From: Andrea Resniok?

Date: 1! 26E 

To: William Cohan?

Suhjeet: 

Bill,
Thanks for getting past: to I wanted to give your question a thoughtful 

Aotually, there is. in last. no more to this than a Jim Delvlint politioal attaok. That is the point we tried to make [without naming Del?vlint) when Jide
and I met with you. That is the point that Diolt Lugar made to Jide when they had lunoh almost three years age.

The ?take news" olaim was raised after Jide's Senate hearing, in feet after he had reoeived apositive vote of the Foreign Relations Committee.
Del?vlint and other tar right-wing senators were desperate to take down another Doama nominee before the full Senate vote {whioh, in that still
somewhat more nai've era, was largely a formality after the positive oommittee vote). Jide was oollateral damage in a wider game.

Jide told you that he knew o_f the woman?at least that's what he intended to oonvey. Dnoe made, the White House oounsel's offioe diligenoed the
olaim. That is how .lide ltnew o_f the woman. Ely repeating this attaol-c, Airmail is falling to the same level as Ftogin and The Cable {as I believe Jide
mentioned when we met, Ftogin has been so ashamed that he has aotively avoided Jide and his father sinoe doing Delvlint's dirty worl-c]. There is
good reason this matter was never reported by other news souroes. By using The Cable as your souroe. you are advanoing the raoist agenda of a
raoist politioian and you?re using your personal oredihility - and Airmail's - to give a despioahle hatohet joh new life.

Hespeotfully,
Andrea