In his current role as senior advisor to President Biden, Podesta oversees the disbursement of $370–783 billion in clean energy tax credits and incentives authorized by the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022.[5][6]
Podesta spent most of his early years in Chicago, where he was born, growing up in the neighborhood of Jefferson Park on the city's Northwest Side.[8] His mother, Mary (née Kokoris), was Greek-American, and his father, John David Podesta Sr., was Italian-American.[9]Tony Podesta, a lobbyist, is his brother.[10][11] Podesta's father did not graduate from high school, but encouraged his children to attend college.[12]
Podesta worked as a trial attorney for the Department of Justice's Honors Program in the Land and Natural Resources Division (1976–77), and as a Special Assistant to the Director of ACTION, the Federal volunteer agency (1978–79). His political career began in 1972, when he worked for George McGovern's unsuccessful presidential campaign.[15]
Podesta served as both an assistant to the president and as deputy chief of staff. Earlier, from January 1993 to 1995, he was assistant to the president, staff secretary and a senior policy adviser on government information, privacy, telecommunications security and regulatory policy. Podesta was the first White House staffer to get the news of the Lewinsky scandal and was put in charge of managing the crisis.[17] In 1998, he became President Clinton's chief of staff in the second Clinton administration and served in the position until the end of Clinton's time in office in January 2001. Podesta encouraged Executive Order 12958, which led to efforts to declassify millions of pages from the U.S. diplomatic and national security history.[18]
In 2003, Podesta founded the Center for American Progress, a liberalthink tank in Washington, D.C., and served as its president and CEO until he stepped down in 2011. (CAP chief operating officer Neera Tanden succeeded Podesta as president and CEO, taking over day-to-day operations.)[19][20] Podesta remained chairman of the nonexecutive board of directors for a time,[20][21] and remains on the board as of August 2020, although not as chairman.[22]
Podesta has taught at his alma mater, Georgetown University Law Center, many times over the years,[23] teaching classes on congressional investigations, law and technology, legislation, copyright and public-interest law.[23][24] On the Georgetown faculty, Podesta's title is Distinguished Visitor from Practice.[24]
From 2002 to 2014, Podesta served as a member of the Constitution Project's bipartisan Liberty and Security Committee.[25] In 2008, he authored The Power of Progress: How America's Progressives Can (Once Again) Save Our Economy, Our Climate, and Our Country. In 2009, he accompanied Bill Clinton to North Korea for negotiations securing the release of two American journalists imprisoned on espionage charges. He can be seen in numerous widely circulated photographs of Clinton meeting with Kim Jong-il.[26]
Podesta opposes the excessive use of classification, and in a 2004 speech at Princeton University condemned what he called the U.S.'s "excessive government secrecy" and "bloated secrecy bureaucracy".[27]
Podesta has called Executive Order 12958, "which set tough standards for classifying documents and led to the unprecedented effort to declassify millions of pages from our nation's diplomatic and national security history," as "perhaps the biggest accomplishment of the Clinton administration."[27] More than 800 million pages of intelligence documents were declassified as part of the program.[28]
Podesta is described as "a longtime advocate for government disclosure of UFO files."[29] Podesta has supported petitions by some who believe UFOs are alien spacecraft to the government to release files related to the subject. At a 2002 news conference organized by Coalition for Freedom of Information Podesta stated that, "It is time for the government to declassify records that are more than 25 years old and to provide scientists with data that will assist in determining the real nature of this phenomenon."[30]
Podesta wrote the foreword for a book by Leslie Kean titled "UFOs- Generals, Pilots, and Government Officials Go On The Record". The book details numerous contact events by these trained personnel.[31]
John Podesta testifies before the Senate Budget Committee Task Force on Government Performance.
Podesta became an honorary patron of the University Philosophical Society in March 2006. Podesta is an emeritus member of the Knox College Board of Trustees.[32]
On October 7, 2016, WikiLeaks started to publish thousands of emails reportedly retrieved from Podesta's private Gmail account, some of which contained controversial material regarding Clinton's positions or campaign strategy.[43] Podesta and the Clinton campaign did not confirm or deny the authenticity of the emails.[44][45] Experts investigating the leak, including a private security firm called Secureworks, claimed that a Russian hacking group named Fancy Bear gained access to Podesta's account through phishing.[46] Podesta said that Russian intelligence officials attempting to influence the presidential election in favor of Donald Trump were behind the leak.[43]
The United States Intelligence Community released a statement directly accusing Russian intelligence of involvement.[47][48][49][50] Vice President Joe Biden told NBC News that the United States was "sending a message" to Russian President Vladimir Putin and that a wide-ranging "clandestine" cyber operation would take place in response to the Russians' activities.[citation needed] When asked about the leaks, Putin replied that claims of Russian involvement were false. "The hysteria is merely caused by the fact that somebody needs to divert the attention of the American people from the essence of what was exposed by the hackers."[51][52]
He and his wife Mary Podesta, a Washington, D.C. attorney, married in 1978 and have three children.[55][56] His daughter, Megan Rouse, was the president of the Dublin Unified School District (CA) Board of Trustees.[57][58] Podesta is an avid cook.[59]
^Whipple, Chris (2017). The Gatekeepers: How the White House Chiefs of Staff Define Every Presidency. New York City: Crown Publishing. pp. 209, 211. ISBN9780804138246.
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