Saturday, 20 June 2009
Obama Closes Doors on Openness
by Michael Isikoff at Newsweek As a senator, Barack Obama denounced the Bush administration for holding secret energy meetings
with oil executives at the White House. But last week public-interest groups were dismayed when his own administration rejected a Freedom of Information Act request for Secret Service logs showing the identities of coal executives who had visited the White House to discuss Obama's clean coal
policies.
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