Krugman, Gruber and non-disclosure issues

In the midst of my lengthy discussion yesterday of Cass Sunstein's proposal to "cognitively inflitrate extremist groups" by employing covert agents and secretly paying so-called "independent" analysts to tout the government line, I noted the recent controversy surrounding MIT Professor Jonathan Gruber.  Specifically, Gruber was receiveing large, undisclosed payments from the Obama administration at exactly the time when the Obama White House (and Gruber himself) were holding him out as an...