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.
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).
According 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.
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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.
Upside (for Republicans): the ethics office no longer investigates Republicans.
It 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).
Releasing reports of government activity and investigations into elected officials seems perfectly reasonable to me. Government should be transparent.
This is the kind of answer I was looking for.
According 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.
This is the most embarrassing part. They're saying "We can keep things secret to avoid being humiliated" like it's for our benefit.
In depth explanation here: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/back-to-the-auction-hous...
I'm surprised they aren't trotting out a fiscal justification - eliminating wasteful regulatory bodies and whatnot.
Don't give them any ideas