Follow BeltwayBlips on TwitterBeefy Résumé for a Giant Job: Policing Stimulus Spending
Published 3/20/2009 by Philip Rucker at Wash Post Obama Administration
Promising unparalleled scrutiny of his $787 billion wager to stimulate the economy, President Obama appointed to police the spending a burly former football lineman and Secret Service agent with a reputation for exposing wrongdoers.
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