Whitewater GOP Legislators Smooth Out Secrecy Talking Points

In this account, signing confidentiality agreements over at the lawyers' offices is no different than regular ol' legislating - - which is a really troubling argument:

[Evan] Wynn said he has no problem with signing the agreement.

“I agreed not to talk about what I had learned because it was preliminary and not in final form,” he said. “It had nothing to do with secrecy. It was very much like the process we go through when we are developing legislation.”

[Steve] Nass agreed that the agreement had nothing to do with secrecy.

“It’s similar to the legislative process,” Nass said. “You don’t go around publicly discussing bills when they are still in draft form.