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WickedsDesire -> White House asked Director Government Ethics to suspend his request (5/26/2017 11:10:17 PM)
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White House asked Director Government Ethics to suspend his request
White House wrote last week to the Office of Government Ethics and asked its director to suspend his request for copies
WASHINGTON — The White House unexpectedly backed down Friday in a confrontation with the government’s top ethics officer, announcing it will publicly disclose waivers that have been quietly handed out since January to let certain former lobbyists work in the administration.
The reversal came after the White House wrote last week to the Office of Government Ethics and asked its director to suspend his request for copies of the waivers. Such waivers are needed when officials want to work on policies or other government issues that they were directly involved in recently as private-sector lobbyists or industry lawyers.
The debate over the waivers — which were routinely made public during the Obama administration — has drawn heightened attention as the Trump administration has hired dozens of former lobbyists and lawyers, and is frequently placing them into jobs that overlap with the work they did for paying clients.
Both the Trump and Obama administrations have had ethics policies, signed by each president, that prohibit newly hired government officials from handing particular matters they worked on in the private sector for two years. If the new government hires were formerly lobbyists, they were prohibited from working on the same issue for two years.
Waivers — which are issued by each federal government agency, and by the White House case by case — allow political appointees to ignore those ethics policies.
This already appears to be the case with Michael Catanzaro, who until early this year worked as a lobbyist for a coal-burning electric utility and an oil and gas company, among other clients. He is now the top White House policy official overseeing the rollback of the same environmental protection rules he had lobbied against. So far this year, the Trump administration has not said if Mr. Catanzaro was given a waiver, as it was keeping them confidential. guffaws
nothing to hide see here guffaws guffaws
Exactly how corrupt is this administration Americashire jacakls?
1. Totally corrupt
2. Completely corrupt
3. Absolutely corrupt
What else is the Trump Swamp hiding again
white house visitors log wasn't it - I bet you all forgot about that
oo tax returns hes hiding them
Trex Tillerson aint hiding his $200 million in Exxon shares
Secret Tunnel from Trumps room to Putin Cellar
His business Interests
His sons business interests
His brain - lets pretend he had one to start with eh!
Well to be fair blabber mouth isn't hiding Israel intel, well from his Russian mates....ooo he hid that meeting from the American press too didnt he. Russian press welcome
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