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Title    Peter Thiel's Former Chief of Staff, Michael Kratsios, to Join Trump as Deputy CTO
Date    Monday March 06 2017, @09:26PM
Author    janrinok
Topic   
from the bakufu-is-back-baby dept.
https://soylentnews.org/politics/article.pl?sid=17/03/06/0953210

aristarchus writes:

Peter Thiel's former chief of staff, Michael Kratsios, to join Trump as Deputy CTO.

I was not aware that the US Government had a CTO. In fact, I am not sure what a CTO is , or what one does [Ed-Really, aristarchus? CTO]. But the fact that this one is a former chief of staff of Peter Thiel, well, that brings pause. In fact, I don't believe it. So we look for verification!

OK, Techcrunch says yes.

Also along for the ride: Michael Kratsios, Thiel's chief of staff, and Charlie Kirk, a 23-year-old wunderkind who blew off college to start a grass-roots organization dedicated to training young conservatives in the art of persuasion — and plugging them into the right networks.

Well, I guess at least one gets plugged, according to Politico.

And, according to "The Street", it is reported in Politico. I love how the news we aggregate is so self-referential and recursive, it is almost like an actual Unix file directory.

takyon: The Chief Technology Officer of the United States is a position within the Office of Science and Technology Policy. The positon was created under President Obama and requires Senate confirmation. The current U.S. CTO is Megan Smith.


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Links

  1. "aristarchus" - https://soylentnews.org/~aristarchus/
  2. "CTO" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chief_technology_officer
  3. "Techcrunch says yes" - https://techcrunch.com/2017/03/03/thiels-chief-of-staff-tapped-as-white-house-deputy-cto/
  4. "Politico" - http://www.politico.com/story/2017/02/donald-trumps-shadow-president-in-silicon-valley-235372
  5. ""The Street"" - https://www.thestreet.com/story/14026458/1/trump-taps-kratsios-as-the-white-house-chief-technology-officer.html
  6. "Chief Technology Officer of the United States" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chief_Technology_Officer_of_the_United_States
  7. "requires Senate confirmation" - https://sunlightfoundation.com/2017/01/12/congress-makes-the-role-of-u-s-chief-technology-officer-permanent/
  8. "Megan Smith" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megan_Smith
  9. "Original Submission" - https://soylentnews.org/submit.pl?op=viewsub&subid=18906

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