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Google Employees Enjoyed "Revolving Door" to White House Appointed Positions

posted by n1 on Thursday August 11 2016, @08:22AM   Printer-friendly
from the welcome-to-the-club dept.

Jeremiah Cornelius writes:

Resistance, as they say, is futile. According to the Google Transparency Project, and reported by watchdog.org "More than 250 people have moved from Google and related firms to the federal government or vice versa since President Barack Obama took office."

22 former White House officials went to work for Google and 31 executives from Google and related firms went to work at the White House or were appointed to federal advisory boards by Obama. Those boards include the President's Council on Science and Technology and the President's Council on Jobs and Competitiveness.

Of additional interest, besides revolving doors between Google and the FCC, 25 officials in national security, intelligence or the Department of Defense joined Google, and three Google executives went to work for the DOD.

I think ordinary discussion of market forces, laissez-faire and the role of Government is irrelevant in regards to a system in which this is normal and institutionalized practice.

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  • (Score: 5, Insightful) by cubancigar11 on Thursday August 11 2016, @10:07AM

    by cubancigar11 (330) on Thursday August 11 2016, @10:07AM (#386557) Homepage Journal

    Tech industry is part of the system now. I have been pointing out this to so many people but unfortunately, even bragging about your lofty ideals has become part of the game.

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  • (Score: 3, Funny) by bob_super on Thursday August 11 2016, @04:19PM

    by bob_super (1357) on Thursday August 11 2016, @04:19PM (#386632)

    If there's gonna be revolving door, I'm choosing the tech industry over the oil and coal industries. Their abuses lead to my bedroom, not my lungs.