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Originally Posted by vicente
You can not say "transparency in the crosshairs" 
With all due respect, yes, you can say "transparency in the crosshairs"
since in this case " in the crosshairs" is an euphemism and has nothing to do with firing bullets you can use it any way that you like to indicate that you are focused on something, even an intangible. If government transparency is the subject and that is what you are focusing on you could say "openness is the issue and we have transparency in the crosshairs", which is simply saying that transparency is your concern . You could just as easily say government honesty or government policy, etc., are subjects that "are in the crosshairs" of public opinion.
Regarding the original question:
"Hello how do you translate this statement into English
Transparencia a la Vista"
Suggestion: " transparency (or openness) under scrutiny"
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Vicente,
Transparency under scrutiny is OK, but the words used by the US government for this purpose are "watch and track"
In fact I have looked and found several websites that will back my point
http://www.washingtonwatch.com/
http://www.govtrack.us/
www.ombwatch.org/npadv
This is an excerpt from President Bush's speech at the signing of the Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act of 2006.
and so in a few moments, I'll sign the Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act of 2006. This bill is going to create a website that will list the federal government's grants and contracts. It's going to be a website that the average citizen can access and use. It will allow Americans to log onto the Internet just to see how your money is being spent. This bill will increase accountability and reduce incentives for wasteful spending. I am proud to sign it into law and I am proud to be with members of both political parties who worked hard to get this bill to my desk.
This has been a good effort by concerned members of the House and the Senate to say to the American people, we want to earn your trust; when we spend your money, we want you to be able to
watch us.
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Barrack Obama:
WASHINGTON - U.S. Senators Barack Obama (D-IL) and Tom Coburn (R-OK) today hailed the Senate's passage of the "Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act," a bill that will create a Google-like search engine and database
to track approximately $1 trillion in federal grants, contracts, earmarks and loans.
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My suggestion, as if my suggestion mattered, is Transparency Watch
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