Re: >>6541616 lb [Clapper]

>>>Clapper in NZ before [Obama] sworn in.

From:r_m_gates@att.net

To: john.podesta@gmail.com

Date: 2008-12-05 12:02

Subject: Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence

John,

I reached Jim Clapper in New Zealand and he is willing to stay on as USDI as long as I'm here.

Thus, the bottom line: the only two senior people I'd recommend asking to stay (for a finite

period – maybe a year) are Clapper and Secretary of the Air Force Donley (in the latter case

because he's so new and making real headway in cleaning up the Air Force).

Got an e-mail from John Hamre this morning. The PE continues to push him very hard to take

the Deputy job. I hope it ultimately works.

Bob

>https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/30812

John J. Hamre (born July 3, 1950 in Watertown, South Dakota) is a specialist in international studies,

a former Washington government official and President and CEO of the Center for Strategic and

International Studies, a position he has held with that think tank since 2000.

>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hamre