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Obama Background Briefings Less Than Transparent?

In today’s Wash Times, Joe Curl reports why WH background briefings won’t go away.

Despite a pledge to be more open and transparent than the Bush administration, Team Obama has kept intact the background briefings for reporters, which require participants to respect the anonymity of briefers when using details.

“The White House Correspondents’ Association protests the use of briefings done on a background basis, without specific names attached to the information,” said the group’s president, Jennifer Loven, a reporter for the Associated Press.

Check out the full story here.

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