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US: Senate to probe Google meetings at White House

By  |  March 30, 2015

Federal Trade Commission’s years-old antitrust probe of Google has reached the Senate. Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) is concerned that Google’s access to the administration could have biased the investigation, and plans to question the “FTC and the parties” about the meetings, according to his office.

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    Lee, who leads the Senate Judiciary subcommittee on antitrust, also plans to look at how the FTC inadvertently leaked internal details of the antitrust probe to the media.

    While there are no plans for a hearing on the issue “at this time,” Lee wouldn’t rule one out, according to his office.

    “Our interest is in oversight,” Lee’s spokeswoman Emily Long said in a statement on Monday.

     

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