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Just as victory was in site, online casinos are getting a raw deal.  President-Elect Barack Obama is overtly technology friendly.  As a matter of fact at the official website for the President-Elect, he outlines his policy toward technology and sciences.  In that outline he expresses his admiration for the Internet and the necessity to protect it as an unfiltered source of information and education.  The Internet has been the single most influential piece of technology in the last decade.

Proponents of online casinos were excited to see such a tech friendly leader come to power.  Hopes of overturning the damaging Unlawful Internet Gambling Act seemed just within grasp.  However, a lame duck president can still be very dangerous.  At the eleventh hour, the United States Treasury is attempting to pass regulations to implement the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act before current President George W. Bush leaves office.

The Unlawful Internet Gambling Act was passed in back in October of 2006, over two years ago.  Why the sudden push to implement it now. 

There is a rumor that a White House official with interests in protecting the National Football League is placing inappropriate pressure on the United States Treasury to get this done.  Though facts are still foggy, sources say this is the most probable cause.  The name of the culprit is William Wichterman; a top aide in the George W. Bush White House.  Wichterman was paid as recently as March of 2008 to lobby against online casinos for the National Football League.

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