The Obama administration boasts of an "unprecedented" transparency in releasing lists of White House visitors – except when the names are politically inconvenient, argues a Washington watchdog group, and except for nearly eight months worth of records, which remain locked away despite multiple legal attempts to pry them loose.
"Not literally, but in the mood of their approach, the administration has said, 'We'll release what we want, when we want,'" claims Chris Farrell, director of research and investigation for Judicial Watch. "When it's convenient, they laud themselves as masters of transparency – except when they don't want to be."
"When you go back 15 years, and you have claims that certain persons were and weren't visiting – in the case of the Clintons, it was Communist Chinese generals, with Bush it was Jack Abramoff – we thought the American public had right to know what was going on," Farrell told WND. "With Obama, we believe the records should also be made public. This current, self-congratulatory 'transparency' is disingenuous."
Transparency? White House still keeps visitors secret
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