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FANNIE/GOLDMAN lobbyist tapped as National Security Advisor...

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Why is Obama putting a Fannie Mae/Goldman Sachs lobbyist/consultant as NSA?
By: Timothy P. Carney
Senior Examiner Columnist
10/15/10 4:10 PM EDT

Obama last week tapped Tom Donilon as National Security Advisor. What?s Donilon?s resume? I summarized it when folks floated his name as potential White House chief of staff:

He was a top lobbyist at Fannie Mae during the housing bubble, when Fannie fought ? with Democratic help ? to avoid any restrictions or curbs on its work to inflate home values and get more people under mortgage. Before that, Donilon was a lobbyist at O?Melveny and Myers, where Fannie was a client.

In 2008, according to his financial disclosure forms, Donilon was a paid consultant for Citigroup, Goldman Sachs, and Apollo Investments.

Rep. Cliff Stearns, R-Fla., had a similar reaction to the NSA news, putting out this press release:

?Now that we?re in a post 9/11 environment we need a National Security Advisor who has a history of expertise with security issues to protect us against terrorists and not a lobbyist who has a history of running our economy into the ditch as Senior Vice President & General Counsel for Fannie Mae and a lobbyist for Goldman Sachs?