WASHINGTON, D.C. – After obtaining information through a litigation blitz, America First Legal (AFL) has identified more than 40 political appointees in the Biden-Harris administration who previously worked for Kamala Harris before she became Vice President of the United States.
AFL’s Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuits have obtained employment records, including resumes, SF-50s, and ethics pledges, detailing each appointee’s full name, salaries, titles, work histories, and the agencies they work for. AFL has previously uncovered the far-left radicals running the Departments of Homeland Security and Justice, while the media has exposed appointees at the Departments of Education and Health and Human Services. AFL has made all these records available in AFL’s Woke Wagon’s searchable database.
In these records, AFL exposes how Vice President Harris placed her most loyal associations — from her time as California Attorney General, campaigning for Senate, in the Senate, and campaigning for president — all across the federal government to promote, influence, and execute this administration’s radical policies, including:
Here are just some highlights:
Sharmistha “Sharmi” Das was Senator Harris’ Senior Counsel responsible for advancing the senator’s open-borders immigration agenda, which was even more extreme than her current position on immigration as Vice President. Das would later serve as DHS Deputy General Counsel, DHS Senior Advisor, DHS detailee to the Office of Vice President Harris, and now DHS Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy.
Das has worked to implement the illegal mass resettlement scheme started under the leadership of her long-time boss, the Border Czar, who is leading the administration’s response to the border crisis. According to her LinkedIn profile, Das also volunteered as a vetting attorney for the Biden-Harris Transition Team.
Nathaniel L. Snyder, who was an Early States Outreach & Organizing Advisor for Kamala Harris’ first presidential campaign, advised the Secretary of Homeland Security on Counterterrorism Policy, where he was able to influence the Biden-Harris administration’s targeting of conservative Americans with his view that “the threat, domestic terrorism—meaning violent white supremacists, neo-Nazis, sovereign citizens, militia movements—have been the most lethal threat in these past ten years compared to Al Qaeda and ISIS-inspired threats.” Meanwhile, Snyder also “[l]ed, developed, and executed the internal and external affairs efforts for Operation Allies Welcome for all the Safe Havens (bases) that received Afghan evacuee guests.” AFL recently uncovered evidence of dangerously deficient vetting for refugees from Afghanistan, with an estimated 100 that were flagged for terror ties.
Brian Eddie Nelson also had a role in shaping the Biden-Harris administration’s approach to terrorism. During Nelson’s Senate confirmation hearing to become Treasury Under Secretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence, he testified that he supported the Biden-Harris administration’s efforts to revive the JCPOA Iran Nuclear Deal. Nelson failed to report favorably to the Senate Banking Committee and required VP Harris’ tie-breaking vote to get confirmed. During Under Secretary Nelson’s tenure, the administration reissued a sanctions waiver that let Iran access more than $10 billion in frozen funds—which Nelson himself acknowledged is used by Iran to fund terrorism. According to his resume, Nelson has worked for Kamala Harris since 2011. As General Counsel to then-Attorney General Harris, Nelson oversaw her Charitable Trusts Section, “including the litigation to require California-registered charitable foundations to disclose their major donors to the CA DOJ.” In Americans for Prosperity Foundation v. Bonta, the U.S. Supreme Court held that their targeting of conservative non-profits violated the First Amendment. Nelson also served as a state chair on Senator Harris’ Commission on the Judiciary, coinciding with Harris and other Democrats’ push for court-packing. Nelson was the National Policy Director for Harris’ first presidential campaign, and he returned to the campaign trail for Harris in July 2024.
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