White House Hides Corrupt Meetings With Special Interest Lobbyists
Don’t you just love it when “the most open administration in history” decides to hide its meetings with special interest lobbyists from the public by taking them off-site in an effort to keep the public from finding out?
Caught between their boss’s anti-lobbyist rhetoric and the reality of governing, President Barack Obama’s aides often steer meetings with lobbyists to a complex just off the White House grounds – and several of the lobbyists involved say they believe the choice of venue is no accident.
It allows the Obama administration to keep these lobbyist meetings shielded from public view — and out of Secret Service logs collected on visitors to the White House and later released to the public.
And those who are met with at the secret location are under no illusion about why the meetings are scheduled away from the White House. You shouldn’t be, either.
There are no records of meetings at the row houses just off Lafayette Square that house the White House Conference Center and the Council on Environmental Quality, home to two of the busiest meeting spaces. The White House can’t say who attended meetings there, or how often. The Secret Service doesn’t log in visitors or require a background check the way it does at the main gates of the White House.
So much for open government and the public disclosure of the process by which the public’s government conducts the public’s business. Seems to me that Congressman Issa needs to fire up the fax machine and send out the next batch of subpoenas.
White House Hides Corrupt Meetings With Special Interest Lobbyists
Don’t you just love it when “the most open administration in history” decides to hide its meetings with special interest lobbyists from the public by taking them off-site in an effort to keep the public from finding out?
And those who are met with at the secret location are under no illusion about why the meetings are scheduled away from the White House. You shouldn’t be, either. So much for open government and the public disclosure of the process by which the public’s government conducts the public’s business. Seems to me that Congressman Issa needs to fire up the fax machine and send out the next batch of subpoenas.Posted by: Greg at 04:25 PM
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