Oct 19, 12:53 PM ET
Judge orders Cheney visitor logs openedBy MATT APUZZO, Associated Press
WASHINGTON - A federal judge has ordered the Bush administration to release information about who visited Vice President Dick Cheney's office and personal residence, an order that could spark a late election season debate over lobbyists' White House access.
The Washington Post asked for two years of White House visitor logs in June but the Secret Service refused to process the request. Government attorneys called it "a fishing expedition into the most sensitive details of the vice presidency."
U.S. District Judge Ricardo M. Urbina ruled Wednesday that, by the end of next week, the Secret Service must produce the records or at least identity them and justify why they are being withheld.
The newspaper sought logs for anyone visiting Cheney, his legal counsel, chief spokesman and other top aides and advisers.
The Post cited those records, which were released to the Democratic Party and Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, as evidence that the documents should be released.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061019/ap_on_go_pr_wh/white_house_logsIf feds can search the offices of Congress and their homes, Cheney should be made to fork over whatever investigators are asking for, from wherever.
What's Cheney hiding? If the White House contacts were innocent he shouldn't have any problem with telling them who he met with. They should also check on who visited his secret bunker, his 'dual' government' offices.
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