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To: Sully- who wrote (78338)	3/16/2010 12:41:08 AM
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Obama's Transparency Guidelines Reach Their Expiration Date By: Jim Geraghty The Campaign Spot Without follow-up, presidential decrees mean nothing. <<< President Obama issued new guidelines on government transparency on his first full day of office, ordering agencies to "adopt a presumption in favor" of FOIA requests and laying the groundwork for the eventual release of reams of previously undisclosed government information on the Internet. But less than a third of the 90 federal agencies that process requests for information have significantly changed their practices since that initial order, the report said. >>> Score one for the bureaucracy. During the last administration, when some federal agency screwed up, some argued that the messes proved that Republicans can't govern because they don't believe in a large, powerful, ever-growing federal government. Nope. Federal agencies screw up because they're federal agencies, and many corners of that bureaucracy haven't encountered anything resembling accountability in decades. campaignspot.nationalreview.com