Posted on 05/13/2013 4:25:27 PM PDT by McGruff
President Obama on Thursday hailed his administration for its transparency.
“This is the most transparent administration in history,” Obama said during a Google Plus “Fireside” Hangout.
“I can document that this is the case,” he continued. “Every visitor that comes into the White House is now part of the public record. Every law we pass and every rule we implement we put online for everyone to see.”
The president said this holds true even on the issue of the attack on a U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, a controversy which he said was “driven by campaign” politics and one that Congressional Republicans were clinging to even though they’ve “run out of questions.”
“Benghazi is not a good example,” Obama said. “We’ve had more testimony and more paper than ever before.”
The president has also been criticized – even by some liberals – for his use of drones to target terrorist suspects abroad, some of whom have been U.S. citizens. Obama said there are “a handful of issues, mostly surrounding national security,” that require some confidentiality.
However, the president pledged to be open about how drones are used, saying the public will “know the parameters” around the program.
“What I think is absolutely true is it’s not sufficient for citizens to just take my word for it that we’re doing the right thing,” Obama said.
The president added that there are different policies on how drones are used abroad, compared to how they’re used in the United States.
“I think there’s never been a drone used on an American citizen on American soil,” Obama said. “We respect and have a whole bunch of safeguards into how we conduct counter-terrorism outside the United States ... the rules are different inside the United States.
Obama Answers An ACLU Request For Government Transparency With a Blacked-Out Memo
I'm sure an investigation of me will begin tomorrow.
Unreal!
Barry and his ilk reside in Opposite World.
Barrak, the word you think you’re using is wrong,
it should be translucent or maybe Opaque would
be even better.
Please, please.
The dork is far, far below “normal” in the IQ dept.
Pay no attention to the cretin behind the curtain.
The president said this holds true even on the issue of the attack on a U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, a controversy which he said was “driven by campaign politics”
But his cover up is noble and just doing what’s right for America
“Congressional Republicans were clinging to even though they’ve “run out of questions.”
They aren’t out of questions they are waiting for the answers. So they have to ask them again. Bit by bit the answers are slowly coming.
Okay....I see right through Obama's stinking lies....
Well, it’s true. We could see right through them from the start.
i can’t remember one statement that he made that was either true or transparent
The first 100 days of the Presidency of Barack Obama began during the Inauguration of Barack Obama with the conversion of Whitehouse.gov from the Bush Administration version to the Obama Administration version at 12:00 pm on January 20, 2009. This was only the second presidential online portal transition. At 12:01, White House Director of New Media Macon Phillips posted the website’s first blog post with themes of “communication”, “transparency” and “participation”. However, after the first week, the reporters covering the White House became dubious about the pledge of transparency.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_100_days_of_Barack_Obama%27s_presidency
LOL! That was my first thought, as well!
Turgid is more apt.
Maybe most transparently lying. Seriously, the lies are so bad, so continual... What is really insulting is how blatant they are. If you’re going to lie to me, at least put some thought and effort into it - like you think I’m intelligent enough to see through a stupid lie. Just spewing rancid, illogical, improbable lies at us shows contempt for us. Well, I hold you hussein in equal or greater contempt. You are the worse, most corrupt President ever. You are a sorry excuse for a man, and a poor example of a human being. You’re nothing but a lying POS.
Well, maybe. Most Freepers can see right through him...
Flacid maybe.
Ick.
It has always worked for him so he quadruples down... but the press is pi$$ed and the worm has finally turned.
LLS
I thought Dopey or Goofy wrote it.
Just not quite in the way he meant it.
No, it was written by the 8th dwarf . . . Sleezy . . . they don't talk about him much.
Yeah the most transparent lie tellers ever..... LOL....
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