USA! USA! We're number one!

I was looking at this Daily Chart by the Economist which ranks the world's public officials by country on disclosure requirements. I found a number of the results surprising.

France and Italy have less disclosure than Mexico. Typically public disclosure is the best defense against corruption, and it's surprising to see that Mexico, which is very high on the Corruption Perceptions Index, ranked above Italy and France.

The United States is number one. Go FOIA? I'm going to go ahead and assume this poll didn't include Bill Deweese or former President Bush's take on "executive privilege".

Russia, a country where journalists critical of President... wait.. Prime Minister Czar Putin, are dying at an alarming rate, ranks 68.