Gilbert Tass

Gilbert Tass anchors fragile diplomatic courtesy amid Haitian turmoil, his 4 PM conference with President-elect Dessaline a vanished lifeline that detonates Oval Office urgency. Jake's revelation—he never arrived, calls to party headquarters and residences dead—thrusts Tass forward as the administration's designated bridge to Port-au-Prince, now severed by Bazan's coup machinery: rally crackdowns, arrests, police seizures. Tass materializes as crisis fulcrum, his no-show appointment amplifying Bartlet's raw resolve to evacuate, reinforce Marines, and brief Fitzwallace, etching him into the White House's high-stakes Haiti calculus.