Foxes in the Henhouse
by Guest Blogger, 8/14/2004
Coverage of the Bush administration's record of appointing industry leaders to serve in the agencies that are supposed to regulate those same industries.
The Second Bush Term
- Secretary of Agribusiness --from The Nation's Online Beat (12/7/04)
- Jonathan Snare, OSHA: Henhouses Overstaffed with Foxes ---from Molly Ivins at Alternet
- Farewell to a Few Foxes
- Spencer Abraham, Secretary of Energy: NYT
- J. Steven Griles, no. 2 at USDA: AP, WP
- Dave Lauriski, MSHA
- Ann Veneman, USDA: NYT, WP
- The Illness Department: What role did the FDA play in the vaccine crisis? --from The American Prospect Online (11/1/04)
- The Ties that Bind: Arms Industry Influence in the Bush Administration and Beyond --from the World Policy Institute (10/28/04)
- Democrats Criticize Bush's Corporate Ties --from the Associated Press (8/16/04)
- Consultants Profit From Their Pentagon Ties: Ex- CIA couple reflect a pattern --from the LA Times (8/15/04)
- Friends in the White House Come to Coal's Aid --from the New York Times (8/9/04)
- Nuclear Power Plant Lobbyists Shape Post-9/11 Security Tests --from POGO (8/3/04)
- USDA, Inc.: How Agribusiness Has Hijacked Regulatory Policy at the U.S. Department of Agriculture --from the Agribusiness Accountability Initiative coalition (7/04)
- A Dirty Dozen: Sub-cabinet policy operatives actually run government --from The Utne Reader (6/04)
- When Advocates Become Regulators: President Bush has installed more than 100 top officials who were once lobbyists, attorneys or spokespeople for the industries they oversee. --from the Denver Post (5/23/04)
- I'd Like A Tuna On White - Hold The Mercury! --by Arianna Huffington (3/25/04)
- The FCC's rapidly revolving door: SBC senior veep a glaring example --Center for Public Integrity (2/19/03)
- More Foxes: Bush Continues to Put Corporate Types in Federal Agencies --by Molly Ivins (8/24/01)
- Beating Around the Bushes --from OMB Watch (1/02-10/02)
