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Mr. Penn "is still going to be very much involved," a senior campaign official said.

Betcha that senior official was Penn himself... 

Aide's New Role Looks to Some Like the Old One
By Anne E. Kornblut
Washington Post Staff Writers
Tuesday, April 8, 2008; A04

The question for some staff members of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's campaign yesterday was why it had taken her so long to remove Mark J. Penn as its chief strategist.

But other aides wondered how the campaign will function without Penn. And despite the announcement Sunday that he is giving up his strategist role, it remain to be seen how removed he will be. Penn was on a top-level conference call yesterday, one insider said; he is helping Clinton (N.Y.) prepare for the next Democratic debate, on April 16; and his firm, Penn Schoen & Berland Associates, will continue to conduct some polling for the campaign.