On January 21, Barack Obama signed an Executive Order effectively banning lobbyists from serving in his administration, among other things. Barely a day later, Obama made the order seem like a bit of a joke by naming William Lynn III, the former top lobbyist for Raytheon, to the position of Deputy Secretary of Defense, the number two position at the Defense Department.
Clearly, Lynn as the top lobbyist for a major defense contractor has lobbied the Defense Department heavily over the last two years.
As The Washington Post put it: "Lynn...lobbied the Pentagon on so many Raytheon projects -- acquisitions policy, space, intelligence and command and control, among others -- that it might be hard to find an area within the department that was untouched by his previous work."
So how did Obama get around his own Executive Order? Obama calls it a "waiver." I call it loophole.
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