Politico points out that although Obama promised to run the most transparent presidency in history, his administration has already pursued more cases against whistleblowers than 40 years of presidents before him combined.

That doesn't even include Julian Assange:

"The stakes in the White House’s anti-leak drive could rise higher if the Justice Department decides to prosecute Wikileaks' Assange for facilitating the publication of hundreds of thousands of classified U.S. military reports from Iraq and Afghanistan, along with thousands of sensitive cables from American diplomats overseas."

There are mitigating factors that add to Obama's tally: pressure from the intelligence community, a backlog of cases from President George W. Bush's tenure and digital technology's enablement of leaks.

But no one is mistaking Obama for the candidate who pledged to televise health care reform negotiations and offer an "unprecedented level of openness in government."

Last March the LA Times reported that Obama, who had argued "the presumption of disclosure should be applied to all decisions involving [the Freedom of Information Act]", has rejected far more FOIA requests than then Dubya did:

"One of the exemptions allowed to deny Freedom of Information requests has been used by the Obama administration 70,779 times in its first year; the same exemption was used 47,395 times in Bush's final budget year.

An Associated Press examination of 17 major agencies' handling of FOIA requests found denials 466,872 times, an increase of nearly 50% from the 2008 fiscal year under Bush." 

The Obama administration has held with War on Terror secrecy measures put in place by Bush, and fought to keep a variety of other information secret.

Salon's Glenn Greenwald has diligently monitored Obama's record on transparency, as well as the military's treatment of Manning.  The 23-year-old private has been held in highly restrictive solitary confinement for 10 months, subject to forced prolonged nudity (a violation of the Geneva Convention).  He may face the death penalty for "aiding the enemy" and 33 other charges.

Greenwald writes:

"The entire Manning controversy has received substantial media attention.  It's being carried out by the military of which Barack Obama is the Commander-in-Chief.  Yes, the Greatest Moral Leader of Our Lifetime and Nobel Peace Prize winner is well aware of what's being done and obviously has been for quite some time.  It is his administration which is obsessed with destroying and deterring any remnants of whistle-blowing and breaches of the secrecy regime behind which the National Security and Surveillance States function."  

With the exception of releasing some White House visitor logs, there is little indication that Obama has followed through on the promises of transparency he made during his candidacy and his early presidency. Behind the information secrecy, there is a whole world of detainment and alleged abuses that Obama has yet to answer for.