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Barack Obama: They claim they were going to be a transparent White House. Are they now going back on that?

On the recordDecember 2, 2009
They claim they were going to be a transparent White House. Are they now going back on that?
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Barack Obama
Democratic · Illinois

Editor's note · Context

Anderson Cooper questions the transparency of the Obama administration regarding the White House party crash incident.

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