Transparency & Accountability in Gov’t/Media

WH Releases Open Government Directive: Transparency (Plus) Engagement (Equals) More Democracy
12.12.09
www.huffingtonpost.com/peter-m-shane/wh-releases-open-governme_b_384126.html

Rules for Congress Curb but Don’t End Junkets
12.7.09
www.nytimes.com/2009/12/07/us/politics/07trips.html

House Ethics Investigations
10.30.09
In response to today’s Washington Post story detailing ethics investigations into a number of members of Congress, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) executive director Melanie Sloan released the following statement: More…
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Why We Bar Lobbyists from Agency Advisory Boards and Commissions
The White House Blog
10.21.09
www.whitehouse.gov/blog/Why-We-Bar-Lobbyists-from-Agency-Advisory-Boards-and-Commissions

The Federal Reserve Transparency Act
5.29.09
http://firedoglake.com/2009/05/27/fourteen-more-cosponsors-join-alan-grayson-sign-on-to-federal-reserve-transparency-act/

The Woman Who Could Nail Bush

Forget nanny issues and unpaid taxes. (with presidential appointees) The GOP is threatening an ugly fight over an Obama Justice Department appointee who wants to disclose more Bush-era torture memos…(More)