I will defer to your analysis of the law. I had in mind a political argument that conservatives made about the then-First Lady’s task force, not a legal one. They (we) said that there was something nefarious about a “secret” task force’s meeting to formulate policy. When the same point was made about Cheney’s energy task force, we said that so long as the resulting, and public, policy recommendations were above board there was no reason to be concerned. These two reactions are what seem to me to be inconsistent.