Obama Administration's Transparency: "Pretty Weak"

Obama Administration's Transparency: "Pretty Weak"

Government watchdog group Cause of Action yesterday released transparency grades for each of the Obama Administration's executive departments, plus the Environmental Protection Agency. For an administration that prides itself on transparency, the results were not good.

The average grade that Cause of Action gave Obama Administration departments was a C-, with two cabinet-level institutions - the Department of Defense and the Department of Commerce - receiving failing grades.

"President Obama himself actually made a pledge that his Administration would be the most transparent in history," Cause of Action's communications director Mary Beth Hutchins told Townhall. "There's a great inconsistency...