WASHINGTON - When it comes to the Bush White House's decision to withhold from
the public Dick Cheney's interview with FBI agents investigating the
CIA leak case, the Obama administration says its predecessor did the
right thing. And it's fighting hard to do the same.
Something that has happened repeatedly in Afghanistan over the last eight years happened yet again this week:
After U.S. Strike, Dispute Over Afghan Deaths
KABUL,
Afghanistan - Sharply conflicting reports on an American airstrike this
week continued to trickle out Friday from American military and Afghan
officials as to whether the attack killed civilians.
An "era" used to last, but not so much anymore. We've already heard GOP
Chairman Michael Steele proclaim that "the era of apologizing for
Republican mistakes" was over (when many of us didn't know it had begun), and now it appears that Barack Obama's era of openness has closed, too.
Yesterday, there was a potentially temporary though still quite
significant victory for those who believe in open government and
transparency: as Jane Hamsher first reported, House leaders and the White House were forced to remove the Graham-Lieberman photo suppression amendment
from the war supplemental spending bill, because widespread opposition
to that amendment among progressive H
