Meet Sylvia Burwell, the woman who ordered the government shutdown

NBC News ^ | 10/02/13 | Elizabeth Chuck

[Libloather]

A single person shut down the entire U.S. government for the first time in 17 years.

Not a congressman, but an unelected woman named Sylvia Burwell who, as the relatively new director of the Office of Management and Budget, sent the email that initiated the process that has closed national parks, visitors’ centers and even the “panda-cam” at the National Zoo.

"Agencies should now execute plans for an orderly shutdown due to the absence of appropriations," Burwell wrote in a memo to heads of executive departments and agencies Monday night as it became clear lawmakers had failed to agree on a budget deal.

**SNIP**

"She became an extremely skilled negotiator," John Podesta told Bloomberg.

[Anti-Hillary]

And a “member” of Hillary’s bedroom????

[Lancey Howard]

Okay... She definitely has those “runaway bride” eyes..

[thouworm]

fascinating factoid....great find!

1993-———”A former White House aide” -— according to your article

“then a Special Assistant to Assistant to the President for Economic Policy Robert Rubin.” -— according to GPO report

Foster died, July 20, 1993.

1993-———”A former White House aide” -— according to your article

Wiki......
1993-95-—Staff Director for the National Economic Council
1995-97-—Chief of Staff to Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin
1997-98-—Deputy Chief of Staff to President Bill Clinton
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Odd...that she was even there. BTW, so was Linda Tripp. What a rat’s nest (mentioned in the pdf file). Oh well...back to the dismantling of the Constitution and dwindling branches of government.

PART E
THE DISCOVERY AND REMOVAL OF DOCUMENTS
FROM VINCENT W. FOSTER JR.’S OFFICE

Footnote 902 -——The trash was retrieved from the cleaning crew later on the night of July 20 by Sylvia Mathews, ****then a Special Assistant to Assistant to the President for Economic Policy Robert Rubin****. The trash was then stored overnight in the office of Roy Neel, then Deputy Chief of Staff. The handling of the trash is discussed in more detail below.

pdf file page 21-22-—Typewritten notes written within seven to ten days of July 20 by Sylvia Mathews924 stated Burton said they needed to get Nussbaum to lock the office.925 Mathews’s notes show she could not remember who told Nussbaum to lock the office, but she knew that he had the office locked.926 Park Police Major Hines said he spoke with Burton the night of July 20 and said the Park Police needed to go into the office and that it should be secured, though Hines could not remember whether Burton acknowledged this statement.927

Nussbaum said, “I don’t recall having any conversation with anyone that night as towhether the office should be locked or sealed.”928 Nussbaum also said nobody considered Foster’s office a crime scene or considered securing Foster’s office the night of July 20.929 He believed he locked up the Counsel’s suite when he left that evening.930 Records show that Secret Service Officer Henry O’Neill, not Nussbaum, re-alarmed the suite for the night at 11:41 p.m.931

pdf file page 50-52——4. The Trash from Foster’s Office.

When the cleaning crew went to the Counsel’s suite, they removed the trash.1115 Sylvia Mathews, Special Assistant for Robert Rubin, later asked Bill Burton, Dee Dee Myers and David Dreyer (then Deputy White House Communications Director) whether the trash in Foster’s office should be retrieved.1116

Notes she prepared within a week to ten days of the incident1117 show that Burton agreed they needed to retrieve the trash.1118 Mathews located the cleaning crew, who took her to where they had dumped the trash.1119 Mathews retrieved Foster’s trash and stored it in Deputy Chief of Staff Roy Neel’s office that night.1120 Associate Counsel Cliff Sloan said he retrieved the bag from Neel’s office the next day.1121 Secret Service records show Sloan put the bag back in Foster’s office at 6:34 p.m.1122 Foster family attorney Michael Spafford’s notes show the trash was reviewed during the search on July 22.1123

Mathews also made efforts to determine whether Foster’s burn bag was emptied.1124 After she retrieved the commingled burn bag for all West Wing offices from Officer O’Neill,1125 Gene Sperling (then Deputy Assistant to the President for Economic Policy) told her that she probably should not be examining sensitive and confidential burn bag material.1126

Mathews said Nussbaum later told her Foster did not have a burn bag in his office, so the burn bag material she had retrieved could be returned to the Secret Service.1127 Nussbaum did not remember any conversations about the burn bag with Mathews; he remembered discussing only trash with her.1128

Although Foster apparently had a burn bag in his office,1129 O’Neill said he did not empty Foster’s burn bag that evening.1130 The burn bag from Foster’s office remained in his office and was reviewed by Nussbaum on July 22 during his search.1131

http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/GPO-ICREPORT-MADISON/pdf/GPO-ICREPORT-MADISON-3-3.pdf

[hoosiermama]

Does anyone know what was IN the burn bag?

[Polyxene]

She DOES look like John Elway!!

[zot]

I’m sure Sylvia Burwell didn’t do this on her own initiative.
I’ll bet Valerie Jarrett told her to do it.

[Cementjungle]

I’m surprised this came from NBC news.

Why? NBC, like the rest of the MSM, works for Obama. This sort of story is part of the overall effort to make Barry blameless in everything bad that happens. This is just more "Don't blame me, I just work here. Some OMB director is the one who executed the bad shutdown that evil Republicans caused".

[LucyT]

~Vince Foster documents~

Meet Sylvia Burwell, the woman who ordered the government shutdown

Check out # 43 for even more information about Miz Sylvia M. Mathews Burwell.

Thanks, Maggief. Good find.

[penelopesire]

Well..well..well....great dig and recall Maggie.

Sounds to me like as always, the Mad King Obama is throwing someone else under the bus. He is never responsible for anything! Amazing.

[onyx]

Thanks very much for the ping and excellent research as always by maggief, who’s our FR treasure.

[petitfour]

She ordered the closure of eVerify? What an evil person. She ordered military hospitals to cut staff so military families do not have proper healthcare staff while the Obamacare website is up and not running? What an evil person. Are military families less worthy of healthcare than other Americans?

[petitfour]

Wow. Great job digging up this stuff.

[SW6906]

Does anyone have the ability/know-how to add the Vince Foster burn bag stuff to her Wikipedia entry? Would love to see that there...

[Conspiracy Guy]

ewww

[bgill]

For such irrelevant papers, that bag sure did go on a frantice trip around DC. Just imagine, if she’d had the parks closed then, Vince wouldn’t have been allowed to go into Ft. Macy Park and much less carry a big scary gun in there. Ban parks!

[Balding_Eagle]

BTTT