Obama's more open Government

[billynomates]

After promising the most transparent administration in history, Mr Obama and his Justice Department have pressed criminal charges against five suspected leakers under the Espionage Act, more than all other administrations combined, including Nixon’s.

Mr Drake, a former official at the National Security Agency (NSA), tried to report mismanagement and illegalities at the agency to government officials, but was ignored. He then went to the press. The government charged him with misappropriating classified material, though he denied he had shared any secrets. Prosecutors, wary of revealing sensitive material in court, tried to tempt him with a generous plea deal, but he held out until last week. Originally facing up to 35 years in prison, he will now receive a much milder sentence, perhaps including no time in jail.

The government’s aggressive pursuit of Mr Drake confounded advocates of open government. In the eyes of many, his attempts to expose waste and wrongdoing at his agency make him a whistleblower. And although the law does not compel the government to differentiate between good leaks and bad leaks, Mr Obama has praised whistleblowing in the past, arguing that “such acts of courage and patriotism…should be encouraged rather than stifled.”

(Economist)

[maverick35]

Old Mav realizes exactly RIGHT u r Gpes governments may make mistakes coruption may exist butt they elect people who they know r gona back them and so if this person had any ideas that there wuz coruption he should have kept it to him self whut wuz stolen whut did any body steal if he had seen people seen records of coruption he should have taken it to the F.B.I. butt then he probablky should have done it anonomously sent copy of records to show whut he wana report no not done it himself cuz of course no not just deny butt they would charge any body with leaking secrets thus in government u do it anonomously RIGHT and so old Mav realizes this person lacked knowing that it cost him big time RIGHT and so as for all the cheating atacking of old Mav again old Mav keeps it anonomous u no not gona see old Mav having any thing to do with whutever and so old Mav may do to take revenge vengence justice in to old Mavs own hands cuz of all the wrong doing thus either report it anonomously and or become your own secret avenger revenger police judger RIGHT whutever and so u would call it and so any body seen hoping to report with and or deal with coruption in high places is gona if lucky end up behind bars serving hard time at least and or sufer bodily harm so on and so lose house car money all property lucky to geta welfare much less live a life every body else geta and so old Mav has learned this the hard way and so this person wuz comon knowledge in 1944 when old Mav wuz born they knew this guy would rat squel inform way back in 1944 if u ever read Mien Kampf Adolf Hitlers own N**i bible u see him repeatedly write about informers cuz rating squeling informing up on high government people is regarded as a no no and so u beter be able to hide and so run and so escape cuz coruption is done by those who have money muscle brains power they gona geta u RIGHT and so thus whutever and so this guy thinks he knows best he should have kept it to him self alas the diference between a patriot and so a rat squeler informer some times is hard to see and so diferentiate RIGHT and so thus beter safe than sorry RIGHT and so old basic rule no not never report any thing RIGHT and so old Mav is lucky they do no not take old Mav seriously and so old Mav needs a miracle sorry right... sorry old Mav

[motherfunky]

Its odd isnt it, despite Governments being amongst the most secretive entities in the World they want to know everything about their tax paying Citizens. How strange.

Yes very strange, and when a Government is caught lying to its people (which they do about everything) nothing happens, but when a Citizen is caught lying to the Government (think about it)... they go to Jail!!

Brilliant!

[Ziximania]

Hmmmm Live in the past? I got dirt to mix with your soon to be tears, if ya wanna mud wrestle babe muah

[billynomates]

A bigger problem still is overclassification. Americans have been able to read most of the Pentagon Papers for 40 years, but the documents were declassified only this week. Similarly, many of the dispatches allegedly leaked by Mr Manning are still considered government secrets. And the Obama administration has only made things worse. According to the Information Security Oversight Office, a government agency, the administration created 224,734 new secrets in its first year in office, up 22.6% on the year before.

Even as the administration strives to keep secrets, it can still claim to have made some progress towards greater openness. Government agencies are putting more information online, and many have cut into the backlog of Freedom-of-Information-Act requests. Last year Mr Obama declassified the size of America’s nuclear arsenal and this year he revealed his intelligence budget request. In March the president even received an award from the open-government community. To the chagrin of the presenters, the event was closed to the press. But word leaked out.

The Economist

Seems the more 'Liberal' the Government the less we need to know.

[maverick35]

Old Mav realizes exactly how u members seem to know each other and so know how u know $ million dolar words about open government the words open government just mean a government that B C atacks old Mav but the B C people beter hope no not any miracle saves old Mav before it is too late for old Mav cuz your own B C open government thing RIGHT whutever and so may no not save u if old Mav geta the miracle old Mav needs in time before it is too late for old Mav and so as old Mav strugles against your own B C open government buly brute system old Mav may only hope some thing hapens the sooner the beter the world beter hope cuz if the world may pay dearly for it RIGHT and so luckily at 67 they think old Mav is too old that it is too late for old Mav that old Mav is over the hill and so ready to buy the farm RIGHT they beter hope they r RIGHT cuz if and so Tuesday morning 7:00 June 21 2011 old Mav is siting in old Mavs own Black leather desk chair typing chating posting ranting raving luckily no not taken seriously cuz by your own standards there is no not any hope for old Mav RIGHT and so they beter hope cuz if and so 6 21 2011 with supposedly Osama Ben Layden dead the world thinks it is safe Libya Syria r self destructing due to short sightedness the Arabs Jews seem to be self destructing every body is hapy they beter hope cuz if and so it is raining out side a cold lousey rainy day butt old Mav no not cares if no not go out off today then tomorow and or Thursday whutever and so the weather is no not gona stop old Mav if old Mav geta the miracle old Mav needs before it is too late for old Mav and so death and so disease no not makes u people sick butt u beter hope cuz if and so with old Mav sufering from B C and so sick weak every second moment checking for B C things u people r enjoying that butt if if if old Mav survives this B C atack if old Mav may survive recover from the B C atack then the world may pay dearly for it and so butt luckily the world thinks there is no not any way old Mav may survive the B C atack it beter be RIGHT cuz if and so 7:06 in the morning and so u may talk chat post about Obama open government about the liberal Democrats about the neo con Republicans the block to B C block atack trick trap old Mav butt if and so the world may pay dearly for it and so chat post all u wana in those $ million dollar Democrat Republican words butt if and so the world may pay dearly for it and so the world beter hope no not any miracle saves old Mav before it is too late for old Mav RIGHT and so cuz if and so the world may pay dearly for it and so luckily the world no not realizes and so no not under stands exactly whut old Mav is talking chating posting ranting raving about and so that may be its own tough tuff and so bad luck if a miracle saves old Mav before it is too late for old Mav and so they may know Democrat Republican $ million dolar words butt if and so 6 21 2011 and so old Mav still needs that miracle at 67 now a year older a year wiser old Mav needs that miracle more than ever butt if and so the world may pay dearly for it and so 67 years the world has B C atacked old Mav knows all the bully brute tricks traps butt if and so old Mav escapes survives all your own $ million billion trillion dolar word buly brute tricks traps may no not save them RIGHT and so the world may pay dearly for it and so luckily the world no not understands and so realizes exactly whut old Mav is talkling chating posting ranting raving about and so that may be your own tough tuff luck and so u may know oil metal plastics electronics cooking education housing u may know how to cheat atack old Mav and so if old Mav survives the world may pay dearly for cheating atacking old Mav RIGHT and so 6 21 2011 old Mav hopes the B C thing is no not gona lead to conditions that r untreatable uncureable unmanageable like they all hope and so they beter hope cuz if and so two 2 words cuz if and so luckily they do no not understand whut old Mav is talking chating posting ranting raving about after 67 years they still do no not understand cuz they hope for a B C atack that is no not treatable cureable managable handleable RIGHT and so they beter hope cuz if and so chat post ignor over look pass over old Mav like old Mav wuz no not there give no recognition to old Mav all u wana RIGHT and so cuz if and so luckily for old Mav they do no not understand whut old Mav is chating posting ranting raving about RIGHT and so butt they beter hope cuz if and so 6 21 2011 they beter hope cuz if and so cuz if the B C atack fails to stop old Mav they may pay dearly for it and so 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 2011 and so July 2011 and so the world beter hope and so 6 21 2011 and so old Mav may only hope and so the world beter hope butt luckily the world has no idea whut old Mav means luckily for old Mav that may be the most costly fatal mistake blunder miscue error over sight thing RIGHT whutever and so of all time biger than Stalingrad Midway the Batle of Britain RIGHT and so the world beter hope and so cuz if RIGHT and so old Mav is lucky they do no not take old Mav seriously and so old Mav needs a miracle sorry right... sorry old Mav