The White House Is Cyberchic

21 Jan 2009

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http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/22/us/politics/22obama.html

During his campaign, Candidate Obama and his team of technically savvy young aides promised to harness the power of the Internet to allow the public easy access to government documents and presidential decisions.

It took six hours on Tuesday for the ordinarily fast-moving aides to Mr. Obama to post his executive orders on the White House Web site. Until then, the site declared, “The president has not issued any executive orders.”

They bought a scanner.