Tom Davis

Yesterday  we ran a post raising a red flag on Rep. Tom Davis’s (R-Va.) claim that his new, seven-figure consulting gig is not representative of the “revolving door” that so often lands former lawmakers in high-powered K-Street firms by simple virtue of their ties to Congress.

Rep. Tom Davis, the seven-term Virginian who’s retiring this year, may have taken a seven-figure position with Deloitte Consulting. But don’t accuse him of being just another beneficiary of the “revolving door.” According to The Washington Post, Davis says he doesn’t fit the category because he was a private contractor before he became a public [...]

The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee released a bipartisan report today that concluded George W. Bush abused his claim of executive privilege when he withheld from the committee Vice President Dick Cheney’s FBI interview concerning the leak of Valerie Plame’s identity.