Is Obama creating a precedent for transparency the autocrats will have to follow?

[Hortensis]

1. No. Autocracy is determined to destroy transparency

and, btw, has done a great deal to infiltrate and coopt our major media, most of which are trying to turn national power over to the Republican Party and the autocrats it now serves.

Obama represents the enlightenment and freedom our nation has had for nearly 250 years. That doesn't mean we can't stop those determined to replace government of, by and for the people with autocracy. It's ours to lose.

On this subject,

“The main benefit of controlling a modern bureaucratic state is not the power to persecute the innocent. It is the power to protect the guilty.”

“What is spreading today is repressive kleptocracy, led by rulers motivated by greed rather than by the deranged idealism of Hitler or Stalin or Mao. Such rulers rely less on terror and more on rule twisting, the manipulation of information, and the co-option of elites. Their goal is self-enrichment; the corrosion of the rule of law is the necessary means.

As a shrewd local observer explained to me on a visit to Hungary in early 2016, “The main benefit of controlling a modern bureaucratic state is not the power to persecute the innocent. It is the power to protect the guilty.”

~ David Frum, Trumpocracy: The Corruption of the American Republic

Sounds a whole lot like what the Republicans have morphed into and what we're fighting, doesn't it?