The interesting thing is that transparent data would allow for a more efficient and transparent government, as everyone could look for inefficiencies. A web si

The interesting thing is that transparent data would allow for a more efficient and transparent government, as everyone could look for inefficiencies. A web site is also the 21th century way of providing this data, who goes to request data from an archive as a stack of papers these days? It's pretty ironic indeed that this gets shut down. Obama started all kinds of sensible things at the beginning of his term, and now pulls them back one by one.