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White House Chief Technology Officer Steps Down

Posted by Soulskill on from the help-wanted-must-know-tech-stuff dept.

New submitter Krazy Kanuck writes "The White House is running a story on their OSTP blog that Chief Technology Officer Aneesh Chopra is stepping down after being appointed to the post by President Obama in 2009. There is some mention of him returning to his home state of Virginia, and the Washington Post suggests a possible bid for lieutenant governor."

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  1. Re:Can we apply as a group? by clarkkent09 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Nooo, we don't want the wider public to see how naive nerds are when it comes to politics, as evidenced daily by most posts here. Let's stay quiet and pretend we are smart.

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  2. Re:Aneesh Chopra by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    And yet, it is better than it has been in almost a decade. The last admin took a great economy, peacetime, no defict, and then created world wars all over, ran up massive deficits and destroyed western economies while sending the jobs to China, North Korea, Vietnam, Venezuela, and even Iran.