By John GeluardiThe
Chevron Corporation has exposed its pestilent underbelly by hiring
William J. Haynes II, a Department of Defense attorney who compiled
lists of violent interrogation techniques for shadowy U.S. detention centers.
Chevron hired Haynes on as its chief corporate council in April,
two months before the Senate Arms Services Committee (SASC) completed a
bipartisan investigation that found Haynes' actions at the Department of
Defense "deeply troubling."
In 2002 Haynes recomm
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Barack Obama kicked off his presidency by limiting his administration's vulnerability to lobbyists. By May, however, it seemed clear that resourceful Democratic Party insiders would circumvent the limited ban. San Francisco's Amazon Watch has just denounced former Clinton Administration trade representative Mickey Cantor for violating the spirit of the Obama rules by lobbying his old bureaucracy on behalf of Chevron Texaco. Cantor has been lobbying the U.S. government to help quash $27 billion i