Likely Justice Department nominee faces ethics hurdle

LA Times ^ | 2-5-09 | Tom Hamburger and Josh Meyer

[Justaham]

The leading candidate to head the Justice Department office that oversees legal policy and judicial nominations recently has been a lobbyist for several business clients, including the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and would require a waiver from the Obama administration's recently imposed ethics rules.

FOR THE RECORD: An article reporting that Mark Gitenstein is the lead candidate to head the Justice Department office that oversees legal policy and judicial nominations said his nomination would require a waiver from the Obama administration's ethics rules. The article should say it may require a waiver; as the article later states, a Justice Department official said Gitenstein would recuse himself from issues that could pose a conflict due to his former lobbying, which, the official maintains, would make a blanket waiver unnecessary

[Sir Clancelot]

This is more of the same. Remember the last guy to say his administration was going to be the most ethical in history. That’s right, Slick Willie.

[lacrew]

A waiver, eh.

Why make a rule that can be broken?