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Lol, and now, immediately after posting this, I see a mention of him:

https://jameshowardkunstler.substack.com/p/war-delirium

The world may be a disaster these days, but the White House is a bigger disaster. Can you name the White House chief of staff? Betcha can’t. Know why? He never, ever comes out and speaks to that mob in the press room. He might have to answer some difficult questions, such as: if the president’s brain is switched off more than half the time, who decides what to do with that ‘nuclear football’ they carry around with him. Is it. . . you? By the way, the chief of staff’s name is Jeff Zients. Ever heard him? Of course not.

https://jdrucker.substack.com/p/are-blackrock-and-a-mysterious-figure

"Kimberly Lang" is a high-level person in the White House and apparently nobody in the outside world has any idea who she is. We know she's employed by our government as a GS-13, but she apparently doesn't have a public title or list of responsibilities. Nevertheless, she's meeting with BlackRock executives, the Director of the CIA, and high-ranking officials from across the globe. She has had 308 known meetings since the beginning of the Biden regime, yet somehow she has remained a ghost.

Could be that Klain was pulled to start handling 2024 election.

https://twitter.com/JamesOKeefeIII/status/1780687148527579215

@JamesOKeefeIII
BREAKING: O’Keefe Media Uncovers who is really running the White House. Undercover cameras catch Special Advisor
@SBAgov
call former
@facebook
Board Member
@WHCOS

@ZientsJeff27574
“the second most powerful person in Washington” where “whatever this guy says, it’s what the President says.” Asked by OMG’s American Swiper Citizen Journalist “is Jeff [Zeints] more powerful than Kamala,” Robinson confirms “Yeah.”
@VP

@KamalaHarris
. Robinson also states that
@BarackObama
and
@HillaryClinton
are still involved behind the scenes at the White House.

Tyler Robinson, Special Advisor to the Chief of Staff of Administrator
@SBAIsabel
Guzman, details how
@WhiteHouse
directs
@SBAIsabel
Guzman to campaign for
@POTUS
so constantly that “[Guzman] is the most traveled member of the cabinet. Like pretty much every week.” Under the guise of talking to small business owners, Guzman travels across the country to help elect Democrats – especially swing state Democrats like
@SenatorTester
: “The White House was like, yes, go. Invite Senator Tester. Don’t invite the other Senator because he’s a Republican. And don’t invite the two members of Congress because they’re Republicans.” Such actions may be considered potential violations of the Hatch Act, which restricts federal employees from taking an active part in partisan political management and forbids them from campaigning for or against candidates.

Robinson says Guzman acts “as a spokesperson for Biden” as “...we try to visit with a member of Congress if they’re a Democrat…Just because then we can help them get re-elected as well.”
@US_OSC

@JudicialWatch

https://thinkspot.com/discourse/6muDMm/post/david-reavill/you-may-not-know-who-jeff-zients-is-but-he-might-be-running-the-country/LZtN6y6

You May Not Know Who Jeff Zients Is, But He Might Be Running The Country




Controversy continues to swirl around President Biden as he campaigns to continue his lease on the White House. After last week’s disastrous presidential debate, family and staff rallied around the tottering President. Dr. Jill carefully guides the President on stage, son Hunter attends staff meetings, reports Zero Hedge.

The faces are familiar as we’ve come to know Biden’s closest confidants. Except for one, one figure remains elusive: Biden’s Chief of Staff, Jeff Zients. A man of immense wealth and power, he is virtually invisible, unknown to most Americans. Yet he holds the keys to Biden’s day-to-day meetings and pronouncements. Just who is Jeff Zients? Today, we take an in-depth look at this mercurial figure.

Jeffery Zients was born into an elite class that is more aptly described as America’s Financial Aristocracy. Fabulously wealthy, Zients was born into a well-to-do Jewish family in one of the tonier suburbs of Washington. He attended the finest prep school, St Alban’s, and graduated at the top of his class at Duke University. ...

With that background, you can better understand Jeff Zients’ record. Right out of college, he begins with one of the best “management/consultant” companies in this rarefied field, Bain and Company. The twenty-something Zients joins Bain around the time that it’s headed by one of the true masters of the trade, Mitt Romney. It was during Romney’s brief stop as CEO before heading to Utah and the U.S. Senate. Son of a Governor, Romney is also a hired gun who has assembled not so much of a resume but a list of “positions.” ...

In his first Government assignment, Zients begins at the very top. Many feel that President Obama created the new position of United States Chief Performance Officer, especially for Zients. In Obama’s words:

His assignment was to help “streamline processes, cut costs, and find best practices throughout” the U.S. government.

The hired Gun was a perfect fit to help Obama with allegations of a wasteful and profligate federal bureaucracy. “Don’t worry, Zients is on the job.” Did Zients solve the problems of government spending? Of course not, but the heat was off Obama.

A year later, Zients moved to the Office of Management and Budget, acting as interim Director for four months, leaving and returning as Director a year later. ...

Zients has moved from position to position, both inside and outside of government. Along the way, he has become fabulously wealthy, with a host of contacts. Each new assignment is enhanced by Zients’ contacts and his ability to call in past favors.

In January 2023, as the old Chief Of Staff was leaving, it would be no surprise that President Biden would call on Zients, the hired Gun, again. Biden could use someone who knew the bureaucracy and had contacts on Wall Street and Social Media.

When James O’Keeffe broke the story a year ago that Zients was the second most powerful man in Washington and that a Zients subordinate claimed that Biden repeats everything Zients says, it might have seemed an overstatement. But it would come as no surprise to the careful observer. Zients has been doing that for a long time, both inside and outside government.

It’s just that now, after that first Presidential Debate, we all realize just how vital Chief of Staff Jeff Zients really is.

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Good post Patrick and I agree he may be the defacto President.

He looks like an A-lister as far as management and leadership based on what I read of his bio and resume.

I doubt he can salvage Biden's campaign, but he looks like he can at least keep the Biden administration from falling completely apart. I wonder if that is the reason they have him as Chief of Staff to Biden, as he is essentially Biden's brain.

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Patrick says

"Kimberly Lang" is a high-level person in the White House and apparently nobody in the outside world

Patrick, unfortunately I can't find her in 2023 database at typical various sites like

https://www.fedsdatacenter.com/federal-pay-rates/

https://www.federalpay.org/employees

https://ourpublicservice.org/performance-measures/political-appointee-tracker/

https://www.opm.gov/about-us/open-government/plum-reporting/plum-data/

So she is essentially a bureaucratic ghost or spook.

At the GS 13 level she could be what they call an "executive assistant (EA)", which means a fixer or "right hand man" for a very high level executive like Deputy Chief of Staff for the White House.

Maybe she has "industry ties or roots" like worked for Soros Wealth Fund or his neo-Marxist NGO, as well as past experience working for the Obama White House.

As what has been stated on Patnet before, lots of Obama operatives were recycled into the Biden regime.

Or one thought I had is she is an up and coming CIA analyst or operative (i.e., career civil servant), therefore would not be listed in online records like in the websites above.

Perhaps think of "Kimberly Lang" as another deep state hack like an Eric Ciaramella or Valerie Plame.

Also, I think the lowest level is a GS 14 as far as a political appointee (and having your name in the "Plum Book").

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He (Soros Open Society Foundation CEO Tom Perreilo) had five meetings with Kimberly Lang, then a National Security Advisor executive assistant, held between May 2021 and July 2022.

Why is a Soros operative meeting with a National Security Advisor official ?

https://nypost.com/2023/04/15/george-soros-army-of-lieutenants-has-easy-white-house-access/

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Former Obama National Economic Wonk, Former Bain & Company (Mitt Romney's old outfit).

Corporate Socialist type and Obamunist Ally.

Dual citizen Zients headed Biden’s Covid task force

In the Biden administration, Zients served as the first COVID-19 response coordinator, charged with rolling out a massive vaccine program nationwide in early 2021

https://slaynews.com/news/ron-klain-urges-voters-ignore-concerns-biden-mental-fitness-not-hiring-debater-in-chief/

Democrat President Joe Biden’s former White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain is urging voters to ignore the growing concerns about the mental struggles of the embattled POTUS.

During a Friday appearance on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” Biden’s favorite “news” show, Klain attempted to downplay the president’s recent debate disaster.

According to Klain, Biden’s inability to focus or speak coherently is unrelated to his capacity to serve as commander-in-chief or his ability to beat President Donald Trump in November.

Klain called for Democrat lawmakers and voters to unite behind Biden’s candidacy as many have been questioning whether he should be replaced as the party’s presidential nominee.

What if I told you Zients staff leaked that HE wasn't told until just before the Sunday announcement?

I think it's being run by the National Security advisors.

Maintaining his shadow identity, instead of answering questions, Zients twirls into the room in a tutu, does several toe tip pirouettes, goes into mime routine, issues obscenities in sign language, then does an arabesque before prancing out of the room.

He can't be in charge simply because we know his name.

AD says

Also, I think the lowest level is a GS 14 as far as a political appointee (and having your name in the "Plum Book").

What is this Plum Book?

United States Government Policy and Supporting Positions (more commonly referred to as the Plum Book) is a book that lists positions in the United States government that are subject to political appointment. It lists around 8,000 federal civil service leadership and support positions in the legislative and executive branches of the federal government that may be subject to noncompetitive appointment nationwide. It is a publication of the United States Senate's Committee on Governmental Affairs and the House of Representatives' Committee on Government Reform. A new edition is published every four years, just after each presidential election. All tenured positions commissioned by the president are published, including all officers of the United States, their immediate subordinates, policy executives and advisors, and aides who report to these officials. Some positions are kept secret and not published due to being classified via executive privilege.