According to a press release from President, the federal government should be "transparent, participatory and collaborative". Read the entire press statement here:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/TransparencyandOpenGovernment
Unfortunately, all we have seen is more and more secrecy, lies and deception. From Libya, to Syria, and now Benghazi the blockade of free-flowing information is continuous in preventing any such transparency President Obama spoke of.
John F. Kennedy once said,
"The very word 'secrecy' is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths, and to secret proceedings."
Breathe life into these words as he did and allow us to correct the failure of transparency.