The general began lobbying for a surge in private sessions with reporters and undercutting the president, who was trying to make a searingly hard call.
The Russian general is lobbying with Amnesty and Oxfam for a treaty to prevent the export of small arms to countries that abuse human rights.
Marybeth Ulrich, a professor specializing in civil-military relations at the Army War College, said it's too soon for the Army to be analyzing whether Shinseki could have played his hand better, or whether generals might lobby more forcefully in the future.
Unsatisfied by the cabinet shakeup, several opposition parties are pressing for an investigation into reports that Solicitor General Lawrence MacAulay lobbied the head of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police to give $3.5 million to a college administered by Mr. MacAulay's brother.
It is no doubt just a coincidence that last week the incoming head of Africom (the US Africa Command), General David Rodriguez, lobbied the Senate armed services committee for more drones and resources.
"It's a problem for corrections officers to have prisoners without anything constructive to do," said Edwin Meese III, the former United States attorney general, who lobbies for expanded inmate labor as chairman of the Enterprise Prison Institute, a Bethesda, Md., research group financed by state grants, research centers and private companies.
The attorney general, who lobbied aggressively for Mr. Fuentes, said he was confident that the new superintendent had the experience, determination and academic credentials -- including a doctorate of philosophy in criminal justice from City University of New York -- to help the state police move beyond problems with racial profiling.
As detailed by The Verge, lawyers from the MPAA and half a dozen major studios refer to "Goliath" as their biggest enemy in their battle with online piracy, and the Sony emails discuss a variety of tactics to fight "Goliath," including site blocking, legal action involving state attorneys general, political lobbying, and more.
Whether manufacturers can satisfy the imperative to bring the states into general alignment a lobbying campaign of unprecedented scope to roll back outmoded laws and to adopt cohesive liability laws is the single greatest hurdle to mass market adoption of driverless cars.
The proposals also challenged the status quo of the financial services industry, which publicly supported the reforms in general but lobbied against many of the particulars behind closed doors.
