Transparent Secrecy in D.C.

Transparent Secrecy in D.C.

The president may be committed to an “unprecedented level of openness in Government” but it is unprecedented only because few administrations have been so opaque.

The expectation of transparency created by President Barack Hussein Obama has morphed into a veil of secrecy which threatens to make the Obama administration the most clandestine government in America’s history made even more secretive by media acolytes which aid and abet the administration’s shrouded activities.

It seems that virtually everything of consequence Obama does is cloaked in mystery and hidden from the public eye or restricted to carefully-selected witnesses such as his immigration reform summit. Inexplicably, Al Sharpton was invited to that confab. Even more inexplicably, governors of every border state were not.

Last month, Obama added an almost-comical touch to his secretiveness by accepting a transparency award behind closed White House doors. This week, Press Secretary Jay Carney added to the comedy but telling reporter Jay Kinsolving at a news briefing, “I’m not going to take your questions.” Kinsolving had planned to ask about Obama’s openness.

Aside from the entertainment value of those incidents, the administration’s lack of transparency is unsettling to say the least.

From the outset of the Obama administration, it seems Democrats led by the president have acted overtly and covertly to conceal the inner workings and information available to the federal government, that “national asset,” from the scrutiny of the public eye. . .
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