Climate Envoy Kerry Won’t Share Staff Names to Congress, Saying It’s Not ‘Required’

Climate Envoy John Kerry, who reports directly to President Joe Biden from a cabinet-level position in the State Department, would not disclose the names of various staff in his office when asked to do so on July 13 by Rep. Brian Mast (R-Fla.).
Pointing to a mostly empty org chart labeled, “Who’s In Charge?” Mr. Mast asked Mr. Kerry to share the names of staff under his authority.
Mr. Kerry provided the names of his two deputy envoys, Rick Duke and Sue Biniaz, before stopping short.
“I’m not going to go through all the names,” he said, adding that such a disclosure in that setting to Mr. Mast “would be a violation of our process in the State Department.”…}