President Barack Obama hit the ground running on his first full day in office, issuing two memoranda ordering government openness and an executive order removing some obstacles to accessing the records of former presidents. His memo ordering heads of agencies to make openness the default setting when responding to requests for documents under the Freedom of Information Act even uses a quote I’ve leaned on a number of times over the years, the one from Justice Louis Brandeis who wrote that “sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants.”
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