Egg, Meet Face

Wingnuts are in a tizzy over this Ben Smith Politico hit job on the Obama administration, breathlessly implying the office of Obama's Chief Technology Officer has been raided by the FBI.

The outgoing Chief Technology Officer, Vivek Kundra, was appointed last week Chief Information Officer by the Obama administration. His last day at the city government office was March 4, a spokeswoman for D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty, Leslie Kershaw, said. He was appointed to the Washington post in 2007, and held it when Bansal's contract was awarded.

Only one problem: it's not the truth. Vivek Kundra is NOT the target of the raid.

An official in the D.C. government's office of the chief technology officer has been arrested in a federal bribery sting, according to law enforcement sources. The FBI has raided the technology office this morning and agents are continuing to search for evidence, sources said.

Yusuf Acar, 40, was taken into custody this morning by FBI agents at his home in Northwest Washington, the sources said. The nature of the charges could not be determined. Channing Phillips, a spokesman for the U.S. Attorney's Office, declined to comment on the arrest, saying the case "is under seal."

Federal authorities also arrested a second person, Sushil Bansal, 41, of Fairfax County, in the sting operation this morning. According to his company's website, Bansal used to work in the D.C. government and later founded Advanced Integrated Technologies Corporation, an information technology consulting firm based in the District. That company has several contracts with D.C. government agencies, including the technology office and the Department of Motor Vehicles. Last August, the D.C. chapter of the Association of Indians in America awarded him its Entrepreneur of the Year Award.

In other words, these guys are Washington D.C. city employees, NOT Obama Administration *anything*.

But that hasn't stopped the Wingnuts from running with a complete lie. Now, these D.C. guys are clearly in trouble. But they aren't Obama employees. Kundra should come forward with whatever info he may have on this. Perhaps he's the whistleblower. But the cries of "Most corrupt Democrat ever!" (I swear to the Flying Spaghetti Monster that Jennifer Rubin is the most useless hack ever) are nothing more than ODS.

Anyone surprised that Ben Smith and Politico are running a hatchet job on this, trying to tie this into the Obama administration? I'm not.