Emails directly link White House to secret transparency meeting

Daily Caller ^ | 10/18/11 | Jordan Bloom

[Nachum]

Act (FOIA) request by government watchdog group Judicial Watch suggest that the White House had direct involvement in shutting a transparency hearing to the press.

“Please don’t have them reach out to any reporters before I clear [with White House] press,” wrote White House Deputy Associate Counsel Blake Roberts to the Office of Information Policy (OIP), about what should have been a fairly noncontroversial training session.

The workshop was conducted by the OIP for Department of Justice employees on FOIA compliance procedures.

Another email, from DOJ Press Release Deputy Director Gina Talamona to the OIP and the attorney general’s office, says “after talking with … [then-Assistant White House Press Secretary] Ben Labolt, the decision is that the training will be closed to the press.”

And if holding a secretive, closed-door meeting on government transparency makes the Obama administration’s open-government rhetoric seem a bit insincere, the irony was not lost on the transparency advocates.

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[oust the louse]

This administration was for transparency before they were against it....

[rightwingintelligentsia]

What is a “secret transparency” meeting?

Is that anything like a closed open house?

[COUNTrecount]

OXY MAROON, like giant shrimp.

[glorgau]

I simply adore the phrase “secret transparency meeting”. It is so 21st century.

[technically right]

Or Senate Intelligence Committee

[stuartcr]

secret transparency!!??..really?

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Wonder if Brian Williams will run this.
He usually likes irony in a story...

[KarlInOhio]

Secret transparency? Is that like when you had to use an overhead projector to give a classified presentation to the Defense Department?

[mosesdapoet]

Head #1
Obama WH Orders Secret Meet To Avoid FOID
Head #2nd choice
WH Does No Peek Meet On FOID Seek
Head #3
Obama Regime Does Transparency Coverup

[knittnmom]

“secret transparency meeting” The jokes just write themselves. But they’re no longer as funny.

[goodnesswins]

More like....OXY MORON

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