The best way to get taxpayer cash flowing to special interests is to gin up some sort of new crisis. Cybersecurity is a great recent example, as Bloomberg reporters Eric Engleman and Jonathan Salant report.
There were 513 filings by consultants and companies to press Congress on cybersecurity by the end of 2012, up 85 percent from 2011 and almost three times as many as in 2010….
Washington’s plan to fight attacks had Raytheon Co. and Lockheed Martin Corp., which want to sell security products, lobbying on cyber bills and appropriations.
Washington’s plan to fight attacks had Raytheon Co. and Lockheed Martin Corp., which want to sell security products, lobbying on cyber bills and appropriations.
I think its notable here that one of President Obama’s first lobbyist waiver went to Deputy Def. Sec. William Lynn, a Raytheon lobbyist up until his hire. And, as I wrote in my 2011 column on the rise of the cybersecurity-industrial complex, Raytheon was the No. 2 source of campaign cash for House Cybersecurity Caucus Chairman Jim Langevin.
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