AND YOU SHALL KNOW THEM BY WHAT THEY FEEL COMPELLED TO KEEP SECRET:

What happened to Obama’s ‘government transparency’ pledge?: As a candidate, Obama said healthcare reform negotiations should be televised on C-SPAN. But now that House and Senate are hashing out their differences, the White House is backing away from that pledge. (Brad Knickerbocker, January 9, 2010, CS Monitor)

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, backed by the White House, has said the House and Senate – each of which have passed versions of healthcare reform – were putting the final bill together “behind closed doors according to an agreement by top Democrats.” [...]

“The negotiations are obviously being done in secret and the American people really just want to know what they are trying to hide,” said Rep. Tom Price, (R) of Georgia.