Flashback — Obama: ‘This Is the Most Transparent Administration in History’

WOMAN: "In 2008, you ran on a platform of really becoming one of the most transparent administrations in American history. However, with recent leaked guidelines regarding drone strikes on American citizens, Benghazi and closed door hearings on the budget and deficit -- it just feels a lot less transparent than I think we all hoped it would be. How does the reality of the presidency change that promise? And what can you do to get back to that promise?"
OBAMA: "Actually on a whole bunch of fronts, we've kept that promise. This is the most transparent administration in history and I can document how that is the case. Every visitor that comes to the White House is now part of public record, that is something that we've changed. Just about every law that we passed, every rule that we implement, we put online for everybody there to see. There are a handful of issues mostly about national security where people have legitimate questions -- where they are still concerned about whether or not we have all the information we need. Benghazi by the way is not a good example of that -- that was largely driven by campaign stuff because everything about that -- we've had more testimony and more paper that was provided to Congress than ever before. And Congress is sort of running out of things to ask. But when it comes to things like how we conduct counter-terrorism, there are legitimate questions there and we should have that debate. And what I've tried to do coming in to office, was to create a legal and policy framework that respected our programs and rule of law, but some of these programs are still classified that for example -- we might have shared them to the Congressional Intelligence Office but they are not on the front page of the papers or on the web."