Obama closes curtain on transparency
By: Timothy P. Carney
Examiner Columnist
August 12, 2010
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| U.S. President Barack Obama delivers remarks in the East Room of the White House August 11, 2010 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) (Getty Images) |
President Obama has abolished the position in his White House dedicated to transparency and shunted those duties into the portfolio of a partisan ex-lobbyist who is openly antagonistic to the notion of disclosure by government and politicians.
Obama transferred "ethics czar" Norm Eisen to the Czech Republic to serve as U.S. ambassador. Some of Eisen's duties will be handed to Domestic Policy Council member Steven Croley, but most of them, it appears, will shift over to the already-full docket of White House Counsel Bob Bauer.
Read more at the Washington Examiner: http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columns/Obama-closes-curtain-on-transparency-468557-100595914.html#ixzz0wVfRSI00
Editor's notes: we have nothing to add to this story except to wonder just exactly when "Obama style transparency" was ever the case (??) .
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