# Crystal C. Woods Arkansas Department of Transportation staff member. Email [email protected]. Personal email [email protected]. Woods's specific role within ARDOT is not documented in this production; the 7/14/2025 exchange establishes her as a curiosity-inquiry correspondent to [[robyn-smith]] following the published Lenow Arkansas Times article on Arkansas pension systems' Israel Bonds activity. ## Role in the ASHERS production Woods is documented as initiating one inquiry to Smith on 7/14/2025 10:35 AM CDT, asking "Just curious... Are we also purchasing Israeli bonds?" The inquiry follows from Woods's own forward of a Facebook share of the Lenow Arkansas Times article from her personal AOL account ([email protected]) to her ARDOT work account ([email protected]) on Saturday morning 7/12/2025 7:32 AM. Smith replied: "We are not." The exchange is the second-stage test of ASHERS's Israel Bonds posture after the Lenow article published 7/11/2025. Woods's "Just curious" framing characterizes the inquiry as personal-curiosity-driven rather than role-based-required-knowledge. Smith's two-word response ("We are not.") confirms ASHERS's no-bonds posture and terminates the thread. ## Significance Woods's exchange establishes that the published Arkansas Times article reached internal ARDOT staff and triggered staff curiosity about ASHERS's posture, but did not produce a substantive ASHERS reconsideration or internal review. The contrast with the parallel post-publication response at the Auditor's office (documented at [[auditor-foia-r3-3-3-26]] as Brady's 7/11/2025 7:28 PM iPhone forward of the same article to Milligan's personal AOL account [email protected] plus the 7/12/2025 6:54 AM Brady forward to Berman) is structurally informative. The Auditor's office routed the same article through personal-AOL accounts and to the DCI counterpart; ARDOT internal staff routed the same article through standard work-account inquiries to the executive secretary with a two-word factual response. ## Evidence > "Just curious... Are we also purchasing Israeli bonds?" > Woods to Smith, RE_ Arkansas Times article about state retirement systems purchasing Israeli bonds.eml, 7/14/2025 10:35 AM CDT > "We are not." > Smith to Woods, RE_ Arkansas Times article about state retirement systems purchasing Israeli bonds.eml, 7/14/2025 10:35 AM CDT ## Cross-references [[robyn-smith]] ASHERS Executive Secretary [[jennifer-lenow]] Arkansas Times reporter whose 7/11 article triggered the inquiry [[ashers-foia-r1-3-27-26]] source page [[ashers-declined-pitch-control-case]] concept page