Donald K. Sherman on Government Transparency

The reference point is the proposition that Kushner's private business through Affinity, including its Israeli investments and the Gulf capital behind it, creates a conflict of interest with his role in U.S. Middle East negotiations. Sherman writes that Kushner's private investment firm does significant business with some of the same foreign partners he works with in government and calls the potential for conflicts of interest staggering, so we used Condemned. The closest competing label is Mixed or conditional, because he speaks of a potential conflict and ties his point to a missing disclosure filing. We did not use it because he states no condition under which the arrangement would be proper. The passage mentions neither Affinity nor Israeli investments, and his closing call for Congress to examine the administration's conflicts is general.