Washington Post's Dan Eggen serves up a delicious slice of hypocrisy re transparency: "Pro-disclosure groups often don’t disclose themselves"

Sunlight Foundation video: Washington's Lobbyist Fix -- The Advisory Committee on Transparency. March 16, 2011. I'm posting this year-old video because Dan Eggen is a panelist on a forum on the topic of transparency.

http://youtu.be/2AEOVj0snPY

The only thing better this week than hot pizza and cold beer while watching the beginning of the NCAA basketball tourney on TV -unexpectedly being served-up some sweet hypocrisy on a silver platter!

More, please!

The Washington Post

The Influence Industry blog

Pro-disclosure groups often don’t disclose themselves

By Dan Eggen, 

Published: March 14, 2012

In a bid to limit the impact of “secret money” in the 2012 elections, a coalition of liberal-leaning groups announced a campaign this week aimed at pressuring corporations to reveal donations to political groups.

There is one complication, however: Many of the groups behind the effort also don’t disclose their donors to the public.

Read the rest of the post at:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/the-influence-industry-pro-disclosure-groups-often-dont-disclose-themselves/2012/03/13/gIQAs9X9CS_story.html 

Take a look while you're at it at the WaPo's Campaign 2012 Campaign Finance Explorer chart at http://wapo.st/zESKIX

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