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The Obama Administration’s Commitment to Transparency: A Progress Report
- Social Research: An International Quarterly
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 77, Number 3, Fall 2010
- pp. 975-980
- 10.1353/sor.2010.0015
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Transparency isn't the answer to everything, but one lesson I've learned in more than 20 years as an investigative reporter is that it is one critical step in keeping the public a key part of our democratic system and ensuring checks and balances in government. This is a principle shared not only by gadfly journalists themselves, but also by some government officials on the other side of the fish bowl.