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Transparency Suffers as State Department Fails to Report

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Bloomberg News last year asked for the travel expenses for the heads of 57 major departments in fiscal 2011, a test of President Obama’s pledge to run the most open government in history.

“The State Department is one of five Cabinet offices that have yet to fully comply with requests under the Freedom of Information Act to disclose the details and expenses of official travel more than a year after they were filed.”

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