Think Tank Scholar or Corporate Consultant? It Depends on the Day - The New York Times
Eric Lipton, Nicholas Confessore and Brooke Williams
Litan in September after he failed to make clear that testimony he provided to a Senate committee last year, based on a study he had done as a private consultant, “left the false impression that Brookings was connected with the report and the testimony,” Strobe Talbott, the Brookings president, said in a letter explaining the matter.
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