10 Things Obama Won't Tell Us (Happy Sunshine Week!)

President Obama's very public embrace of open government -- starting on his
first full day in office -- has been a welcome change from the regime of secrecy enforced by the previous administration.

The routine disclosure of White House visitor logs and the White House's Open Government Initiative are but two examples.

And yet the Obama administration's openness only goes so far.

In some ways, particularly when it comes to covering up the most controversial aspects of (or policies held over from) the Bush administration, this White House is as opaque as the last one.

In honor of Sunshine Week, which is a celebration of the importance of open government and freedom of information, here are 10 of the things that President Obama is keeping us in the dark about.

Vote for which ones you think are the most outrageous.

Where Did The TARP Money End Up?

We know which banks got how much TARP money -- but to this day, we still have no idea what those banks did with it. In a January report to Congress, Neil Barofsky, the Special Inspector General for TARP, wrote that after consistently refusing to require TARP recipients to report on what they did with the taxpayers’ money, the Treasury Department “recently informed SIGTARP that it has decided to undertake surveying and reporting on recipients’ use of TARP funds.” If that happens, Barofsky said, the Obama administration will finally give the American people the basic transparency they deserve in these investments.”



Was the money used on loans or stashed away? Was it used for speculation? For bonuses? If it was loaned out, who benefited?

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Jeremy Binckes contributed to this report.