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Raisethefist.com: Obama transparency takes turn under the microscope after attacks on Romney
Obama transparency takes turn under the microscope after attacks on Romney
by anonymous Wed Jul 18 22:17:21 PDT 2012
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The Obama campaign has relentlessly questioned Mitt Romney's openness on most everything from his tenure at Bain Capital to tax records to offshore accounts -- but when it comes to transparency, the president hasn't exactly been an open book, critics say.
Though presidents must run the country beyond the public eye in some respects, several watchdog groups complain President Obama has not lived up to the open-government promises he made when he took office. Republican leaders in Congress have bellowed in recent months about the administration's secrecy. While the president's campaign is making hay out of his GOP opponent's supposedly shrouded financial records, the tack has already opened up the president to similar criticism.
On Tuesday, the Romney campaign posted a list on its website citing nearly two dozen reports that call into question the administration's transparency.
"President Obama has run one of the least transparent administrations in American history," said campaign spokeswoman Andrea Saul. "Whether hiding lobbyists in coffee shops, cutting back-room deals on ObamaCare, or concealing the records of Fast and Furious, President Obama's pledge to be transparent has turned out to be just another broken promise."
Those keeping scoring of the administration's transparency shortcomings point to its alleged reluctance in responding to document requests; its pursuit of whistle-blowers and leakers; the decision to invoke executive privilege to deny congressional investigators access to documents pertaining to Operation Fast and Furious; and the failure to televise health care debate meetings per the president's campaign promise.
The complaints against Obama, unlike those against Romney, have little to do with his financial records. But watchdogs say his record could stand a closer look.
"I don't know if it's apple to apples when you line up the candidates, but Obama does have to take account of himself," said Joe Newman, of the nonpartisan Project of Government Oversight. "When it comes to transparency, he has a mixed record."
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