Facebook hires key defender of Bush's attack on American civil liberties
Facebook's recently-beefed-up management team includes former White House lawyer Ted Ullyot, who...... helped coordinate the response to the investigation into the leak of CIA operative Valerie Plame's identity and serv[ed] as chief of staff to former U.S. Atty. General Alberto Gonzales. [He] will join Facebook as its vice president and general counsel next month. Ullyot, who also has had major private sector stints including as a top lawyer for AOL Time Warner Europe, is leaving a partnership with law firm Kirkland & Ellis and will relocate to the Bay Area, he said in an interview Friday.Facebook hires general counsel as it continues to grow (LA Times, thanks @jameshome)
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