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Mr. Obama’s Promise of Transparency

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New proposals from the President tend to go back from his promise of tranparency . Its the administration that will decide under this proposal what constitutes anational security leak. A clear federal standard would let ajudge decide whether national security was affected. In reality the argument goes the other way becauseit hurts the public's right to know, and it does this to avoid embarrassment. Some in the administration want to take this route and President Obama s willing to go back on tranparency pledges he made. A good media shield law that is aclear federal standard in addition to state shield laws would trust the judiciary to decide, now Obama is going back on his pledge for anew era of openness especially when two wars are being fought and there is a global economic crisis.

Is Obama going back on pledges of transparency by weakening media shield laws.

10/05/2009

A federal standard for amedia shield law letting a judge decide what is a national security leak and a mere embarrassment is what Obama promised. This was supposed to usher in anew era of openness. The administration is now hedging on this.

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