Obama's 'secret' lobbyist meetings

To keep lobbyists' names off the official White House visitor logs, aides have been chatting them up across the street. Does this violate Obama's transparency pledge?

Obama may be getting around his transparency claim by sending staffers off the White House grounds to meet with lobbyists, according to Politico.
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President Obama's promise of transparency came under fresh scrutiny this week, after Politico reported that his aides have been holding meetings with lobbyists off White House grounds so their names won't appear on public visitor logs. Is Obama breaking his promise to operate in the open? (See Jay Carney defend the president)

These "secret" meetings expose Obama's hypocrisy: This is proof that the president's "highfalutin rhetoric" about not meeting with lobbyists was nothing but a "lie," says Erick Erickson at RedState. Maybe Obama isn't inviting folks from the AFL-CIO to the Oval Office, but this amounts to the same thing. So much for "the most transparent administration ever."

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