Again...Transparency.

Here it is, almost July, and still no change or transparency. The President doesn't want to release any photos or documents dealing with torture or other issues that might put the United States at risk for another terrorist attack. He is using the same national defense logic and argument the Bush administration used. Wait. We have more weapons than any country in the world. (Not that I'm down with this.) The more military and weaponry we have the more we need to find places to utilize these resources in order to continue funding them. On the other hand, if we were going to confess our sins to the world, it probably would be a good time to be well armed. There really is "no time like the present" to do this, but Obama seems willing to pass up the opportunity. He is agreeing to protect state secrets to avoid embarrassment to this country and possible prosecutions of our leaders and censure of their actions from the world.
On the domestic front, he doesn't want to release the White House logs of the people he met with to solve the banking crisis.
Nor does he want to get involved in calling for investigations of the elections in Iran because we already have a tenuous relationship with them. Of course, we wouldn't have to do this by ourselves to begin with. There are plenty of other countries calling for new elections because of the evidence pointing toward fraud. We could join a U.N. delegation to monitor a full recount. The United States could go back to being part of a coalition that opposes oppression of rights everywhere. The only thing wrong with pointing out injustice elsewhere, is that you can't expect to be taken seriously if you are unwilling to have your own records examined. So as long as the United States insists on the type of secrecy employed in the past, denying access to it's own citizens for deeds committed and policies taken in their name, we cannot move forward. We will not be trusted by others. We cannot claim to be a democracy, accountable to it's citizens or an example of fair democracy to anyone else.