Obama releases white house logs, kind of

Obama will release logs of white house visitors from here on out. He will not release logs from anytime before now (which, of course, were the logs that everyone wanted to see who was influencing his policies in his first days in office). He also has provisions for not releasing the logs in the case in which it will harm national security, etc. Let's hope he doesn't abuse those provisions, but frankly I'm not too hopeful.

Obama blocks release of White House visitor logs

Contrary to his promises to make his administration an administration of transparency, Obama has blocked the release of the White House visitor logs. Apparently he doesn't think it is the public's business what lobbyists are visiting him to insidiously sway policy in their favor. Perhaps Obama needs a reminder that he is accountable to the people of America, not the other way around.