Subject: Re: Fyi
From: [email-masked]
To: "John Podesta" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2012 20:21:29 +0000

Hi John - I'll be available from 345-515 and you can reach me on my cell phone - 917.856.5644 - and then tonight after 8ish. Trying to be helpful by not only purposefully not engaging - a strategy I've employed the last couple months but also now by explicitly not engaging. 

------Original Message------
From: John Podesta
To: Anna James
Subject: Re: Fyi
Sent: Feb 8, 2012 3:07 PM

you around for a phone call? what's the best # to reach you at?

On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 2:26 PM,  <[email-masked]> wrote:
> Over the past few days a few people from the Foundation have reached out to me frustrated or upset about _____ (fill in the blank largely derived meetings Friday or Monday). I've responded to all w/ essentially the following (ie disintermediating myself, again, emphatically) below. I also called my Dad last night to tell him of my explicit non-involvement and pushing all back to you both and to him as I think that is indeed the right answer. Thanks
> Sample:
> Please share any and all concerns, with examples, without pulling punches, with John and Cheryl as appropriate and also if you feel very strongly with my Dad directly. Transitions are always challenging and to get to the right answer its critical that voices are heard and understood, and in the most direct way - ie to them without intermediation. Particularly in an effort to move more toward a professionalism and efficiency at the Foundation and for my father - and they're the decision-makers, my Dad most of all.
> Chelsea
>