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...Obama’s campaign hurtles toward the finish line, former Clinton White House chief of staff John D. Podesta is quietly laying the groundwork for an Obama administration...
Obama is eager to avoid those mistakes. Within weeks of capturing the nomination, he started planning for the possibility that he would govern. He set up a transition team last summer, led by former Clinton chief of staff John Podesta, one of the best-connected - and least self-aggrandizing - Democrats in Washington. Podesta's team is compiling a book of perhaps 50 chapters to use as a blueprint for a new Administration. All this activity opened Obama to criticism from McCain that he was prematurely "measuring the drapes" of the Oval Office. Instead of drapes, though, the Illinois Senator seemed...
...typical for presidential campaigns to begin working on the transition effort months before the election, given the short window available to set up a new government between Election Day and the Inauguration. The Obama campaign has also started a transition-planning effort, recruiting John Podesta - a former chief of staff to President Clinton who now runs a liberal think tank, the Center for American Progress - to help oversee the preparation...
...Another problem is that some of those who might potentially be brought in have already been sidelined. Former White House Chief of Staff John Podesta, for instance, is running a 527 organization called the Fund for America and is forbidden by law to even consult with the campaign...
...Podesta, through a spokesperson, said of the FOIA requests, "the truth is out there." But like all FOIA requests, it may take a while before...