“As a senator, Barack Obama denounced the Bush administration for holding ‘secret energy meetings’ with oil executives at the White House. But last week public-interest groups were dismayed when his own administration rejected a Freedom of Information Act request for Secret Service logs showing the identities of coal executives who had visited the White House to discuss Obama’s ‘clean coal’ policies.” (Newsweek, Sunday)
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“Two Cheers for Transparency” by Lawrence W. Reed