Talk:Revolving door (politics)/Archives/2011

Executive order 2009

On January 21 President Obama passed an executive order significantly changing current regulations in the US regarding revolving doors: Ethics Commitments by Executive Branch Personnel. I'm don't think I'm qualified to write this up myself but it seems that someone should. Venom087 (talk) 21:03, 22 January 2009 (UTC)

Thanks - this is covered in the Lobbying in the United States article which is probably the best place for something that affects one country. PeterEastern (talk) 07:41, 7 March 2010 (UTC)

Merging section

This section needs to be merged into this article:

The expression may refer to various forms of corruption or unethical behavior, such as the phenomenon of failed company executives orchestrating a return to the business world, perhaps following criminal misconduct or bankruptcy; or collusion between defence procurement and defence suppliers (see, for example, Military-industrial complex). In American public service, this refers to government workers or elected officials who leave public service to work for the companies they used to regulate, creating a conflict of interest. For example, Boeing received a major contract from the US Air Force, but lost it when officials realized the contract had been negotiated by a USAF employee who left government service to take employment with Boeing as the contract was going into force. Darleen Druyun, the executive in charge of the contract, was fired and sentenced to nine months in jail for corruption and was fined $5,000. Before working for Boeing, she had previously been a civilian employee for the Air Force. She used her position to give Boeing this contract, rigging it to take effect as she left to work for them. In another example, government attorneys at the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) are charged with regulating attorney conduct, though they may be employed previously or subsequently by the same law firm they were supposed to regulate.

It is copied from Revolving door syndrome (which is in the process of being merged into the disambiguation page, Revolving door (disambiguation)).

Side-Note: This article "Senator takes aim at acquisition revolving door", might also be a good reference to add here.

I'll leave it all to someone who knows the area better than I do. Thanks. -- Quiddity (talk) 19:48, 22 June 2010 (UTC)