it now seems to be the norm for the administration that once claimed to be want transparency.. (before they were elected)
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yep.. like this one...
ever wonder about "secret oil meetings",.. like..
or
such as...
yep.. they remember it.. they just don't acknowledge secret meetings happened.. :? :? :???: :roll:
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With respect to secret meetings, have any of those been denied the way Cheney denied his with the energy exec's?
yep.. like this one...
The Obama administration’s explanation:
The administration ought to be able to hold secret meetings in the White House, said Obama spokesman Ben LaBolt.
file that under broken promise number #BPseries'2009-546908795861045In 2007, Obama promised on his first day to: “launch the most sweeping ethics reform in history to make the White House the people’s house and send the Washington lobbyists back to K Street.”
The day after the Inauguration, Obama issued a memo saying, “my Administration is committed to creating an unprecedented level of openness in Government.”
ever wonder about "secret oil meetings",.. like..
Presidential candidate Barack Obama had summoned some of the CEOs of the top oil companies to a secret meeting to talk about energy policy.
After a long day of campaigning on July 8, candidate Barack Obama arrived at his Chicago headquarters for a three-hour brainstorming session about a suddenly hot issue: energy and climate change.
He had summoned a cross section of experts, including top executives from three utilities and two oil companies, the chief energy economist of an investment bank, a climate scientist, a California energy and environment expert, an oil consultant-historian, and several campaign staffers.
( the meeting was in Chicago on the 8th, although there was a similar meeting on the 10th in D.C. )
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Obama administration officials have rejected a watchdog group’s request for a list of healthcare industry executives who’ve been meeting secretly in the White House with Obama staffers to discuss healthcare changes being drafted there and in Congress.
TSR said:No, the one that Cheney and the oil exec's couldn't remember. You know the one where some of them had to be reminded by a Congressional committee that even though they weren't under oath they could still be prosecuted for lying to a Congressional committee. Suddenly their memories got better and Cheny cited executive privilege saying he didn't have to say anything basically. That one.
such as...
Joe Biden: No 'private meetings,' just meetings closed to the press
Possibly a very important policy change quietly emerged in the daily schedule of Vice President Joe Biden today.
We've especially noted Biden's innumerable "private meetings" that are closed to the press because, well, they're private.
And we've wondered aloud how this Democratic VP's private meetings with unnamed people on unnamed subjects differs from the private meetings with unnamed people that his evil predecessor had that got so many Democratic senators and representatives worried about nefarious secrets.
On one recent long weekend, devoted an entire Monday to "private meetings" that are closed press in his Delaware home.
According to the White House schedule, Biden will not spend the remainder of the workday in private meetings that are closed press.
Instead: "The Vice President will spend the remainder of the day in meetings that are closed press."
yep.. they remember it.. they just don't acknowledge secret meetings happened.. :? :? :???: :roll: