The Closed, Control-Freak Administration
New York Times reporter: “This is most closed, control-freak administration I’ve ever covered.”
White House Logs Can be Kept From Public
President Obama and his successors in the Oval Office are not obligated to make public the names of individuals visiting the White House
Untallied: State Dept Travels on Taxpayer Dime
The State Department is one of five Cabinet offices that have yet to fully comply with requests under the Freedom of Information Act to disclose the details and expenses of official travel more than a year after they were filed
Google Goes to War Against Government Secrecy
Given that history, it’s not surprising that Google is the first of the Silicon Valley companies ensnared in the NSA controversy to make an official push for the government to allow it to disclose information about the secret legal requests that have come under scrutiny in the last week thanks to a leak by IT worker Edward Snowden
Mounting Scandals and Controversies
A series of mounting controversies is exposing both the risks of political promise-making and the limits of national-level governing while undercutting the core assurance Obama made from the outset
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