Kennedy Skirts Disclosure

Getting to know Caroline Kennedy is proving harder than we would have imagined. After being criticized for avoiding press interviews, Kennedy “is declining to provide a variety of basic data, including companies she has a stake in and whether she has ever been charged with a crime,” reports The New York Times. Kennedy’s spokesman said that, should she be appointed, she’ll make all necessary disclosures, but some, like the director of a nonpartisan watchdog group, argue that “Precisely because there is no campaign or election, she should be more willing to disclose and subject herself to a greater level of public scrutiny than is required.” A professor from NYU adds, “To the extent she can be more transparent, she dispels the notion that it’s all about her name.”