Elena Kagan and Obama Transparency

Of all Obama's broken campaign promises, perhaps the biggest crock of all is TRANSPARENCY.

No.

The biggest crock might be Obama's promise to do away with Washington politics as usual.

The two are related. I guess they can be merged into one big fat broken promise or, if you wish, lie.

Even the possibility that Obama would claim executive privilege to keep Elena Kagan's extremist liberal writings under wraps runs counter to his pledge to let the American public be a part of their government and be able to see its workings for themselves.

These documents aren't a matter of national security. They aren't the sort of thing that Sandy Berger would stuff in his pants and socks and steal from the National Archives. Kagan's papers would allow Americans to learn about the individual Obama has nominated to be on the U.S. Supreme Court.

It appears that Obama doesn't want us to know. He wants to prevent us from learning about her. Not very transparent.

From Kagan Watch:

In a letter to Sen. Jeff Sessions, the ranking Republican on the Judiciary Committee Republican, Robert Bauer, counsel to Obama, implied the president may use executive privilege to hide some memos Elena Kagan wrote when she served in the Clinton White House.

“President Obama does not intend to assert executive privilege over any of the documents requested by the Committee,” Bauer writes.

“Of course, President Clinton also has an interest in these records, and his representative is reviewing them now,” he adds.

The Clinton library has more than 150,000 documents related to Elena Kagan. This is one of the few sources we have to know what Kagan thinks on many issues.

Come on.

Where's the transparency, Barack?

I know Paul McCartney thinks you're doing a great job, but this transparency thing is a real problem.
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Here's the letter.