Obama receives "Transparency Award"...in a closed, undisclosed location

Obama receives "Transparency Award"...in a closed, undisclosed location Scotty Starnes | March 30, 2011 at 8:22 PM | Tags: National Security Archive, OpenTheGovernment.org, President Obama, Project on Government Oversight, Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, secret, transparency, transparency award | Categories: Political Issues | URL: http://wp.me/pvnFC-4UA

Once again, you simply can not make this shit up. The most 'transparent' President who hides everything from his education records to meetings with union bosses, accepted a transparency award in secret.

Politico reports:

President Obama finally and quietly accepted his "transparency" award from the open government community this week — in a closed, undisclosed meeting at the White House on Monday.

The secret presentation happened almost two weeks after the White House inexplicably postponed the ceremony, which was expected to be open to the press pool.

This time, Obama met quietly in the Oval Office with Gary Bass of OMB Watch, Tom Blanton of the National Security Archive, Danielle Brian of the Project on Government Oversight, Lucy Dalglish of the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, and Patrice McDermott of OpenTheGovernment.org, without disclosing the meeting on his public schedule or letting photographers or print reporters into the room.

These most be the most blind members of society to stand behind giving a transparency award to Obama.

"Our understanding going into the meeting was that it would have a pool photographer and a print reporter, and it turned out to be a private meeting," Bass told POLITICO. "He was so on point, so on target in the conversation with us, it is baffling why he would not want that message to be more broadly heard by reporters and the public interest community and the public generally."

It's because he is sick of being caught on tape, and print, saying he is for transparency only to be proven a liar.

Just hours before the White House put off the original event, White House press secretary Jay Carney was defiant in his defense of Obama's transparency record against criticism that it might have been premature.

"This president has demonstrated a commitment to transparency and openness that is greater than any administration has shown in the past, and he's been committed to that since he ran for President and he's taken a significant number of measures to demonstrate that," Carney said in a testy exchange with Fox News reporter Wendell Goler on March 16.

Even the Washington Post, a liberal rag, pointed out the record number of FOIA reguest being rejected by Team Transparency. The Sunlight Foundation even calls BS on the Obama transparency claims. It's all a facade.
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