Transparency, Translucency or Opaque--What Difference Does It Make?

The Freedom of Information Act will no longer be available to people, particularly reporters, interested in looking into the shady dealings of the White House Office of Administration. The Obama administration is stripping a federal regulation that made that office subject to records requests. 

The decision comes on National Freedom of Information Day and Sunshine Week, a media movement to highlight issues of government transparency. "How ironical, Olive."

So the Obama White House, like it did under the former Bush White House, will be able to reject records requests.

According to Barack Hussein Obama, he is the most transparent president ever to grace the Oval Office. "From the day he took office, the President committed his Administration to work towards unprecedented openness in government," Brandi Hoffine, a White House spokeswoman said.

Of course, this does not count in terms of his personal life, such as his school records, which he had spent almost $1.5 million on lawyers to seal.

Did Hillary sign the  OP 109 separation document? The Obama administration isn't saying whether she did or not. Hillary is only saying "Hello there," when asked the question by the press. She, like Obama, are transparent, if you ask them.

While the Office of Administration was one of the few offices in the administration that had to comply with FOIA requests, most of the others do not have to comply. Under G.W. Bush, that changed and Obama, for all the grief he has heaped on Dubya is doing the same thing.

Happy St. Patrick's Day! 



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