By Elaine Donnelly
Extending sexual misconduct to combat units
Independent voices from the TWT Communities
Though President Obama enacted new revolving-door ethics rules soon after taking office requiring a two-year "cooling off" period for appointees leaving the government, those regulations apply only to incoming appointees.
She said the hiring of Mr. Fuerst isn't unlike the December hiring by one of its competitors, Emergent Biosolutions, of a former top official for the Health Protection Agency in Britain.
"We made a conscious decision to be transparent in the hiring of Dr. Fuerst, as evidenced by our April 5th press release announcing his appointment as PharmAthene's chief scientific officer and, of course, his further introduction on a wider May 11th conference call" with analysts," Ms. Jurchison said.
