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Wednesday November 12, 2008, 8:05 PM
President-elect Barack Obama’s transition team leaders for the State Department are both Clinton-era department officials with links to the troubled mortgage giant Fannie Mae.
Tom Donilon, a lawyer who was one of President Bill Clinton’s State Department spokesmen and its chief of staff, was a top lobbyist for Fannie Mae [...]

Those following the progress of the Dodd-Shelby mortgage rescue plan in the Senate might want to check out two solid pieces of enterprising reporting on the bill this weekend.
First, the Examiner’s Tim Carney reports that the bailout section of the Dodd-Shelby bill is, in the words a lobbyist, “exactly what Bank of America and Countrywide [...]