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Okay I'll pretend to give a benefit of the doubt here.. what's the possible upside or positives for doing this? I'm having a very hard time conceiving of them.
by saboot 10y ago
Okay I'll pretend to give a benefit of the doubt here.. what's the possible upside or positives for doing this? I'm having a very hard time conceiving of them.
- crooked-v 10y agoUpside (for Republicans): the ethics office no longer investigates Republicans.
- jacalata 10y agoAccording to Representative Robert W. Goodlatte, Republican of Virginia and chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, this will "better safeguard the exercise of due process rights of both subject and witness". Have not seen this explained.
- rev_bird 10y agoThis is the most embarrassing part. They're saying "We can keep things secret to avoid being humiliated" like it's for our benefit.
- dankohn1 10y agoIn depth explanation here: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/back-to-the-auction-house http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/back-to-the-auction-hous...
- ars 10y agoIt was a very confusing news article. The best I understood from it is that they were not happy at releasing reports of someone who was ultimately cleared. And I can kinda see their POV on that. If they are cleared they are cleared, releasing the full report after that seems intrusive and implies that they did something wrong even if cleared (which may be true, but if that's the case then don't clear them).
- saboot 10y agoThis is the kind of answer I was looking for.
- naasking 10y ago> The best I understood from it is that they were not happy at releasing reports of someone who was ultimately cleared. Releasing reports of government activity and investigations into elected officials seems perfectly reasonable to me. Government should be transparent.
- MaxfordAndSons 10y agoI'm surprised they aren't trotting out a fiscal justification - eliminating wasteful regulatory bodies and whatnot.
- myowncrapulence 10y agoDon't give them any ideas