Obama’s Link to Nonprofit Stirs Up Transparency Debate

The Wall Street Journal reports:

A charitable foundation connected to a president is facing criticism from watchdog groups about transparency and influence peddling.

No, it’s not the Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation, which has come under fire over its donor disclosure, transparency standards and foreign donors as former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton geared up for her 2016 presidential run.

Government watchdogs and transparency advocates say that President Barack Obama‘s involvement in the new My Brother’s Keeper Alliance, a private-sector version of a government initiative he started in 2014, raises potential red flags about the millions of dollars in corporate pledges flowing to the new group.

“Any time you have an officeholder or any government official setting up a nonprofit, one has to be very, very wary,” said Craig Holman, a lobbyist for Public Citizen, a watchdog group that supports more government transparency. “The fact that he is still in office and will be in for a period of time and then sets up this nonprofit—that just opens the door for special interests that have business pending before the White House.”

Corruption : Obama regime style.