>>13371466 pb
>Former USAID Administrator Becomes Global COVID-19 Response Coordinator
<Gayle Smith - Obama Transition Memo Before 2008 Election
Smith is out of DS central casting, CMM
Tons of WL hits on "Gayle Smith"
>https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/32148
Re: National Security Cluster
From:gaylesmithgayle@gmail.com
To: john.podesta@gmail.com
Date: 2008-08-24 15:26
Subject: Re: National Security Cluster
Both Ray and Rod came up but as next tier, as Mike wants only Sec and Dep
levels in this round, so I have a second list which far more diverse across
the board - gender, race, experience, sector, etc. Problem at top is that
everything is such a mess that most argue strenuously for governing
experience. Mike wanted list by Fri and already have additional names for
top as have talked to two more people who have eye on diversity - sending
them to Mike tonight but not sure how he's planning to organize this.
RECOMMEND that we focus less on layers and more on teams, i.e. per agency or
sector, what is good constellation - Sec, Deps, UnderSecs and critical other
positions. That way we will get much better diversity and better
combinations.
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<"Worried we are not outside the box enough. Also pretty white."
>Smith colluding with vetting - Richardson , Holbrooke, Lake, Biden, Blair…