Government Transparency in a Time of Shadows
The Trump administration claims to be the most transparent administration in history, and yet every facet of it is custom-designed to be as opaque as possible. Freedom of Information Act offices are shuttered, whistleblowers are muzzled, agencies are run on Signal, everything is overclassified, and DOGE is allowed to spread across the executive branch like a plague with no accountability or oversight. And when the law gets in the administration’s way, they have the DOJ decide that it doesn’t really stop them.
But it’s not all doom and gloom. There are still systems in place that you can use if you know how, but it’s much harder every day. This talk will describe the way things are supposed to be, the way they are, and how you can still bring some sunshine to the black box the administration is trying to create.
Saturday 1500 Crystal Ballroom