Staff members, especially those culled for work on specially-appointed or temporary commissions are generally professional government trough-slurpers, i.e. attorneys, hardened former or on-leave bureaucrats, sabattical academics, "consultants" (translated: out-of-work educated losers) and the like.
These staffs can attain great power because they can influence the too-lazy or too-busy commission members, or hide pertinent material from them if they want to.
Leni
I was dead wrong about these Gubbermint trough feeders. I agree with your every word after I looked into it