Where's the "transparency" we keep hearing about?

"The Obama administration, which has boasted about its efforts to make government more transparent, is rolling back rules requiring labor unions and their leaders to report information about their finances and compensation."

The back-roller appears to be one Deborah Greenfield, a former AFL-CIO attorney who filed suit in 2007 on behalf of the union against the more stringent disclosure requirements, and who is now a high-ranking muckety-muck at the Labor Department, apparently as one of the Messiah's payback appointments to organized labor for getting out the vote for him. It's hard to tell if she is actually the responsible party, however, since she is ducking interview requests from the Washington Times about the subject.

"But Labor Department spokeswoman Gloria Della said Secretary Hilda L. Solis 'is committed to strong, fair and balanced enforcement of labor-management reporting laws.' She said the department's move to rescind the expanded LM-2 financial reporting requirements gives the department 'the opportunity to evaluate whether we are taking the best actions toward that goal.'"

How is permitting a union to re-obfuscate its financial information going to accomplish that? That's just like telling a fifth-grader "OK, you no longer have to bring home a detailed report card; give me your overall GPA and I'll get a perfect picture of your accomplishments at school." It just makes no sense, particularly coming from an administration that presents itself as "the most transparent in history".

Right, until it wishes to hide something it wishes to slip by the American people. Then it's about as "transparent" as mud.