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EDITORIAL: What’s Obama hiding at illegal-alien ‘refugee’ camps?
It’s yet another example of his lack of transparency
President Obama’s ultimate weakness may be that he believes his own blarney. A year ago, Mr. Obama boasted in a “fireside” Web chat that his “is the most transparent administration in history.” There was not the slightest hint of irony. He may actually believe it.
But three-dozen organizations representing newspapermen and other journalists, mostly liberals, beg to differ. In a testy letter to the president on Tuesday, the group decried the “slick non-answers” and cold shoulders they’re getting from Mr. Obama’s representatives, who have restricted access to any information they consider embarrassing to the administration.
“The stifling of free expression,” the signers said, “is happening despite your pledge on your first day in office to bring ‘a new era of openness’ to federal government — and the subsequent executive orders and directives which were supposed to bring such openness about.”
The government’s attempt to control what the public is allowed to see and hear has never been more ham-handed — or more indefensible — than in the early attempts to bar the press and members of Congress from fact-finding visits to the facilities in Texas, Arizona, New Mexico and Oklahoma, which are refugee camps for the hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens who have been swarming across the Rio Grande.
A casual observer might think that Mr. Obama, as an advocate for amnesty and open borders, would welcome the coverage his administration is suppressing. The photographs and video scenes of the malnourished and shabbily dressed children would tug at the heartstrings of Ebenezer Scrooge. “We’ve got to help these poor kids,” the president might say. “We can’t send them back home.” . . .
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/jul/9/editorial-through-obamas-glass-darkly/
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