White House aide Colangelo stays mute on asking for sweetheart deals

Jonathan Strong The Daily Caller 5/3/2011

A top technology official at the Obama White House stayed mute Tuesday on the accounts from two colleagues, reported by The Daily Caller last June, that he asked for sweetheart deals from technology vendors on account of his position as a public official.

Brook Colangelo, the chief information officer […]

Watchdog wants probe of Google’s ‘unusually close’ ties to Obama

Sara Jerome The Hill 11/9/2010

As House Republicans plan an ambitious oversight agenda for the next session of Congress, a watchdog group is calling for a probe into a company that it says is far too cozy with the Obama administration: Google.

The National Legal and Policy Center (NLPC), a group that advocates for a […]

White House Emails Show More Extensive Improper Contact With Google

Peter Flaherty National Legal and Policy Center 7/22/2010

Recent email communication between White House Deputy Chief Technology Officer Andrew McLaughlin (in photo), who is Google’s former head of Global Public Policy, and multiple outside individuals raise new questions about the official’s alleged circumvention of federal ethics and recordkeeping rules.

McLaughlin’s communications with Google officials and […]

Google-backed FCC Censoring the Internet: Not a joke.

Neil Stevens RedState.com 5/27/2010

I told you the FCC wanted to censor the Internet. They said it was a joke. Well, Reason kept digging and lookee what they found: Michael Copps, the FCC commissioner who would like to have jurisdiction over the entire Internet, wants to start a “national conversation” about the FCC enforcing either […]

White House Deputy CTO McLaughlin’s Google Buzz Account Deleted After FOIA Request

Capitol Confidential BigGovernment.com

Last week, we reported that Obama administration Deputy CTO Andrew McLaughlin –who headed up Google’s lobbying shop before joining the administration – had been ensnared in the Google Buzz privacy imbroglio when his Gmail contacts were made publicly available through his Google Buzz profile…and they revealed that McLaughlin’s most emailed Gmail contacts […]

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