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Where’s the Transparency? Obama’s Secret Orders Caught Media Unawares
Despite all claims to the contrary, President Obama has not been very vigilant about pursuing that idea of “transparency” he ballyhooed during the recent campaign. Politico reported on a host of documents, proclamations and executive orders that Obama has made in the last month and none of them were online. In fact, many were not even released at all to the press by the White House.
So, where is the drumbeat of outrage about the “secret presidency” we heard for the last 6 or so years? Remember all the mavens of the Old Media establishment that kept claiming that Bush was too secretive? Along with the Old Media, the nutrooters also took up the claim as a battle cry against the evil Bush administration. Of course, Bush was trying to fight an intelligence war where keeping secrets means life or death for our soldiers. But, regardless of Bush’s reasons, the media and the left were constantly apoplectic over this supposed “secrecy.” It was undemocratic, mean spirited, anti-American… evil even. The left was in a constant state of righteous indignation over Bush’s secrecy. Then came the answer to their dreams, the man to cause tingles up their legs, Barack Obama. Why, he was going to change everything. It was to be a government of “transparency,” don’t ya know? Obama made all sorts of promises to put every government policy, debate, and document on line for all to see. Apparently, neither Obama nor his supplicants in the media are much worried about secrecy now. Quote:
In fact, many of these secret initiatives and orders were only found because bloggers dug them up from the Federal Register, the daily compendium of government actions issued by the National Archives. And this fact, that bloggers dug them up, doesn’t that demolish the oft repeated claim by the Old Media that we need journalists because bloggers don’t have the resources or capability to keep an eye on government like real reporters do? Looks like all those “real” reporters seriously dropped the ball in this story! Here is the list Politico noted. Quote:
So, what about that whole “transparency” thingie, Barack? The White House belatedly posted the mysteriously missing documents claiming a simple oversight after Politico inquired about them. Lastly, where is the anguished outcry about this secrecy? Would the Old Media have allowed belated postings of secret orders under the excuse that it was just an “oversight” if Bush had done it? You tell me. http://www.stoptheaclu.com/archives/...edia-unawares/
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