Wash Post reports on who Dean's been consulting with

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Dean Plugs Gaps in Experience
Ex-Governor Consults Experts on National, International Issues

Tuesday, December 2, 2003; Page A04

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In foreign policy and defense, Dean has "talked with" several Democratic Party stalwarts -- such as former secretary of state Madeleine Albright, former defense secretary William Perry and former national security adviser Anthony Lake -- over the past six months, according to his campaign. All three, however, have consulted with other Democratic candidates as well, and none has endorsed Dean. Indeed, Perry, an engineering professor at Stanford University, has endorsed Sen. John F. Kerry (Mass.).

Dean's most committed foreign policy wonk is a volunteer, Danny Sebright, a former Pentagon official who is vice president at a Washington consulting firm headed by William Cohen, who was President Bill Clinton's defense secretary. Sebright -- who headed a Pentagon panel on global terrorism after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks -- compiled Dean's foreign policy briefing book and wrote the campaign's position papers on such topics as Israel, North Korea and nuclear proliferation.

In economics, the campaign has sought advice from such luminaries as Nobel Prize winner Joseph E. Stiglitz, Princeton University's Alan S. Blinder and Jeffrey D. Sachs of Columbia University's Earth Institute. Sachs said he has spoken with Dean "about a half-dozen times" on trade, environmental policy and macroeconomic issues. Although he has not endorsed Dean and consults with other candidates, he said he thinks Dean "has the right instincts" on fiscal and foreign policy. "I've been very impressed with him as a listener," Sachs said. "He wants the background. He asks the right questions. I like the process with him."

Dean's chief domestic policy advisers are a husband-and-wife team, Harvard law professor Christopher Edley and Maria Echeveste, who was deputy chief of staff under Clinton and the highest-ranking Hispanic in Clinton's administration. Echeveste and Edley, who headed Clinton's task force on affirmative action, are volunteers.

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