Reply #9

Two other big factors also at work in this:

1) Accountability is for little people. He doesn't believe anyone has the right to hold him accountable, so he's trying to get away with showing the absolute minimum to say he did. In other words, gaming the system, just like he always has.

2) Force of habit.the Republican scandal MO has for decades now been to stonewall and accuse the press of bias and the Democrats of hyper-partisanship at the expense of the country. Not only is that play book getting increasingly frayed from overuse, but it usually depends on already being in power and thus controlling access to the information needed to go further with the story. He doesn't have that here, and the Obama campaign isn't interested in playing ball on his terms.