"Obama would be better-advised to be on the right side of that history than on the side of darkness and cover-up," he said.
A more hopeful note comes from Peter M Shane, a law professor at Ohio State University. He notes that the George W. Bush Administration "had the most ambitious view of executive power in history. Bush sympathizers see little difference in the Obama Administration. Bush's detractors, in some respects, agree."
But the truth, he says, is probably closer to the Obama Administration casting aside some of the Bush Administration's more audacious claims while "still struggling to find a consistent stance with regard to its philosophy of executive power."
How the new administration will ultimately resolve its conflicts between secrecy and open government remains to be seen. But, as President Obama said over the weekend in relation to the current Iranian conflict, "the world is watching."
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