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President Trump has claimed that he’s the most transparent president in history. His administration’s secrecy about who visits the White House, abuse of security classifications and recordkeeping failures prove that’s a lie.
Here’s how to fix what he’s broken:
Here’s how to fix what he’s broken:
1. Create clear enforcement measures for the Presidential and Federal Records Acts so there can be real consequences for law breaking (like failing to create records that could link families separated at the border).
2. Ban the use of apps that automatically delete messages for government work. Remember Jared Kushner’s WhatsApp messages with Mark Zuckerberg and MBS?
3. Modernize the way Freedom of Information Act requests are processed, so people don’t have to wait years for records.
CREW has learned a lot of important things from the FOIA, but there’s still way too much we are still waiting on. For example:
CREW has learned a lot of important things from the FOIA, but there’s still way too much we are still waiting on. For example:
Mike Pompeo’s “Madison Dinners” cost taxpayers more than $40k https://www.citizensforethics.org/reports-investigations/crew-investigations/crew-obtains-receipts-for-pompeos-notorious-madison-dinners/
ICE spent $20 million expanding its private detention center network after Congress told it to stop https://www.citizensforethics.org/reports-investigations/crew-investigations/congress-told-ice-to-decrease-detentions-20-million-expanding-lasalle-corrections/
Trump lied about his reasons for attempting to host the G7 at his club https://www.citizensforethics.org/reports-investigations/crew-investigations/secret-service-docs-contradict-trump-doral-g-7/
4. The president should issue an executive order requiring the Office of Legal Counsel to proactively disclose its binding interpretations of law.
This would be *huge* for transparency.
This would be *huge* for transparency.
5. Congress should require the White House to disclose information about official visits to the White House, Camp David, and other places frequented by the president.
Don’t you wish you knew who visited Trump at Mar-a-Lago? And who had the president’s ear?
Don’t you wish you knew who visited Trump at Mar-a-Lago? And who had the president’s ear?
No matter who is president, transparency is what allows the American people to keep tabs on their government. It could not be more important to reverse course from the Trump administration’s transparency abuses.
Here’s how: https://www.citizensforethics.org/reports-investigations/crew-reports/restoring-executive-branch-transparency/
Here’s how: https://www.citizensforethics.org/reports-investigations/crew-reports/restoring-executive-branch-transparency/
