-Caveat Lector-
Ever wonder why highly paid business geeks leave their lucrative
positions with Wall Street, or the Defense Industry to " serve
the people?"
It's called " the revolving door."
Nurev
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White House Statement: Revocation of Executive Order 12834
U.S. Newswire
28 Dec 17:10
White House Statement: Revocation of Executive Order 12834
To: National Desk
Contact: White House Press Office, 202-456-2580
WASHINGTON, Dec. 28 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The following was
released today by the White House:
STATEMENT BY COUNSEL TO THE PRESIDENT
BETH NOLAN
Today the President has revoked Executive Order 12834, effective
at noon on Jan. 20, 2001. The Executive Order has imposed special
post-employment restrictions on senior appointees of the Clinton
Administration in order to ensure that they not appear to have
undue access to their former colleagues when their government
service ended. It did so by extending to five years the one-year
lobbying bar imposed on senior officials and trade negotiators by
statute and also imposed a lifetime bar on activities that required
registration under the Foreign Agents Registration Act.
When the President signed the Executive Order, he did so to
ensure that his senior appointees would be focused only on serving
the American people. It has served that goal well. It has been in
force throughout this Administration and has applied to thousands
of senior appointees. Clinton Administration appointees have known
from the outset that their sole purpose in accepting a government
position was to work for the American people and not to further
their own post-government careers.
The Executive Order has been applied only to those appointed by
President Clinton; no appointees in prior Administrations have been
subject to it, including senior appointees who held over from the
prior Administration and served under President Clinton. The main
policies underlying the Executive Order no longer apply when there
is a change of parties at the White House. Senior appointees of
the Clinton Administration will not have the kind of special access
to a Republican Administration that the Executive Order was
designed to regulate.
Indeed, as President Clinton is about to leave office, we have
been urged by many, including the sponsors of the Presidential
Appointee Initiative, to reexamine the need for continued
application of the Executive Order. We agreed that a reevaluation
makes sense at this time.
The President believes that the Executive Order has served its
purpose. Former Clinton Administration appointees will still be
limited by the post-employment restrictions that apply to all
former government officials. Because special access is no longer a
concern, however, the special measures contained in the Executive
Order are no longer necessary. Thus the President has determined
that his senior appointees will no longer be subject to the
requirements of the Executive Order after Jan. 20, 2001.
Furthermore, as a new President from a new party is about to
assume office, the new Administration should have the same
flexibility to decide for itself what post-employment restrictions
it may wish to impose beyond that which the law already requires.
By revoking Executive Order 12834, President Clinton leaves the new
Administration with maximum flexibility.
KEYWORDS:
WHITE HOUSE
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/U.S. Newswire 202-347-2770/
12/28 17:10
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CHENEY'S ROLE
In his farewell address to the nation in 1961, President Dwight
Eisenhower warned about the dangers of the military industrial
complex. Eisenhower's warning should have been a wake up call, but America
continued on her complacent path. With the end of the cold war, needs for
military equipment should have dwindled, but it didn't happen that
way. The arms manufacturers just shifted gears and began to redouble their
lobbying efforts. There was still plenty of trouble in the world, and they
used every means possible to make sure that the U.S. was involved. The
money many of the corporations began to make in the drug trade gave them
even greater access to the government, thus exacerbating the problem. The
deepest (and most easily tapped) pocket belonged to Uncle Sam. You just
had to know the right people.
Dick Cheney, our newly elected Vice President, belongs to that
group of people. He was Bush Senior's defense secretary and commanded the
Pentagon during the Persian Gulf War. There he controlled the allocation
of billions in government contract money, and he built relationships,
especially with those who control oil resources (domestic and foreign),
that have helped to put him where he is now. That is the way the game is
played. You make sure the "right people" get government favors, and then
when you need campaign money it is there. This guarantees that you will
keep on giving favors to those people who furnished financial support when
you needed it the most. In simple language, "You scratch my back, and I'll
scratch yours."
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