More Fog From The Transparent Administration

[Kathianne]

http://www.ocregister.com/opinion/public-378476-administration-government.html


THE ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER <!--googleoff: all--> <!--googleon: all-->The public's business should be conducted in public. When it can't be viewed as it occurs, such as the countless day-to-day dealings of the vast federal administrative bureaucracy, at least records of what transpired should be made available to the public.
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<!--googleon: all--> President Barack Obama nobly promised that his would be an unprecedentedly transparent presidency. But from the shrouded Fast and Furious debacle to the administration's apparent reluctance to be candid from Day 1 about the deadly events in Benghazi, Libya, the president has failed to live up to his promise of transparency.

The unavoidable question is, "Why the hesitancy to disclose, promptly and fully?"<!--googleoff: all-->
<!--googleon: all--> Now the Obama administration is suspected of withholding thousands of emails from public scrutiny, including many allegedly sent through private, rather than government, accounts, expressly to keep them secret.

A House committee investigation recently opened concerning whether EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson used an email alias to hide correspondence from open-government requests and from her agency's own internal watchdog, something Republicans say may run afoul of the law, reported the Washington Times.
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<!--googleon: all--> The EPA emails also are sought by the conservative think tank, Competitive Enterprise Institute, which has sued to force the release of the communications made in the "secondary," private accounts "set up so they can conduct discussions" beyond the reach of FOIA disclosures...

[jimnyc]

President Barack Obama nobly promised that his would be an unprecedentedly transparent presidency. But from the shrouded Fast and Furious debacle to the administration's apparent reluctance to be candid from Day 1 about the deadly events in Benghazi, Libya, the president has failed to live up to his promise of transparency.

Now I understand Liberals/Democrats voting for Obama, and that's their right of course, but they too were pledged with this promise. Why do so many not give a crap about such secrecy and lack of answers, and details and responses to dead Americans?

[aboutime]

Now I understand Liberals/Democrats voting for Obama, and that's their right of course, but they too were pledged with this promise. Why do so many not give a crap about such secrecy and lack of answers, and details and responses to dead Americans?



jimnyc. The only transparency any of us have seen from the Obama administration has been the release of Obama's Golf scores. And Even they are Known Lies, advertised as accurate, and honest.

[Robert A Whit]

Now I understand Liberals/Democrats voting for Obama, and that's their right of course, but they too were pledged with this promise. Why do so many not give a crap about such secrecy and lack of answers, and details and responses to dead Americans?

Jim

For the same reason Mubarak was supported by a lot of his people. Same reason that they backed Clinton. They voted for Obama and NOW they want something in return. They will back him no matter what common sense says.

But it takes the media to help him. We only learn things when it leaks.