Subject: RE: Polish dust up
From: "Denis McDonough" <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Date: Sat, 8 Nov 2008 17:11:57 -0600

This is what we put out: 

FROM DENIS MCDONOUGH, SENIOR FOREIGN POLICY ADVISOR
"President-elect had a good conversation with the Polish President and the Polish Prime Minister about the important US-Poland alliance. President Kaczynski raised missile defense but President-elect Obama made no commitment on it. His position is as it was throughout the campaign, that he supports deploying a missile defense system when the technology is proved to be workable."

So, it did come up – from Kaczynski – but BO did not engage it.  Their best excuse is they interpreted silence as acquiescence.  I believe they were deliberately fucking with us, so I thought it made sense to release the statement (WITH Mark and Ben and Jim and Phil guidance). 

Let me know if this is a complete enough picture for you. 

Denis

From: [email-masked] [mailto:[email-masked]] 
Sent: Saturday, November 08, 2008 5:53 PM
To: Denis McDonough
Subject: Re: Polish dust up

Yup. Want me to say that subject didn't come up. Have you put it out?

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From: "Denis McDonough" <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 8 Nov 2008 16:10:38 -0600
To: <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Polish dust up

No. Senator Obama did not address the issue of the missile defense system on the call and has been clear about his policy on it throughout the campaign. 

Fact is, John, that the Polish tried to jam us. 

See what I mean? 

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From: [email-masked] 
To: Denis McDonough 
Sent: Sat Nov 08 16:08:51 2008
Subject: Re: Polish dust up 

What if its more of a coordination q was transition walking back what obama actually said?

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From: "Denis McDonough" <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 8 Nov 2008 15:54:37 -0600
To: <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Polish dust up

John -

I think the answer is to just repeat our policy on missile defense system: that we support deploying it when the technology is proven workable.

Do you want more than that?

Denis.

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From: [email-masked] <[email-masked]>
To: Denis McDonough
Sent: Sat Nov 08 15:21:22 2008
Subject: Polish dust up

Guidance for the show tomorrow.
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