Beware of Transition Leaks
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on November 25th, 2008 5:37 am by HL
Beware of Transition Leaks
Felix Salmon notes that if you read Saturday’s Wall Street Journal, you would have expected the following individuals to be named today as key members of President-elect Obama’s economic team:
- Peter Orszag as director of OMB
- Jacob Lew as chair of the National Economic Council
- Jason Furman as Lew’s deputy chair at the NEC
- Austan Goolsbee as chair the Council of Economic Advisers
However, not only were none of these individuals named today, the jobs as head of the NEC and CEA actually went to other individuals.
Writes Salmon: “If I were Lew or Goolsbee I’d be furious at the WSJ report, and at whoever the sources were for it, because now they both look as though they had the jobs in question until someone better came along.”
