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In reply to the discussion: There’s a Secret Patriot Act, Senator Says [View all]merrily
(45,251 posts)Apparently, that is what Obama actually meant when he promised the most transparent administration ever and then proceeded to preside over the most opaque administration in U.S. history.
Very soon after he got into office, though, the ACLU had to sue him over its FOIA request for white house logs when they wanted to show he was meeting health insurers, drug companies and hospitals after promising to put everything about Obamacare on C Span.
After the ACLU got the logs, they moved those meetings outside the White House. Now, the Obama administration brags about making white house logs public. They make them public now because they learned not to hold any of their secret meetings in the white house anymore. People with a short memory are very impressed, though, that the Obama administration is the first in history to make white house logs public as a matter of course.
I could not believe the chutzpah to brag about that!