https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/27434

Sorry. I've been behind too many curtains in my day…

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On Feb 26, 2016, at 8:36 PM, Jennifer Palmieri <jpalmieri@hillaryclinton.comwrote: > >

Gee. Thanks, Joel. We thought we could half-ass it. Let's discuss. >

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On Feb 26, 2016, at 8:35 PM, Joel Johnson <Joel@gpg.comwrote: >> >> I know you can't look past Bernie and March primaries but who is in charge of the Trump swift boat project? Needs to be ready, funded and unleashed when we decide but not a half assed scramble. >> >>

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joel_Johnson_(communications_strategist)

Joel Johnson (born in 1961 in Elmore, Ohio) is a managing director of the Glover Park Group, a strategic communications firm, and former Senior Advisor for Policy and Communications to President Bill Clinton from 1999 to 2001. Johnson has also worked on the staff of former senators Tom Daschle and Howard Metzenbaum. In 2001, he co-founded The Harbour Group, a public relations company, before leaving to join John Kerry's presidential campaign. Johnson became a managing director of the Glover Park Group in 2005.

Joel Johnson

Senior Advisor to the President

In office

May 20, 1999 – January 20, 2001

President Bill Clinton

Preceded by Sid Blumenthal

Doug Sosnik

Succeeded by Karl Rove

Personal details

Born Douglas Brian Sosnik

1961 (age 58–59)

Elmore, Ohio, U.S.

Political party Democratic

Education University of Maryland, College Park (BA)

https://www.politico.com/story/2011/11/wpp-buys-glover-park-group-069294

The Glover Park Group, one of Washington’s fastest-growing firms specializing in strategic communications and government relations, announced Tuesday that it has been bought by London-based WPP, the world’s largest communications-services company.

Glover Park was started in 2001 by four political refugees — well-connected Democrats suddenly disconnected after the disputed election of President George W. Bush. The firm, now with a bipartisan leadership team, has grown to 140, with offices in Washington, New York, Los Angeles and Boulder, Colo.

GPG has $60 million in annual revenue, putting it among the nation’s largest independent communications companies. The firm will keep its identity and operate as a stand-alone company within WPP. Specific terms were not disclosed.

GPG said that, as is typical for deals of this kind, “the founding partners have contractually agreed to remain with the firm for the foreseeable future.”

The four founding partners are Carter Eskew, Joe Lockhart, Mike Feldman and Chip Smith. Lockhart was hired in June as Facebook’s vice president of corporate communications.

GPG is stocked with professionals from the advertising, marketing and digital spheres as well as veterans from politics and government, including the Leadership in the House and Senate as well as the Obama, Bush and Clinton Administrations.”

Here is a Glover Park Group timeline:

2001: GPG founded by Carter Eskew, Mike Feldman, Joe Lockhart and Chip Smith in nondescript offices on Wisconsin Avenue in Glover Park.

2002: Amy Phee (Procter & Gamble Market Research) joins the firm to build the public opinion research and marketing capabilities.

2003: Howard Wolfson opens GPG’s New York office.

2004: GPG moves to bigger offices on Water Street in Georgetown.

2005: Joel Johnson and his team join GPG to start the government affairs practice.

2006: Private Equity Firm Svoboda Collins makes major investment in GPG.

2009: GPG moves into its current offices, on F Street, N.W., in Penn Quarter.

https://www.foxnews.com/media/cnn-joe-lockhart-kayleigh-mcenany-tim-murtaugh

CNN's Joe Lockhart suggests Kayleigh McEnany be fired, Tim Murtaugh be shot

The Trump campaign called on CNN to fire Lockhart after he speculated whether or not the president had a stroke