http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20090501/0209474714.shtml

"Plenty of folks have noted that the Justice Department has been the landing place for a number of RIAA lawyers. Some have suggested not to get too worked up about this, given that the Obama administration's ethics rules supposedly forbade those lawyers from being involved in issues related to their former work. However, it looks like the limit on these guys is actually quite narrow and for a very short period of time. We'd already noted that the highest ranking former RIAA lawyer, Thomas Perrelli, in his Senate confirmation hearings, said he hoped to use his position to increase intellectual property enforcement from within the Justice Department.

Now, Pro Publica, an online investigative reporting operation, has published the ethics agreements signed by Obama administration appointees, including Tom Perrelli's agreement, which appears to only preclude him from working on issues that impact his former clients for one year."
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This notion about former RIAA lawyers going to the Justice Department reminds me of Operation Paperclip, the operation in which, after WW II, the Allies scooped up Nazi scientists who worked in Hitler's rocketry and aeronautics efforts, and put them in charge of the early cold war race for rockets, planes, and bombs.

But, even more to the point, lawyers
who worked for the RIAA. some might say, know about as much about Justice as
a three year old knows about brain surgery.

I guess that is an apt comparison, because an RIAA lawyer working in the Justice Department can do irreparable damage just like a three year old could if he were doing brain surgery.
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