On 4/1/11, Steve Hoersting <hoersting@gmail.com> wrote:
The theme of their *WaPo* piece is that the Obama administration is not at
all keen on disclosure.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/wheres-the-transparency-that-obama-promised/2011/03/31/AFipwHCC_print.html
[snip] -- we get the sense that there may be
well something to at least two theories about disclosure, and that even
disclosure's advocates get it:
1) that the burden of disclosure must be balanced against its costs
2) that disclosure, either demanded or provided, is often a tool and
accelerant for retribution
What I "get" is that without disclosure/transparency, accountability
is not possible. Who can really be in favor of un-accountability in
government?
What is being styled as "retribution" is at best a minor percentage of
the overall and critical process of accountability in government.