whitehouse.gov - 1/23/2009
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Government should be transparent . Transparency promotes accountability
and provides information for citizens about what their Government
is doing. Information maintained by the Federal Government is a national asset. My Administration will take ...
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Transparency and Open Government
blogs.abcnews.com - 1/23/2009
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"Still getting used to that whole thing," President
Barack Obama said today as he walked into a
briefing room in the old Executive Office building and roughly 100 staffers and members of the media stood. The crowd laughed, but the...
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President Obama Sets Rules on Ethics and Transparency
link.brightcove.com - 1/28/2009
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Brown Bashes Obama: Don't Make Ethics Rules You Won't Follow
NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias —
It only took a few hours for President Barack Obama to go back on his executive order concerning the imposition of stricter limits on lobbyists that wish to work for the White House, and CNN's Campbell Brown is quite displeased. Not only did she begin Friday's "No Bias, No Bull" voicing her disgust about "the Obama administration now [wanting] a waiver to its own rule," but she also wrote a commentary about the matter which was published at CNN.com later that evening. For what it's worth Campbell, I'm impressed (video and transcript below the fold, h/t NB reader Patrick, file ...
CNN’s Campbell Brown ‘Cutting Through The Bull’
Nice Deb —
Newsbusters alerted me to this satisfying clip of Campbell Brown holding Obama’s feet to the fire on his 2 day old ethics rules violation:
She also slammed him a couple of days ago for his refusal to answer a tough question, (which he has a history of doing).
It’s ...
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