The Times’ Nicholas Kristof endorses the Internet Freedom Initiative in this editorial today. If President Obama wants to support democratic movements on a shoestring, he should support an “Internet freedom initiative” pending in Congress. This would include $50 million in the appropriations bill for these censorship-evasion technologies. The 21st-century equivalent of the Berlin wall is […]
Day: June 18, 2009
DoJ Public Corruption: “Disarray”
The Post reports on the state of affairs at the Department of Justice’s Public Integrity Section. Now, even as prosecutors from the unit are fighting an internal department ethics probe and a separate criminal inquiry launched by the trial judge in the Stevens case, some of their targets are enjoying their freedom. Stevens, who lost […]
Auto Company Lobbying
Should General Motors and Chrysler face a lobbying ban? That’s what this Post story examines. GM and Chrysler have reduced their lobbying expenditures this year. GM terminated contracts with all 15 private lobbying firms it has been using while retaining its in-house lobbyists. Ford Motor Co., which has not accepted federal bailout funds, has slightly […]