Daily Briefing - Tuesday September 21, 2010

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Garrett Gruener is the founder of Ask.com and a co-founder of Alta Partners. Mr. Gruener holds advanced degrees political science and technology policy, and is a specialist in information technology with more than two decades of experience in software development, systems engineering and corporate development.He sits on the boards of directors of several companies, including Ask Jeeves and Nanōmix. In 2003, he ran for governor of California in the special recall election. His editorial, "I'm Rich, Tax Me More," appeared in Monday's Los Angeles Times.

Jeff Gottlieb is a senior writer for the Los Angeles Times. Along with his partner, Ruben Vives, he broke the story of outrageous pay scales for officials in the City of Bell. He has been covering the story ever since. In a cover story for Tuesday’s LA Times, Gottlieb and Vives explain how an audit determined that Bell spent nearly $95,000 repaying former City Manager Robert Rizzo’s loans. As copies of the newspaper arrived on doorsteps in Bell this morning, police were arresting Rizzo and six other city officials.

Michael Krepon is the founder and President Emeritus of the Henry L. Stimson Center. He directs programming at the Stimson Center on South Asia, arms control, and space security. He is also a Diplomat Scholar and Visiting Lecturer in the Politics Department at the University of Virginia. Previously, he worked in the Carter Administration, on Capitol Hill, and at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. He has written and edited more than a dozen books including Cooperative Threat Reduction, Missile Defense, and the Nuclear Future, Space Assurance or Space Dominance? The Case Against Weaponizing Space, Nuclear Risk Reduction in South Asia, and Better Safe Than Sorry: The Ironies of Living with the Bomb. He recently published an article titled, “The Flood.”