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Chronicling B. Hussein Obama’s War on America

From the last week: Obama refuses to release a congressionally mandated key economic report, delays the Gitmo report by six months, and fought releasing details of a meeting with health care executives until he was sued, then only partially cooperated.

Look, if you really believe you’re doing something that’s beneficial for the country and is the right thing to do, why do you keep secret details of meetings with health care executives? Of course, if what you’re doing has nothing to do with making health care more efficient, affordable and beneficial, then perhaps you’d prefer to do things in hiding.

After lawsuit, Obama opens a bit of info on meetings with health care executives
White House still contends it can keep visitor logs secret

Despite his campaign promise to “make White House communications public,” the Obama administration again is blocking the public from seeing White House visitor logs, this time refusing to disclose meetings with health care executives. Tonight, less than an hour before his news conference on health care, he released some of the information only after a nonprofit group filed a federal lawsuit.

The nonprofit group, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, said it was filing suit Wednesday afternoon against the Department of Homeland Security, which oversees the Secret Service, after a request for the visitor logs was denied.

Within hours after the group announced it was filing suit, the White House relented, in part, saying it would voluntarily release the names and dates of visits. That is less information than is contained in the White House visitor logs…