A signature promise of President Obama was to run the “most transparent” administration in U.S. history. His pledge to create an “unprecedented level of openness” still stands proudly at ...

Promising transparency and criticizing ignorance ... “It’s not cool to not know what you’re talking about,” President Obama said during his recent Rutgers University commencement address.

With President-elect Donald Trump weeks away from inheriting them, Obama has taken a new approach, advocating for limits and transparency that he often was content to do without. In a speech ...

The critics are having a field day with President Obama's comment this week that the court that oversees the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act is "transparent." The FISA court conducts its ...

Government reform groups say President Obama has fallen short on several of his promises to make the White House more ethical and transparent. During his 2008 presidential campaign, Obama promised ...

No way, cried Earnest. After all, he wrote, Obama pledged to be “the most transparent president in history” — a promise he insists the president has fulfilled. Uh-huh. Try finding any ...

On the issue of government transparency, White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest publicly lamented that President Obama is not getting enough credit. Writing to the editor in Wednesday’s New ...