Subject: Trip report from Afghanistan turned into public document
From: Caroline Wadhams <[email-masked]>
To: "[email-masked]" <[email-masked]>, Tom Perriello <[email-masked]>
Cc: "[email-masked]" <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2014 22:39:06 +0000

Hi John & Tom,

Hope you are doing well.  I have changed our Afghanistan trip report into a CAP public brief, which is attached. We hope to release this in a couple of weeks.  While you are not co-authors (unless you want to be, of course), I wanted to get your sign-off on releasing this doc, and in particular a line in the doc, which states that the document was largely based on consultations that the three of us had in Afghanistan in November in Afghanistan.

"The analysis below describes the three transitions underway in Afghanistan, much of it informed during a Center for American Progress research trip with John Podesta and Tom Perriello in November 2013, in cooperation with the Heinrich Boell Stiftung, a German non-profit organization with offices around the world, including Afghanistan.  Our trip focused on meetings with traditional and non-traditional civil society groups in Kabul. This paper also provides a set of recommendations for how U.S. policymakers and the international community in general can support these transitions, with the understanding that Afghan actors themselves will play the most prominent role."

I am attaching a draft in case you want to look at it and give me comments.  Thanks so much.

Hope to see you soon,
Caroline