{"id":722,"date":"2004-12-07T16:51:18","date_gmt":"2004-12-07T20:51:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/wordpress\/?p=722"},"modified":"2004-12-07T16:51:18","modified_gmt":"2004-12-07T20:51:18","slug":"demand-government-transparency-and-accountability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=722","title":{"rendered":"Demand government transparency and accountability."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.buzzflash.com\/contributors\/04\/12\/con04534.html#top\"><u>Excerpt<\/u><\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>Government transparency is fundamental to democracy. As Thomas Jefferson wrote, &#8220;Information is the currency of democracy.&#8221; Our Democracy cannot endure without a committed citizenry and an open government that answers to the people. Our Democracy has survived because of the participation of its citizenry, which completely depends on the government&#8217;s transparency and accountability.<\/p>\n<p>I am asking for your support to do just that &#8211; demand government transparency and accountability. Please read the following petition demanding the immediate release of the long-completed IG Report, followed by public Congressional hearings, by clicking on the link below. If clicking doesn&#8217;t seem to work, you can copy and paste the link into your browser&#8217;s address window, or retype it there. If you agree, if you want answers and accountability, please sign this petition.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.PetitionOnline.com\/deniz18\/petition.html\">http:\/\/www.PetitionOnline.com\/deniz18\/petition.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sincerely,<br \/>\nSibel D. Edmonds<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Excerpt: Government transparency is fundamental to democracy. As Thomas Jefferson wrote, &#8220;Information is the currency of democracy.&#8221; Our Democracy cannot endure without a committed citizenry and an open government that answers to the people. Our Democracy has survived because of &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=722\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-bE","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}