In this recent post, I wrote the following:

Perhaps most striking about the panel was the audience’s reaction. Audience members included regulators, and many regulators, including FEC commissioner Ellen Weintraub, said they believed that if the information came into the agency, it could not be kept secret
Aside from what that says about our enforcement agencies, it suggests some alternative mechanisms, such as not keeping the information on file at the agency…

Ellen has written to me to note that the reason she thinks it could not be kept secret, and the point she made at the COGEL panel, was that the information would be subject to a FOIA request. (I responded at the panel that I thought there would be privacy grounds for combatting the FOIA request, but that’s not the point right now.) Ellen did not suggest such information would be leaked from the FEC, and I’m sorry to the extent I suggested otherwise. I do believe, however, that was the suggestion of leaking came from some of the state and local regulators in the room.
Sorry if I left the wrong impression about the Commissioner’s comments.