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Battles Over Open Government Cast Shadow on 'Sunshine Week'
By Mara Gay - AOL NewsIn the middle of Sunshine Week promoting transparency in government, open-government advocates say the apparent demotion of a high-level Department of Homeland Security employee for whistle-blowing is particularly dark. "Our government is sending the message to federal workers that they do not want them to come forward and report these problems," Dave Colapinto, the general counsel of the National Whisteblowers Center, told AOL News today by phone. "In other words, they do not want the public to know what is going on." According to The Associated Press, the Department of Homeland Security ...
Supreme Court: No 'Personal Privacy' Rights for Corporations Under FOIA
By Andrew Cohen - Politics DailyThe U.S. Supreme Court ruled unanimously Tuesday that corporations do not have the same privacy rights as individuals when it comes to blocking requests for records under the Freedom of Information Act, the federal statute that requires the government to make available certain documents and records. Writing for the court, Chief Justice John Roberts said that the language of the transparency law clearly precluded corporations like AT&T, the plaintiff in the case, from claiming it had "personal privacy" rights that could prevent the public release of certain requested information on file with ...
Forget the Midterms, American Politics as Usual Continue in Kyrgyzstan
By Paul Wachter - AOL NewsOPINION (Nov. 2) -- Though the midterm elections will be the talk of the day, for a more revealing look at modern American political policy you should check out this fascinating and disturbing report on Kyrgyzstan from The Washington Post. The report is really about a shadowy U.S. businessman, Douglas Edelman, operating in the Central Asian republic. Edelman opened a hamburger joint in the capital of Bishkek, but he took full advantage of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan, and now "the 58-year-old Californian, along with a young Kyrgyz partner, controls a multinational jet fuel business that ...
Report Is Critical of Obama's Transparency Efforts
By David Sessions - Politics DailyA new report by a private research group says that most government agencies have made few changes in how much information they make available to the public, despite President Obama's promise to make his administration the most transparent in history, the New York Times reports. The report from the National Security Archive found that, though the president has given directives to federal agencies, progress has been slow and erratic. There is little evidence that agencies have released more information than unusual or denied fewer requests for documents. Norm Eisen, the president's counsel on ...
Obama's Health Care Pledge: Getting a Deal Trumps Making the Process Transparent
By Lynn Sweet - Politics DailyWhen candidate Barack Obama was criss-crossing the country in his two-year presidential campaign, a standard part of his stump speech -- lines that always won him applause -- had to do with his promise to negotiate health care reform in public, on C-SPAN, for all to see. As the wrangling over health overhaul legislation heads into its final stretch, it's clear that was a promise President Obama did not keep. The dealmaking remained behind closed doors. Here's what Obama said in August 2008, at a town-hall meeting: "I'm going to have all the negotiations around a big table. We'll have doctors ...
22 Million Bush Administration E-Mails Recovered
By David Sessions - Politics DailyComputer technicians have recovered 22 million e-mails missing from the Bush administration, according to two government transparency groups that filed lawsuits against the Executive Office of the President, the Huffington Post reports. The suits focused on the Bush administration's failure to install an electronic record-keeping system, and the Obama administration is now searching for more messages possibly lost during the Bush years. The e-mails "would never have been found but for our lawsuits and pressure from Capitol Hill," said Anne Weismann, chief counsel for Citizens for ...
President Obama Exercises Authority on Detainee Photos but Not Gay Soldiers
By Tommy Christopher - Politics DailyI had been planning to write this anyway, but after seeing Lee Stranahan's video "Segregation" I wanted to wait to see if I could get a comment from the White House on this first. ...
White House Pushed for Ability to Halt Stimulus Accountability Investigations
By Mark Impomeni - Politics DailyA little publicized provision in the recently passed $787 billion stimulus bill would give the Obama Administration the power to thwart independent inspectors general's investigations into how stimulus monies are being spent. The White House reportedly insisted that the Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board, an oversight panel to be headed by a presidential appointee, have the power to request an investigation as well as request a halt to an ongoing investigation. The provision has caused even some of the Administration's own inspectors general to question the Obama Administration's ...
Obama, McCain Team Up in Senate
By Liza Porteus Viana - Politics DailyJohn McCain and Barack Obama may be going head-to-head in their race for the White House, but in the Senate, the two men are working behind the scenes to let a little sunshine into the federal government's windows.The Hill reports today that McCain's Senate office contacted Obama's office Monday night asking to sign on to a good-government bill opening federal government contracts to public scrutiny, according to three sources. Obama, D-Ill., had been working on the measure mostly with McCain ally Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) After learning that Obama and Coburn were introducing the bill, the ...
Chutzpah Redefined
By Dave - Politics DailyJust when you think Team Hillary has said and done it all, they top themselves. In a further sign of desperation: Earlier today, in an exchange with Obama campaign strategist David Axelrod on This Week with George Stephanopoulos, Howard Wolfson called on the Obama campaign to release all records and correspondence relating to Tony Rezko. ... What I would suggest to my friend David - and he is my friend - they should put out all of the information regarding that real estate transaction, all of the e-mails, all of the correspondence, all of the letters, every single piece of information so that ...
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