Posted on 03/16/2010 10:23:17 AM PDT by Shellybenoit
Remember this post from Whitehouse.gov?
Transparency like you’ve never seen before October 30, 2009 at 04:31 PM EDT ..Today marks a major milestone in government transparency -- and an important lesson in the unintended consequences of such vigorous disclosure. We previously announced that the White House in December of this year would -- for the first time in history -- begin posting all White House visitor records under the terms of our new voluntary disclosure policy. As part of that initiative, we also offered to look back at the records created before the announcement of the policy and answer specific requests for visitor records created earlier in the year.
Foolish us! We thought that post meant that the President was going to make Washington more transparent, but if you check the numbers, the Obama administration is less transparent than the previous administration:
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