The Obama Administration’s Abject Failure on Transparency
President Obama promised to bring unprecedented transparency to Washington, D.C. As late as 2010, he told an audience, “I won’t stop fighting to open up government.” Around the same time, his press secretary asserted that the Obama Administration is the most transparent in American history. Though it pushed for lobbying disclosure, urged earmark-request disclosure, and willingly made White House visitor logs available, Obama’s first term has in fact been rife with just the sort of opacity that breeds corruption, obscures misdeeds, and undermines public trust in government. Far from being praiseworthy, the prevailing executive-branch attitude toward secrecy is an abomination, as is evident from even a cursory look at its real-world manifestations.
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