Posted on 12/06/2009 8:28:45 AM PST by FromLori
It's hardly the image of transparency the Obama administration wants to project: A workshop on government openness is closed to the public.
The event Monday for federal employees is a fitting symbol of President Barack Obama's uneven record so far on the Freedom of Information Act, a big part of keeping his campaign promise to make his administration the most transparent ever. As Obama's first year in office ends, the government's actions when the public and press seek information are not yet matching up with the president's words. "The Freedom of Information Act should be administered with a clear presumption: In the face of doubt, openness prevails," Obama told government offices on his first full day as president. "The government should not keep information confidential merely because public officials might be embarrassed by disclosure, because errors and failures might be revealed
Other notable disclosures include waivers that the White House has granted from Obama's conflict-of-interest rules and reports detailing Obama's and top appointees' personal finances.
Yet on some important issues, his administration produced information only after government watchdogs and reporters spent weeks or months pressing, in some cases suing.
Those include what cars people were buying using the $3 billion Cash for Clunkers program (it turned out the most frequent trades involved pickups for pickups with only slightly better gas mileage); how many times airplanes have collided with birds (a lot); whether lobbyists and donors meet with the Obama White House (they do); rules about the interrogation of terror suspects (the FBI and CIA disagreed over what was permitted); and who was speaking in private with Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner (he has close relationships with a cadre of Wall Street executives whose multibillion-dollar companies survived the economic crisis with his help).
The administration has refused to turn over important
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SSDD.
The list, ping
Behold Liberal traitors and the disgrace of our nation.
I can understand closed meetings in a War Room.......but on health care? Follow the money and the breaking of this country.
“A workshop on government openness is closed to the public.”
Paging Mr. Huxley!
:)
Obama has never been transparent. When he speaks about the importance of transparency, what he is actually stressing is the importance of propaganda couched under the guise of transparency. His most urgent initiatives - health care, global warming, stimulus funds - are generally just facades that have the common base in wealth redistribution for his sycophantic base of voters. Obama is the King of Subterfuge.
hillereee did it too... see the pattern???
Hopefully there will be some jail sentences in their future.
Good grief, the gullibility index of these idiots in the media is off the charts.
It's not a workshop on how to achieve transparency.
It's a workshop on how to create the image of transparency.
Good grief, they said it right there, and still don't get it.
This regime is all about image. It's a movie without a projector.
What else is new. LOL. Sigh.
Movie without projector
without plot—except the trashing of the Republic . . .
"The Freedom of Information Act should be administered with a clear presumption: In the face of doubt, openness prevails," Obama told government offices on his first full day as president.Thanks hennie pennie.
One of the most egregious abuses of the Freedom of Information Act on the part of government was the refusal of the Park Police to release revealing investigatory photographs of the Vincent Foster death scene! 'Nuff said.
You can be sure that the Obama administration's position on this is not one of "openness."
without plot—except the trashing of the Republic . . .
Right as always brother!
Just like the rest of the nation, ya’ll mistook Obama’s
words. What he really said was “Translucency” meaning
that the clear light of his radiant presence would shine
through but the inner workings of the sun would be hidden
to protect you from the sheer brilliance.
/s
THX FOR YOUR KIND WORDS.
His Narcissism Shows no bounds, it seems. . . . like his father, the devil?
Thanks for the ping!
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