Obama waives his own lobbying rules for Lynn

Obama waives lobbying rules for Lynn

Took all of two days?

The Obama administration has waived its ethics rules to allow William Lynn to serve as the deputy secretary of Defense.

thehill.com...

In a letter dated Friday to Levin and McCain the groups stressed that Lynn cannot serve “effectively” as the Pentagon’s No. 2 because he was a lobbyist for Raytheon in the last two years. They also said they would oppose a waiver, which they declared would violate Obama’s new “revolving door” rules.

The Project On Government Oversight (POGO), Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), Government Accountability Project (GAP) and Public Citizen signed the letter.

Lynn was a registered lobbyist until early 2008 and his nomination raised some eyebrows even before the executive order on ethics that Obama issued Wednesday, because it contradicted the new president’s pledge not to let lobbyists in his administration.

Nice.

Who is this guy?

Hmmm I tried to do some research on him and immediatly got a virus

This is already being discussed here: www.abovetopsecret.com...

[edit on 24-1-2009 by Frankidealist35]