Come to think of it, wasn’t there a similar criticism of Hillary Clinton’s health care reform task force? Maybe it wasn’t about naming the participants but something about lack of transparency. Maybe it was the lack of open meetings.

A side note: the term ‘transparency’ has become such a common thing to say about government (now that we’re about to get it), but I first encountered the usage when I was active in the International Psychoanalytic Association’s governing body. We Americans were talking about ‘openness’ in the political process, and the Europeans were calling it ‘transparency.’ This was about 10 years ago, and it was the first time I heard it used that way.