NTIA Administrator Larry Strickling clashed sharply with Jim Snider, president...
NTIA Administrator Larry Strickling clashed sharply with Jim Snider, president of iSolon.org and a longtime critic of the openness of the Commerce Spectrum Management Advisory Committee, at the end of the group’s meeting Wednesday. Snider has spoken out repeatedly during…
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a public comment session at the end of CSMAC meetings, questioning whether the group’s work is transparent. Snider recently began a website that focuses in part on his complaints about NTIA and Strickling, at http://xrl.us/bkpsivat. Snider said he has filed more than 50 Freedom of Information Act requests at NTIA, and many haven’t been addressed. “I sat here for two years listening to you raise these totally spurious allegations about us and they've gone without response,” Strickling said. He said Snider asked NTIA to expel a member of the CSMAC based on allegations that the unnamed individual plagiarized some of Snider’s work. “This we chose not to do,” Strickling said. “Instead, you have gone on the attack against this agency, raising all sorts of spurious, libelous allegations about us. You've made demands for documents you're not entitled to, you know you're not entitled to them, and when we don’t give them to you you say we're hiding the truth."