白宮電子郵件顯示：與谷歌更廣泛的不當聯繫

白宮電子郵件顯示：與谷歌更廣泛的不當聯繫
White House Emails Show More Extensive Improper Contact With Google
Peter Flaherty
NLPC.org
July 23, 2010

Recent email communication between White House Deputy Chief Technology Officer Andrew McLaughlin (in photo), who is Google’s former head of Global Public Policy, and multiple outside individuals raise new questions about the official’s alleged circumvention of federal ethics and recordkeeping rules.
最近的電子郵件通訊在眾多外部個人與白宮副首席技術主任安德魯麥克勞克林之間，他是谷歌全球公共政策的前主管，引起新問題有關官員被宣稱的聯邦道德標準和保存記錄規則的規避。
McLaughlin’s communications with Google officials and others about issues that directly benefit the company appears to be more extensive than indicated by a May White House report, which resulted in an official reprimand of Mr. McLaughlin. Click here for a 12-page pdf of the McLaughlin emails
麥克勞克林與谷歌官員和其他人的通訊，是有關問題直接令公司受益，比一份5月的白宮報告指出的似乎更廣泛，那結果引致對麥克勞林先生的正式譴責。點擊上面，有12頁的PDF麥克勞克林電子郵件。
Administration rules expressly prohibit former lobbyist company officials like McLaughlin from involving themselves in federal policies that materially impact their former employer. But the new emails, which NLPC obtained through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request, show a continued pattern in which Mr. McLaughlin communicates with another apparent Google lobbyist, the leader of a Google-funded organization that lobbies in support of Google’s primary area of federal interest, and the head of a nonprofit that works closely with Google lobbyists.
政府明文規定禁止前說客公司官員如麥克勞克林等，自己涉及聯邦政策那重大影響其前雇主。但新的電子郵件，其中NLPC通過資訊自由法案（FOIA）的要求獲得，顯示出持續的模式，內裡麥克勞克林先生與另一明顯的谷歌說客通訊，谷歌資助組織的領導人遊說支持谷歌在聯邦利益的主要區域，以及一非營利組織的主管密切地與谷歌說客合作。
The topics in the email communication involve many of Google’s highest priority lobbying issues, including FTC rules on online privacy; Administration broadband policy, including Net neutrality; and intellectual property rules.
電子郵件通訊的題目涉及很多谷歌的最高優先遊說議題，包括聯邦貿易委員會規則的網上隱私;政府寬頻政策，包括網絡中立性和知識產權規則。
As Deputy Chief Technology Officer for Internet Policy, McLaughlin is at the policymaking nexus of virtually all of the most important Internet issues being debated in the country today. There is now no doubt – none whatsoever – that a more serious investigation of potential ethics breaches is warranted. These emails raise additional questions about whether Mr. McLaughlin’s efforts circumvented or just plain ignored federal ethics rules.

Today, we are asking Rep. Edolphus Towns, chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and Rep. Darrell Issa, the committee’s ranking member, to conduct a thorough investigation. Click here to download 3-page pdf of the letter. It reads, in part:

Like Halliburton in the previous Administration, Google has an exceptionally close relationship to the current Administration. No fair-minded person could look at McLaughlin’s record and not conclude that further investigation is warranted. Click here for a pdf of the letter

Among other things, the emails reveal:

In September 2009, McLaughlin agreed to meet with a representative of Wilmer Hale Cutler Pickering and Dorr who was a registered Google lobbyist as recently as 2008 according to Senate lobby disclosure records. The representative, Becky Burr, proposed a meeting to discuss White House assistance in weighing in with the Federal Trade Commission on privacy regulation in ways that would appear to benefit Google.

Over a two-week period in February 2010, McLaughlin exchanged numerous emails with Free Press director Ben Scott, another prominent advocate for Net neutrality who has coordinated policy strategy with Google and attended joint meetings with Google at the FCC and White House on numerous occasions. They agreed to meet outside the White House at a nearby coffee shop to discuss Internet policy.

From January through March of this year, several email messages relating to intellectual property issues were sent to McLaughlin from the Executive Director of a Google-funded coalition. The emails appear to have been sent to keep McLaughlin “in the loop” regarding copyright and intellectual property issues – key policy issues for the Mountain View company

http://www.prisonplanet.com/white-house-emails-show-more-extensive-improper-contact-with-google.html

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