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TRANSPARENCY! Tracking Stimulus Spending May Not Be as Easy as Promised. ?To build support for the?

By Glenn Reynolds

TRANSPARENCY! Tracking Stimulus Spending May Not Be as Easy as Promised. “To build support for the stimulus package, President Obama vowed unprecedented transparency, a big part of which, he said, would be allowing taxpayers to track money to the street level on Recovery.gov. Together with a spruced-up WhiteHouse.gov, the site would inject the stodgy federal bureaucracy with the same Webby accessibility and Facebook-generation flair that defined the Obama campaign. But three months after the bill was signed, Recovery.gov offers little beyond news releases, general breakdowns of spending, and acronym-laden spreadsheets and timelines.”

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on May 21, 2009 (boomark / email).