But he was so open and sensitive when we met......

Remember all those criticisms of the Bush Administration for being so tight fisted with information. For always being secretive.

I guess we now have four more years of Bush......

President-elect Obama’s evident distrust in sharing with Congress sensitive information about the internal workings of his administration has begun to irk Democratic committee chairmen.

Obama and his top advisers took pride in running a leak-free campaign for president and since the election have kept tight controls on information.

They are discovering, however, that in Washington, where information is a valuable commodity, it’s not considered nice to hoard.

Ten committee chairmen in the Senate and House said that Obama’s advisers did not alert them ahead of time about the incoming president’s Cabinet selections. Nine of them learned of the picks from the media, even though the Senate committee chairmen have confirmation authority over them.

Hey, I'm the first guy who will line up to say "if congress is pissed, that's a good thing", but do you think there's a double standard here?

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