Category: Executive Branch

Continuing the Bundler Foreign Service Tradition

Post author By Eric Brown
Post date July 7, 2009
Categories In Executive Branch

The Washington Times reports that President Obama is continuing the tradition of naming top campaign and party fundraisers to ambassadorships.

White House’s Gibbs on Washington Post Salons

Post author By Eric Brown
Post date July 4, 2009
Categories In Executive Branch, LDA

Who was invited to attend The Washington Post Company’s “salons”? Yesterday’s press briefing provided this exchange: Q Was anyone from the White House invited to attend these Washington Post salons that were reported this morning? And what is the White House’s official policy on members of the administration doing things like this, regardless of who […]

Washington Post and the Lobbyist-Cash Connection

Post author By Eric Brown
Post date July 3, 2009
Categories In Executive Branch, LDA

The Post covers its own controversy surrounding plans to host lobbyists, journalists, and government officials (for a fee.) Even without the newsroom’s participation, the aggressively worded pitch conveys the impression that The Post is offering special interests access to administration officials and lawmakers, raising a separate set of concerns about a dubious partnership with those […]