In Transition, Tangle of Ties to Lobbying
President-elect Barack Obama has imposed stricter conflict-of-interest restrictions on his White House transition team than any president before him. But a list of transition team members that his office made public on Friday includes a complicated tangle of ties to private influence-seekers. Full Story »
Posted by Derek Hawkins
What we know is that a major challenge for Obama is to find people to appoint from outside of the beltway (except for few friends from Chicago).