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Re:FBI raids office of D.C. CTO, Obama appointee Vivek Kundra by jdanndc on Thursday March 12, 2009 @11:28AM (#513548)
looks like they were after someone else.

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/dc/2009/03/breaking_dc_tech...

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Re:FBI raids office of D.C. CTO, Obama appointee Vivek Kundra by icey on Thursday March 12, 2009 @01:10PM (#513715)
Politics submissions are why we can't have nice things.
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Re:FBI raids office of D.C. CTO, Obama appointee Vivek Kundra by spoiledtechie on Thursday March 12, 2009 @10:52AM (#513493)
Sounds like there is another problem with who Obama appointed. Sad really.
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Re:FBI raids office of D.C. CTO, Obama appointee Vivek Kundra by TomOfTTB on Thursday March 12, 2009 @11:21AM (#513538)
I don't think it's that. There are plenty of reasons to raid an office that have nothing to do with the office owner (for example, if you are after one of the employees)

More to the point, the Obama administration could have the worst vetting team in the world and they'd still be smart enough to ask the FBI if they had any active investigations on the appointee. It's too rudimentary a step to skip.

Which means this is either (a) not about Mr. Kundra (the nominee) or (b) is something so benign as to not have concerned the vetting team.

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Re:FBI raids office of D.C. CTO, Obama appointee Vivek Kundra by defen on Thursday March 12, 2009 @12:17PM (#513619)
Or they were so busy triple-checking on tax issues that they forgot to ask the FBI :-)
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Re:FBI raids office of D.C. CTO, Obama appointee Vivek Kundra by anamax on Thursday March 12, 2009 @12:20PM (#513624)
Did you really intend to suggest that you think that the vetting team would have squashed the raid if they thought that Mr. Kundra actually was involved in something serious, that is, that you think that the vetting team would do a coverup for a nominee?
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Re:FBI raids office of D.C. CTO, Obama appointee Vivek Kundra by TomOfTTB on Thursday March 12, 2009 @12:43PM (#513660)
No, I'm saying he wouldn't be the nominee.

Honestly, I'm not sure how you even got that out of my original post.

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Re:FBI raids office of D.C. CTO, Obama appointee Vivek Kundra by jibiki on Thursday March 12, 2009 @12:43PM (#513659)
I think the people downvoting you don't understand your point. If the vetting team told Kundra that they didn't think he was fit to be CTO, that might tip Kundra off to an ongoing investigation.

The whole thing is a moot point now, because Kundra wasn't the guy they were investigating.

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Re:FBI raids office of D.C. CTO, Obama appointee Vivek Kundra by TomOfTTB on Thursday March 12, 2009 @12:45PM (#513668)
I'm pretty sure a basic vetting is done of the entire "short list" of candidates so the President doesn't waste time considering someone who can't be nominated.
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Re:FBI raids office of D.C. CTO, Obama appointee Vivek Kundra by noodle on Thursday March 12, 2009 @11:52AM (#513585)
no, it doesn't really sound like that if you read the article.

could they be connected? sure. or there could just be criminals employed in the same department.

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Re:FBI raids office of D.C. CTO, Obama appointee Vivek Kundra by pilif on Thursday March 12, 2009 @12:40PM (#513652)
if only the different agencies had shown as much diligence when checking the background of people appointed by the previous administration.

sigh

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Re:FBI raids office of D.C. CTO, Obama appointee Vivek Kundra by aaronblohowiak on Thursday March 12, 2009 @01:06PM (#513706)
1) RTFA. 2) Your post isn't contributing any new insight or reflection about this article, so it is noise.
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