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Congress votes to shield top officials’ financial disclosures
Washington Times ^ | 4-12-2013 | Stephen Dinan

Posted on 04/12/2013 11:38:21 AM PDT by Sir Napsalot

Congress this week approved a bill to free thousands of federal government employees from having to disclose their financial dealings online, rushing the bill through the Senate late Thursday and through the House on Friday.

But the push to undo the online reporting requirement is proving to be controversial.

The National Academy of Public Administration (NAPA) said that posting all of that information online posed a national security risk. But the Sunlight Foundation, an open government group, said releasing staffers from online disclosure eviscerates part of last year’s Stock Act, designed to stop insider trading by federal officials.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: financialdisclosure; stockact; sunlightfoundation
Two classes, Two America, indeed.
1 posted on 04/12/2013 11:38:21 AM PDT by Sir Napsalot
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To: Sir Napsalot
.......rushing the bill through the Senate late Thursday and through the House on Friday.

Dirty deeds done in the middle of the night................Again.

We stand a snowball's chance in hell with the bastards in Washington.

2 posted on 04/12/2013 11:44:07 AM PDT by The Cajun (Sarah Palin, Mark Levin......Nuff said.)
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To: The Cajun

THEY think we would be too distracted to notice.


3 posted on 04/12/2013 11:51:50 AM PDT by Sir Napsalot (Pravda + Useful Idiots = CCCP; JournOList + Useful Idiots = DopeyChangey!)
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To: Sir Napsalot

But it’s ok for the government to read our emails...


4 posted on 04/12/2013 12:45:32 PM PDT by bgill
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To: bgill

Only IRS, or so I thought.


5 posted on 04/12/2013 12:46:42 PM PDT by Sir Napsalot (Pravda + Useful Idiots = CCCP; JournOList + Useful Idiots = DopeyChangey!)
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To: Sir Napsalot

If they have done nothing wrong, they have nothing to hide.


6 posted on 04/12/2013 12:47:39 PM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: MrB

Not the argument they use.

It is simply you are a different class, and they can get away with it.


7 posted on 04/12/2013 12:52:04 PM PDT by Sir Napsalot (Pravda + Useful Idiots = CCCP; JournOList + Useful Idiots = DopeyChangey!)
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8 posted on 04/12/2013 1:16:36 PM PDT by TheOldLady
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