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Obama’s White House political director is informally providing strategic advice to leaders at the Democratic National Committee (DNC). David Simas, who is now CEO of the Obama Foundation, is close with DNC Chairman Tom Perez and has been in regular contact with Sam Cornale, a top adviser to Perez. A source who has been involved in the transition said Simas has provided strategic advice on hiring decisions. The new chairman has asked for resignation letters from most DNC staff as he begins the process of building his own team, although so far the DNC has only unveiled its communications team....

The Hatch Act prohibits federal employees from engaging in political fundraising. Mentioned hundreds of times in the WikiLeaks DNC emails is a guy named David Simas. Who is he? Works for the federal government at the White House. David Simas Assistant to the President and Director of the Office of Political Strategy and Outreach https://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/author/david-simas Here's a dinner he set up to raise money: https://wikileaks.org/dnc-emails/emailid/194 Using cabs instead of a car service to not create a paper trail (knowledge he is committing a crime): https://wikileaks.org/dnc-emails/emailid/19527 One of hundreds of emails where he is mentioned. Here are all the emails mentioning...