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Date: Wed May 16 2012 - 04:05:02 CDT

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http://www.dailycaller.com/2012/05/14/senior-homeland-security-staffers-have-no-law-enforcement-experience/

By Matthew Boyle
The Daily Caller
05/14/2012

President Barack Obama’s Homeland Security secretary, Janet Napolitano,
has presided over the hiring of at least four senior staffers and
advisers who have no law enforcement experience but align politically
with the president.

[...]

Vladimir Skoric serves as a “special assistant” to the Homeland Security
“deputy under secretary for cybersecurity.” Skoric began his career in
politics in May 2007 as a “volunteer coordinator” at Obama For America.
He then interned for Washington Democratic Sen. Patty Murray and served
as Obama For America’s Washington, D.C. youth director.

Skoric has also worked for The Small Business Project, Inc., as a
business development analyst for a little more than two years. That
organization describes itself as a company that “brings knowledge and
expertise in starting small business programs to intermediaries, which
in turn serve to strengthen small businesses locally,” focusing
specifically on “providing forestry sector expertise.” Its mission does
not have anything to do with law enforcement.

Even so, Skoric scored a senior level position in Obama’s Homeland
Security Department.

[...]

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