As journalists and governing watchdogs scramble to hold the Trump administration accountable for a long list ofpotentialconflicts of interestingness — include White House adviser Kellyanne Conway’srecent recommendationto “ go buy Ivanka [ Trump ’s ] stuff”—theUS Office of Government Ethics ( OGE ) websitehas been experiencing repeat outages due to a surge in entanglement dealings .
1 / OGE ’s website , phone organization and email organization are receiving an extraordinary volume of contacts from citizens about recent event .
— U.S. Office of Government Ethics ( @OfficeGovEthics)February 9 , 2017
The agency works to foreclose ethics misdemeanor in the administrator branch , admit with the President of the United States , vice president and the locker . Although it does n’t have investigative or enforcement confidence , it works with other Union agencies to provide guidance during investigations those agencies set in motion .
The OGE website has crashed repeatedly since the 2016 election . At the time this article was publish , it was not ferment . According to one reporter , the website administrator said it ’s because dealings has surged from 300,000 view in all of 2016 to 5 million page requests in the last 40 daylight alone .
OGE admin : " We ’re just overwhelmed with dealings right now . " In 2016 they had 300k varlet asking . In first 40 daytime of this twelvemonth , * 5 million * .
— Eric Geller ( @ericgeller)February 9 , 2017
The report of increased dealings echoes what we see on Google Trends , where the search condition “ administration value-system office ” has lace since recent November .
Of course , this could all be a huge happenstance . perchance mass are just want to learn more about how the executive branch of the government activity works . Maybe they ’re concerned in applying to become civil servant . woefully , we may never know for certain .
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