ethics

I can understand that any executive-elect would seek out the best for administration appointments. That makes sense. You want to enlist the expertise of experienced, successful, people to help you govern. I think everyone can understand this logic.

However, what Governor-Elect Bob McDonnell is allowing with his nomination of Robert Sledd as Virginia Secretary of Commerce and Trade is apalling. Sledd, a former businessman who serves on three corporate boards, will be allowed to continue serving on those boards while on McDonnell's cabinet.

This brazen disregard for ethics and ignorance of possible conflicts of interest is banned by the federal government and illegal in several states!

But Bob McDonnell doesn't seem to care, and has decided on a blanket policy of allowing all his cabinet members to serve on corporate boards while serving in his administration.

Come on McDonnell, even members of the Bush administration had the decency of seperating themselves from their respective corporations.

Related posts:

1. Bob McDonnell resigns as VA Attorney General
2. McDonnell a jobs governor? Guess not
3. Bob McDonnell can't cover up his record

An evaluation of the testimonies of family members and the IDF officers suggests that this was not an operation to assassinate. However, the three, Adnan Subuh, Raad Sarkaji and Ghassan Abu Shreikh, were killed by the soldiers, even though two of them were not armed, and it does not even appear that they were trying to escape - a fact that the IDF does not dispute.
Family members of the dead are alleging that the three were executed, and say that the Israeli claims that the three were involved in the killing of Rabbi Hai, 32 hours prior to the incident, are lies. The weapon that the security establishment in Israel says were used to kill the rabbi was found in the home of the third wanted man, Subuh. A ballistic examination proved it was the weapon.