"The day after President Barack Obama took office, he circulated a memo to his executive agencies that urged administration officials to “adopt a presumption in favor of disclosure.”
“Transparency and the rule of law will be the touchstones of this presidency,” Obama said at the time.
But transparency is as much about what kind of information the government releases as about how much. If the public has no need of the information the administration releases but has great need for information the administration withholds, the government can’t claim to be “transparent.” This administration is opaque in precisely that way." [Hot Air]
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