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Greenpeace Sought Top Hillary Aide’s Help To Tackle Modi Regime’s Restrictions: WikiLeaks
John Podesta, Chairman of the 2016 Hillary Clinton presidential campaign (PAUL J. RICHARDS/AFP/Getty Images)
On 22 October, WikiLeaks released an email discussion where Greenpeace sought the help of John Podesta, top Hillary Clinton aide and her 2016 campaign manager, to help the organisation after the government led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi levied controls on the funding of the environmental organisation.
The discussion on the situation of Greenpeace in India took place between Podesta and Karen Sack, Managing Director of Ocean Unite, a non-governmental organisation that works towards ocean conservation, who had earlier worked with Greenpeace.
One of the mails concerned was a conversation that took place on 26 May 2015, where Sack wrote to Podesta:
Podesta forwarded the conversation to the officials of Sandler Foundation – one of the chief funders of the Center for American Progress, a Democratic think tank founded by Podesta. Interestingly, Sandler Foundation also funded an environmental group in Australia that was opposing a mining project of the Adani Group.
Sergio Knaebel, Grant Director of Sandler Foundation, responded:
In order to show good intent, Podesta promised to put Kumi Naidoo, then International Executive Director of Greenpeace, in touch with his brother Tony Podesta, who heads the Podesta Group, one of the firms that lobbies for India in the United States. But the set emails have not revealed what steps were taken, if any.
Podesta has refused to comment on the WikiLeaks revelation.
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