We are learning what he meant by transparency

Mr. Obama promised transparency in government. Instead of transparency, there was the secrecy of working on the stimulus bill in the dead of night to keep Republicans out of the process. Now there is the tale of the Obama White House missing documents.

In his first weeks in office, President Barack Obama shut down his predecessor’s system for reviewing regulations, realigned and expanded two key White House policymaking bodies and extended economic sanctions against parties to the conflict in the African nation of Cote D’Ivoire.

We don’t even know what “parties” the sanctions were against! Possibly they were against the "nationals" who are trying to stop what's happening in Cote D'Ivoire!

Despite the intense scrutiny a president gets just after the inauguration, Obama managed to take all these actions with nary a mention from the White House press corps.

The moves escaped notice because they were never announced by the White House Press Office and were never placed on the White House web site.

Two of Obama's actions on regulatory reform were spotted by bloggers, lobbying groups and trade publications after they emerged in the Federal Register.

There was no apparent rhyme or reason to the omissions. A proclamation Obama issued on February 2 for African-American History Month was e-mailed to the press and posted on the White House web site. But another presidential proclamation the same day for American Heart Month slipped by.

Such notices were routinely released by the White House press office during prior administrations — making their omission all the more unusual given Obama’s oft-repeated pledges of openness.

Will the main-stream media begin reporting on future White House irregularities? Not unless they suddenly decide to report stories that could show Mr. Obama in a bad light.

Of greater concern is what is happening that is not being discovered by bloggers and others.

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