In Transition

Valerie Jarrett, co-chair of Barack Obama’s transition team, cleared up one small mystery last night during an interview on PBS’ “The News Hour” — namely why the detailed issues pages on the Obama transition site had been pulled down and replaced with a more general statement about his agenda.

“We’re in the process now of doing agency review,” Jarrett told Judy Woodruff. “Now that we have a lot more information that’s coming from working cooperatively with the team that’s in the Bush administration right now, we’re taking a look at all of the commitments that were made in the course of the campaign. We’re looking at the information that we’re gathering from the agencies so it will add some color and some depth to our analysis. And then, as we make decisions, we’ll be putting that back up on the Web page.”

Jarrett repeated Obama’s promise of transparency in his administration and said “the web page will provide a wonderful keyhole into the administration on a regular basis.”

And on another note, she dismissed speculation about being appointed to Obama’s Senate seat.

“Well, you know what?” she said, when asked about it. “I’m actually not interested in the Senate position.”