Obama Administration not Transparent

The White House has refused a request from Sen. Chuck Grassley for all the exemptions it’s granted to President Barack Obama’s ethics policy.

And that’s got the Iowa Republican on a mission to make public every ethics waiver and recusal issued to administration officials.

“The American people deserve a full accounting of all waivers ... to better understand who is running the government and whether the administration is adhering to its promise to be open, transparent and accountable,” Grassley wrote in a letter Wednesday to the director of the U.S. Office of Government Ethics.

Obama tasked that independent agency with implementing his ethics policy, and Grassley’s letter asks the office to explain every waiver and recusal granted under the policy and to post them on its website.

The administration has been cagey about the exceptions it’s granted to the policy, quietly releasing a succession of four waivers, weeks and sometimes months after they were first granted. It has also refused to say whether there are other waivers or letters of recusal, which are more narrowly crafted than waivers.

Back in February, Grassley — who has made a career out of sometimes lonely but often high-impact crusades against waste, fraud and secrecy in government — asked in a previously unreported letter for a full accounting of the waivers from the White House’s budget office, which granted the initial waivers in consultation with the White House counsel’s office.

But a lawyer from the counsel’s office rebuffed Grassley in March, informing him that the Office of Government Ethics was still working on procedures for disclosing the waivers and recusals but would also list all of them in an annual report to be published next year. - Politico Story

I get it, If you release all of your stuff later then that constitutes being open and transparent. You don't have to do it while it is happening.

In that case Obama isn't so novel. Most administrations have become transparent after the fact.

CHANGE YOU CAN BELIEVE IN!!!!