07-F-0516 Email Chronology and ITPT Log 06-18-2004

,. (b)(6) CPA I <~ JunalB ~~~~:32AM lfb_6_ _ CPA RE: Chronology These are very rough notes that I was making for myself before you joined us, so please don't Include them as official source documents and such. The notes also are not complete as I pretty much · stopped when you arrived. That being said, hopefully they provide some good insight for yoo. · Sincerelv, l<b)(6) ~(e.g) ~ ITPT Log.dOC (39 KB) from: CPA --<>rtglnal ~ Sent: . 9:01 AM To: 6 LT<PA Subject: ronology (b)( 6 Can you email me your chronology of rTPT activity? j(b )( 6) I ., otf)(6) January • The DoD Transition Team -Iraq started with 5 people and added me. • The team operated out of the ASA-I&E office- an interim Secretary was ft.lling the post so the office was open. • This isolated the team from DoD who was on the other side of the construction barrier. • Much of the early meetings were "Handshake" meetings- getting the LTG to know people around the building. • The notable exception was the 1700 meeting. o Each assessment team lead came early on, except IT which had already left forlraq. 0 We started each meeting by going arour the table wj& each !1-\sessment I ( / "\ team. then: JS, OSD Policy and JS reps·_(b)(6) ·- G Rice_z\ UK rep; .b£".) round the circle and close with LTG. LTG tried to have people who bad just returned from Iraq give a 5-l 0 ditty on their obse a · ons o Nobody liked the timing of the meeting, includin (b)( 6) but it was the only time that we seemed to be able to get people toge er. • Security team went out relatively early under Eikenberry. o We wound up having great difficulty even getti.{lg ahold of our own report that Eikenberry wrote. ~ {' ) • Finance Team went out with OMB an (b) N. • Personnel Team went out wi (b)( 6) s ayed the personnel person throughout the transition. \ j ) • 29 Jan - 5 Feb LTG an~ent to Iraq on tbe.ir first trip b{ ( February • Assessment teams started doing a lot of work on their reports o Briefed to L TO then briefed Deputy and SECDEF b ( ~) May 11: • Word came down that DoS pulled out of the Table Top due to "scheduling" issues. The Colonels working on the Table Top went to work on a proposal for a DoD-only exercise. o NDU continued its work cross-walking all of the plans and writing scenarios. o The possibility of having facilitators play the DoS part was brought up, but didn't seem to go anywhere. May 12: • A handful of DoD staff were picked to provide crowd support in getting Transition Planning Conference attendees to, in and back from DoS which helped out as the ,. Metro entrance c1ose~ ~tate opened the 23rd St entrance for us and people generally ~~ b({J • CA~?~riefed facilitators and assistants on the process . and due outs for the conference. o Key due outs were the nuts and bolts language of two main MOA's (security and support) - with lawyers to clean up later. o Power point briefs on the issues addressed and points of the MONs accomplished. ~~~ . ~ First real day of transition conference. Teams met to discuss issues and hammer out MOA language. At noon, there was a mid-conference review discussing major issues standing at the time. Security standards were the most contentious. DoD brought up the fact th~uJd provide DoD standards of security and request that State sign a waiver~umped in immediately saying that that was a no-go. She wound up hedging her statement and ITPT later found out that State "L" was drafting such a waiver already. The group decided to disagree on this issue at the conference. 040513 1be contracting group at the conference had already drafted an MOA. so the effort became fitting the old MOA into the format provided at the conference. There were some word tweaks, but for the most part, it was a cut and paste effort. State started by w~ving the "non-reimbursable" NSPD flag several times in the meeting, however. State also kept emphasizing how tbe MOA should be left in "ge~rms. State d'd not want_~x,ed-into" specific requirements. For their part,~ (b)(6) and CO~d not push back on that aspect.l(bX6) ~so pushed for gene anguage stating that the contracting people knew how to do their business - theirs was a operational focus, not policy. 0405I71<bX6nmnounced that CPA (State) had a town hall meeting in Baghdad to discuss pay an~issues. Several of the top ''winners" were that pay for 3161's would be cut, 316l's would be homeported in D.C. (taking away the TAD money) and that clocks for benefits would be reset (mostly effected inadequate housing counters that kick in only after a certain amount of time in country). State stated that the measures were to level the playing field and help morale by ensuring that people working side~ ~·de doing the same work would not have unequal pay. Everyone in DoD and Bq_Rice ought that it would lead to people leaving -even those who had volunteered to stay. ost thought that the new rules should be for new hires as many of those staying on would not be ~ad for long after the transition -attrition would get rid of the old policy. BG an~ught that State shouldn't have rocked the boat. Wheq:~(6) lmnounced the measures at the 040518 1600 meeting in conjunction with other news, everyone joked with him saying "any more 'good' news?" 040520 Paul bad asked CoiJ(b)(6) ~o try and find any documentation about the new State pay measures for 3161 's. State hedged saying that lawyers were looking at it. LTG extremely important to help control rumors. \ r' noted in the J 600 meeting that getting any certified p~rwork concerning the matter was ~~~9{j . 040520 State announced, emphaticallyl(b)(6) ~ord), that it would not sign the security and support MONs by June 1st. When Thld abOut it the next day, LTG had relaxed attitude stating that DoD would have them signed and put in State's lap by June 151 • 040602 Series of breakout sessions at DoD to work out final OPLAN and MOA language. 040604 CAPT~ co~(b)(6) land CD~(b)(6) for 10 hour negotlatlon over security MONs. ~aveled to DS office in Rosyln 040605 Editing party with the OPLAN. 040607 The noon conference call had many players (all top players from DoD) to try and hammer out final sticking points to the MONs. One sticking point was milair- DoS wanted dedicated support; DoD wanted "priority" language 040607 The Security MOA's were fmalized and forwarded through the DOD and DOS legal offices for signature by Feith and DoS' security secretary (we wantedl(b)(6) I but couldn't get him). 04060~(b)(6 ) landj(b)(6) ~ent to DoS to finish negotia~g the support moa. All but three items that lawyers brought up we~ upqn. The lawyers then went their merry way to bash out the final details~andl(b)(6) jwere to sign this MOA. 040610 We were ready to publish the OPLAN. but OGC spent a lot of time making bappy to glad changes with a few substantive changes included as well. This upset a lot of people, but it turned out to be a good thing, because many of the edits from the previous weekend's ''party" did not make it into the OPLAN. 040611 The MOA's missed their target to getting~o sign on the 10 .... The original intent w to ve ~dl( b ) (6 ) ~ign separate pieces of gaper then have admin fuse the products. (b)(6l d RADM drove over to State on the 11 to pick up the copy tba~ had signe evidently on the lOth.