Shaking Down Google

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Congressman Joe Barton, the Republican who complained that President Obama's treatment of BP was a "shakedown," is now threatening to haul Google executives up to Capitol Hill to testify. The Financial Times reports:

One influential Republican lawmaker in the House of Representatives, who will have new power following last week's congressional elections, has signalled that Republicans will take a closer look at the Street View incident.

Joe Barton, a Republican who is vying to become chairman of the powerful House energy and commerce committee, said in a recent C-Span interview that it was virtually guaranteed that executives from Google would be asked to testify on Capitol Hill.

"There appears to have been a conscious effort to collect information," Mr Barton said of Google. "It wasn't just kind of accidentally gathered."

For this we need Republicans?

by Ira Stoll  |  Nov 11, 2010 at 10:31 am Related Topics:  Energy, Google, Politics receive the latest by email: subscribe to the free futureofcapitalism.com mailing list