FBI Searches New Fed CIO Kundra's Former Offices 173
CWmike writes "While new federal CIO Vivek Kundra gave a speech here this morning on his vision for the US government's use of technology, the FBI conducted a search of the District of Columbia's IT offices — where Kundra worked until last week — and arrested an employee and another person who works for an outsourcing vendor, say reports. There was no indication that Kundra was connected in any way to the FBI's raid, which was part of a bribery sting operation. And if Kundra was aware of what was going on at his former offices or concerned about the raid, it wasn't evident during his speech at FOSE 2009, a trade show focused on government IT. The FBI would not comment on the reports. President Barack Obama last week appointed Kundra to be the federal government's first official CIO."
Re:Sigh... (Score:3, Informative)
This could be unrelated. He hasn't been arrested yet. However, there does seem to be an early stigma on Obama's appointees and corruption. Obama better hope this guy is clean.
Oh Gee, lots of bibliography. (Score:2, Informative)
...gad zooks!: A ComputerWorld Blog; the writer of whom gets his information from...
...gad zooks!: A political blog; the writer of whom gets his information from...
...his ass.
Nice trail.
Re:Oh Gee, lots of bibliography. (Score:2, Informative)
...gad zooks!: A political blog; the writer of whom gets his information from...
...the Washington Post [washingtonpost.com].
FTFY.
You might not like the Washington Post, but it hardly qualifies as "his ass."
There's also the AP [google.com] and, well, plenty of other hits on Google [google.com].
Re:Sigh... (Score:4, Informative)
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/02/03/washington/AP-Obama-Killefer.html [nytimes.com]
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/03/opinion/03tue1.html [nytimes.com]
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/05/us/politics/05richardson.html [nytimes.com]
That is four appointees tied to corruption issues, so the CIO would be the fifth if that were the case.
Then, there is the Blagojevich scandal, which the media was adamant from day 1 that Obama had no knowledge about, and zero possible connection. The media can't know that for certain. Obama may very well be innocent there, but there is a perception of stigma regardless.
Now Obama's replacement, Burris may be charged with perjury and there are calls for him to resign.
Again, Obama probably doesn't know Burris very well, and had no control over whether or not Burris perjured himself, but none of this is good PR.
Re:Choices... (Score:2, Informative)
I'm posting AC because I want to remain neutral and not come across as being a conspiracy theorist or promoting these people's views. However, your post makes this very appropriate and I don't think anyone should ever be afraid of information.
The Obama Deception [obamadeception.net] is a new documentary that is being officially released on March 15 '09, but it's up on the torrent sites so you can download it right away. I'm sure the creators won't mind people downloading it, either, since it's very political and they're trying to spread their message.
I watched it today, and it is very conspiracy-theorish, however, they do bring up some excellent points. Mainly that Obama has broken most of his campaign promises (FISA, getting out of Iraq, promoting peace, government accountability etc.) and that the majority of his cabinet appointees are Wall-Street cronies. While they are conspiracy theorists, every point that they make about Obama's policies, cabinet appointees and voting records can be verified. Even if you come out not believing or agreeing with them, I still recommend that you watch it.
It should also be pointed out that the documentary is non-partisan. The same people also made several documentaries attacking G.W Bush.
Re:Par for the course? (Score:2, Informative)
Update: The guy is already on leave [cnn.com]. It's amazing how short your political career can be just by being appointed to something by Obama...