. >> jim snyder. my question has to do with conflict of interest guidance for foia officers. there's lots of discussions about how to get foia officers to comply with the law, but it's not generally thought that they may have blatant conflicts of interest in actually serving their role. many officers don't just do foia. they're lawyers for an agency and they have many other roles. for example, i have been researching a particular agency and the foia officer also does all the vetting for the federal advisory committee. this agency it happens to be i'm interested in investigating how that agency does the vetting office. there's no public disclosure that the person i'm asking is actually -- i'm actually checking on the foia officer as it turns out. i didn't know that early on, and they don't disclose it. well, this is not an isolated phenomenal, a lot have these blatant conflicts of interest. should they disclose they're actually the -- not only the vehicle for fulfilling it, they are the person who is the subject of the foia request? should this be disclosed and we have so many