Transparency Behind Closed Doors

The most transparent administration in history is awfully opaque.

Barack Obama promised a more active, more open government. He's delivered on half of that. 
 
Two House committee hearings last week focused on the Obama administration's lack of transparency. Cliff Stearns' Energy and Commerce subcommittee on oversight and Darrell Issa's Government Reform Committee both assailed the administration for operating behind closed doors. The hearings only scratched the surface of the problem.

Stearns quoted President Obama's promise to have health care "negotiations televised on C-SPAN" so that "people can see who is making arguments on behalf of their constituents and who is -- who are making arguments on behalf of the drug companies or the insurance companies."

Read more at the Washington Examiner: http://washingtonexaminer.com/politics/2011/05/obamas-open-government-hides-behind-close-doors#ixzz1LrGD80jV