The U.S. government’s “self-assessment” of its performance on open government suffers from opacity and omission

On June 10, we filed a response to the United States government’s request for comments on its mid-term self-assessment of the United States fifth National Open Government National Action Plan. It was posted on June 17 and can be downloaded as a PDF from Regulations.gov. We have reproduced the comment in full, below, with added …