The FTC Must Be Held Accountable For Its Widespread Leaks Of Confidential Data (From The Hill)
Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Chair Lina Khan, an audacious and polarizing progressive pushing many of the Biden Administration’s most aggressive anti-business actions, has been lionized by the press, including 60 Minutes. This makes a recent report from the FTC’s Office of Inspector General (OIG) on news leaks especially troubling and worthy of further investigation.
As a law enforcement agency, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is privy to a great deal of trade secrets and other confidential information that businesses must disclose to it. Yet rather than zealously protecting that information, as it is legally required to do, the FTC has been widely leaking it to select media outlets.
Lexington Institute’s Paul Steidler discusses this in an Op-Ed in The Hill here.
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