Think Progress has a disturbing thread on the revolving door between this administration and the lobbying industry:
After Negotiating India Nuclear Deal, State Dept. Official Gets Lucractive Job Lobbying For India
Stephen G. Rademaker, U.S. assistant secretary of state for arms control, is leaving the State Department for a lucrative lobbying job at the firm of Barbour Griffith & Rogers.While assistant secretary of state, Rademaker negotiated a controversial deal allowing the United States to sell nuclear technology to India, which is not a member of the important nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty. Critics argued that the Bush administration “abandoned the one incentive states have to stay in the NPT, without providing an alternative framework to sustain the effort to control proliferation.”
There’s even more dirt over at Open Secrets.com, including a searchable database of which lobbying firms have hired which former white house official.
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