President Obama promised to be the most transparent administration ever, but that was before he terminated the position of transparency czar, and gave all transparency matters to a partisan Democratic lawyer who is publicly antagonistic to the notion of transparency. Since then, we’ve had a series of decisions favoring opacity over transparency, with my favorite being his refusal to disclose the nature of the adminsitration’s dealings with the drug industry as the two crafted the pharma-friendly health-care bill.

The latest bout in the Opacity of Hope: Obama’s War on Whistleblowers. David Carr at the New York Times has the story: