More same as it ever was.
ABC News
President Obama's recent about-face to fight the release of photographs purportedly showing detainee abuse met with sharp protests from watchdogs and open-government advocates.
President Obama calls it a dark and painful chapter in our history.
But it's not the first time the White House has acted at the expense of Obama's promise to run "the most transparent and accountable government in history."
A sweeping new Obama administration openness policy doesn't apply to a key White House office that supports most of Obama's key staff and advisers, administration officials confirm. Rather, the Obama White House has opted to retain a Bush-era policy that blocks information about those operations from public release.
Just weeks after taking office, the Obama administration adopted an unprecedented policy of sunlight, directing bureaucrats across government to "apply a presumption of openness" regarding the release of documents to the public, according to a memo by Obama's attorney general, Eric Holder.
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