Federal CIO on leave following FBI sting at DC offices

[Bob Juch]

The U.S. Chief Information Officer Vivek Kundra, appointed by President Obama last week, has been placed on leave, following an FBI raid yesterday at the District of Columbia’s IT offices.

http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=14553&tag=nl.e589

I told him he should have appointed me.

[Thousandaire]

Chief Information Officer... sounds like Minister of Propaganda. But I see he's in charge of Information Technology. A bureaucrat's bureaucrat.

[silverscreenselect]

I don't know how many more people can fit underneath that bus.....

And by the way no one has mentioned how Obama is picking up right where W left off with signing statements.

But he'll only use them when it's the right thing to do...

That's change you can believe in.

[Thousandaire]

The budget bill Obama signed yesterday essentially nullifies his stem-cell research executive order.

[Flybrick]

Hold on now, you gotta give the President a chance...

He's only had two months-ish.

Just because so many of his nominees and appointees seem to have 'discrepancies,' you cannot hold him accountable.

Just because the apocolypse he predicted only those same short two months-ish ago is now "not so bad" according to him and is no reason to throw him under the bus. We'll pay that debt back in only a few short generations, just you wait.

He promised you something different.

He promised to close Guantanemo Bay. And he delivered. Well, he will.

He promised to not sign spending bills with earmarks. And he still promises to not do that.

He promised to not use signing statements. And he really means it.

I'm sure he'll deliver.

Anytime now.

Anytime...

Bueller?

[silverscreenselect]

He promised to not use signing statements. And he really means it.

You don't understand. He will ONLY use signing statements when he has to because there's something he really really disagrees with in the bill he's signing.

As opposed to Bush who used signing statements if he only really (not really really) disagreed with something in the bill.

It's all a matter of perspective.