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Just days after the White House excluded Fox News from the roster of networks that hosted senior aides on weekend news shows, administration officials have pledged to book representatives on the network going forward, the Associated Press reported.
Despite the Obama administration's recent legal settlement to begin releasing White House visitor logs later this year, it has denied a different public interest group's recent request for those same records in the meantime.
Freedom of Information | Quicklink | September 9, 2009
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September 9, 2009
The Obama White House will begin posting online logs of its visitors for the first time in an agreement reached over a series of lawsuits for the records last week.
In another reminder that the openness promised during campaign season has not become reality, the Obama administration is refusing to disclose White House dates with key players in the health care industry, the Los Angeles Times reported Wednesday.
The Obama Justice Department has advanced yet another Bush administration argument in a government transparency case, this time pushing to withhold former Vice President Cheney's deposition in the long-since concluded Valerie Plame leak case.
The more things change, the more they stay the same: The Obama administration is refusing to tell who visits the White House -- just like the Bush team did.
The White House has launched a Web site in response to President Obama's Transparency and Open Government memorandum, calling for suggestions from the public on open government policy.
The Obama administration is striving for a more transparent government but faces a number of practical problems in getting there, according to a host of panelists who spoke Thursday at a conference on information policy in the new administration.
Even as President Barack Obama’s new administration takes charge of the White House this week, several disputes over the Bush Administration's records are far from over.
