Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), sent a letter last week urging the Inspector General of the Federal Trade Commission to investigate the FTC over “nonpublic” information published in The New York Times, Politico and Bloomberg about the agency’s then-ongoing investigations of Google, Inc., Mashable reports. The reports of the FTC’s work were published in the aforementioned media outlets prior to a Jan. 3, settlement the FTC reached with Google, in which no search bias nor antitrust violations were found. As Issa’s letter states:
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