Where Is Promised Transparency?

Transparency Not A Hallmark of Administration

Did I hear the word transparency.  Not in the Obama administration.  The promised transparency we were promised by Mr. Obama has not materialized. The Obama administration is the least transparent of all of the last four Presidents.  Law suits to force them to provide information has been stonewalled at an incredible rate. Erick Holder's directive for all departments to upgrade regulations has been all but ignored and Mr. Holder has done almost nothing to impose the mandate issued in 2009.  In fact he has defended agencies in their efforts not to provide information. FOIA law suits against government agencies during the Obama administration has risen in Obama's first term in office over 28% . Suits against the State Dept. alone has risen over 111%. The percentage of lawsuits to get information that was denied by the EPA rose by 60%..  The Dept. of Justice has had a 50 percent increase in law suits filled against them for refusing to provide information under an Act passed in 2007 that requires agencies to provide information. To those requesting it.

Transparency to the Obama administration means telling you what they want you to know. Or, what you want to hear. The top cop in the administration, Mr. Holder is the charged with enforcement of the law. He does nothing to make sure that it is implemented by the agencies required to do so. Transparency is non existent and enforcement of these laws and mandates is not on the priority list. Putting Erick Holder in charge of the Justice Dept, is like putting the fox in the hen house. When denial of information becomes routine you know there is an awful lot they don't want you to know.

This is becoming not a Government for the People and by the People, but rather for Obama and by Obama.  The very thing that keeps this country free is the ability to gather information and report it to the ones who pay the bills. The American taxpayer and citizen. The constant refusal to provide information is a ruse to confuse and confound.  First and foremost to providing honest government is accountability. If the public does not know what is going on behind the closed doors of the D.C bureaucracies then how can we have accountability?  The Obama machine has done quite the opposite of what Mr. Obama said he would do. Why is that? You figure it out... I am sure you will.