Obama’s Whitehouse.gov: Frozen in time?
President Barack Obama signed an order on Wednesday proclaiming that the entire federal government should be more open, transparent, and Internet-friendly. It said that agencies must "put information about their operations and decisions online and readily available to the public."
That memorandum, along with a few other executive orders and statements from White House officials, were sent to reporters throughout the day. But in an ironic twist, the transparency and a slew of other first-day-in-office documents were still absent from the official Whitehouse.gov site as of Wednesday at 8 p.m. ET.
caption: Whitehouse.gov, frozen in time since Tuesday?
The Web site still says: "The President has not yet issued any Executive Orders."
By comparison, the outgoing Bush administration was disciplined about updating Whitehouse.gov. As soon as Bush left the White House on Tuesday to go to the inauguration, a photo of himself and his wife appeared online.
