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Ξ December 22nd, 2008 | → 1 Comments | ∇ Uncategorized |
Nefarious Doings in Allowing Change.gov? We Think Not…
Whatever you think of the eight long years of the Bush Administration, it has - thus far - seemed a model of cooperation in the transition to its successor. That gracious and practical spirit extends to the succession of power on the web - to the obvious chagrin of one popular right-wing blogger.
Michelle Malkin “exposes” the machinations behind President-elect Obama’s use of a dot-gov domain for his Change.gov transition site, complete with FOIA request and gotcha document scans. Except to these eyes, what Malkin has exposed is simple patriotic goodwill on the part of the Bush team has it hands over the virtual keys of government to the Obama geeks.
Malkin’s spin is that a temporary hold-up of the Change.gov address was in keeping with the General Services Administration rules governing government domains and that some unnamed subterfuge may have been at work in overruling the initial denial of the Change.gov address. She quotes the government documents:
The day after the election, on Nov. 5, GSA Chief Information Officer Casey Coleman overruled Alterman after apparently receiving a waiver from Chris Lu, Executive Director of Obama’s Transition Project. As reader Lance discovered through his FOIA request, Ms. Coleman did not elaborate on the granting of this waiver except to say that she had “determined that it is in the best interest of the Federal Government to register the subject domain name.”
As another GSA official who facilitated the convenient change in policy regarding change.gov exulted to the Obama campaign after the domain was granted, “Rock and roll!”
Malkin snark: “The strict rules do not apply when you invoke CHANGE.” Well, perhaps not. But it also seems patently clear that both the Bush Administration and the large army of full-time civil servants who are not political appointees has engaged fully with the incoming Obama team, even going so far as to publish the extraordinary Putting Citizens First: Transforming Online Government.
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