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Ex-Googler's New White House Job Rankles Some

Amy Schatz, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on June 3, 2009 at 3:01 pm PT

Andrew McLaughlin’s departure from Google to the Obama administration has prompted a little grumbling among some consumer advocates and the search giant’s corporate foes. Mr. McLaughlin, who was Google’s head of global public policy and government affairs, is leaving Silicon Valley for Washington, D.C., to become a deputy to Chief Technology Officer Aneesh Chopra, who’s in charge of advancing the president’s tech agenda.