Chinese Walls building Chinese Rooms

“I never went away, I just went invisible, and probably became more effective,” Southerland told POLITICO. “I’ve enjoyed being off the grid.”

“This is not another story about best intentions and unforeseen consequences. The 2007 law was deliberately watered down by lawmakers concerned about their own job prospects, POLITICO has learned from dozens of interviews with former legislators and staffers. Those lawmakers made sure that their departing colleagues could secretly negotiate lucrative new jobs and orchestrate lobbying from behind the scenes without fear of detection or punishment.

But would it not be completely absurd to act any other way? Counterrational?

Playing chess and telling your opponent U see a great move?

The problem here is that there is no objectivity to relationships.

Isaac Arnsdorf – http://www.politico.com/story/2016/06/the-lobbying-reform-that-enriched-congress-224849 3 july 16