Congress Denied Access to Hagel's Archive at University of Nebraska: What Happened to Obama's "Transparency" Claims?

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.

- Barack Obama
 

Obama? Transparency? Yeah, right.

It's old, but listen again to Anita Dunn lecturing on Obama’s media tactics during the 2008 election (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NlGNhAnwp_Y):

"One of the reasons we did so many of the David Plouffe [Obama’s chief campaign manager] videos was not just for our supporters, but also because it was a way for us to get our message out without having to actually talk to reporters. We just put that out there and made them write what Plouffe had said as opposed to Plouffe doing an interview with a reporter. So it was very much we controlled it as opposed to the press controlled it. . . . very rarely did we communicate through the press anything that we didn’t absolutely control."

And then there is the video of Obama at a party honoring former PLO media spokesman and University of Chicago colleague Rashid Khalidi, which has been locked away by The Los Angeles Times.

More to the point, since becoming president, none other than msnbc (http://tv.msnbc.com/2013/02/22/obama-and-the-press-a-relationship-in-the-rough/) acknowledges that "if you count all public events at which the presidents took questions, President Obama trailed every president since Ronald Reagan."

Thus, it should come as no surprise that Chuck Hagel, Obama's obtuse anti-Semitic nominee for secretary of defense, is denying Congressional investigators access to speeches and remarks located in the archives of The University of Nebraska-Omaha (see: http://freebeacon.com/congress-denied-access-to-hagel-archive/).

But what the heck? The Senate will approve him anyway, to the delight of the "progressive" media, and he will join a cabinet of sycophantic white men, consisting of the worst and the dumbest.