used to work for "time." former cnn senior producer who became the spokeswoman for the transportation department and is now chief of staff for the faa. and others. of course, it's important to note that other presidents have hire ed journalists as stafferss well. president george w. bush's press secretary, former reporter and fox news anchor david snow. and geoff morrell went to work for the bush administration in 2007. google's founders may have to adjust their budget a bit ak allowing them to buy deeply discounted jet fuel straight from the pentagon. the "wall street journal" reports google paid about $3.to a gallon for fuel in contrast to other companies that paid about $4.35 per gallon. it started as an agreement with nasa in 2007 for google to provide scientific flights and other transportation, but there are now questions as to how many pentagon subsidized trips were really for government business.