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Via Daily Caller.

Conflict of interest disclosure reports filed by top federal officials were removed from public view by the Obama administration in recent months, a move that government transparency and accountability advocates condemn as a major setback.

The Office of Government Ethics (OGE) reports are the primary tool that watchdog journalists, political activists and interested voters can use to guard against presidential appointees using their positions to enrich themselves or others.

For years, the OGE website featured a sortable, searchable list of over 1,000 government appointees, including their names, agencies and titles, and flagging new ones. By clicking on a name, users could easily access multiple disclosures for the appointee, including yearly financial accounting, stock ownership and a letter detailing any agreements surrounding conflicts, such as issues when the individual promises to recuse himself.

By January, the list was inexplicably removed, leaving only a search box….

This is a problem,” Daniel Schuman, a policy analyst at the liberal group Demand Progress, told TheDCNF. “They should put it back. It’s very odd there’s no explanation.”….

Related:

WSJ: The Least Transparent Administration– How Team Obama stymies freedom of information requests.

Forbes: The Obama Administration’s Broken Promises

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  1. Alain41 says:

    If admin. responds that they’ll still respond to specific requests and the IG has access to all the info., then that will affirm Tammy that IGs are for gov’t protection. Can’t have the public have access to information, they might read it. Or worse, advertise it (Citizens United). Lock those trade deals away and say that Congress can’t inform the public under penalty of security violation. And the NSA can still spy on all of us without a warrant. Funny, Congress seems to have only gotten upset when Obama spied on it. Maybe they’ll blame Trump for not releasing his tax papers even though the Feds started this before that ever came up.

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