Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke has put political appointee Daniel Jorjani in charge of overseeing all public information requests sent to the agency. Jorjani once told Interior colleagues that their job is ultimately to protect Zinke from ethics probes and bad press. The change, which was flagged Monday by the environmental nonprofit Center for Biological Diversity, strips the transparency authority from the agency’s chief information officer. A loyal member of Zinke’s team, Jorjani has done his best to keep his boss out of trouble. “At the end of the day our job is to protect the Secretary,” he wrote.

Source: Huffington Post December 11, 2018 00:00 UTC