Subject: Fwd: Today's Post story on executive orders
From: "Cassandra Butts" <[email-masked]>
To: "John Podesta" <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 9 Nov 2008 10:05:30 -0500

John, I sent the note below to the group working on executive orders
stressing the need to maintain the confidentiality of transition
deliberations, and I will send a general reminder out to transition
participants later today. I know you discussed this issue on Fox News this
morning, but I wanted to make sure you agreed with the sentiment expressed
below. Both Pfeiffer and Cutter agreed. Best, Cassandra

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From: Cassandra Butts <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, Nov 9, 2008 at 9:55 AM
Subject: Today's Post story on executive orders
To: sally katzen <[email-masked]>
Cc: "Stern, Todd" <[email-masked]>, [email-masked], "Gips,
Don" <[email-masked]>, Melody Barnes <[email-masked]>,
[email-masked], [email-masked], Chris Lu <
[email-masked]>, [email-masked], [email-masked],
[email-masked]

Today's Post story detailing some of the transition deliberations on
executive orders cites experts who have been working with us on this issue.
I will send a general reminder out to all transition participants regarding
the confidentiality of all transition deliberations, but I wanted to
communicate with this group directly. It is a violation of our code of
conduct to share nonpublic information outside the transition, which
includes transition deliberations. Anyone who violates this provision
including leaking to reporters without attribution will be terminated from
the transition. We need to do everything we can to prevent gratuitous leaks,
and I would appreciate if you would communicate this today with anyone who
has been assisting in the executive order effort. The success of Obama-Biden
Transition will depend in part on our discipline on this front, and this is
extremely important to the President-elect. Thanks for your assitance with
this.

Best,
Cassandra

On Sun, Nov 2, 2008 at 4:08 PM, sally katzen <[email-masked]> wrote:

>  we earlier sent a memo identifying Bush-era *government-wide* Executive
> Orders that warranted review -- either to be modified or rescinded; we have
> now compiled *agency-specific* Executive Orders that the agency review
> teams had identified from their work.
>
> attached is a memo generally describing what we did and two appendices --
> the first is a list of Bush agency-specific EOs that should be reviewed and
> the second is a list of proposed (by the agency review teams) new EOs to
> carry out the Obama agenda.
>
> If you want copies of the government-wide memo or if you have questions
> about the enclosed, please contact michael fitzpatrick at
> [email-masked]
>
> Also, please note that this is a moving target -- the agency review teams
> keep unearthing new things and Bush hasn't stopped issuing EOs, etc.
>
> Speaking of the "etc", we will next send an analysis of government-wide
> Presidential Memos and Directives
>
>
>