Rep. Darrell Issa probes FCC Baker’s departure to Comcast

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Source: Raw3 Story
By Eric W. Dolan

House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa questioned Federal Communications Commissioner Meredith Attwell Baker’s resignation from the agency in a letter dated May 18.

Baker, one of the two Republican Commissioners at the Federal Communications Commission, announced earlier this month that she was taking a position at the cable giant Comcast-NBC Universal just four months after voting to approve the the controversial merger of Comcast and NBC.

"Based on the public statements of both Commissioner Baker and the FCC, it does not appear that she violated any of her legal or ethical obligations in accepting a position with Comcast," Issa wrote in the letter to FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski, according to POLITICO. "Nevertheless, because only a short time has passed since the Comcast-NBC Universal merger, it is imperative that the public can trust the integrity of the process."

The group Free Press, which had called Baker's departure from the FCC a "blatant example of a so-called public servant cashing in at a company she is supposed to be regulating," praised Rep. Issa for his letter

More at: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/05/22/rep-darrell-issa-probes-fcc-bakers-departure-to-comcast/

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1. Really? I would like to see something come of this.