If you are going to be the most transparent administration ever, you have first to create and then facilitate a standard narrative, one that is dutifully repeated by a compliant and complicit set of sycophants and media enablers, then disseminated with a calculated and controlled rigor to make sure it remains constant and consistent.

After all, transparency means allowing for the people to see the goings on of government, and because the government is run by progressives — and progressives are, by their own admission, goodly and righteous — it follows that anything not goodly and righteous cannot be progressive, and so isn’t a legitimate part of the government’s goings on.  Therefore, for the sake of transparency, what isn’t progressive — and therefore isn’t legitimately governmental — shouldn’t be part of a progressive narrative that has been crafted and manipulated to show just how transparent it is!

Or some such.  Trying to keep up with the thinking of self-righteous Marxist thieves is like trying to keep up with a binging Oprah at a Country Buffet.

FOXNews:

The ATF agent who blew the whistle on Operation Fast and Furious has been denied permission to write a book on the botched anti-gun trafficking sting “because it would have a negative impact on morale,” according to the very agency responsible for the scandal.

After first trying to stop the operation internally, ATF Agent John Dodson went to Congress and eventually the media following the death of Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry in December 2010. Two guns found at the murder scene were sold through the ATF operation.

Dodson’s book, titled “The Unarmed Truth,” provides the first inside account of how the federal government permitted and helped sell some 2,000 guns to Mexican drug cartels, despite evidence the guns killed innocent people.

Dodson, who is working with publisher Simon & Schuster, submitted his manuscript to the department for review, per federal rules. However, it was denied.

Greg Serres, an ATF ethics official, told Dodson that any of his supervisors at any level could disapprove outside employment “for any reason.”

Serres letter said: “This would have a negative impact on morale in the Phoenix Field Division and would have a detremental effect [sic] on our relationships with DEA and FBI.”

The national office of the American Civil Liberties Association is representing Dodson as he fights the decision. ACLU attorney Lee Rowland says the agency’s restriction is overly broad.

I have to admit, I get a small bit of joy out of the uncomfortable position the ACLU keeps having to put itself in, fighting the very Administration it so robustly supported.

Beyond that, there’s not much funny about this at all.  Not only does our legacy press cover-up or attempt to spin-away every scandal for which this “historic” President they invested so heavily in is responsible, but — with very few exceptions — they make conscious choices not to investigate them, accepting instead the Administration’s talking points as fact to be regurgitated.

Speaking Truth to Power only matters when a Republican or “teabagger” is presumptuous enough to buck the status quo.