Enviros more transparent than IFF

This week I got into a Facebook debate regarding my colleague Bill Dentzer’s excellent Sunday story, “Idaho conservative advocacy group draws fire for blurring lines.” The story was about the Idaho Freedom Foundation, which is headed by one of my former colleagues, Wayne Hoffman. I can say without reserve that Hoffman has had a long history of fighting for government transparency as a reporter, as a member of the Idaho Press Club’s First Amendment Committee and, to a certain degree, with the Idaho Freedom Foundation. But Hoffman has never believed that non-profit groups like his should provide the same transparency that government agencies should face. He even makes his case on ethical terms. “There is nothing unethical about protecting donors and their right to privacy and to freely associate,” Hoffman said in a Facebook exchange with me/ Rocky Barker , Idaho Statesman. More here .

Thoughts?