EVEN IN THE AREAS WHERE HE COULD HAVE IMPROVED ON W...:

PROMISES, PROMISES: Is gov’t more open with Obama? (SHARON THEIMER 03/16/10, AP)

Federal agencies haven’t lived up to President Barack Obama’s promise of a more open government, increasing their use of legal exemptions to keep records secret during his first year in office.

An Associated Press review of Freedom of Information Act reports filed by 17 major agencies found that the use of nearly every one of the law’s nine exemptions to withhold information from the public rose in fiscal year 2009, which ended last October.

...he's changed nothing. No information should be withheld from the public that pays to acquire it.

Posted by Orrin Judd at March 16, 2010 5:45 AM