I am having an ACLU sort of day: Fitness Report: "The Department of Homeland Security's privacy advisory committee -- set up to ensure that DHS does not unduly infringe on privacy rights -- wanted to change a requirement that it publish the names of people who attend public meetings. The requirement had upset many of those interested in attending the meetings because, oddly enough, they tend to be a bit touchy about, well, privacy, as well as public access to government proceedings. Publishing the names of everyone attending 'will have a chilling effect' on those key matters, says Center for Democracy and Technology associate director Ari Schwartz . The DHS counsel's office says the Federal Advisory Committee Act clearly requires that everyone who RSVPs to attend must have his name published. But privacy folks counter that the implementing regulations are crystal clear -- and should be so even to lawyers -- that the only people who need to be named are the committee members who attend along with participating witnesses. There may be some Hill action on this. Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman (Conn.), senior Democrat on the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, weighed in yesterday, issuing a statement urging DHS 'to reconsider the policy.' Watch this space."