Is anyone paying attention yet?

President Obama, when campaigning for president said:  "The way to make government responsible is to hold it accountable, and the way to make government accountable is to make it transparent so that the American people can know exactly what decisions are being made, how they are being made."

The Securities and Exhange Commission own mission statement describes itself as the investors advocate.  The self-described mission of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is to protect investors, maintain fair, orderly, and efficient markets, and facilitate capital formation. The SEC has the power to close you down, and this new financial regulation law that recently passed has given them much, much more power.

In response to a Freedom of Information Act request from Fox Business Network and the founding partner of law firm Mintz and Gold, LLC, the SEC has refused to comply.  The SEC claims that the new financial regulation law exempts the SEC from the Freedom of Information Act.   Thanks to overwhelming Democrat vote, we now have a gigantic, new, all powerful arm of the federal government that no longer has to answer to the people.  It no longer has to answer to Congress.  It no longer has to answer questions from the media (as if the compliant boobs in the lame-stream media have any intent of asking questions of this administration.)   If the SEC chooses to shut somebody down because there are irregularities, it no longer has to provide any information to anyone on who, what, why, where or when.  If there is any irregularity going on within the SEC, we can no longer question it.  Did our "representatives" in congress think that was a damned good idea when they cast their vote of "Aye" or did they just not read the damned 2,700 page bill?  Knowing the mindset of our rulers, I'd say it's a little of both.

What happened to the transparency our Dear Leader seemed to advocate so strongly in his quest for our vote?