EFTA02347449.pdf

From: Kathy Ruemmler Sent: Friday, October 17, 2014 8:04 PM To: jeffrey E. Subject: Fwd: letter from Sauber to WP Letter from Dach's lawyer. Forwarded message From:="Schultz, Eric" mailto >> Date: Oct 16, 2014 6:18 PM Subje=t: letter from Sauber to WP To: "Kathy Ruemmler" Cc: =br> 40=A0 Re: My client Jonathan Dach Dear Carol: 40=A0 I want to raise with you and your colleagues, to whom I ask=that you circulate this letter, a serious question about the continued use=of Jonathan Dach's name in the follow-up articles that the Washington Post intends to pu=lish. Q=A0 You repeatedly told us that your initial article on this su=ject was not really about Jonathan Dach—it was a story about what =ou saw as pressure exerted on DHS investigators and what you perceived as disparate treatment of Secret Service personnel =ersus White House staff or volunteers. In fact, it would seem that M=. Dach's actual activities in Cartagena were nearly irrelevant to =our story. Now that the initial story is out, with the not unexpected buzz it generate=, I would ask that you from this point forward refrain from using Mr. Dach=E244s name. He has served his purposes for your reportingQ=94repeating his name in connection with these allegations only deepens the wounds he has already suffered. If the Post insists, for no reason we can ascertain, to include the name, i= seems the very least the paper should do is to include, whenever his name=is used, reference to his continued denials and to the fact that his=signature, to say nothing of his name, does not appear on the hotel register. EFTA_R1_01320304 EFTA02347449 Let me give you an example of how your continued emphasis on whether or not=he acted inappropriately in Cartagena has gone unnecessarily over the line=of propriety. On your MSNBC appearance last Friday you said;<=> "And the (hotel] made clear to investigators that there was no way a w=man could just write a number down for a room in the president's hotel=where there was a lot of high security." This statement presents two problems: It is fi=st and foremost highly misleading. As you know the erroneous h=tel log was dated around 12:01 AM on the morning of April 4th.=C2* And as you know, the President did not arrive in Cartagena until April 13<=up>th, almost 10 days later. On the night of April =rd and the morning of April 4th, it wasn&=39;t the president's hotel -- it was just a hotel. Your choi=e of words, whether accidental or purposeful, would leave any viewer w=th an impression you may have sought, but which was clearly wrong.<=> Q=A0 More to the point, there is no reason to keep harping on Mr= Dach's behavior and whether you think he really had a woman in hi= room. The thesis that Mr. Dach misbehaved is irrelevant and it continues the unfairness we have presented to y=u for several months now. Q=A0 We would ask that you not name him any further, or at the v=ry least if you feel compelled to name him please include the denials and =n accurate recitation of the evidence presented to the White House at the time the early decisions were made../u> On another note we also point out that Leslie Dach w=s not a registered lobbyist during his tenure at Walmart. <=u> Eric Schultz w 202/456-4674 <tel:202%2F456.4674> c 202/503-5929 <tel:202%2F503-5929> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> <=u> 2 EFTA_R1_01320305 EFTA02347450