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In reply to the discussion: Guard tells Senator Boxer that she can't take notes on TPP [View all]LiberalLovinLug
(14,174 posts)86. But but but ..I just read on the White House website that Obama runs the most transparent in history
https://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/TransparencyandOpenGovernment/
Memorandum for the Heads of Executive Departments and Agencies
SUBJECT: Transparency and Open Government
My Administration is committed to creating an unprecedented level of openness in Government. We will work together to ensure the public trust and establish a system of transparency, public participation, and collaboration. Openness will strengthen our democracy and promote efficiency and effectiveness in Government.
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 appropriate action, consistent with law and policy, to disclose information rapidly in forms that the public can readily find and use. Executive departments and agencies should harness new technologies to put information about their operations and decisions online and readily available to the public. Executive departments and agencies should also solicit public feedback to identify information of greatest use to the public.
Government should be participatory. Public engagement enhances the Government's effectiveness and improves the quality of its decisions. Knowledge is widely dispersed in society, and public officials benefit from having access to that dispersed knowledge. Executive departments and agencies should offer Americans increased opportunities to participate in policymaking and to provide their Government with the benefits of their collective expertise and information. Executive departments and agencies should also solicit public input on how we can increase and improve opportunities for public participation in Government.
Government should be collaborative. Collaboration actively engages Americans in the work of their Government. Executive departments and agencies should use innovative tools, methods, and systems to cooperate among themselves, across all levels of Government, and with nonprofit organizations, businesses, and individuals in the private sector. Executive departments and agencies should solicit public feedback to assess and improve their level of collaboration and to identify new opportunities for cooperation.
I direct the Chief Technology Officer, in coordination with the Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and the Administrator of General Services, to coordinate the development by appropriate executive departments and agencies, within 120 days, of recommendations for an Open Government Directive, to be issued by the Director of OMB, that instructs executive departments and agencies to take specific actions implementing the principles set forth in this memorandum. The independent agencies should comply with the Open Government Directive.
This memorandum is not intended to, and does not, create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural, enforceable at law or in equity by a party against the United States, its departments, agencies, or entities, its officers, employees, or agents, or any other person.
This memorandum shall be published in the Federal Register.
BARACK OBAMA
Memorandum for the Heads of Executive Departments and Agencies
SUBJECT: Transparency and Open Government
My Administration is committed to creating an unprecedented level of openness in Government. We will work together to ensure the public trust and establish a system of transparency, public participation, and collaboration. Openness will strengthen our democracy and promote efficiency and effectiveness in Government.
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 appropriate action, consistent with law and policy, to disclose information rapidly in forms that the public can readily find and use. Executive departments and agencies should harness new technologies to put information about their operations and decisions online and readily available to the public. Executive departments and agencies should also solicit public feedback to identify information of greatest use to the public.
Government should be participatory. Public engagement enhances the Government's effectiveness and improves the quality of its decisions. Knowledge is widely dispersed in society, and public officials benefit from having access to that dispersed knowledge. Executive departments and agencies should offer Americans increased opportunities to participate in policymaking and to provide their Government with the benefits of their collective expertise and information. Executive departments and agencies should also solicit public input on how we can increase and improve opportunities for public participation in Government.
Government should be collaborative. Collaboration actively engages Americans in the work of their Government. Executive departments and agencies should use innovative tools, methods, and systems to cooperate among themselves, across all levels of Government, and with nonprofit organizations, businesses, and individuals in the private sector. Executive departments and agencies should solicit public feedback to assess and improve their level of collaboration and to identify new opportunities for cooperation.
I direct the Chief Technology Officer, in coordination with the Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and the Administrator of General Services, to coordinate the development by appropriate executive departments and agencies, within 120 days, of recommendations for an Open Government Directive, to be issued by the Director of OMB, that instructs executive departments and agencies to take specific actions implementing the principles set forth in this memorandum. The independent agencies should comply with the Open Government Directive.
This memorandum is not intended to, and does not, create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural, enforceable at law or in equity by a party against the United States, its departments, agencies, or entities, its officers, employees, or agents, or any other person.
This memorandum shall be published in the Federal Register.
BARACK OBAMA
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If the TPP passes, is there any conceivable way it can be challenged/rolled-back?
erronis
May 2015
#84
Yes! A senatorial arrest or two for taking notes could make clear what's going on.
hedda_foil
May 2015
#35
I dont know who they are, but I do know that this president has been obstructed unlike any
randys1
May 2015
#28
Whenever the people are well informed, they can be trusted with their own government;
Tierra_y_Libertad
May 2015
#21
This must be a pack of lies! Right here on DU I have been told by several members that
A Simple Game
May 2015
#24
Congress did not have access to FDR's trade negotiations nor Obama's Iranian negotiations.
pampango
May 2015
#39
If confidential international negotiations are 'wrong', we'll have to come up with another method
pampango
May 2015
#43
But but but ..I just read on the White House website that Obama runs the most transparent in history
LiberalLovinLug
May 2015
#86
Do we know who the people are who are negotiating, and ARE allowed to look at it?
arcane1
May 2015
#51
nothing is safe that does not show how it can bear discussion and publicity. Lord Acton
Tierra_y_Libertad
May 2015
#54
"What ya in for, kid?" "Taking illegal notes". And they all moved away from her on the bench...n/t
jtuck004
May 2015
#58
This is Bullshit Bullshit Bullshit. People need to wake up. What is so damn secret that they don't
YOHABLO
May 2015
#60
play the two level game, Mr. President. Stop acting like some shady prick.
Ed Suspicious
May 2015
#62
Boxer was my Senator for many years, and my quess is she didn't quite believe or grasp what
libdem4life
May 2015
#64
Here is what is wrong - if it is not finished, then why the rush to have Fast Track?
djean111
May 2015
#78