1.0 link 176571 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/leslie-harris/shouldnt-be-this-hard-to_b_176571.html One of President Obama's first official acts in office was taking the power of the presidential pen and shredding the cloak of secrecy the Bush Administration used to bury important government information. "Openness prevails," the Obama memo on transparency and open government promised when it came to deciding whether or not a government agency should disclose a piece of information. Cheers went up, back slaps and smiles prevailed... somewhere a tear of happiness was probably shed. A new dawn of...

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