Drumpfster Fire Agencies

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Director of the FBI

 * for the full mess about Comey's firing, please see this section below
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former Rep. Scott Garrett (R NJ 5th)
nominee, Chairman and President of Export-Import Bank
 * co-founded House Freedom Caucus, twice voted against reauthorizing the bank while in Congress

former Rep. Spencer T. Bachus III (R AL 6th)
nominee, Board of Directors of Export-Import Bank
 * former former chairman (2011–2013), House Financial Services Committee

state Senator Dr. Mark Green (R, TN, 22nd)
nominee, Army Secretary; retired Army flight surgeon; insane religious zealot; West Point grad; 

Sam Clovis
national co-chair, policy director, Trump campaign; nominee, Undersecretary of Research, Education and Economics, USDA; economics professor, Morningside College

Dr. Scott Gottleib
nominee, director of Food and Drug Administration

George Conway
nominee, director of Department of Justice, Civil Division

Alexander Acosta
nominee, Secretary of Labor

Jay Clayton
nominee, Chairman of Securities and Exchange Commission

Dr. Heather Wilson
nominee, Secretary of the Air Force

Scott Brown
former nude model, for US Ambassador to New Zealand

Todd Ricketts
Chicago Cubs board member, for Deputy Commerce Secretary

Rod Rosenstein
former US Attorney for the District of Maryland, for Deputy Attorney General

New Hires
appointments which do not require Senate confirmation

Director of the Selective Service System
former state senator Don Benton (R, WA, 17th)

Deputy Assistant Secretary, Office for Civil Rights
Candice Jackson, nominee

Deputy Assistant for Population Affairs
Teresa Manning, nominee; decides how health services get government funding

Assistant Secretary of Public Affairs
Charmaine Yoest, senior fellow at American Values, nominee; inform the public about health issues

Administrator, Housing and Urban Development, Region 6
Beth Van Duyne, former mayor, Irving, Texas

ICE
Immigration and Customs Enforcement

VOICE
Victims of Immigration Crime Engagement Office

CBP
Customs and Border Protection

USCIS
US Citizenship and Immigration Services

TSA
Transportation Security Administration

NORAD
North American Aerospace Defense Command

FEMA
Federal Emergency Management Agency
 * major disaster declaration through the FEMA could reimburse up to 75 percent of costs incurred over a 48-hour period

Acting FEMA Administrator
Robert J. Fenton

Department of Defense
(or Pentagon)
 * 1) finalizing a lease in Trump Tower, New York to use for supporting President Donald Trump without providing any benefit to Trump or his organization

USS Michigan
US largest nuclear submarine

US Strategic Command
responsible for global command and control of all phases of deployment of wartime forces under one commander, including information and intelligence as well as the US nuclear arsenal

Secretary of Defense

 * 1) received letter from Rep. Jackie Speier (D CA 14th) regarding the appearance that the President would profit from the Pentago leasing space in Trump Tower

Speier-Mattis-MacStravic letters
communications between Rep. Jackie Speier (D CA 14th), Defense Secretary James Mattis and acting Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics, James MacStravic
 * in February, Speier wrote Mattis about the appearance that the President of the United States will financially benefit from this deal [the DoD leasing space in Trump Tower] with Mattis
 * on March 3, MacStravic wrote Speier that
 * the White House Military Office "requested approval to lease space in the Trump Tower for personnel assigned to support the President when at his private residence"
 * the residence in question was privately owned and negotiations "have been with the owner?s representatives only."
 * MacStravic was "temporarily performing the duties of the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics"
 * as such he would have to approve "an annual rental in excess of $1 million"

acting Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics
James MacStravic, approved, in consultation with the White House Military Office and other officials, the Pentagon leasing space in Trump Tower; reports to SecDef and Deputy SecDef

Army Secretary
nominee, state Senator Dr. Mark Green (R, TN, 22nd)

Joint Strike Fighter Joint Program Office
Pentagon office assigned to negotiate with Lockheed Martin on a price for the F-35 fighter jet

F-35 fighter jet
assembled in Fort Worth, Texas, by Lockheed

Lockheed Martin
builds F-35 fighter jet in Fort Worth, Texas

Office of the Inspector General for the Department of Justice
conducts independent investigations, audits, inspections, and special reviews of DoJ personnel and programs to detect and deter waste, fraud, abuse, and misconduct
 * appointed by the president and confirmed by the senate; can only be removed, or terminated, from their positions by the President; Congress must be notified of the termination, removal, or reassignment

National Security Division (NSD)
responsible for counterintelligence and counterterrorism investigations

Attorney General

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FBI
Federal Bureau of Investigation

Acting Director of the FBI
Andrew McCabe former deputy director, helped oversee the FBI investigation into Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server
 * wife, Jill McCabe, a Pediatric emergency physician ran as a Democrat for state senate for Virginia's 13th district in 2015 but lost

former Director of the FBI

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Los Angeles Field Division
Eric Harden, special agent in charge

HBCU Capital Financing
Historically Black College and University Capital Financing Program

Deputy Assistant Secretary, Office for Civil Rights
Candice Jackson, nominee

Financial Crimes Enforcement Network
tracks global money laundering

CFIUS
Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States
 * approves acquisitions of US assets by foreign companies
 * chair is Treasury Secretary

IRS
Internal Revenue Service

Administrator, HUD Region 6
Beth Van Duyne, former mayor, Irving, Texas

Fish & Wildlife Service
Fish & Wildlife Service Director's Order No. 219

NOAA
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

US Census Bureau
principal agency of the US Federal Statistical System, responsible for producing various censuses and surveys used to allocate over $400 billion in federal funds every year and the basis for congressional redistricting

Secretary of Commerce
former chairman, Bank of Cyprus

FDA
Food and Drug Administration

FDA CBER
Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, White Oak campus, Silver Spring, Maryland


 * 1) Christopher Stumphy representative for the CBER's Office of Facilities; wrote an email suggesting "[t]he current administration ... has requested that all monitors, under our control, on the White Oak Campus, display Fox News" and that he would be "unable to change any of the monitors to any other news source at this time"

CMS
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services

NIH
National Institutes of Health

CDC
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

acting Surgeon General
Rear Admiral Sylvia Trent-Adams, nurse and former Deputy Surgeon General
 * first non-doctor to be Surgeon General

former Surgeon General
''Dr. Vivek Murthy, still member of the Commissioned Corps of the Public Health Service ... for now''

Deputy Assistant for Population Affairs
Teresa Manning, nominee; decides how health services get government funding

Assistant Secretary of Public Affairs
Charmaine Yoest, senior fellow at American Values,nominee; inform the public about health issues

MSHA
Mining Safety and Health Administration

FAA
Federal Aviation Administration

USDA
US Department of Agriculture

SNAP
Supplimental Nutrition Assistance Program

Undersecretary of Research, Education and Economics, USDA
responsibility for advancing scientific knowledge related to agriculture through research, extension, and education

CPB
Corporation for Public Broadcasting

Protection Services Detail
staff charged with protecting the administrator

Board of Scientific Counselors
18-member federal advisory committee that provides advice and recommendations to EPA's Office of Research and Development on technical and management issues of its research programs

Science Advisory Board
47-member board provides a mechanism for the EPA to receive peer review and other advice designed to make a positive difference in the production and use of science at EPA

FCC
Federal Communications Commission

Lifeline
program that provides broadband internet to low income Americans in mostly rural communities

The Fed
the Federal Reserve

GAO
Government Accountability Office

NASA
National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Acting NASA Administrator
Robert M. Lightfoot, Jr

Space Launch System
heavy expendable launch vehicle; part of NASA's deep space exploration plans; to replace the retired Space Shuttle
 * Originally SLS's first flight was scheduled for August, 2021
 * thousands of miles beyond moon in three week trip
 * Study found if a crew was added to the first flight:
 * budget increase $700-900 million to $24 billion
 * delay first test until 2020
 * a fully operational life support system would need to be added

OMB
Office of Management & Budget

Office of Advocacy
''Jason Doré, assistant chief counsel for external affairs, had?/has? account on Ashley Madison''

NARA
National Archives and Records Administration
 * David S. Ferriero, Archivist of the United States (chief administrator of NARA)

FEC
Federal Election Commission

Director of Selective Service System
Selective Service System operates the US military draft

SEC
Securities and Exchange Commission

FDIC
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation; US government corporation that provides deposit insurance to depositors in US banks

ONDCP
Office of National Drug Control Policy; lead federal agency responsible for managing, coordinating drug policy; has budgetary authority and access to the Oval Office

Drug-Free Communities Support Program
funds 5,000 local anti-drug coalitions; largest drug-prevention initiative in US

High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area program
coordinates anti-drug-trafficking efforts by federal, state and local law enforcement agencies

former CIA White House Liason
whose name is being withheld by The Washington Post at the request of the CIA was on a standard two-year rotation to the White House
 * worked under Cohen-Watnick
 * within days of the Nunes Panic was told without explanation to clear out his desk and return to the agency

Senior CIA Analyst
Linda Weissgold, CIA's suggested candidate to replace Cohen-Watnick in NSC and was interviewed by McMaster

State Department spokesman
R.C. Hammond

Policy Planning Staff
internal think tank of State Department, to serve "as a source of independent policy analysis and advice for the Secretary of State"

Sahar Nowrouzzadeh
former member State Department Policy Planning Staff, transfered to the Office of Iranian Affairs

International Envoy
Jason Greenblatt

US Ambassador to Qatar
Dana Shell Smith