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Ex-Googler Obama Appointee Gets Buzz'ed
theodp writes "Hillicon Valley reports that Rep. Darrell Issa of the House Oversight Committee is pressing White House Deputy CTO Andrew McLaughlin to explain his relationship with Google, where McLaughlin was employed as Google's chief lobbyist. 'The American people have a right to expect that White House employees are working to advance the public interest and not the interests of the lobby shops who formerly employed them,' Issa noted in the letter. 'The use of a Gmail account to communicate with lobbyists and evade transparency laws is at odds with President Obama's promises to limit the influence of lobbyists.' Concerns emerged after screenshots of McLaughlin's Google Buzz account emerged showing that a number of the search giant's top employees subscribed to the deputy Web chief's updates."
not really, the media is at least reporting on the matter... because Obama isn't putting out weekly "scripts" like the last guy was. The Bush Administration was the peak of lobby shops being officially part of the cabinet.... and if the President didn't like the department, he simply didn't appoint anybody to it... or worse somebody to "neuter" it... as a matter of policy..... the media NEVER QUESTIONED it in 8 years.
when i watch news in usa, i go half crazy.
a GOP senator questions a guy that has formerly worked in google, in regard to 'lobbyism'.
how many people from lobbies were employed by gop administration in the past 8 years ? how the fuck these people can have the guts to exercise hypocrisy and doublespeak to THAT extent and you people dont do anything ?
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