Barack Obama in 63 Documents the Government Doesn't Want To Read, by Jesse Ventura

On Government Reform: Open Government Initiative on first full day in office

After Barack Obama won the 2008 presidential election, I was heartened to see him issue an Open Government Initiatives on his first full day in office. "I firmly believe that Justice Louis Brandeis once said, that sunlight is the best disinfectant," Obama said, "and I know that restoring transparency is not only the surest way to achieve results, but also to earn back the trust in government without which we cannot deliver changes the American people sent us here to make." After eight years of Bush and Cheney's secretive and deceitful ways, that sounded like a welcome relief. Obama ordered all federal agencies to "adopt a presumption in favor" of FOIA requests and so laid the groundwork to eventually release reams of previously withheld government information on the Internet.

Well, so far it hasn't turned out the way Obama set forth. Most agencies had yet to walk the way.

Source: 63 Documents, by Gov. Jesse Ventura, p. 3-4 Apr 4, 2011

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