Camelot II

Kennedy Skirts Disclosure

Says she’ll reveal all if appointed.

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.”