Login | Register

Most Popular Choices

5

Dan Foomkin: Too Embarrassing to Disclose?

Quicklink Submitted By Sheila Samples No comments

Managing Editor
Sheila Samples

Become a Fan
(49 fans)

President Obama's approach to government transparency is disturbingly opaque in places, particularly when it comes to disclosing information about the Bush administration's torture legacy. The president who promised to restore our international reputation and return responsibility to government now seems to be buying into the belief that covering up our sins is better than coming clean.

Read the rest of the story HERE:

At voices.washingtonpost.com

Rate It | View Ratings

Sheila Samples Social Media Pages:

Sheila Samples is an Oklahoma writer and a former civilian US Army Public Information Officer. She is a Managing Editor for OpEd News, and a regular contributor for a variety of Internet sites.

Related Topic(s): Obama Same As Bush; Responsibility; Torture; Transparency, Add Tags

Go To Commenting

The views expressed herein are the sole responsibility of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of this website or its editors.

Contact Author

Contact Editor

Author Page

View Authors' Articles

OpEdNews ~~depends upon~~ can't survive without your help.

If you value this article and the work of OpEdNews, please either Donate or Purchase a premium membership.

STAY IN THE KNOW
If you've enjoyed this, sign up for our daily or weekly newsletter to get lots of great progressive content.

To View Comments or Join the Conversation:

Congress Switchboard: 202-224-3121

To remove advertising from OpEdNews, please become a premium member.

"Humans have spent 99 percent of our developmental time in the wild kingdom, which tutored us in what Rob Kall calls bottom-up values?small, local, interdependent, respectful, egalitarian and decentralized -- and which the world desperately needs in order to balance out some of the darker impulses of top-down values. His faith that bottom-up values represent a critical re-balancing act for humanity, if not an outright better mousetrap, is compelling and hard-won, and I offer him a high-five for his courageous inquiry into the deep wisdom inherent in our age-old intimacy with natural rhythms, native intelligences, and interconnectedness."

Gregg Levoy, author of Callings and Vital Signs

Art Instruction for People
At All Skill Levels

Top Content
in the Last 2 Days
(by Page Views)

No Kings in America: Protests Prove the Power Still Belongs to the People by Mark Lansvin ( With membership, you can see # of pageviews)

Tomgram: Helen Benedict, Two Different Wars, Two Different Presidents, But the Same Lies by Tom Engelhardt ( With membership, you can see # of pageviews)

Tomgram: Engelhardt, Will Donald Trump Take the Planet Down With Him? by Tom Engelhardt ( With membership, you can see # of pageviews)

The Big Question About the UN Security Council's Gaza Ceasefire Resolution by Thomas Knapp ( With membership, you can see # of pageviews)

The Myriad Ways You Can Help OpEdNews by Rob Kall ( With membership, you can see # of pageviews)

Eating Healthy is Do-able / Eating healthily on the fly (plus thoughts on hypoglycemia) by Gary Lindorff ( With membership, you can see # of pageviews)

Global Energy Shock Looms as Hormuz and Bab el-Mandeb Face Escalation Risks by Steven Sahiounie ( With membership, you can see # of pageviews)

LAUSD Board's Oversight Failure by Carl Petersen ( With membership, you can see # of pageviews)

Open Letter to DC Council: Override the Mayor's Veto, Pass the FAAR Act into Law by Chuck Pennacchio ( With membership, you can see # of pageviews)

The End of Recessions in the United States? by Joel Joseph ( With membership, you can see # of pageviews)

The Eclipse as Cosmic Muse by Meryl Ann Butler ( With membership, you can see # of pageviews)

The Awful Transformation of Bernie Sanders by earl ofari hutchinson ( With membership, you can see # of pageviews)

The New York Times and Washington Post report Pentagon officials contemplating ground invasion of Iran by Dave Lefcourt ( With membership, you can see # of pageviews)

Iran and Gaza are Only the Beginning by Chris Hedges ( With membership, you can see # of pageviews)

Writing like an adolescent again, serving the archetypes by Gary Lindorff ( With membership, you can see # of pageviews)

End the 1917 Espionage Act by John Hawkins ( With membership, you can see # of pageviews)

Positive Visions of the Future by Blair Gelbond ( With membership, you can see # of pageviews)

No Kings: The Largest Protest in American History -- And What Has to Come Next by Rob Kall ( With membership, you can see # of pageviews)

Tomgram: Patrick Strickland, And Then the Slaughter Began by Tom Engelhardt ( With membership, you can see # of pageviews)

Train Up The Child by Kevin Tully ( With membership, you can see # of pageviews)

Due Process is Denied When Legal Entry to US is Limited to Make it Impossible by Russ Doty ( With membership, you can see # of pageviews)

Preventing, finding and treating all TB at ground zero by Citizen News Service - CNS ( With membership, you can see # of pageviews)

IMAGINING OUR FUTURE: PERILS AND PROMISE Story 1: The Global Brain Is Waking Up by Blair Gelbond ( With membership, you can see # of pageviews)

And So, This Is What? by Dr. Lenore Daniels ( With membership, you can see # of pageviews)

To Beat China, Russia, India, and Japan in New Space Race, We Need Political Will to Get Back Where We Were 50 Years Ago by Robert Weiner ( With membership, you can see # of pageviews)

Go To Top 50 Most Popular

Ad info: click here

opednews.com

Classics of Liberal Thinking

Progressive Radio Links