When President Obama took office in 2009, he said "transparency and accountability will be a hallmark of my administration."
He has since claimed to have put in place the "toughest transparency rules in history."
However, Obama’s actual record on transparency leaves much to be desired. According a new congressional report, the administration barely gets a passing grade.
The Washington Times reports:
A congressional committee has given the federal government a below-average C-minus grade on its ability to track basic information about the processing of Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests it receives, according to a report released Thursday.
The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee found that 11 of 17 Cabinet-level agencies had insufficient logs for keeping track of how they handled FOIA requests made by persons and organizations for public information, even though such records are required by law.
The committee said the three agencies that receive the most FOIA requests — the departments of Justice, Homeland Security and Defense — "were all missing critical information from their tracking logs." The report gave them each a grade of D.