Eric Lipton reports in a two part series, reinforced by an editorial titled “The Golden Revolving Door [3],” that the government-industry revolving door [4] is turning faster and faster. According to Lipton’s count, more than 90 [5] former Department of Homeland Security [6] and domestic security officials have entered the lucrative private market by fully capitalizing on their government influence. These include former Secretary Tom Ridge [7], former Under Secretary Asa Hutchinson [8], and former Deputy Secretary Admiral James M. Loy. “People have a right to make a living,” said Clark Kent Ervin, the former inspector general of the department, who now works at the Aspen Institute [9], a nonpartisan public policy research center. “But working virtually immediately for a company that is bidding for work in an area where you were just setting the policy — that is too close. It is almost incestuous.” While Congress passed a law in 1962 that required former officials to wait a year before lobbying former colleagues, the ingenious officials in Homeland Security managed to get a loophole the size of a humvee [10] through the Office of Government Ethics in 2004. It divided the department into seven distinct areas, and allowed former employees to lobby all but the one where they worked.