The leakiest White House in history

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The White House.
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President Trump has run the most transparent White House in modern times.

It isn't that he has made an effort to be frank with the public about who he's meeting with or how decisions get made. In fact, his administration has been unusually secretive; as the head of the American Society of News Editors recently said, "Public data that was once available even without a Freedom of Information Act request has disappeared from public view, a trend of restricting access to government officials — especially those in agencies dealing with science and defense issues — has continued, and some forward-looking programs designed to improve the flow of information to the public that were created by prior administrations have been discontinued."

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Paul Waldman

Paul Waldman is a senior writer with The American Prospect magazine and a blogger for The Washington Post. His writing has appeared in dozens of newspapers, magazines, and web sites, and he is the author or co-author of four books on media and politics.