If the Environmental Protection Agency is any indication, the spies aren’t a welcome addition. The appointee tasked with watching the EPA has been shut out of meetings by Secretary Scott Pruitt himself.
A Marine officer and former fighter pilot was assigned to keep an eye on Sec. Jim Mattis. The unwelcome addition earned the staffer the nickname “the commissar,” a reference to a Soviet-Russia Communist Party official responsible for keeping commanders loyal to the regime.
Some agencies don’t even have nominees for posts, but the White House made sure there are senior aides handpicked to monitor the loyalties of secretaries once they’ve been sworn in.
According to ProPublica, hundreds of staff have been hired by Trump that worked as lobbyists or at far-right media outlets and at least 16 of those are serving as a Trump watchdog.
While they work for the agency or the secretary, The Washington Post learned that the staffers report to Rick Dearborn, the White House deputy chief of staff for policy. Each week, the aides gather on a conference call to report back their findings and are in constant contact with the White House.
This past week, a top aide claimed that the White House is being crushed under the weight of paranoia as they hurriedly search for leaks. However, one Republican close to the administration said. “It’s not paranoia if people really are out to get you, and everybody actually is out to get everyone else.”
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A Marine officer and former fighter pilot was assigned to keep an eye on Sec. Jim Mattis. The unwelcome addition earned the staffer the nickname “the commissar,” a reference to a Soviet-Russia Communist Party official responsible for keeping commanders loyal to the regime.
Some agencies don’t even have nominees for posts, but the White House made sure there are senior aides handpicked to monitor the loyalties of secretaries once they’ve been sworn in.
According to ProPublica, hundreds of staff have been hired by Trump that worked as lobbyists or at far-right media outlets and at least 16 of those are serving as a Trump watchdog.
While they work for the agency or the secretary, The Washington Post learned that the staffers report to Rick Dearborn, the White House deputy chief of staff for policy. Each week, the aides gather on a conference call to report back their findings and are in constant contact with the White House.
This past week, a top aide claimed that the White House is being crushed under the weight of paranoia as they hurriedly search for leaks. However, one Republican close to the administration said. “It’s not paranoia if people really are out to get you, and everybody actually is out to get everyone else.”
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