Ethics

More Obama Lies on Transparency

By Ed Brayton

The LA Times politics blog nails Obama for yet another baldfaced lie on White House transparency. During the campaign, Obama blasted the Bush administration for allowing lobbyists to influence policy and not revealing to the public who they had met with and discussed policy with. This was in relation to the energy bill that was passed early in the administration when Bush refused access to White House logs of oil and coal executives who had met with the administration. Here's what Obama said about these issues while campaigning:

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on July 23, 2009 (boomark / email).