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can be no valid requirement to identify projects for reasons of national security.)

21) More complete and accurate reporting on the results, and lessons learned, from U.S. military operations in Iraq, Afghanistan, or elsewhere. (These reports may be presented in a form not harmful to national security interests.)

I could continue to add to my list of actions needed to create a transparent government, but you get an idea of how big this one problem is. Yes, Obama's admistration will have a host of other problems related to our economy, financial system, health, education, job creation, government corruption, global warming, environmental pollution, infrastructure repair, successfully ending our wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and so on. However, effective solutions to all these other problems will require government transparency at a level sufficient to allow effective public participation in finding the solutions. When you look at the long list of recent government failures, highlighted by an economic collapse, it is clear that a lack of transparent government has been the primary cause. There are a number of new studies that seek to document the simple fact that a government without public participation and support is doomed to failure. This is a basic rule that President George W. Bush should have known, but did not. All we can do now is help President-elect Barack Obama find the solutions needed when he becomes President on 20 January 2009.

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