McConnell v FEC -- secret documents
Earlier I noted that several news organizations have asked the McConnell v FEC court to unseal all the confidential portions of the depositions and documents in the case. The Justice Department has opposed the motion with an argument that sound like it is trying to protect informants in a case of extortion. Oh, maybe they are.
What is really happening is that DOJ wants to protect the informants from public embarrassment, not from disclosure to the "criminals." Their names and testimony are known to everyone in the case. We are the ones in the dark.
Let's say the Wiggit Corp. paid "non-federal" funds (soft money) to Sen. X's leadership PAC because Sen. X said that he needed some money (hint, hint) to get reelected so that he could help Wiggit on its efforts to obtain legislation relieving it of liability for the exploding wiggit problem. Don't you think the public has a right to know that?