Tuesday, February 16, 2010

U.S.: Telecom Lobby Tests Pledge of Transparency

from IPS news service. 
Despite President Barack Obama's pledge in his State of the Union address last month to "require lobbyists to disclose each contact they make on behalf of a client with my administration or Congress," the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) says the Obama administration has been "fighting hard to stop the release of the names of these representatives."