NSC spokesman Robert J. Palladino confirmed Fleitz's appointment as NSC chief of staff, deputy assistant to the president and executive secretary.
He has an at-will chief of staff, deputy chief of staff, press officer, three special counselors and 50 at-will appointees working in his executive suite.
Most of President Obama's cabinet secretaries, even before their confirmations, began filling their offices with chiefs of staff, deputy chiefs of staff, special assistants and confidential advisers, none of whom are accountable to the Senate.
He served as a political officer at the American embassies in Cairo and Tel Aviv, deputy director of the Office of Egyptian Affairs, speechwriter on the policy planning staff, deputy assistant secretary of state for Near Eastern Affairs and principal deputy assistant secretary of state for Intelligence and Research.
The lawmaker heading the state assembly investigation into the bridge controversy, John Wisniewski, told CBS's Face the Nation he did not think it was credible for Christie's chief of staff, deputy chief staff, communications director and chief counsel to have all been in email communication over the lane closures and "how to spin [them] to the press", without Christie's knowledge.
With less than a month before his inauguration on Jan . 17 Mr. Corzine has rolled out several staff appointments, including those of his campaign aides Tom Shea, Maggie Moran and Ivette Mendez, who will be, respectively, chief of staff, deputy chief of staff and communications director.
In six months in office, he has fired a national security adviser, an F.B.I. director and a holdover acting attorney general, while his White House press secretary, communications director, deputy chief of staff, deputy national security adviser and legal team spokesman have all left.
The institution in the capital Sarajevo is unable to meet its utility bills or pay its staff, deputy director Bedita Islamovic told the BBC News website.
That includes his chief of staff, deputy chief of staff, and director of communications.
Until last year, she was the deputy chief of staff to Deputy Mayor Robert C. Lieber of New York and, until 2007, to Deputy Mayor Daniel L. Doctoroff.
