The email is a window into Warren's "personnel is policy" push aimed at limiting Wall Street executives from getting top jobs in Washington. | Getty Email: Warren presented Clinton with list of personnel recommendations

Sen. Elizabeth Warren attempted to influence Hillary Clinton's personnel picks, presenting the campaign with a list of potential hires, the latest batch of WikiLeaks emails shows.

The emails, purported to be from the inbox of Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta, provide a rare glimpse into Warren's attempts to keep Wall Street allies out of the next administration and her skepticism about Clinton's intentions.


An unverified January 2015 email from Clinton speechwriting director Dan Schwerin to other campaign officials describes a discussion with longtime Warren aide Dan Geldon, following a meeting that Warren and Clinton had the previous month.

The adviser to the Massachusetts Democrat was "intently focused on personnel issues," the email read. He "laid out a detailed case against the [former Treasury Secretary] Bob Rubin school of Democratic policymakers, was very critical of the Obama administration's choices, and explained at length the opposition to Antonio Weiss," an investment banker whom Warren helped block from getting a top Treasury Department job.

"We then carefully went through a list of people they do like, which EW sent over to HRC earlier," Schwerin said. "We have already been in touch with a number of them and I asked if he would be comfortable introducing me to the others, to which he seemed reasonably amenable."

The email is a window into Warren's "personnel is policy" push aimed at limiting Wall Street executives from getting top jobs in Washington. The Democratic Party adopted the mantra as part of its campaign platform this year.

Warren is on guard against Clinton tapping business-friendly administration officials from the Rubin wing of the party — a case that Warren has made directly to the Democratic nominee and indirectly through speeches and nomination fights. Last month, Warren said a Clinton administration should not be staffed with officials linked to BlackRock, Citigroup or Morgan Stanley.

"He spoke repeatedly about the need to have in place people with ambition and urgency who recognize how much the middle class is hurting and are willing to challenge the financial industry," Schwerin said of the meeting with Geldon.

According to the email, the Warren aide expressed "some flexibility" on the Glass-Steagall Act, a repealed law separating commercial and investment banking that Warren wants to revive and Clinton has declined to endorse. Geldon, according to the e-mail, said that addressing "too-big-to-fail" is the bigger issue.

"Overall, it was a polite and engaged but not exactly warm conversation," he said. "They seem wary — and pretty convinced that the Rubin folks have the inside track with us whether we realize it yet or not — but open to engagement and to be proven wrong. He mentioned that everyone will be watching carefully any leaks about who HRC is meeting and talking to. We agreed to stay in touch and I'll follow up, including to ask for introductions to specific people he mentioned."

The Clinton campaign has declined to confirm or deny the authenticity of the documents released by WikiLeaks.