ProPublica builds list of officials sent into Federal agencies as "beachhead teams."

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"One, Danny Tiso at the Department of Labor, graduated from high school in 2015..."

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Wow. Amazing work by @propublica to build a list of folks @realdonaldtrump sent into agencies as "beachhead teams."

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Meet the Hundreds of Officials Trump Has Quietly Installed Across the Government

We have obtained a list of more than 400 Trump administration hires, including dozens of lobbyists and some from far-right media.

by Justin Elliott, Derek Kravitz and Al Shaw
ProPublica, March 8, 2017, 2:44 p.m.

A Trump campaign aide who argues that Democrats committed “ethnic cleansing” in a plot to “liquidate” the white working class. A former reality show contestant whose study of societal collapse inspired him to invent a bow-and-arrow-cum-survivalist multi-tool. A pair of healthcare industry lobbyists. A lobbyist for defense contractors. An “evangelist” and lobbyist for Palantir, the Silicon Valley company with close ties to intelligence agencies. And a New Hampshire Trump supporter who has only recently graduated from high school.

These are some of the people the Trump administration has hired for positions across the federal government, according to documents received by ProPublica through public-records requests.

While President Trump has not moved to fill many jobs that require Senate confirmation, he has quietly installed hundreds of officials to serve as his eyes and ears at every major federal agency, from the Pentagon to the Department of Interior. ... Unlike appointees exposed to the scrutiny of the Senate, members of these so-called “beachhead teams” have operated largely in the shadows, with the White House declining to publicly reveal their identities.

While some names have previously dribbled out in the press, we are publishing a list of more than 400 hires, providing the most complete accounting so far of who Trump has brought into the federal government. ... The White House said in January that around 520 staffers were being hired for the beachhead teams.
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Reporting was contributed by Robert Faturechi, Jesse Eisinger, Alison Gregor, Jessica Huseman, Lauren Kirchner, Alec MacGillis, Clifford Michel, T. Christian Miller, Charles Ornstein, Andrew Revkin, Marcelo Rochabrun, Lisa Song and Annie Waldman.

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Here are More than 400 Officials Trump has Quietly Deployed Across the Government

By Al Shaw, Justin Elliott and Derek Kravitz, ProPublica, March 8, 2017

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1. The "dismantling of the administrative state" has begun

With the desired result being rising unrest and violence in the streets.

We'll know they've accomplished their goal when Mark Levin and Wayne LaPierre start advocating for "sensible gun control laws."

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2. Very interesting. W puts political ops throughout agencies

mostly to review study findings or write press releases with spin. I remember talking to an Obama, during the 2098 campaign, volunteer at my house who worked at Pew research. They told me that staff at many levels had stopped releasing anything because they were tired of their findings being turned 180 degrees to fit the W&Co. narrative.

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3. One of Trump's Department of Labor Appointees Apparently Graduated From High School in 2015

March 8 2017 5:32 PM

One of Trump’s Department of Labor Appointees Apparently Graduated From High School in 2015

By Ben Mathis-Lilley

The investigative site ProPublica has a report out Wednesday on some 400 individuals whom the Trump administration has appointed to executive branch positions that don't require Senate confirmation. Thirty-six of them are lobbyists, which suggests that the swamp may not be getting drained, and several of them are wingnut conspiracy types, which suggests that the swamp may be convinced that Ted Cruz's father killed John F. Kennedy. But ProPublica's best find might be Danny Tiso, a Department of Labor hire. ProPublica says that Tiso's LinkedIn page identified him as having graduated from high school in 2015, though it no longer appears to do so, and this 2014 internship announcement suggests that he would not have been a senior until the 2015–16 school year. (It's possible, of course, that he graduated early—this February 2016 Nashua Telegraph article identifies him as a former high school student—or that the announcement was mistaken.)

Tiso, according to LinkedIn, worked for the Trump campaign in New Hampshire as an event coordinator. His previous work experience consists of four internships and, per a quick Google search, he made a school honor roll in 2010. When he was in sixth grade.

And now he works at the federal Department of Labor! That's neat.

Ben Mathis-Lilley edits the Slatest. Follow @Slatest on Twitter.

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4. D-Day At DOJ: The Trump Administration's 'Beachhead' Team For The Justice Department

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D-Day At DOJ: The Trump Administration’s ‘Beachhead’ Team For The Justice Department

By David Lat

Jan 20, 2017 at 11:05 AM

U.S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE – TRUMP LANDING TEAM

(For my discussion and analysis of the Trump DOJ landing team, see here.)

Office of the Attorney General (OAG)

David Rybicki: Counselor in the Office of Attorney General
Rachael Tucker: Counselor in the Office of Attorney General
Mary Blanche Hankey: White House Liaison
Lauren Goldschmidt: Utility

Office of the Deputy Attorney General (ODAG)

James Crowell: Principal Associate Deputy Attorney General (Detail – USA MD)
William A. Hall: Associate Deputy Attorney General (Detail – CRM)
Zach Terwilliger: Associate Deputy Attorney General (Detail – USA EDVA)
Chad Mizelle: Counsel to the Deputy Attorney General
Gary Barnett: Counsel to the Deputy Attorney General
Matthew Sheehan: Counsel to the Deputy Attorney General
Michael Murray: Counsel to the Deputy Attorney General

Office of the Associate Attorney General (OASG)

Rachael Parker: Chief of Staff and Counsel to the Associate Attorney General

Office of the Solicitor General (OSG)

Noel Francisco: Principal Deputy Solicitor General

Office of Legal Counsel (OLC)

Curtis Gannon: Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General
Scott Stewart: Counsel, OLC

Office of Legal Policy (OLP)

Ryan Newman: Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General
Brett Talley: Deputy Assistant Attorney General
Jonathan Berry: Counsel, OLP
Jennifer Bandy: Counsel, OLP

Civil Division (CIV)

Chad Readler: Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General

Civil Rights Division (CRT)

John Gore: Deputy Assistant Attorney General
Tom Wheeler: Deputy Assistant Attorney General

Criminal Division (CRM)

Trevor McFadden: Deputy Assistant Attorney General

Environment and Natural Resources Division (ENRD)

Jeff Wood: Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General

David Lat is the founder and managing editor of Above the Law and the author of Supreme Ambitions: A Novel. He previously worked as a federal prosecutor in Newark, New Jersey; a litigation associate at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz; and a law clerk to Judge Diarmuid F. O’Scannlain of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. You can connect with David on Twitter (@DavidLat), LinkedIn, and Facebook, and you can reach him by email at [e-mail].

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5. White House installs political aides at Cabinet agencies to be Trumps eyes and ears

Hat tip, Joe.My.God: REPORT: White House Installs Informants At Each Cabinet Agency To Report On “Loyalty” To Trump

White House installs political aides at Cabinet agencies to be Trump’s eyes and ears

By Lisa Rein and Juliet Eilperin March 19 at 8:15 PM

The political appointee charged with keeping watch over Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt and his aides has offered unsolicited advice so often that after just four weeks on the job, Pruitt has shut him out of many staff meetings, according to two senior administration officials.

At the Pentagon, they’re privately calling the former Marine officer and fighter pilot who’s supposed to keep his eye on Defense Secretary Jim Mattis “the commissar,” according to a high-ranking defense official with knowledge of the situation. It’s a reference to Soviet-era Communist Party officials who were assigned to military units to ensure their commanders remained loyal.

Most members of President Trump’s Cabinet do not yet have leadership teams in place or even nominees for top deputies. But they do have an influential coterie of senior aides installed by the White House who are charged — above all — with monitoring the secretaries’ loyalty, according to eight officials in and outside the administration.

This shadow government of political appointees with the title of senior White House adviser is embedded at every Cabinet agency, with offices in or just outside the secretary’s suite. The White House has installed at least 16 of the advisers at departments including Energy and Health and Human Services and at some smaller agencies such as NASA, according to records first obtained by ProPublica through a Freedom of Information Act request.
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Ashley Halsey III and Missy Ryan contributed to this report.

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