{"id":1843,"date":"2009-05-06T22:09:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-06T22:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/highplainsblogger.wordpress.com\/2009\/05\/06\/transparency-what-transparency"},"modified":"2009-05-06T22:09:00","modified_gmt":"2009-05-06T22:09:00","slug":"transparency-what-transparency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=1843","title":{"rendered":"Transparency? What transparency?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>President Obama promised the most transparent administration in U.S. presidential history.<\/p>\n<p>Why not, then, show us those pictures of that ill-advised fly-over in New York City?<\/p>\n<p>Most of us know the story: The Boeing 747 used as Air Force One flew low over NYC for some picture-taking. The White House, the Pentagon or someone wanted to take pictures of the airplane flying over the city&#8217;s impressive skyline. In this post 9\/11 world, of course, the event stirred up intense anxiety in New York.<\/p>\n<p>The president said he was angry about it.<\/p>\n<p>But now we learn that the fly-over cost about 300 grand &#8212; of public money. But the White House says it won&#8217;t release the pictures taken during the ridiculous demonstration.<\/p>\n<p>Why not? It&#8217;s our money. We deserve to see the pictures.<\/p>\n<p>It is true that in the grand scheme of things, this isn&#8217;t all that big a deal. But the president has relied heavily on symbols, first during his winning campaign and in the first months of his administration.<\/p>\n<p>His refusal to release the pictures is, well, <em>symbolic<\/em> of the same old secrecy that plagued his immediate predecessor&#8217;s presidency.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Obama promised the most transparent administration in U.S. presidential history. Why not, then, show us those pictures of that ill-advised fly-over in New York City? Most of us know the story: The Boeing 747 used as Air Force One flew low over NYC for some picture-taking. The White House, the Pentagon or someone wanted &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=1843\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Transparency? What transparency?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1843\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}