It’s all perfectly legal and all perfectly disturbing.  Politico, the court scribe of the imperial federal government, has been very, very successful in selling subscriptions to a wide variety of federal agencies for its paid information service, Politico Pro.  Jeryl Bier of The Weekly Standard describes P.P. as “the go-to publication to keep abreast of information and developments relating to a wide spectrum of policy and politics” and chronicles the amazing success of Politico’s parent company in peddling it to taxpayer-funded agencies.   In fiscal year 2011, federal government contracts with Capitol News Company, the owner of Politico, totaled $41,900. In fiscal year 2014, twenty-eight contracts were signed with sixteen departments or agencies totaling $431,800, as THE WEEKLY STANDARD reported last year. The last complete fiscal year, 2015, eighteen departments or agencies signed 50 different agreements for a grand total of $710,044, a...(Read Full Post)