The White House on Wednesday defended Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner’s choice of Mark Patterson - an ex-lobbyist from Goldman Sachs - to be his chief of staff.
The selection is at least the third high-profile exception to a policy by President Barack Obama that says no one who has lobbied on a set of issues within the past two years can take a role in his administration that deals with the same subject matter.
White House press secretary Robert Gibbs reiterated his claim that that rule is the “strongest that any administration in the history of our country has had.”
Until last April, Patterson, a Goldman vice president for government relations.............
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