It certainly throws cold water on his claims to transparency.
Civil-liberties groups say the Obama administration's effort to suppress state public-records requests, given the controversial nature of the IMSI devices, undermines the president's claims to transparency, especially following the NSA spying scandal.
Voters will have less and less knowledge of who is paying for political activity in their democracy, even as many politicians hypocritically claim to favor transparency.
Blockverify With a claim to "introduce transparency to supply chains," Blockverify focuses on anti-counterfeit solutions using blockchain to verify counterfeit products, diverted goods, stolen merchandise and fraudulent transactions.
If your claim relates to transparency and your relationship with your bank, then this is likely to be covered by the Consumer Credit Act.
But not all the blame should be heaped on governments who claim to be building transparency, but failing to communicate well.
For someone who claims to value transparency above all else, he has been nothing but opaque regarding his legal situation.
Mr. Obama has long claimed to champion transparency and denounced the secret-money sluice operated by Republicans last year as a "threat to democracy".
Representative Paul Tonko, of New York, noted that Pruitt had "spent this week claiming to champion transparency," then "blocked press from attending" the announcement of the new rule.
In February Better Markets, an advocacy organisation that claims to promote transparency and accountability in financial markets, filed a suit in a federal court in Washington, DC, asking the Justice Department to explain the reasoning behind a $13 billion settlement with JPMorgan Chase in 2013, one of many in which it is involved.
