[steve-howard]

Kara's ethics statement claims that she has no non-public information related to Megan's job:

http://recode.net/ajax/writerinfo/ethics/kara-swisher/

[PhantomGremlin]

Kara's ethics statement claims that she has no non-public information related to Megan's job

I see nothing in that ethics statement that contradicts the GP's assertion which was:

   It's not unreasonable that Kara, and by extension
   her team, would therefore have made a number of
   high-level contacts inside Google