Secret Service agrees to release documentation of Abramoff's WH visits

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Secret Service agrees to release documentation of Abramoff's White House visits

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Despite repeated White House objections to the release of documents related to Jack Abramoff's visits to the White House, the Secret Service has agreed to produce all logs detailing the disgraced lobbyist's meetings, according to a court filing released Monday.

The Secret Service agreed on April 25 to drop any objections to turning over the information and will "produce any and all documents" on or before May 10, according to the filing released by the conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch, which filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request on February 2.

The group filed a lawsuit on February 22 after the Secret Service did not initially turn over the documents.

The court filing, signed by Judge John Garrett Penn of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, also stipulates the Secret Service will release the documents "without redactions or claims of exemptions" this month. --From CNN White House Correspondent Ed Henry (Posted 2:52 p.m.)

http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/europe/05/01/monday/index.html

[ComerPerro]

1. I'll believe it when I see it. Probably won't even be real

[Ezlivin]

2. Now let 'em release documentation of Jeff Gannon's WH visits

There's lots of stuff that needs to be released.

All of us need to be released from the grip that the Bushbots have on this nation, for one.

[underpants]

3. Gee thanks. It is OUR information

Have we forgotten that?

At least the Secret Service hasn't.

[ProSense]

4. AP story with more details

Records of Abramoff's White House Visits

By TONI LOCY, Associated Press Writer
Mon May 1, 4:07 PM ET

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A few days after Bush made the remarks about the photo, Abramoff expressed surprise in e-mails to a magazine editor about the president's faulty memory. Abramoff told the Washingtonian magazine that he had met with Bush nearly a dozen times and that Bush knew him well enough to joke with him.

Three former business associates of Abramoff also told The Associated Press that Abramoff often mentioned White House adviser Karl Rove when talking about his influence inside the White House.

Abramoff was a $100,000 fundraiser for Bush and lobbying records obtained by the AP show his lobbying team logged nearly 200 meetings with the administration during its first 10 months in office on behalf of one of his clients, the Northern Mariana Islands.

The contacts between Abramoff's team and the administration included meetings with Attorney General John Ashcroft and policy advisers to Vice President Dick Cheney, the AP reported last year.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060501/ap_on_go_pr_wh/bush_abramoff

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5. The visitor logs are to be delivered to Judicial Watch by May 10. n/t