The problem I have here is not that he's holding these meetings in private. What is disturbing is that this will be swept completely under the rug by barry's media and his disciples, showing again their hypocrisy.
Unfortunately, because of the lefts behavior the last 8 years, the right will feel compelled to quid pro quo it and file suit for 8 years to get these records...declaring that barry is in the back pockets of the coal industry.
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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.
One reason: the disclosure of such records might impinge on privileged "presidential
communications." The refusal, approved by White House counsel Greg Craig's office, is the latest in a series of cases in which Obama officials have opted against public disclosure. Since Obama pledged on his first day in office to usher in a "new era" of openness, "nothing has changed," says David -Sobel, a lawyer who litigates FOIA cases. "For a president who said he was going to bring unprecedented transparency to government, you would certainly expect more than the recycling of old Bush secrecy policies."
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