Workshop on government openess closed to public (FBI, suspect, Obama)

[soupson1]

Are the governments actions when the public and press seek information matching up with the administrations promise of unprecedented transparency? A workshop on goverment openess monday is closed to the public and press. It seems there is not enough room to allow the public or press.The meeting is about ways to improve how the government responds to information requests. Are you skeptical?

[DAVID65]

Originally Posted by soupson1

Are the governments actions when the public and press seek information matching up with the administrations promise of unprecedented transparency? A workshop on goverment openess monday is closed to the public and press. It seems there is not enough room to allow the public or press.The meeting is about ways to improve how the government responds to information requests. Are you skeptical?

About everything the Government tells us!

[UpperPeninsulaRon]

Originally Posted by DAVID65

About everything the Government tells us!

Here's the details:

The Associated Press: PROMISES, PROMISES: A closed meeting on openness

"Yet on some important issues, his administration produced information only after government watchdogs and reporters spent weeks or months pressing, in some cases suing.

Those include what cars people were buying using the $3 billion Cash for Clunkers program (it turned out the most frequent trades involved pickups for pickups with only slightly better gas mileage); how many times airplanes have collided with birds (a lot); whether lobbyists and donors meet with the Obama White House (they do); rules about the interrogation of terror suspects (the FBI and CIA disagreed over what was permitted); and who was speaking in private with Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner (he has close relationships with a cadre of Wall Street executives whose multibillion-dollar companies survived the economic crisis with his help)."

[sickofnyc99]

Is anyone even remotley suprised about this?

[Jadex]

I am sure a democrat will come along at anytime and tell us how this makes sense and Obama is really keeping his promise he is after all the best

[HappyTexan]

ROFL..a private meeting to address openness.

Yes I can believe it afterall it's OUR GOVERNMENT..the best government money can buy.

[DAVID65]

Originally Posted by Jadex

I am sure a democrat will come along at anytime and tell us how this makes sense and Obama is really keeping his promise he is after all the best

And a Republican will come along and say the opposite!

[doc1]

Hope, Change, Ommmm, Hope, Change, Ommmm................