Subject: private record vetting and reaching out to Jim Hamilton
From: "Cassandra Butts" <[email-masked]>
To: "John Podesta" <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2008 18:06:23 -0400

John,

Per our conversation with Mike Froman, Christine and I are preparing to set
up the 10 teams we will use for the private record vet or deep dive with a
goal of having the teams in place by Monday, October 13. We'd like to start
reaching out to potential team leaders as early as tomorrow, but we think it
is important to first touch base with Jim Hamilton to communicate our
decision to use internal resources to manage the process. We can communicate
with Jim, but we thought you might want the option of contacting him given
your previous meeting. We are very interested in Jim leading and putting
together the team of lawyers who would focus on vetting candidates for
Secretary of State. We also would be open to him providing general advice as
we move forward. We plan to reach out to Leslie Kiernan and Bill Taylor to
be team leads, too. Please let me know if you will reach out to Jim.

Best,
Cassandra