Interesting, considering the President issued a "transition-team" memo that specifically stated that he had Rahm Emanuel call the Governor's office to discuss his favorite candidates for the Senate seat.
He will be replacing Curtis Brown, who will stay on "for a number of months" for the transition, according to an internal memo from AOL's CEO Tim Armstrong.
The first item my organization suggested to the Obama Transition Team in our policy memo regarding Open Government, was to commit to a transparent administration by first restoring the usefulness of FOIA by rescinding the directives as set in a memo by then Attorney General John Ashcroft.
The timing is new, but word that Kilar was on his way out was circulating as early as August 2012, when an internal memo included a passage about transitioning to a new CEO.
The memo expresses concern about the transition from "emergency to normalized security operations".
The memo comes after a similar Trump transition team request to the Energy Department sought the names of staffers who had worked on climate change initiatives.
"When the story about my personal situation was published last Wednesday, it became clear that my transition timing needed to accelerate," Kveton says in the memo.
The transition team declined to comment on the gender equality memo, and a State Department spokesman told the Times that such requests are not out of the ordinary.
Last week Facebook promoted a site called "Truth Kings", which quotes from a hacked memo of John Podesta about Obama's 2008 transition with Bush's White House.
As detailed in the memo from CEO Tim Armstrong, Minson is staying for a transition period, working on Aol's "current and future commerce and subscription strategy and business".
