My all-time-favorite condemnation of the Bush White House’s “openness” (or lack thereof) from a member of the media belongs to Dana Milbank of the Washington Post, who found himself in a tizzy a year ago after the Russian government released a statement describing a conversation between Bush and Putin (and the White House didn’t): “It may come as a surprise to some that the Kremlin, symbol of secrecy and repression, has become more transparent than the White House, symbol of freedom and democracy. But such experience has become routine.”