The original WSJ article (just search for "Google Makes Most of Close Ties to White House") is even more ridiculous with this. It lists a bunch of meetings tha

The original WSJ article (just search for "Google Makes Most of Close Ties to White House") is even more ridiculous with this. It lists a bunch of meetings that coincided with significant events in the FTC investigation, underlining a supposed connection between the two, then proceeds to mention the fact that the logs for each of these meetings (and sources that were in the meetings) say they had nothing to do with the FTC investigation (and involved people that couldn't influence the FTC investigation) and did have a lot to do with other things going on at the time, changes in STEM, patent reform, healthcare.gov, etc.