President Obama’s pick for the #2 spot at the Department of Defense caught my eye and not in a good way.

President Obama has nominated registered Raytheon lobbyist William J. Lynn III to deputy defense secretary, waiving the rule that employees are prohibited from decision-making related to their employers in the past two years and from taking jobs in agencies they lobbied recently

Raytheon is a huge U.S. defense contractor involved in numerous U.S. wars and are the makers of Tomahawk and Patriot missiles. They have helped such imfamous programs like Operation Condor in Mexico and manufactured the missile that killed 62 civilians in a Baghdad market in 2003.

I became aware of Raytheon over 10 years ago, when I was involved in protesting their plans to build a Relocatable-Over-The-Horizon-Radar (ROTHR)in Puerto Rico.

Via / Pam’s House Blend