None of them were lies, just ineptness. They were completely transparent, but stupid. I know Carter was an idiot. He's still an idiot, after all these years, because he still thinks he knows better than those who came after him. He's so stupid, he doesn't know how stupid he is. But he didn't lie to us. None of your statements, even tho I agree with them, support your argument that no administration has been transparent. You have been indoctrinated into some theology, and you distort reality to fit that theology, then pretends it supports that theology. Just as you claim "the feeelty rich" can cure all man's problems if only they would just "share". This has been tried and tried again. It always ends up in one of two ways. Since no one can keep the fruits of their labor, no one labors, and we all starve. Or, since no one can keep the fruits of their labor, no one labors, and some tyrant enslaves them and forces them to work, "for the common good", but mostly for the tyrant and his cronies. Every generation comes along and a sizable portion fall for this same lunacy, because they put ideology before reality, and accuse those who know differently of some evil "ism".