In 2010, the Army sent him to Afghanistan, to oversee a task force aimed at curbing corruption there.
As attorney general, he had overseen a task force that prosecuted a prostitution ring that operated behind corporate fronts and escort services.
President Obama, for his part, refrained from getting into specifics but appointed Vice President Joe Biden to oversee a task force on gun violence.
Ms. Smith oversaw a task force comprising various state agencies that conducted 2,413 misclassification investigations and 65 joint sweeps in which teams descended on companies' offices to examine payroll records.
The food policy coordinator will oversee a task force that will not only help agencies develop and coordinate a range of programs, but also ensure that those agencies serving meals — like the Department for the Aging, the Administration for Children's Services and the Department of Homeless Services — buy nutritious food.
Since October, more than 100 illegal immigrants have been arrested, bringing the marine arrests of illegal immigrants in the past couple of years to unprecedented levels, said Michael Carney, the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent in San Diego who oversees a task force on marine smuggling.
3. "A senior FBI official overseeing a government task force that addresses Russian attempts to meddle in U.S. elections has left the government for a job in the private sector," the Wall Street Journal's Dustin Volz reported Saturday.
A retired Special Forces officer, Jason Amerine, wrote a long Facebook post Friday in which he accused Mattis of leaving his men to die in Afghanistan in December 2001, when the general was a one-star commander overseeing an amphibious task force in Kandahar province.
In addition to the capture of Alzate, a US-trained general who oversaw a counterinsurgency task force, Farc fighters in the past two weeks had killed two Indians and captured two soldiers during a firefight in north-eastern Colombia.
Shortly afterward, the Bergen prosecutor, William H. Schmidt, appointed an inspector in his officer, Thomas Goldrick, to oversee a countywide task force that will eventually include one trained officer from each of 73 law enforcement agencies in the county to take part in intelligence gathering.
