BREAKING: Sean Spicer to be RNC Communications Director

First reported by the Washington Post’s Chris Cillizza, Sean Spicer will be named Communications Director at the Republican National Committee, according to two informed sources, the latest senior staff addition under new chairman Reince Priebus.

Spicer has a deep resume in Republican politics. He spent three years as the spokesman for the U.S. Trade Representative's office in the latter half of the Bush presidency and prior to that was the Communications Director for the House Republican Conference.  He’s also served on the Hill as Communications Director for the House Budget Committee and the House Government Reform Committee.  Spicer spent the 2000 election cycle as the Director of Incumbent Retention at the National Republican Congressional Committee. Spicer is currently a partner at Endeavor Global Strategies, a full service, global public relations and strategy firm. 

Since July 2009, Spicer has been mobilized in the Navy to serve as Chief, Plans and Policy (J-5) at a joint criminal investigation task force consisting of attorneys, analysts and special agents from the Army's CID, Navy's NCIS, and the Air Force's OSI. 

Spicer is a 2012 graduate of the Naval War College and a 1993 graduate of Connecticut College.  He is from Barrington, RI.  (Washington Post)