BARRY LYNN does not waste time. Two days after being sacked from the New America Foundation, a think-tank where he had worked for 15 years, he stands calmly directing staffers in an immaculate grey suit in an office just around the corner from his old gig. The trouble began for Mr Lynn and his Open Markets team, a research outfit that advocated anti-monopoly regulations, after he published a statement praising the European Commission for levying a $2.7bn fine on Google—a big donor to the think-tank. Eric Schmidt, chairman of Google’s parent company, was upset. Susan Molinari, Google’s chief lobbyist, spoke to Anne-Marie Slaughter, New America’s president and chief executive.
What transpired next is disputed. A few hours after he published the offending statement, says Mr Lynn, he received a call from Ms Slaughter. In his telling, she said that Mr Schmidt and Google, which had donated more than $21m to the foundation, wanted to cut off all ties—and that Mr Schmidt...Continue reading
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