Obtained via FOIA by Judicial Watch, Inc. UNCLASSIFIED U.S. Department of State Case No. F-2016-07895 Doc No. C06162980 Date: 09/26/2018 Re: Office of Civil Rights To: Cheryl Mills RELEASE IN PART 86 86 Subject: Re: Office of Civil Rights He could but I doubt he would. UNCLASSIFIED U.S. Department of State Case No. F-2016-07895 Doc No. C06162980 Date: 09/26/2018 Obtained via FOIA by Judicial Watch, Inc. UNCLASSIFIED U.S. Department of State Case No. F-2016-07895 Doc No. C06162981 Date: 09/26/2018 Can I call Harold Koh and Eric Goosby? To: Cheryl Mills ...______ ____, RELEASE IN PART 86 B6 Subject: Can I call Harold Koh and Eric Goosby? I'll be home in ten minutes if you want to talk. UNCLASSIFIED U.S. Department of State Case No. F-2016-07895 Doc No. C06162981 Date: 09/26/2018 Obtained via FOIA by Judicial Watch, Inc. UNCLASSIFIED U.S. Department of State Case No. F-2016-07895 Doc No. C06162982 Date: 09/26/2018 Office of Civil Rights From: Cheryl Mills RELEASE IN PART 86 86 To: Hillary Clinton [email protected] Subject: Office of Civil Rights Before I mention to D as something perhaps worth exploring- do you think this is a role he can fulfill? Office of Civil Rights At the Department of State, diversity is not just aworthy cause: it is abusiness necessity. Diversity of experience and background helps Department employees in the work of diplomacy. The Secretary believes that diversity is extremely important in making the State Department an employer of choice. The Secretary has delegated both tasks of advancing diversity within the Department and ensuring equal opportunity to all employees to the Director of the Office of Civil Rights (S/OCR), who also serves as the Chief Diversity Officer (CDO). S/OCR advises and assists the Secretary and other principal officers in equal employment opportunity (EEO) policy and diversity management issues that relate to the Department of State. The office is symbiotically separated into three sections: Diversity Management and Outreach, Intake and Resolution, and Legal. The Diversity Management and Outreach section helps the Department foster awork environment free of discrimination by maintaining an affirmative outreach program. It performs this task by preparing workforce diversity reports, managing special emphasis programs, delivering EEO and diversity briefings, conducting workforce analysis to eradicate barriers to equal employment opportunity for individuals and groups, organizing commemorative events to recognize the contributions of a diverse array of individuals and groups, and more. The Intake and Resolution section handles all complaints surrounding employment discrimination in both the informal/counseling process and the formal complaint process. The Intake and Resolution section manages the Department's Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) program and the counseling program. Any employee or applicant who believes he/she has been discriminated against on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, age, disability, religion, sexual orientation, or reprisal for protected EEO activity should contact S/OCR or an EEO counselor within 45 calendar days of the alleged discriminatory act. S/OCR is one of the few EEO offices within the federal government to employ in-house counsel. The Legal section seeks to advance the mission of S/OCR by providing assistance with legal compliance as it relates to the administrative processing of UNCLASSIFIED U.S. Department of State Case No. F-2016-07895 Doc No. C06162982 Date: 09/26/2018 Obtained via FOIA by Judicial Watch, Inc. UNCLASSIFIED U.S. Department of State Case No. F-2016-07895 Doc No. C06162982 Date: 09/26/2018 EEO complaints and other EEO issues. The Legal section also investigates sexual and discriminatory harassment complaints within the Department reported pursuant to the requirements of 3 FAM 1525 and 1526. S/OCR is in the forefront of establishing best practices for EEO and diversity management within afederal agency. The Department of State is the first cabinet-level agency to appoint aChief Diversity Officer with oversight authority to integrate and transform diversity principles into practices in the Department's operations. Another best practice cited by the EEOC is a dialogue between S/OCR and each bureau within the Department to discuss the bureau's current diversity statistics and ways that each bureau can work to improve the diversity of staff, experiences, and thought. For more information about EEO and diversity, please contact us at: Office of Civil Rights S/OCR, Room 7428 Department of State Washington, DC 20520 Email: [email protected] Tel: (202) 647-9295 or (202) 647-9294 Fax: (202) 647-4969 UNCLASSIFIED U.S. Department of State Case No. F-2016-07895 Doc No. C06162982 Date: 09/26/2018 Obtained via FOIA by Judicial Watch, Inc. UNCLASSIFIED U.S. Department of State Case No. F-2016-07895 Doc No. C06162996 Date: 09/26/2018 Fwd: Fw: WSJ: Former President Clinton Retracts Default Comments From: Cheryl Mills 86 To: Hillary Clinton [email protected] RELEASE IN PART 86 Subject: Fwd: Fw: WSJ: Former President Clinton Retracts Def ault Comments Per your request ---------- Forwarded message ---------­ From: Cheryl Mills Date: Thu, 26 May 2011 20:30:55 -0400 Subject: Re: Fw: WSJ: Former President Clinton Retracts Default Comments To: Doug Band yes and then we should not do so again On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 4:10 PM, Doug Band wrote: > > > *From*: Matt McKenna ~------~ >*Sent*: Thursday, May 26, 201112:46 PM >*To*: Doug Band >*Cc*: Gene Sperling ; Jen Psaki < >~---- >*Subject*: WSJ: Former President Clinton Retracts Default Comments > > >Former President Clinton Retracts Default Comments > By LAURA MECKLERAnd DAMIAN >PALETIA UNCLASSIFIED U.S. Department of State Case No. F-2016-07895 Doc No. C06162996 Date: 09/26/2018 Obtained via FOIA by Judicial Watch, Inc. UNCLASSIFIED U.S. Department of State Case No. F-2016-07895 Doc No. C06162996 Date: 09/26/2018 > >WASHINGTON-Former President Bill Clinton retracted comments that the U.S. >government could default on its debt for afew days without "calamitous" >consequences, after being urged to do so by top White House officials, >people familiar with the events said Thursday. > >After hearing Mr. Clinton's comments on Wednesday, White House Chief of >Staff Bill Daley and Gene Sperling, director of the National Economic >Council, spoke with aides to Mr. Clinton and advised that he clarify his >thinking, two people said. The former president did so that afternoon. > >The White House officials suggested Mr. Clinton's comments could be used by >congressional Republicans, who are resisting the Obama administration's push >to raise the government's $14.3 trillion borrowing limit. Some Republicans >have been arguing that allowing the deadline to pass wouldn't be as >catastrophic as the Obama administration has warned. > >Mr. Daley, who is traveling with President Barack Obama in Europe, heard >about Mr. Clinton's remarks and called Doug Band, the former president's top >aide. Mr. Daley suggested that Mr. Clinton may have walked into abigger >controversy than he intended, one person said. For months, the White House >has been urging Congress to raise the legal borrowing limit so the >government has enough money to pay all its bills. > >Mr. Sperling, who was at a conference on fiscal issues where Mr. Clinton >spoke, helped draft Mr. Clinton's clarification. Mr. Sperling and Mr. Daley >both worked for Mr. Clinton when he was president. > >The White House's effort at damage control came as it is negotiating with >Republicans about ways to reduce the federal budget deficit, which they hope >will win them broad support for raising the borrowing limit. Obama >administration officials have argued that the debt ceiling must be raised >before Aug. 2or the government will default, which could rock financial >markets and trigger another recession. > >Speaking at the Washington conference, sponsored by the Peter G. Peterson >Foundation, Mr. Clinton said, "If we defaulted on the debt once for afew >days, it might not be calamitous. But if people thought we were literally UNCLASSIFIED U.S. Department of State Case No. F-2016-07895 Doc No. C06162996 Date: 09/26/2018 Obtained via FOIA by Judicial Watch, Inc. UNCLASSIFIED U.S. Department of State Case No. F-2016-07895 Doc No. C06162996 Date: 09/26/2018 >not going to pay our bills anymore, then they would stop buying our debt." > >That echoed GOP arguments that lawmakers can negotiate over an increase in >the government's borrowing limit until the last possible minute-and even >risk adefault-without major consequences. Mr. Clinton's remarks strayed not >only from the Obama White House position, but also from his own >administration's view during asimilar battle in the 1990s. > >In the statement, Mr. Clinton's spokesman, Matt McKenna, said the former >president "inadvertently misspoke" and "did not in any way mean to suggest >that adefault would not be highly damaging for the economy even for avery >short period of time." > >"What he meant to say was that if avote to extend the debt limit failed in >advance of adefault, that might not be harmful for acouple of days, but >that if people thought that we might actually default, that in his words 'we >were literally not going to pay our bills anymore,' then they would stop >buying our debt." > >The U.S. government hit the debt ceiling last week, but the Treasury >Department has several tools to avoid adefault until the beginning of >August. > >*Write to * Laura Meckler at [email protected] mand Damian Paletta at >[email protected] > Sent from my mobile device UNCLASSIFIED U.S. Department of State Case No. F-2016-07895 Doc No. C06162996 Date: 09/26/2018 Obtained via FOIA by Judicial Watch, Inc.