White House Adds a Fifth Estate .. The Public
“When I ran for this office, I pledged to make government more open and accountable to its citizens,” President Barack Obama says in a taped announcement scheduled to appear today at http://www.whitehouse.gov.”
The President is supposed to announce today a new webpage , “We the People ” where the people will be able to create and sign petitions seeking the government’s action’
Until 150 signatures have been collected, a petition’s Web address initially will only be known by the person who created it.
The address is not supposed to show up anywhere else on the White House website , the officials said.