Return to Article: Committee passes advisory panel accountability bill

By Dan Friedman CongressDaily April 11, 2008
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    Many people on these advisory committee's aren't paid so why would they give up their personal information???

    Dan ketter Posted April 14, 2008 3:22 PM
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    The State Department's Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs is another agency of the federal government that has for years been criticized by the national media for operating under a shroud of secrecy. The bureau is currently being sued in Federal Court by the Ancient Coin Collectors Guild, a small group that opposes the State Department's use of an emergency provision to create what amounts to general restrictions on the importation of collector coins. The suit charges failure to comply with Freedom of Information Act requirements and refusal to release information about deliberations of the Cultural Property Advisory Committee, which operates without any public scrutiny. Passage of the bill presently in committee will certainly help in theory. What the bureaucracy does in practice may be another matter since they routinely ignore FOIA which was supposed to accomplish similar objectives.

    Wayne G. Sayles Posted April 14, 2008 12:28 PM

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