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A little secret about Obama's transparency - Los Angeles Times

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The current administration, challenged by the president to be the most open, is now denying more Freedom of Information Act requests than Bush did.

March 21, 2010|By Andrew Malcolm

The Democratic administration of Barack Obama, who denounced his predecessor, George W. Bush, as the most secretive in history, is now denying more Freedom of Information Act requests than the Republican did.

Transparency and openness were so important to the new president that on his first full day in office, he dispatched a much-publicized memo saying: "All agencies should adopt a presumption in favor of disclosure, in order to renew their commitment to the principles embodied in FOIA, and to usher in a new era of open government. The presumption of disclosure should be applied to all decisions involving FOIA."
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