to my right is eliza garney. you can correct me if i'm wrong, you also coined the term super pac? >> that's correct. >> to my immediate left -- >> that's pretty cool, by the way. >> thank you. >> to my immediate left is paul ryan, associate legal counsel at the campaign legal center and the intern director for politics. more information about our panelists is available in case you want to learn their full biographies. sunlight foundation and director on transparency. i've asked each panelist to speak about super pac and what is available in the public record, what is absent and how the information available affects stories that reporters can tell. >> thank you. thank you to the sunlight foundation for having this event. in the movie, the character known as deep throat tells bob woodward to follow the money. even though that was not actually a line from the book, that was something that a screen writer wrote. it became kind of a rallying cry for generations of people who care about transparency and accountability. but i think it's fair to say that it's more difficult now to follow