Monday, December 28, 2009

Ethics, what a concept!!

Nice article from The Hill, complete with "this doesn't comply with my programmed worldview, therefore it is a conspiracy!!1!!1!" comments section.
President Barack Obama scores well among ethics watchdog groups in his first year in office, though they’d still like to see more from the president.
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“What I find most encouraging is that there is a core group of people at the White House who genuinely care about these issues,” said Steven Aftergood, director of the Project on Government Secrecy at Federation of American Scientists. “There is now ‘someone to talk to’ at the White House in a way that there wasn’t before. And we are already starting to see some results from those conversations, such as the Open Government Directive, and other emerging policies.”
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“The greatest surprise is just how extensively these revolving door restrictions apply,” said Craig Holman, government affairs lobbyist for Public Citizen.

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