But the Sunlight Foundation, which focuses exclusively on opening data for public use, has made clear how many departments and agencies have blown off the White House directives, and how there's been no penalty for their obfuscations.
It criticises the "collective amnesia" of the company's witnesses and their "deliberate obfuscation" (some refused to give evidence; others said things that the MPs implied were untrue).
The danger is greatest in Ukraine, where officials have harassed and deported Russian journalists and frustrated international reporters with their own obfuscations.
The trunk does not yield much, but family and friends offer recollections: their revisions, obfuscations, and digressions illustrate Oe's abiding interest in the elusiveness of personal and national memory in postwar Japan.
On the face of it, it tells a simple story, dealing with one person, and one process at a time, so that everyone, not only Mousa but his heroic father Daood, the duty doctor, pathologist, padre, foot soldiers and officers who claimed no malpractice took place, are all analysed and their actions, obfuscations and cowardice made real.
Like their American counterparts, Chinese officials have learned to cover their tracks through obfuscation and semantics.
It is then easy for clients to see their next steps without the obfuscation of their ego's insecurities, and surprisingly enough they see there are doors with open signs everywhere.
Their efforts at obfuscation and influence-buying are no surprise.
Let us know in the comments section and tell us if you'd actually like to see their face without obfuscation. .
