05762661 date: 06/30/2015 release in full iow sent: monday, july 06, 2009 8:20 pm subject: fw: colombian president uribe would like to speak with the secretary this evening these are notes from torn. let me know if u are ok with ops connecting call. sent: mon jul 06 20:05:34 2009 subject: re: colombian president uribe would like to speak with the secretary this evening my guess is that he is calling about honduras. he, like many other leaders with an interest in central america, is worried that honduras is slipping towards confrontation and violence. he probably does not think insulza is up to the task. s should be aware that arias is prepared to offer his services. i spoke with the costa rican fonmin, who said the de facto government has reached out to arias, and that the costa ricans will be looking for a way to make the offer to zelaya. uribe knows zelaya and has some influence. uribe might want to talk with arias and offer to help move zelaya in the right direction. (although uribe and zelaya come from different ends of the political spectrum, they are both ranchers and love horses, and this has created some comradeship.) sent: monday, july 06, 2009 7:59 pm subject: fw: colombian president uribe would like to speak with the secretary this evening does she need specific points? should i have her call u before she calls him? sent: mon jul 06 19:41:28 2009 subject: colombian president uribe would like to speak with the secretary this evening colombian president uribe has requested to speak with secretary clinton. his staff said he is available this evening, but they did not provide specific availabilities for tomorrow. please advise. regards, peggy peggy walker senior watch officer state department operations center (s/e5-0) (202) 647-1512 walkeroj@state.gov 98 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05762661 date: 06/30/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05763718 date: 07/31/2015 release in part b6 sent: saturday, august 15, 2009 9:39 am subject: fw: (sbu) yettaw to be deported on 8/16 importance: high h_specialassistants; news-mahogany; m_specialassistants; ca-ocs-special assistant sent: sat aug 15 09:14:47 2009 subject: fw: (sbu) yettaw to be deported on 8/16 in brief:  pursuant to his meeting with senator james webb, burmese senior general than shwe authorized deportation of amcit john yettaw.  yettaw is scheduled to depart on 8/16 at 1:30pm local (3:00 am edt) with sen. webb aboard a milair flight.  codel webb, with yettaw, will fly to bangkok, where acs bangkok will assist with onward flight arrangements for yettaw.  cons/rangoon has spoken with to alert her to developments in the case. stated she has no intention of speaking with the press. sent: saturday, august 15, 2009 8:22 am palmer, matthew a; emery, john b; blake, stephen j (eap/mls); ses-0; robinson, ronald s; raugust, mark dinger, larry m; porter, marc r; mei, richard; mellott, william i subject: re: (sbu) yettaw to be deported on 8/16 importance: high sensitive but unclassified all, per m discussions with cda dinger and michelle bernier-toth, i just called and relayed the news that deportation is in the works. i couched it with plenty of caveats, but told her i hoped we could call her on sunday with good news. she understands she doesn't want to jeopardize the deportation. unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05763718 date: 07/31/2015 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05763718 date: 07/31/2015 regards, colin furst consul sent: saturday, august 15, 2009 4:59 pm matthew a; emery, john b; blake, stephen j (eap/mls); ses-0; robinson, ronald s; raugust, mark dinger, larry m; porter, marc r; mei, richard; mellott, william i subject: re: (sbu) yettaw to be deported on 8/16 colin - we have draft press guidance lined up for when he's wheels up and hear the news from us, not cnn. can we count on webb's office to respect that? m has been notified - we want her to this email was sent from a wireless blackberry device. this e-mail is unclassified based on the definitions provided in e.o. 12958 palmer, matthew a; emery, john b; blake, stephen j (eap/mls); ses-o; robinson, ronald 5; raugust, mark dinger, larry m; porter, marc r; mei, richard; mellott, william i sent: sat aug 15 05:31:49 2009 subject: re: (sbu) yettaw to be deported on 8/16 sensitive but unclassified one final point: the senator did not meet with yettaw today and will not see him until we are all at the airport on sunday afternoon. sent: saturday, august 15, 2009 3:59 pm palmer, matthew a; emery, john b; blake, stephen j (eap/mls); ses-0; robinson, ronald s; raugust, mark dinger, larry m; porter, marc r; mei, richard; mellott, william i subject: (sbu) yettaw to be deported on 8/16 importance: high sensitive but unclassified all, burmese authorities have informed us that john yettaw will be deported and allowed to fly out on senator jim webb's military flight on sunday afternoon, 8/16 at 1:30 p.m. i have been asked to attend a reading of yettaw's deportation order at insein prison earlier that morning at 9:00 a.m. i will then accompany yettaw on the senator's flight to bangkok. (i) unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05763718 date: 07/31/2015 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05763718 date: 07/31/2015 i've been in touch with lora lund in bangkok about this and about logistics once we land there. she will meet us at the airport. we plan on bringing yettaw back to acs/bangkok as soon as we leave the airport so that he can call his wife and for us to discuss options for his return to the u.s. lora will make guest house reservations just in case. per discussion with my charge d'affaires (who is traveling with the senator), we have not notified of this plan. as of now, the plan is for our vice consul, hayward alto, to call her as soon as the plane takes off for bangkok. regards, colin furst consul u.s. embassy rangoon sent: tuesday, august 11, 2009 5:11 pm palmer, matthew a; emery, john b; blake, stephen j (eap/mls); ses-0 dinger, larry m; porter, marc r; mei, richard; mellott, william i subject: (sbu) john yettaw sentenced to 7 years importance: high sensitive but unclassified all, john yettaw was sentenced today to 7 years in prison (3 years for his immigration violation; 3 years for violating burma's state protection law; and 1 year for violating a municipal swimming ordinance). i was granted a 40-minute prison visit with yettaw two hours after the verdict was read. he was in surprisingly good spirits and looked healthier than he had in a couple weeks. he said he plans to appeal the verdict. vice consul hayward alto spoke with with news of the sentence. please see high side cable on daw aung san suu kyi's sentence and low side cable (attached) for more details on yettaw's sentence and health. regards, colin furst consul u.s. embassy rangoon, burma unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05763718 date: 07/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05772705 date: 08/31/2015 release in part b6 sent: tuesday, october 12, 2010 4:46 pm subject: h: fyi. sid the huffington post october 12, 2010 oward fineman finemanahuffingtonpost.com i huffpost reporting the power of clinton, the invisibility of obama first posted: 10-12-10 02:37 pm i updated: 10-12-10 02:37 pm louisville -- i see that dr. rand paul has taken out after bill clinton, dredging up monica lewinsky. and i know why paul did so. the former president was here in kentucky yesterday and in this state, as in many others, he is a far more potent and popular foe than president barack obama. on my first day working for the huffington post, i came back to kentucky, where i began my career many years ago at the courier-journal. the people who run the university of louisville kentucky author forum wanted me to do an on-stage interview with a certain best-selling author who is also my new boss: arianna huffington. it was a tricky mix of professional incest and personal nostalgia, but the event worked out well and i also got a chance to play kentucky reporter once again out in the state. i raced over to lexington and here is the ground-level, outside-the-beltway reality i witnessed: like voldemort's, obama's is a name no one dares utter -- and that includes clinton speaking to democrats. at a sunny, noontime rally on the campus of the university of kentucky in lexington yesterday, the former president made a stirring, well-argued case for democratic senate candidate jack conway and for democrats generally -- without once mentioning obama and rarely mentioning the presidency. it was as though we suddenly had only two branches of government. to be fair, almost no one else at the one-hour rally mentioned the sitting president. and kentucky is staunch republican territory. \"we're farther ahead in the generic ballot here than ever,\" gop senator mitch mcconnell of kentucky told me yesterday. \"president obama was never popular here, even at his peak.\" still, the eerie invisibility of the president is a telling commentary on the democrats' confused, divided and defensive predicament as they brace for the verdict of the voters on election day, nov. 2. there was something odd -- and, if you're a democrat, depressing -- about a former democratic president avoiding any mention of his democratic successor. clinton sincerely wants to help out on the trail -- and certainly wants to avoid the accusation that he didn't try to help. but his travels have turned into a personal victory lap that often makes him -- not the candidate he's touting -- the center of attention. that was true here in kentucky. the rally's mechanics were mostly handled by the secret service; more to the point, the final (and therefore top-billed) speaker wasn't conway. it was clinton. the conway people didn't mind. they were glad to have him. unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05772705 date: 08/31/2015 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05772705 date: 08/31/2015 rail-thin but not frail, wearing a tweedy professorial sports coat and his signature rueful, knowing smile, clinton was treated with a respect bordering on awe. his familiar mane of white hair, thinning now, was translucent in the sun, giving him an almost otherworldly look: the sage from a better age. clinton is beloved in kentucky. he won the state twice. he speaks the local dialect, which contains appalachian notes of working-class pride, suspicion of big shots and baptist revivalism. but more than that -- and more than just in kentucky -- clinton's economic record (22.7 million jobs created, and he tends not to forget to mention the .7) looks spectacularly good in the context of what has followed. these days there is almost an old testament, milk-and-honey reverence for that economic record, at least as expressed by former kentucky sen. wendell ford. an old-school podium pounder, ford -- stooped but still strong voiced at 86 -- talked of the former president in messianic terms. \"bill clinton found us the path to gold!\" he shouted. the crowd of 2,000, most of them students, didn't laugh. they seemed to think he was right. how any of this helps obama is far from clear; it isn't even clear that it helps many democrats -- since they'd be joining the same washington party that the current president ostensibly heads. but clinton is all too happy to show obama how it's done. as a campaigner and as president, clinton's gift was his ability to untangle the knots of even the most complex policy issue and explain it in plain language to people suspicious of the powerful -- but eager not to be screwed by them or to be seen as dupes. republicans and their corporate allies were out to shut down the few good things that government does for you, he said, in the name of balancing a budget that they themselves destroyed. \"i gave you budget surpluses!\" clinton said, as if this had been an act of personal beneficence. knowing his audience, the former president focused on pell grants, and on a new program that allows graduates to pay back their loans over longer periods and at lower rates. paul, he said, will try to take that new program away -- and, given the gop's deliberate vagueness about spending cuts -- there is reason to think clinton is right. which is why paul got personal today. which means clinton drew blood. which means that he did what he came to do. which means obama will remain invisible, at least in kentucky, at least for now, and probably for a long time to come. ci unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05772705 date: 08/31/2015  "
"in the am. unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05768803 date: 08/31/2015 release in part b1,1.4(b),1.4(d), b5, b6 classified by das, a/gis, dos on 08/27/2015  class: confidential  reason: 1.4(b), 1.4(d)  declassify on: 05/02/2020 sent: sunday, may 2, 2010 10:34 pm subject re: au/iran b5 on the speech it mieht be 15 but not much more. dan k-p has taken over drafting b6 he has been incorporating fine-tuning edits today. i will email you a draft shortly, which will be tweaked unfortunately, there is no teleprompter at the un. b5 on your book, i understand that huma will bring it out in the morning. original message -- sent: sun may 02 22:26:00 2010 subject: re: au/iran 1.4(d) b1 also, i just saw on the schedule i was expected to speak for only 12 minutes. i think the speech as written is longer but i haven't seen the final draft. is there a teleprompter? i also don't yet have any briefing materials. will i get them tonight or tomorrow morning? original message ---- sent: sun may 02 21:21:08 2010 subject: au/iran 1.4(b) 1.4(d) b1 from johnnie, unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05768803 date: 08/31/2015 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05768803 date: 08/31/2015 regards, johnnie 1.4(b) 1.4(d) b1 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05768803 date: 08/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05770470 date: 08/31/2015 release in full sent: thursday, july 15, 2010 3:44 pm subject fw: argentina and same sex marriage fyi sent: thursday, july 15, 2010 3:24 pm subject: argentina and same sex marriage this is huge news for latin america, we should find a way to use this to advance our dialogue on lgbt in the region. sent: thursday, july 15, 2010 3:02 pm subject: afternoon brief 07/15/11 (sbu version) sensitive but unclassified executive secretariat operations center afternoon brief thursday, july 15,2010 1500 edt al-shabaab threatens more attacks in uganda (u) the group's leader was quoted on mogadishu radio stations, media report. (ap) argentine senate passes same-sex marriage bill (sbu) the bill would grant same-sex couples the same legal rights afforded to heterosexuals, according to press. embassy buenos aires comments the law implicitly includes the right to adopt and is a significant blow to the catholic church in argentina, which had declared the law \"a destructive act on god's plan.\" (ops/embassy buenos aires e-mail, ap) pakistan and india's ministers meet to rebuild trust (sbu) indian external affairs minister krishna met with pakistani foreign minister qureshi in the highest level visit between the two since the november 2008 mumbai attacks, according to press. the india desk comments the two met for an extended amount of time; however, significant obstacles remain, notably pakistan's refusal to prosecute suspects of the mumbai attacks. (ops/india desk telcon, ap) sudan expels two aid workers (sbu) the expulsion of the international organization for migration (iom) employees comes three days after the international criminal court (icc) issued an arrest warrant for genocide for president al-bashir, media unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05770470 date: 08/31/2015 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05770470 date: 08/31/2015 report. the office of the special envoy for sudan comments the action might not be in reaction to the icc decision, but rather to an iom move to quietly scale back cooperation on internally displaced persons. (ops/s- usses e-mail, reuters) former assk aide released in burma after 14 years (sbu) win htein was released from prison after completing his sentence for providing false information to the foreign press, media report. the burma desk comments the release is not a political step forward by the junta as he had served his full sentence and was not a leader in the national league for democracy. (ops/13urma desk telcon, ap) additional updates on events in uganda are available through our classified website at http://ses.state.sgov.gov drafted: nlmacklin/wparrs approved: dbanlcs dist: state (all bureaus), nss, osd, nmcc, jcs, cia, osc, nctc, dhs, dni sensitive but unclassified unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05770470 date: 08/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05769991 date: 08/31/2015 release in full sent: wednesday, june 23, 2010 5:08 pm subject: fw: us senators blast 'dysfunctional' diplomats in afghanistan fyi sent: wednesday, june 23, 2010 4:40 pm subject: us senators blast 'dysfunctional' diplomats in afghanistan us senators blast 'dysfunctional' diplomats in afghanistan washington, june 23, 2010 (afp) - president barack obama must overhaul the \"completely dysfunctional\" civilian side of us-led efforts in afghanistan or risk losing the high- stakes conflict, three hawkish us senators said wednesday. republican senators john mccain and lindsey graham, joined by independent senator joe lieberman, stopped just shy of explicitly urging obama to replace ambassador karl eikenberry but had harsh words for us diplomacy in kabul. \"the civilian side is, in my view, completely dysfunctional. the relationship between the civilian leadership and (afghan) president (hamid) karzai has to be changed and repaired,\" said graham. \"i would urge the president to look at this as a chance to put new people on the ground without old baggage. and if we don't change quickly, we're going to lose a war we can't afford to lose,\" warned graham. graham and his colleagues warmly praised obama's decision to replace general stanley mcchrystal with general david petraeus, but cautioned that diplomatic failures could hamstring his efforts to manage the increasingly unpopular war. mccain suggested that obama bring back veteran diplomat ryan crocker, who was ambassador to baghdad when he and petraeus enacted the \"surge\" strategy credited in washington with bringing iraq back from the brink of civil war. \"we might suggest that a consideration be given to reuniting the crocker-petraeus team, although i'm sure that ambassador crocker will never forgive me for saying that, since he's enjoying his retirement,\" mccain said with a chuckle. \"there is discontent -- or let me say, there is a lack of coordination and teamwork -- between the military and civilian side, both at the embassy and other areas, in afghanistan that needs to be repaired,\" said mccain. lieberman took a slightly softer line, but underlined he felt \"there is not the kind of unity in afghanistan between our civilian and military leadership\" that is needed to prosecute obama's counterinsurgency strategy. the senators sharply criticized mcchrystal over a rolling stone magazine profile in which the general and his aides are quoted as mocking top obama national security aides, from vice president joe biden on down. unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05769991 date: 08/31/2015 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05769991 date: 08/31/2015 mcchrystal himself is quoted as deriding us special envoy richard holbrooke, and as saying he felt \"betrayed\" by eikenberry, who had raised pointed objections to his strategy. unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05769991 date: 08/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2015-04841 doc no. c05739883 date: 05/13/2015 state dept. - produced to house select benghazi comm. subject to agreement on sensitive information & redactions. no foia waiver. release in full sent: saturday, july 7, 2012 10:04 am subject: re: fyi will pass to chris and beth. to state the obvious, the ballot burning and helicopter shootdown are concerning. original message ---- from h [mailto:hdr22@clintonemail.corn] sent: saturday, july 07, 2012 08:20 am subject: fyi another report--- source: sources with direct access to the libyan national transitional council, as well as the highest levels of european governments, and western intelligence and security services. 1. as of the morning of july 6, an individual with access to the information stated in confidence that libyan national transitional council (ntc) president mustafa abdel jalil remains committed to a transfer of power to a popularly elected government; however, he is prepared to extend the life of the ntc as a guarantor of stability for the libyan people following the july 7, 2012 election for seats in a 200-member general national congress (gnc). jalil realizes that 2.7 million libyans have registered to vote and are generally anxious to replace the increasingly unpopular ntc. that said, jalil expects the voting to lead to a period of confusion and he will not abandon his authority until the results are fixed. 2. jalil is also frustrated by the fact that during its eight-month tenure of the administration of prime minister abdel rahman el-keib - who was appointed by the ntc  was unable to provide solutions for libya's long list of needs: a functioning justice system, a reconciliation process for officials who served the old administration, the disarming of militia, building functional national security forces, rebuilding destroyed areas, and delivering basic services such as healthcare. 3. at the same time, outside of the oil sector, much of libya's economy is stagnant, and in the opinion of western security officials, lacks the government's go-ahead to restart public sector infrastructure contracts. in addition, international advisers and foreign investors are reluctant to return to an environment where the government will not sign long term agreements and cannot guarantee security. 4. (source comment: according to an extremely sensitive source, jalil continues to believe that this chaotic situation should not be surprising. he regularly points out that eight months is not a sufficient amount of time to build functioning institutions from the remnants of the regime of former dictator muammar al qaddafi. the old regime featured a dysfunctional bureaucracy, idiosyncratic rule, and anti-institutionalism. additionally, jalil now realizes that due to pronounced incompetence and a lack of will to take unpopular decisions the el-keib government also failed to make progress in the few areas where it could have achieved meaningful change. the towns of sirte and tawargha are representative of the situation in the countryside where people lost their homes in the conflict and have been living in temporary camps with limited ability to register and vote in their home district. jalil has been urged by contacts in the french and italian governments to guarantee the rights of people across the country. in particular, he has serious concerns as to whether or not supporters of former dictator fv1uammar al qaddafi in his hometown of sirte will be included in the future political processes of the new libya; if they are not allowed to vote by local militiamen. at the same time the fighting between libyan arabs and tebu tribesmen in the kufra area threatens to prevent any voting unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2015-04841 doc no. c05739883 date: 05/13/2015 state dept. - produced to house select benghazi comm. subject to agreement on sensitive information & redactions. no foia waiver. state-scb0045195 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2015-04841 doc no. c05739883 date: 05/13/2015 state dept. - produced to house select benghazi comm. subject to agreement on sensitive information & redactions. no foia waiver. there. jalil has been warned that the ntc regulations now state that members of the national army are not allowed to vote or run for office, which is a disincentive for armed militia brigade members to become legitimate soldiers.) 5.this well informed individual believes that despite these flaws, the new government created by the july 7 election will eventually have the mandate to take the difficult decisions that can create a reconciliation process. jalil will work to maintain order in this transition period, and finally reach his goal of creating a situation where the government can rebuild homes and restore sufficient law and order; allowing those in sirte, tawargha, kufra, and throughout the rest of the country to live in their hometowns, establishing a situation where a true civil society can develop. 6. jalil, in conversations with the leaders of the muslim brotherhood (mb), and separately with liberal leader all tarhouni, has acknowledged that the central government's top priority must be security and that the ntc has been unable to provide it. that said, jalil and minister of defense ousarna al-juwali have pledged to provide 30,000 to 40,000 security personnel for election day to 'prevent similar incidents to the july 1 attack on benghazi's election headquarters. in that case eastern federalists entered the building, where ballot papers were burned and ballot boxes destroyed. similarly, these federalist forces are suspected of the attack on july 5 that burned down ajdabiyals main storage centre for election materials. 7. in the opinion of this individual, although those responsible for the benghazi attack were pro-federalist, it has not been proven that they were members of the self-appointed cyrenaican national council (cnc), whose military arm set up a roadblock in wadi al-ahmar on libya's major east-west highway to demand that cyrenaica get as many seats in the gnc as tripolitania. thus far, neither the cnc nor any other group has publicly stated that they intend to use violence to disrupt the elections. (note: under the current system tripolitania will have 120 seats in the gnc, cyrenaica (barqa) 62, and fezzan in the south 18.) unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2015-04841 doc no. c05739883 date: 05/13/2015 state dept. - produced to house select benghazi comm. subject to agreement on sensitive information & redactions. no foia waiver. state-scb0045196  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05760658 date: 06/30/2015 release in full sent: wednesday, april 01, 2009 12:01 pm subject: fw: all nominees made it out of the sfrc ' fyi sent: tuesday, march 31, 2009 2:46 pm subject: all nominees made it out of the sfrc  and colleagues: all our 7 nominees made it through the business meeting. next stop: floor action. mike ambassador michael c. polt acting assistant secretary bureau of legislative affairs department of state phone: 202-647-4204 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05760658 date: 06/30/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05761074 date: 06/30/2015 release in part b6 sent: friday, may 01, 2009 4:19 am subject: fw: thank you so very much!!!! fyi 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. sent: thu apr 30 16:18:28 2009 subject: re: thank you so very much!!!! xo sent: tuesday, april 28, 2009 2:09 pm subject: re: thank you so very much!!!! thanks, . hope all is well and i'm so glad you are serving our country once again! p3 can give me what i need. paulie sent: tuesday, april 28, 200911:49 am subject: re: thank you so very much!!!! thanks paulie  also looping in pi crowley sent: tuesday, april 28, 2009 9:30 am subject: re: thank you so very much!!!! adding a whole bunch of folks who i know can assist you with the information you need. original message sent: tue apr 28 09:18:25 2009 subject: re: thank you so very much!!!! capricia, unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05761074 date: 06/30/2015 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05761074 date: 06/30/2015 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 sent: friday, april 24, 2009 5:59 pm 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 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05761074 date: 06/30/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05767797 date: 08/31/2015 release in part b6 sent: tuesday, january 12, 2010 12:51 am subject: re: john gill he was very flexible but this week would be great. we can try and do tomorrow. original message sent: tue jan 12 00:48:34 2010 subject: john gill when can i call him? unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05767797 date: 08/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05766730 date: 08/31/2015 release in part b5 sent: sunday, january 31, 2010 2:17 pm subject northern ireland brown has asked to speak with you at 8 am tomorrow morning. also, i just spoke with declan about the conference. there are challenges with the idea of a conference that i'd like to discuss with you in the morning. unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05766730 date: 08/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05761995 date: 06/30/2015 release in full sent: friday, may 15, 2009 6:36 am subject: mini schedule 5-15-09 8:25 am presidential daily briefin 8:30 am secretary's office 8:30 am daily small staff meeting 8:45 am secretary's office 8:45 am daily senior staff meeting 9:15 am secretary's conference room 9:15 am (t) phone call w/indian foreign minister pranab 9:30 am (t) kumar mukefuee secretary's office 9:30 am meeting w/doug hattaway 10:00 am secretary's office 10:05 am photo op w/ kevin gately & daughter 10:10 amsecretary's office *kevin works for lew lukens. 10:10 am depart state department *en route white house 10:15 am arrive white house 10:15 am weekly meeting w/defense secretary gates and 11:15 am general jones white house situation room 11:30 am depart white house, en route state department 11:45 am office time 12:50 pm secretary's office 12:55 pm depart state department en route white house 1:00 pm arrive white house 1:05 pmweekly meeting w/president obama 1:35 pmoval office 1:40 pmdepart white house *en route state department 1:45 pmarrive state department 2:00 pms wearing-in ceremony for ivo daalder, 75 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05761995 date: 06/30/2015 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05761995 date: 06/30/2015 2:20 pmu.s. permanent representative on the council of the north atlantic treatyorganization treaty room *approx. 70 ppl attending. 2:30 pmmeeting w/joe klein, time magazine 3:00 pmsecretary's office *off the record. 3:15 pmmeeting w/david ignatius, the washington post 3:45 pmsecretary's office *off the record. 4:00 pm0ffice time 5:00 pmsecretary's office 5:00 pmmeeting w/cheryl mills 6:00 pmsecretary's office 6:00 pmdepart state department *en route private residence 6:10 pmarrive private residence "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05765872 date: 07/31/2015 release in full sent: wednesday, november 25, 2009 11:15 am subject: reminder john kerry trying to reach you. unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05765872 date: 07/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05764210 date: 07/31/2015 release in full sent: sunday, october 4, 2009 12:58 am subject: fyi indonesians cannot do 9. asking for 10am instead. philippines will likely be right after. hope that's ok. unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05764210 date: 07/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05768677 date: 08/31/2015 release in part b5 sent: saturday, april 24, 2010 1:12 pm subject: bosnia this call will be after indonesia. oscar can u print for her? points for president silajdzic call: unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05768677 date: 08/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05771386 date: 08/31/2015 release in full sent: sunday, september 19, 2010 8:41 am subject: fw: (reuters) iran denies report of seven us troops detained--tv sent: sun sep 19 08:26:54 2010 subject: (reuters) iran denies report of seven us troops detainedtv [note: the operations center has confirmed with nmcc that the original story is false.] tehran (reuters)  iran denied that border guards had detained seven u.s. troops, calling the report \"unfounded\", the state-run english language press tv said. the country's arabic language television al-alam also quoted iran's revolutionary guards, in charge of iran's border security, as denying that any such incident had happened in the southeastern province of sistan-baluchestan, as earlier reported by a semi-official news agency. original story: (reuters) iran detains seven u.s. troops--fars news agency tehran (reuters)  iranian border guards detained seven u.s. troops as they tried to illegally enter the islamic state, the semi-official fars news agency reported, without giving a source. \"recently seven american troops were detained by iranian guards in a southeastern province of the country ... two iranians accompanying the troops were also arrested,\" said fars. unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05771386 date: 08/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05769642 date: 08/31/2015 release in full sent: thursday, june 3, 20108:41 pm subject: fw: call to bongo on iran postponed by a day fyi. sent: thursday, june 03, 2010 8:25 pm subject: call to bongo on iran postponed by a day jake: fyi: president bongo was reportedly tied up in a marathon cabinet meeting today following his return from nice, and could not speak with me as arranged. my call to bongo has been rescheduled for friday morning. i will provide you with feedback after i connect with him. regards, johnnie unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05769642 date: 08/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05770664 date: 08/31/2015 release in part b1,1.4(d) sent: saturday, july 24, 2010 2:37 pm subject: turkey-brazil-iran looks like there will be a three-way meeting in turkey tomorrow. b1 1.4(d) classified by das, a/gis, dos on 08/27/2015  class: confidential  reason: 1.4(d)  declassify on: 07/23/2025 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05770664 date: 08/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05760665 date: 06/30/2015 release in full sent: wednesday, april 01, 2009 4:45 pm subject: fw: kerry, lugar amendment passes to restore fill funding to president obama's international affairs budget fyi sent: wednesday, april 01, 2009 4:32 pm subject: fw: kerry, lugar amendment passes to restore fill funding to president obama's international affairs budget guys -- we done good today. we appreciate all of the 7th floor support and calls  clearly made the difference. on to the next battle sent: wednesday, april 01, 2009 4:18 pm steve; jacobs, christine m; campbell, piper a subject: re: kerry, lugar amendment to restore fill funding to president obama's international affairs budget kerry-lugar amendment passed by voice vote! sent: wednesday, april 01, 2009 2:22 pm christine m; campbell, piper a subject: fw: kerry, lugar amendment to restore fill funding to president obama's international affairs budget here is kerry's floor statement when he introduced the amendment on the floor this morning. below the statement, i've copied conrad's response. ----__  sent: wednesday, april 01, 2009 1:46 pm subject: kerry, lugar amendment to restore fill funding to president obama's international affairs budget tiniteb tate5 enate committee on foreign iaciation5 washington, dc :770 for immediate release april 1, 2009 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05760665 date: 06/30/2015 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05760665 date: 06/30/2015 contact: frederick jones, communications director, 202-224-4651 kerry, lugar amendment to restore full funding to president obama's international affairs budget washington, dc  senate foreign relations committee chairman john kerry, on the senate floor today introduced an amendment to restore four billion dollars in cuts to the president's international affairs budget. the senator's full remarks as prepared are below: if the first years of the twenty-first century have taught us anything about national security, it is that in a globalized world, our problems are interconnected, and soultimatelyis our security. we are endangered by weak and failed states as well as by strong states. we are endangered by diseases and climate change emissions half a world away. we are endangered when we allow chaos and crisis to create the conditions for ideologies of radical hatred and violence to take root. and it is clear to all that meeting these global challenges will require far more than our military: it will require a strengthened commitment to diplomacy and development. to put this as simply and bluntly as possible, that's why passing a robust foreign affairs budget is a matter not just of america's world leadership, but also of our national security. but don't take my word for it: ask our secretary of defense, bob gates. he said: \"what is clear to me is that there is a need for a dramatic increase in spending on the civilian instruments of national security  diplomacy, strategic communications, foreign assistance, civic action, and economic reconstruction and development.\" ask our secretary of state and former colleague, hillary clinton, who testified in her confirmation hearing that \"the relatively small but important amount of money we do spend on foreign aid is in the best interests of the american people\" and \"promotes our national security and advances our interests and reflects our values.\" when our soldiers and generals join our top diplomats in demanding increased civilian capacity and increased civilian fundingeven in the midst of an economic crisis that's when you know there is not just a growing consensus, but a real sense of urgency behind strengthening our civilian mission. returning diplomacy and development to their rightful place cannot be achieved through words alone: it takes money to drive civilian foreign policyand if it keeps us safer, as i believe it will, then that is money well spent. full funding of the president's international affairs budget is a vital step toward greater civilian capacity, and i urge my colleagues to support it. that's why, along with senators lugar, leahy, voinovich, durbin, kaufman, menendez, dodd, feinstein, brown, sanders, lieberman, casey, and corker, i ask for approval of this amendment to restore $4 billion worth of funding to the president's fy 2010 international affairs budget request for the function 150 account. the offset here will come from the function 920 account. the reality is that right now, we are not doing nearly enough to invest in diplomacy and development. that's the finding of numerous studies conducted inside and outside of government. funding for the department of defense is over half a trillion dollars. in 2008, the army added about 7,000 soldiers to its total; that's more people than serve in the entire american foreign service. 1,100 foreign service officers could be hired for the cost of a single c-17 military cargo plane. and four billion dollars is less than two percent of what the government has given to aig. unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f!2014-20439 doc no. c05760665 date: 06/30/2015 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05760665 date: 06/30/2015 that is vital context for any discussion of the president's proposed increase in the international affairs budget. the president requested $53.8 billion in fy 2010 to fund next year's budgetan increase of 8%, or $4 billion, over last year's funding level of $49.8 billion. we must recognize just what a small share of our overall spending the president's international affairs budget comprises: 1.4% of the total fy 2010 budget and only 6.8% of the \"national security budget,\" which includes defense and homeland security. even with this year's proposed increase in funding, the international affairs budget still represents just 0.35% of gdp. this sliver of our budget funds all state department operations, foreign aid and foreign policy programs, our diplomatic programs, global health initiatives on hiv/aids, malaria and tuberculosis programs, and humanitarian assistance to help stabilize fragile states, reduce global poverty and assist refugees. some have described the president's request as a 41% increase from last year's budget of $38 billion, but that simply isn't accurate: the figure of $38 billion doesn't include last year's supplemental appropriations, which raise the total to nearly $50 billion. the president's fy 2010 budget includes supplemental appropriations. that's why the actual increase is only $4 billion, or 8%. when we talk about changes in spending, we have to compare apples to apples. what's more, the president should be commended for following through on his pledge to enhance transparency and improve fiscal discipline by shifting supplemental appropriations into a single budget. this is a more straightforward way of doing business that doesn't seek to hide or massage spending figures by tucking extra spending into supplemental bills. that is why my colleague senator conrad, the chairman of the budget committee, has been vocal in praising this new approach. but the real question we are facing today is what will this extra $4 billion get us? this $4 billion will bring vital foreign aid increases to programs in pakistan and afghanistan. this $4 billion will build civilian capacity and put our diplomats back on the front lines of american foreign policy. this $4 billion will provide life saving treatment for people with hiv/aids and supports broad prevention efforts that save lives every day. this $4 billion will help make people all over the world safer, and in the process, it will help keep america safer. of course, some will claim that in the midst of a global economic crisis, we do not have the luxury of leading on the global stage. but this is precisely the moment when our investment is most neededand it is also a moment when our leadership and our economic system face the greatest challenge. and ultimately, efforts in the developing world win us influence and respect, and they also contribute to the growth and stability of future consumers of our products and future trading partners. there is scarcely a corner of the globe where our efforts are not impacted by this budget: in afghanistan and pakistan, we must finally reverse years of neglect and drift. imagine a nation as populous as iraq, afghanistan and north koreacombined. a nation with a full arsenal of nuclear weapons, and ballistic missiles capable of delivering them anywhere in a thousand- kilometer range. imagine a nation whose population is overwhelmingly moderate, overwhelmingly committed to democracy and rule of lawbut deeply suspicious of its leadership, and of america's friendship. imagine a nation in which osama bin laden and the leadership of al qaeda has found sanctuary for the past seven yearsa haven from which they and their confederates have plotted and carried out attacks on their host country, on neighboring countries, and on sites around the globe. this nation could serve the keystone for a new, cooperative relationship between the western and muslim worldsor become an epicenter for radicalism and violence on a cataclysmic scale. now imagine that 17 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05760665 date: 06/30/2015 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05760665 date: 06/30/2015 america took a long, hard look at the status quo of our policy towards a nation at just such a crossroadsand decided to do nothing different.  we need a bold, new strategy for pakistan: our current path has not brought success, and simply tinkering around the margins is guaranteed to fail. we have little choice but to think big. that is why president obama called on congress to pass the enhanced partnership with pakistan act that sen. lugar and i will introduce very soon: it will authorize $1.5 billion annually, in order to help shape a new relationship with pakistan. without the full authorization of the president's budget, even a priority as vital as this one could be shunted aside. we are not the only ones vying for influence. you know who else understands clearly how powerful a weapon foreign aid can be? iran does. that's why after its proxy hezbollah provoked israel's bombing of lebanon, they painted the green hezbollah flag on houses all over lebanonhouses they plan to rebuild, largely with iranian money. if we don't spend money on aid, we are surrendering the field to those who do. nor can we afford to abandon our efforts against global aids. we know that pepfar has won america friends and allies across africa and the world we know that aids contributes to failed states, not to mention incalculable human misery amongst the sick and dying and the orphans they leave behindand that is why our national interest and our moral interest demand that we deliver on our commitments at a moment of crisis. last year, both parties came together to authorize up to $48 billion over five years. today, it is imperative that we do all we can to fund these programs. if we don't, we will freeze enrollment of patients into life-saving antiretroviral treatment. meanwhile, prevention efforts the most cost-effective way to stop aids from ravaging a societywill be the first ones cut. and tragically, we know what will happen next: more people will contract hiv, and more will die from aids-related illnesses. refugees and human rights advocates also need our help. economic support funds are vital to support those living inside countries with repressive regimes, like burma and zimbabwe. we know that refugees and displaced populations can be the spark for large-scale violence, and today we face that very threat from the millions displaced from homes in iraq. our migration and refugee assistance is more important than ever to help us provide immediate, effective assistance to these vulnerable populations. our international affairs budget will also have profound implications for another national security issue that will only grow in importance: the threat of global climate change. this december, the global community will be meeting in copenhagen to create a new international agreement to address the urgent threat of global climate change. the science is screaming at us: we have no time to lose if we hope to avert catastrophe. if we want to persuade the developing nations of the world to do what is necessary and in all of our interests we must help them to respond now to the impacts of the crisis that are already being felt globallyand to preemptively make the dramatic technological changes across their economies that this threat demands. our leverage at the negotiating table in copenhagen will depend directly on our ability to offer a strong financing package. negotiators are meeting for an interim session this week in bonn, and it is essential that we send a clear signal that the united states congress is serious about financing to support the commitments the obama administration makes on the world stageand serious about being part of the global solution to one of the greatest threats we face. we also need more diplomats and aid officers to troubleshoot on the front lines. the 2010 budget also marks the first year of a new commitment to a significant increase in the size of the foreign service at both the state department and usaid. today we are barely covering attrition rates. we have asked these agencies to expand their missions and operations into new theaters like iraq and afghanistanand we need to expand their resources accordingly. unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05760665 date: 06/30/2015 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05760665 date: 06/30/2015 even as we face long-term security threats such as climate change, we must also address the immediate and urgent threats of nuclear proliferation and nuclear terrorism. the president's budget provides additional nonproliferation and counter-proliferation funding to secure nuclear materials around the world, and to fund new and ongoing initiatives to build the counterterrorism capacity of partnering countries to do the same. that's how you leverage our civilian spending to keep america safe. surveying the wide range of commitments and aspirations this budget addresses, it is clear that our challenge is immense. and yet, even as we confront a crisis here at home, we cannot afford to delay the task of restoring our leadership, returning to our best traditions of civilian outreach, and restoring our influence and authority. we cannot afford to come up short on our promises to allies, to vulnerable populations, and to the world. we cannot try to be a world leader on the cheap. if we fail to do our part to solve the world's problems, those problems will eventually find us here at home. from pandemics to climate change to failed states, this century's security challenges demand that 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. it will make the world safer, and it will make us safer. and so i urge my colleagues to join me in supporting the president's budget request. 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"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05766083 date: 08/31/2015 release in part b5,b6 sent: saturday, december 12, 2009 1:34 pm subject: re: guinea thanks. i passed on to ron as well and clarified it was to do with w sahara. original message sent: sat dec 12 12:31:44 2009 subject: fw: guinea fyi original message sent: sat dec 12 11:55:56 2009 subject: re: guinea harold, we told the moroccans they have a couple of options. other ideas welcome! jeffrey feltman original message sent: sat dec 12 10:45:37 2009 subject: re: guinea will happily do. the french legal adviser edwidge belliard was very excited to meet you at lunch in dc a few months ago and i just saw her in the hague on wed. so jeff--will stand by for your instructions harold harold hongju koh the legal adviser u.s. department of state suite 6421 2201 c st. nw washington, dc 20520-6421 202 647 9598 office unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05766083 date: 08/31/2015 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05766083 date: 08/31/2015 202 647 7096 fax original message sent: sat dec 12 10:32:03 2009 subject: guinea jeff/harold-- i spoke w kouchener who will be meeting in paris tomorrow night w moroccan fm faris-firri. i told him we had offered ideas to help them out of their current standoff re returning the passport. jeff, can you call your french counterpart to explain and connect w harold if we need l to contact the french legal advisor? thanks-iand let me know what unfolds. hillary unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05766083 date: 08/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05773947 date: 08/31/2015 release in part b6 sent: thursday, september 23, 2010 1:15 pm subject: fw: one more thing fyi sent: thursday, september 23, 2010 9:51 am subject: one more thing as you know, the us global leadership coalition is hosting secretaries clinton, gates, geithner etal on tuesday afternoon for a formal discussion/announcement of new development initiatives. i am currently the chair of the education arm (501c3) of this organization, and will be opening the session with very brief and general welcoming remarks, then turning it over to liz schrayer who is the leader of the group. just an fyi. unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05773947 date: 08/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05775245 date: 08/31/2015 release in part b6 sent: thursday, september 30, 2010 8:01 am subject: fw: fyi-zardari calls for flood tax fyi original message sent: thu sep 30 07:53:06 2010 subject: fw: fyi-zardari calls for flood tax jake--given h's public comments on this issue, she should see this. original message sent: thu sep 3004:54:51 2010 subject: fw: fyi-zardari calls for flood tax original message sent: thu sep 30 01:16:01 2010 subject: fyi-zardari calls for flood tax zardari calls for flood tax by syed irfan raza dawn thursday, 30 sep, 2010 islamabad: president asif ali zardari asked the government on wednesday to levy a one-time flood tax on wealthy people. \"a one-time flood tax will have to be imposed on the well-off and people of means to help shore up relief and rehabilitation efforts,\" he said at a meeting of women ministers, parliamentarians and representatives of non- governmental organisations. \"unless we are prepared to share bread with our grief- and disaster-stricken brethren, we should not expect others to help us. \"i have already advised the government to tap into indigenous resources wherever there is room,\" he said. unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05775245 date: 08/31/2015 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05775245 date: 08/31/2015 the president said that funds would be disbursed transparently and every citizen would have access to information relating to the aid received and distributed. http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/the-newspaper/front-page/president-calls-for- flood-tax-090 sent via blackberry by at&t unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05775245 date: 08/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05765007 date: 07/31/2015 release in full sent: sunday, october 18, 2009 9:49 am norwegian fm stoere set for 10am call sheet has been faxed unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05765007 date: 07/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05778255 date: 08/31/2015 release in full sent: subject: see ni ,  d <cd@state.gov> saturday, december 11,2010 1:36 pm fw: s is calling leahy today - thx for all the help; advise if a diff no for him today original message sent: sat dec 11 12:49:29 2010 subject: re: s is calling leahy today - thx for all the help; advise if a diff no for him today they spoke and it was good. he's on board. thanks. sent from my blackberry wireless handheld original message sent: saturday, december 11, 2010 12:06 pm subject: s is calling leahy today - thx for all the help; advise if a diff no for him today unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05778255 date: 08/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05766061 date: 08/31/2015 release in full sent: sunday, january 17, 2010 2:12 pm subject re: 1pm call manifest yes will do. original message ---- sent: sun jan 17 13:44:01 2010 subject: re: 1pm call manifest the canadians said they would do transcript of call so pls ask wha to obtain one for me. original message sent: sun jan 17 12:52:09 2010 subject: 1pm call manifest unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05766061 date: 08/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05771773 date: 08/31/2015 release in full sent: saturday, october 16, 2010 2:22 pm subject: fw: (ap) family spokesman says american businessman jailed in iran for two years has been released sent: sat oct 16 14:03:08 2010 subject: (ap) family spokesman says american businessman jailed in iran for two years has been released (headline only). unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05771773 date: 08/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05772579 date: 08/31/2015 release in part b5 sent: saturday, october 9, 2010 12:04 am subject: fw: for hrc: economist op-ed do you want me to have faxed to you as well? original message sent: fri oct 08 21:02:59 2010 subject: for hrc: economist op-ed , here's a revised draft of the economist op-ed that reflects the secretary's suggestions: unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05772579 date: 08/31/2015 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05772579 date: 08/31/2015 "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05770368 date: 08/31/2015 release in full sent: wednesday, may 12, 2010 8:21 am subject: fw: likely no amcit casualties in afriqiyah crash (sbu) sent: wed may 12 06:50:29 2010 subject: likely no amcit casualties in afriqiyah crash (sbu) (sbu) embassy tripoli reports that a senior libyan aviation official \"confirmed\" there were no americans aboard the crashed airbus 330. additionally, embassy tripoli and congen johannesburg have not fielded any inquiries about specific amcit passengers. automatic electronic distribution to: s, d(s), d(l), p, e, c, m, dg, t, r, pa, g, af, eap, eur, nea, sca, wha, 10, s/crs, s/ct, h, ds, ca, pmat, inr, 11p, cms, s/es, s/es-0, nsoc, and whsr. unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05770368 date: 08/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05771306 date: 08/31/2015 release in full sent: saturday, august 21, 2010 8:04 am subject: fw: (reuters) jordan king to attend launch of mideast talks sent: sat aug 21 07:56:28 2010 subject: (reuters) jordan king to attend launch of mideast talks amman (reuters) - jordanian king abdullah has accepted an invitation by the united states to attend the launch of direct talks between israelis and palestinians that aim to forge a peace deal within 12 months, the state news agency said. the statement on the petra news agency on august 21 said king abdullah would hold a bilateral meeting with obama. \"the talks...will revolve around the steps necessary to be taken to ensure the negotiations reach their aim in ending the palestinian-israeli conflict on the basis of a two-state solution,\" the statement said. unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05771306 date: 08/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05768699 date: 08/31/2015 release in part b6 sent: saturday, april 24, 2010 6:40 pm subject: re: fyi kornblum... sid ok original message --- sent: sat apr 24 18:26:17 2010 subject: fw: fyi kornblum... sid pls print and have delivered to my house. original message --- sent: fri apr 23 10:10:42 2010 subject: fyi kornblum... sid in light of clegg's rising popularity partly based on his anti-americanism and germany's growing hegemony in europe while becoming more insular, john kornblum has written this op-ed with reference in last graphs to us policy. the new york times <http://www.nytimes.comh <http://graphics8.nytimes.com/ads/spacer.gif> printer friendly format sponsored by <http://www.nytimes.com/adx/bin/adx_click.html?type=goto&opzn&page=www.nytimes.com/printer- friendly&pos=position1&sn2=336c557e/4f3dd5d2&sn1=1c82efea/a8348c0e&camp=foxsearch2010_emailtools_122555 7e_nyt58ead=cyrus_120x60_e_01.25&goto=http://www.foxsearchlight.com/cyrus> april 23, 2010 i.h.t. op-ed contributor germany in need of a dream by john kornblum has germany abandoned europe? do angela merkel's tough conditions for aid to greece mean that germany is no longer the motor of european integration? has frau merkel in fact morphed from the miss europa of 2007 to the fraulein germania of 2010, as germany's own former foreign minister joschka fischer has suggested? as a former american ambassador who has lived and worked the better part of four decades around germany, my blackberry often glows red hot with messages from persons asking these questions. my response is always the same: germany has changed very little, but europe and the world have changed a lot. therein lies the dilemma. unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05768699 date: 08/31/2015 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05768699 date: 08/31/2015 germany has worked hard to dig its way out of the disaster of 1945, but trauma remains a defining issue for german society. sixty five years later, germany is still focused on the three essentials of its recovery: stability, respectability and peace. keep this triangle in mind and lots of things quickly come into focus. from the first days of the federal republic, germany's leaders emphasized the importance of defining interests solely within a common european and atlantic vocation. but they also understood that renouncing national ambitions did not remove the responsibility to pursue specific german goals through the common institutions. many important postwar accomplishments were conceived and pushed by germany, sometimes over the opposition of others  including the united states. ostpolitik was controversial for years, as was nato enlargement. germany pushed them with determination. helmut kohl did not consult before promulgating his 10 points on reunification. he agreed to french desires for a common currency, but only if it could be a mirror of the deutsche mark, for decades the european monetary standard. the euro stability pact, now the object of so much controversy with greece, was the result. after 1990, the e.u.'s eastward expansion was germany's way of firming up its eastern flank. slowly and without fanfare, germany has been remaking the european union in its image. at each step of the way, germany made its wishes more palatable by paying more than its share. part of today's misunderstanding is caused by germany's success in using its contributions to build an image of selflessness. germany has been as single-minded in pursuit of its goals as charles de gaulle ever was for his, but it almost always left leadership to others. a new consciousness grew after the costs of reunification began to mount. \"europe\" in the institutional sense has become increasingly unpopular. german courts have begun to define german european issues in the context of the german constitution rather than on the basis of e.u. law. at least some of ms. merkel's refusal to allow immediate assistance to greece was based on her fears that it would fan anti-e.u. sentiment at home. are these the first signs of a german tea party? here we find the source of most of the hand wringing about germany's role as the \"motor of europe.\" ms. merkel's unwillingness to sweeten the financial pot echoed throughout brussels. to many, it signified the decline of german willingness to \"salute the french flag three times before raising the german flag,\" as konrad adenauer used to put it. germans are not alone in objecting to throwing more money into the e.u. pot, but they happen to be the only ones who can do something about it. many fear that without german complaisance, the e.u. will stutter to a stop. but such self- denial could never offer a viable foundation for a new europe. neither could the inefficiency and even corruption that characterizes many e.u. programs. most maddening for most thinking europeans is the knowledge that the germans are right. but to them, the question is whether germany is remaking the e.u. in a fashion palatable to the majority of other member states. they are not so sure that its focus on stability and accountability is the right way to help such a diverse collection of peoples adjust to a globalized world. and so when angela merkel raps greek knuckles, she is sending a message most europeans don't want to hear. not that germany is dangerous; even worse, that it is unrelenting. the neue ziiricher zeitung probably spoke for many others when it once accused germany of wanting europe to become a large switzerland. the growing gap between germany's aspirations and the perceived needs of other members of the e.u. is beginning to burden both sides. most europeans are simply not ready to live up to german standards. without a more flexible sense of common purpose, the project to build a democratic europe could stop dead in the water. but as germans will themselves often tell you: they have forgotten how to dream. younger germans feel this lack of inspiration as well. dreams were what 200,000 of them were waiting to hear when they rallied to hear barack obama in berlin two summers ago. they wanted more than to \"dare to hope,\" which is the characteristically timid german translation of the title of the president's best seller. and they are still waiting. america seems busy elsewhere. the main conclusion i draw from the debate about germany is that it is not about germany at all. the task of building a democratic europe is far from complete. most of the foundations have been laid and now the residents are starting to haggle over the design. weaving today's 27 states into a true trans-atlantic partnership is a task that is too big for germany or even europe to accomplish alone. they desperately need some skilled architectural assistance. uniting europe and north america is the most audacious project ever conceived. if it works, the united states will be joined by nearly 500 million europeans to form a democratic space, within which modern democratic values will harness more energy than in any single nation on earth. democracy's future as the operating system for a globalized world will be assured. unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05768699 date: 08/31/2015 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05768699 date: 08/31/2015 european fecklessness seems to worry washington officials these days. but if germany has forgotten how to dream and the united states is too busy to try, we will both be guilty of perpetuating the aimlessness we so criticize. to hold up its side of the bargain, europe needs exactly what barack obama originally promised  the audacity of hope. john kornblum, senior counselor with the international law firm noerr llp in berlin, served as the u.s. ambassador to germany from 1997 to 2001. <http://up.nytimes.com/?d=0/9/&t=&s=l&ui=1384214&r=http%3a%2p/o2fwww%2enytimes%2ecom%2f2010%2f04%2f 23%2fopinion%2f23iht%2dedkornblum%2ehtml%3femc%3deta1&u=www%2enytimes%2ecom%2f2010%2f04%2f23%2f opinion%2f23iht%2dedkornblum%2ehtml%3femc%3deta1%26pagewanted%3dprint> dcsimg <http://wt.o.nytimes.com/dcsym57yw10000s1s8goboozt_9tlx/njs.gif?dcsuri=hojavascript&wt.js=no&wt.tv=1.0.7> <http://www.nytimes.com/adx/bin/clientside/2c7bce8402frbl051tt4q23tlwq5105105bq25tq2at02202202abq2 3q.22051> unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05768699 date: 08/31/2015  "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05765895 date: 07/31/2015 release in part b6 sent: thursday, december 3, 2009 7:48 pm subject: fw: somali rebels trying to kill asha haji importance: low original message sent: thu dec 03 12:30:03 2009 subject: re: somali rebels trying to kill asha haji : we are all horrified by this morning's suicide bombing and loss of life in mogadishu. tell allida that i have just spoken to amb. michael ranneburger in nairobi. i asked michael to contact asha haji as soon as possible to determine how we might be of assistance to her and her family. (michael knows asha and believes she may be in nairobi, but will find out asap where she is. asha's family, husband and children, are generally resident in nairobi.) i've asked michael to secure kenyan police protection for the family while they are in kenya and to explore with asha whether she is interested in looking for a way to come to the u.s. via some type of application for refugee status. michael will ask our consular officers to explore the options available if asha wants to consider them. i also alerted michael to the fact that asha's brother was seriously wounded in the bombing. i have asked that they get a full name as soon as possible and to see what we can do through the tfg, the un and amisom to have him flown to nairobi. michael said that he and the embassy have already arranged for a private hospital in to treat the seriously injured who are being arriving by special flights in nairobi. if we can identify asha's brother, we will give him priority. finally, michael has spoken to sheik sharrif extended our condolences and encouraged his resolve. i will be speaking to sheik sharrif later today. hope this update is useful. i will report more as i get. johnnie original message---- sent: thursday, december 03, 2009 11:35 am subject: fw: somali rebels trying to kill asha haji importance: high johnnie - what kind of guidance can we give allida who is a good friend of hrc and who has been also trying to help asha haji. i know hrc has been concerned about this. original message ---- sent: thu dec 03 11:28:47 2009 subject: somali rebels trying to kill asha haji unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05765895 date: 07/31/2015 unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05765895 date: 07/31/2015 , h met asha at cgi and raised concerns about her security. she sent asha to undersecretary carson. they met for an hour. note to us embassy in nairobi was to be sent re asha and her family's security. embassy won't meet with her. today's massacre killed her closest allies and blinded and critically wounded her brother. asha is last moderate leader. she is speaking out. they want to kill her, . please tell hillary. if you want i will email her. asha's phone "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05767278 date: 08/31/2015 release in part b6 sent: thursday, february 4, 2010 4:51 pm subject fw: d(s) sent: thursday, february 04, 2010 3:25 pm subject: fw: d(s) see below from sheba sent: thu feb 04 14:20:47 2010 subject: re: d(s) phillippe, jim has just been in touch with pj on this. jim sent rogin three emails flat out denying the entire story but rogin apparently chose to run it anyway. according to jim's correspondence with rogin, there is no truth to this  he has not talked to anyone at georgetown or the school of foreign service or the search committee and has not expressed interest in the position. sheba sheba crocker chief of staff, deputy secretary steinberg b6 sent: thursday, february 04, 2010 1:29 pm subject: d(s) if pj hasn't started yet, he should see this. copying sheba in case she has any guidance to share http://thecable.foreignpolicv.com/posts/2010/02/04/exclusive is state dept 2 steinberg on his way ou exclusive: is state dept. "
"unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05766955 date: 08/31/2015 release in full sent: monday, december 28, 2009 5:09 pm subject: fw: obama's foreign-policy team bests economy stars i am sure you saw but can't resist sending ... yellow highlights are mine cdm unclassified u.s. department of state case no. f-2014-20439 doc no. c05766955 date: 08/31/2015  "