Following last week’s scandal in his D.C. office and Kundra’s sudden leave of absence from his brand new position as Obama’s I.T. czar, we had a cautionary note for our readers warning them against assuming that Kundra was automatically involved in this scandal.
Turns out Kundra was just following standard government protocol of going on leave regardless of guilt for being involved in an investigation, and is now back in his new office. [Network World]
“Mr. Kundra has been informed that he is neither a subject nor a target of the investigation, and has been reinstated,” White House spokesman Nick Shapiro said via e-mail late Tuesday, in response to a query seeking confirmation of reports posted online by the Personal Democracy Forum’s techPresident blog and The New York Times.
But enough with the Kundra love fest already. Here’s a question for the man, if his goal is to make “government more transparent and open to the public”, how did he miss this huge scandal right under his nose in his own D.C. office, which was supposedly a model for transparency and efficiency?
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