Category: Executive Branch

President Obama Wants Your Cookies

The Times reports on the Obama administration’s efforts to modernize government online privacy policies. The White House suggests federal Web sites be allowed to use “single-session” cookies during one given citizen visit that won’t do any tracking. These would be akin to those e-commerce sites use to make shopping carts work. They would also like […]

Lobbying Rule “Loophole” at State

The Hill reports that a new hire at State may be availing herself of a “loophole” in the Obama administration’s lobbying rules.  Robin Raphel has worked for Cassidy and Associates (her biography is currently on the firm’s website).  The firm was the central focus of Robert Kaiser’s So Much Damn Money: The Triumph of Lobbying and the […]